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Sony recalls 100,000 Notebook Batteries

 
Here we go again. New notebook battery recalls has been announced by Sony affecting notebook makers HP, Toshiba and a very small Dell notebooks. The recall for Sony battery packs amounts to 100,000 affected notebooks world-wide. The number of affected note... (link)

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