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Nokia Offers To Replace 46 Million Batteries
News Nokia has offered to replace 46 million mobile-phone batteries because they are at risk from overheating — but the world's biggest mobile-phone manufacturer denies its actions constitute a product recall.
[August 15, 2007, 9:06]
IPod's 'dirty Secret' Wins Web Fans
News Other iPod users have reported that the device's battery life diminishes with use, as is common for many rechargeable batteries. Unlike standard disposable batteries, the rechargeable power supplies used in the iPod and other high-tech gadgets do...
[November 26, 2003, 16:25]
Toshiba Fires Up Methanol Fuel Cell
News Toshiba next week plans to exhibit a fuel cell prototype that it said has the potential to replace environmentally taxing, rechargeable batteries with clean-energy technology. The consumer electronics industry is rushing to find ways to replace the...
[March 6, 2003, 8:39]
Tomorrow Never Comes For BT
Leader Ever since they helped Apollo to the Moon, they've been threatening to replace batteries with a more convenient, longer lasting and beefier portable source of volts. The HVD (Holographic Video Disc) Alliance says that its 3D optical system will...
[February 4, 2005, 11:50]
An End To Recharging For Mobile Phones
News The plan is to replace rechargeable batteries in mobile devices with a miniature version of the hydrogen fuel cell used to power electric cars, and recharge it with a super-efficient solar cell built into the devices.
[April 18, 2001, 14:25]
Methanol Fuel Cells 'smaller And More Powerful'
News The technology is drawing attention from computing companies -- especially makers of devices such as handheld computers, cell phones and laptops -- to complement and possibly replace lithium ion batteries.
[June 22, 2004, 12:40]
Motorola Breakthrough Battery
News Motorola believes that the methanol needed to run consumer devices would be packaged in small cartridges to replace traditional batteries. Motorola has developed a miniature fuel cell for powering consumer electronic devices that is ten times more...
[January 20, 2000, 10:00]
Motorola Creates Gas-powered Cell Phones
News The consumer-electronics industry has been hunting for a way to replace nickel cadmium batteries that power most portable electronic devices in the world today. Consumer-electronic giants NEC and Sony are developing similar types of batteries.
[October 3, 2001, 9:00]
Apple Launches IPod Recycling Programme
News Apple recently agreed to extend service warranties and replace batteries for free in certain cases. Critics have chided Apple because the iPod's battery is difficult and expensive to replace, giving consumers an incentive to throw them away and buy...
[June 6, 2005, 10:25]
Gas-powered Notebooks Get Lighter
News Rather than replace batteries, other companies are looking to supplement them with supercapacitors, a concept for storing electricity at the chip level first aired in Japanese academic journals in the late 1980s.
[August 19, 2002, 17:05]
10 Things You Should Know About Deploying A UPS
News Always replace troubled batteries before they fail, as data loss could result if a failing battery remains in service. Fortunately, UPS batteries typically provide warning signs that something's amiss.
[June 21, 2006, 15:40]
Dead IPod Syndrome - No Volt Found?
Talkback sid=03/12/20/1911252&mode=thread&tid=176&tid=188 and the idea of ruining the design of the ipod by fitting 3 AAA batteries into it is very amusing the man who wrote this should be sacked for a) not researching what he writes and b) being so...
[January 12, 2004, 14:19]
Bridging The Digital Divide In Mumbai
News Bringing the benefits of computer technology to rural villages in India will require a substantial amount of work - and a lot of extra car batteries, said professor Jitendra Shah. Unfortunately, the batteries regularly need recharging and the...
[May 10, 2005, 12:55]
Fuel-cell Breakthrough Could Boost Portable Power
News Fuel cells are often touted as a replacement for batteries in laptop computers and other devices, as their ability to generate many hours of power using fuels such as hydrogen or methanol promises greater longevity than conventional chemical...
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
Dell's Laptop Problems Take Another Twist
News It looked closely at Dell laptops after the company recalled 4.1 million laptop batteries in August last year because of reports of batteries overheating and catching fire. It took the company several weeks to issue this mass recall of batteries.
[January 15, 2007, 15:50]
SoniClear SalesVoice
Downloads No more hassles managing tapes or batteries. Replace your cassette recorder with Windows software. Save time by recording important meetings, conferences, training sessions, phone calls and PowerPoint voice tracks, directly on your computer.
[September 18, 2007, 8:01]
Apple Warns On Hot PowerBooks
News It pledged to replace the batteries, which were installed in 15-inch models of the PowerBook G4 bought between January and August of this year. Apple Computer is recalling about 28,000 batteries that shipped this year in its PowerBook G4 portable...
[August 20, 2004, 12:10]
Lenovo Recalls 205,000 ThinkPad Batteries
News Lenovo is offering to replace, for free, 205,000 extended-life nine-cell batteries that shipped in several of its ThinkPad models. Lenovo is recalling hundreds of thousands of laptop batteries from customers around the world after several reported...
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
Safety Scare Over G4 Batteries
News Apple will replace all of the batteries in question, which were shipped in 12- and 15-inch models of the PowerBook G4 and 12-inch versions of the iBook G4 delivered between October 2004 and May 2005. Apple is recalling 128,000 batteries that were...
[May 23, 2005, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Over the past few days, we've seen announcements from IBM that they're making small, swift logic gates out of nanotubes; from NEC that nanohorns make fantastic electrodes for fuel cells that could replace batteries; we have superconductors and...
[September 18, 2001, 1:38]
