Tag Archive for 'recall'

If you happen to have an ATI Radeon HD 2400 or 2600 card that isn’t working quite right, AMD is aware of the problem, and some of the graphics card makers have already issued a recall.

An issue was recently discovered with AMD’s official diagnostic and validation software that allowed the defective cards to slip through. [...]

I never thought I would be writing about the “burst in flame” laptop battery entry again. Sadly, yet another battery incident has made a Toshiba laptop went up in flame. Toshiba is trying hard to notify its customers in regards of the battery recall.
There were two-reported previous incidents before the recent one in May 24th [...]

Sony isn’t doing to well in the battery business, they’ve already had millions of their notebook batteries recalled, and they’re not through yet.
Acer has just announced a voluntary recall of 27,000 lithium ion laptop batteries. The batteries run the risk of short-circuiting and bursting into flames. That’s usually bad for something that one tends to [...]

Lucky Wii owners take note - Nintendo have issued a recall affecting all units worldwide… for the strap which tethers your wrist to the Wiimote controller.  It seems (as if you haven’t heard) that quite a few people have been accidentally flicking their Wiimotes off into the TV/wall/face of the cat, and so keen to [...]

Fujitsu has just announced that it was recalling 287,000 Sony-made notebook batteries. That brings the total recalls so far due to flaming Sony batteries to a whopping 7.6 million units. The fiery party may get wilder, as Acer may likely join in. There are no announcements of such recalls yet from Acer, but they have [...]

Over 23000 Segway has recalled in order to fix a software problem that caused the Segway to spontaneously go in reverse when user is trying to go forward. The fix can be easily applied at the dealership where you bought the Segway. So far it’s been reported that six people are injured because of the [...]