Japan: Sony, Dell Must Investigate Battery Safety

• Sony launches its first laptop with a flash drive Sony is refreshing its lightweight Vaio Type G laptop and has begun offering a solid state flash drive as an option instead of a hard disk dri ...

• Sony launches its first laptop with a flash drive Sony is refreshing its lightweight Vaio Type G laptop and has begun offering a solid state flash drive as an option instead of a hard disk dri ...

• FCC Looks To Free Up Additional Spectrum For Public Safety Providers The FCC is seeking comments on a proposal to reallocate 12 megahertz of the 700 MHz public safety spectrum from wideband to broadband use ...

• Kodak, Sony Settle Patent Infringement Suits The companies have entered into a cross licensing agreement that settles digital photography patent infringement suits they had filed against each other ...

• CES INTERVIEW: Gates Sees Microsoft Leading Sony In Video Games Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Sunday called the early success of its Xbox 360 game console a role reversing change of fortune for the softwarengiant looking to overtake market leader Sony ...

• Dell To Divide Commercial Business Group Dell Inc saidnWednesday that the head of its commercial business groupnwould retire in March and the No 2 PC maker plans to splitnthat unit into two as it streamlines its business ...

• SEC, Directors Investigating Dell Fiscal Issues News of the investigations comes the same week the company announced the recall of 4 1 million laptop batteries ...

• Dell Customers Have To Wait Four Weeks For Replacement Batteries Computer maker cautions customers not to use faulty laptop batteries ...

• Feds Clear Some Apple MacBook Pro Batteries Of Safety Defects The U S Consumer Product Safety Commission has given a thumbs up to using substandard batteries for Apple s 15 inch MacBook Pro notebooks Apple has launched an exchange program to replace those batteries ...

• Battery Recall Could Cost Sony Over $170 Million The costs are to support the recall programs for both Dell and Apple laptops ...