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More Lead Recall, Babies R Us Ten Dollars Photo Frame

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Jan 18th 2008 1 Comment

Approximately 600 photo frames are being recalled by the Gift Wrap Company of Atlanta, Georgia and Consumer Product Safety Commission due to excess levels of lead found on the frame’s surface paint. The ‘Made in China’ 4”x6” hanging photo frames were sold at Babies R Us stores nationwide from August 2007 through November 2007 for about $10. Here’s the brief description of the troubled item in case you have one: The wooden frames are white with decorations in different colors and have a coordinating ribbon attached to the top.

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Sony Ericsson W910i phones recalled by Orange

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Nov 13th 2007 1 Comment

The first wave of W910i’s are all being recalled by Orange. Why? Because the phone function is somehow causing the device to switch off after 10 seconds and its also not answering calls.

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Well, that kinda makes a phone, well, not a phone, doesn’t it? Some people who are returning them, are getting exchanges, and then the exchanges are having the same damn problem.

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Toshiba recals power adapters from portable DVD players

By Chris Scott Barr on Wednesday, Oct 10th 2007 No Comments

If you have a portable DVD player made by Toshiba, listen up. There has been a voluntary recall issued for the power adapters for certain models of Toshiba’s portable DVD players.

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Canon issues recall for PowerShot A650 IS

By Chris Scott Barr on Thursday, Oct 4th 2007 No Comments

Do you have a Canon PowerShot A650 IS? I have to ask, how are your shots turning out? My guess is that the ones shot in bright lighting conditions aren’t so great. In fact, most of them shoot so poorly that Canon has issued an official recall of the camera.

Canon Powershot A650 IS

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Nokia recalls 46 million cell phone batteries

By Chris Scott Barr on Tuesday, Aug 14th 2007 No Comments

Well Sony shouldn’t feel bad, they’re not the only ones recalling batteries these days. Now mobile phone giant Nokia is reaclling roughly 46 million cell phone batteries.

Nokia Battery Recall
The batteries affected are model number BL-5C and were manufactured between December 2005 and November of 2006. Quite a few Nokia phones use this battery ranging from the 1100 series up to the N91 and E60.

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Recall – Sony issues recall for 350,000 digital cameras

By Chris Scott Barr on Thursday, Aug 2nd 2007 No Comments

If you purchased a Sony camera back in 2005, you might want to listen up. Sony has issued a recall on 350,000 digital cameras. Don’t worry, for once this recall is not related to a battery issue, though the camera could be a danger to your safety.

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AMD lets defective graphics cards slip through QA testing, thousands of cards recalled

By Chris Scott Barr on Wednesday, Aug 1st 2007 No Comments

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.

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An issue was recently discovered with AMD’s official diagnostic and validation software that allowed the defective cards to slip through. The issue that was not detected was an error in the BIOS, which is an easy fix, for the manufacturer, not by home users. One of the larger (and anonymous) manufacturers has already recalled 20,000-30,000 units.

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Toshiba recalls batteries – the explosive battery saga continues

By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jun 19th 2007 1 Comment

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 where an office desk was burned by the flame bursting laptop. Toshiba is also in talks with Sony about the reimbursement for those recalled batteries.

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Acer announces battery recall

By Chris Scott Barr on Thursday, Apr 26th 2007 No Comments

Acer logo 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 set on their lap.

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Wiimote Straps: Nintendo will swap the lot

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 15th 2006 No Comments

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 avoid any more feline mangling or legal wrangling Nintendo are biting the bullet and swapping the safety straps.

Wiimote Straps