* Dell To Announce Massive Laptop Battery Recall
posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Aug 2006 17:45 UTC, submitted by DigitalDame
IconDell plans to announce a voluntary recall of 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries used within its laptops because the batteries could overheat, prompting a risk of fire. The batteries, manufactured by Sony, were found in 25 Dell laptops and eight Dell 'mobile workstation'-class notebook PCs. Dellbatteryprogram.com provides instructions on how to determine whether a notebook battery was affected by the recall, and if so, how to ship it back.
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