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Raon Digital recall Everun Note: overheating, blue-screens & dodgy battery gauge

Chris Davies, Sep 22nd 2008 Discuss [0]

It can't be in too many hands as of yet, but the Everun Note is about to be snatched out of them and dragged back to base. Raon Digital have recalled the compact touchscreen notebook over "failure symptoms" that include high-pitched fan noise, blue-screening, overheating processor, inaccurate battery monitor levels or "an error related to the preinstalled e-dictionary and/or PDA authentication". Read The Full Story

Sony VAIO TZ overheat problem prompts free test & repair program

Chris Davies, Sep 4th 2008 Discuss [2]

Sony has begun a free test & repair program for certain models in its VAIO TZ range, after a fault in the screen hinge can cause dangerous overheating. Apparently in excess of 200 notebooks have overheated, with seven people suffering light burns. The program affects any TZ bought between May 2007 and July 2008, and has so far been announced in the US, UK and Hong Kong. Read The Full Story

Apple Japan and Sony settle lawsuit regarding Battery Fire

James Allan Brady, Apr 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

Just when I was beginning to think we were out of the woods with this whole battery fire mess a gentleman’s Apple notebook catches fire in Japan and he sues over it. Apple Japan and Sony have agreed to pay the 1.3 million Yen, or about $13k. Read The Full Story

More Lead Recall, Babies R Us Ten Dollars Photo Frame

Daniel Lim, Jan 18th 2008 Discuss [1]

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. Read The Full Story

Sony Ericsson W910i phones recalled by Orange

James Allan Brady, Nov 13th 2007 Discuss [1]

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. 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. Read The Full Story

Toshiba recals power adapters from portable DVD players

Chris Scott Barr, Oct 10th 2007 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

Canon issues recall for PowerShot A650 IS

Chris Scott Barr, Oct 4th 2007 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

Nokia recalls 46 million cell phone batteries

Chris Scott Barr, Aug 14th 2007 Discuss [0]

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. 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. Read The Full Story

Recall – Sony issues recall for 350,000 digital cameras

Chris Scott Barr, Aug 2nd 2007 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story

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

Chris Scott Barr, Aug 1st 2007 Discuss [0]

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. 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. Read The Full Story

Toshiba recalls batteries – the explosive battery saga continues

Ewdison Then, Jun 19th 2007 Discuss [1]

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. Read The Full Story

Acer announces battery recall

Chris Scott Barr, Apr 26th 2007 Discuss [0]

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. Read The Full Story