Toshiba Joins Dell, Apple In Sony Recall

Written by Adam Gosling

Tuesday, 19 September 2006

Laptop maker Toshiba is the latest manufacturer to join the worldwide recall of Lithium Ion notebook batteris manufactured by Sony Corp. The company has announced it will replace 340,000 sold in Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops manufactured between March and May this year. The issue with the batteries seems unrelated to the overheating, explosion and potentially lethal problems experienced by Dell and Apple. Toshiba exectuives said the fault was related to problems with storing and transmitting power and that the problems could not lead to fire. Toshiba said the fault would only manifest in "rare" cases. The fault is said to be related to the insulation paper on a circuit that may cause corrosion. The fault causes the battery to stop charging. This is another embarrassing and potentially expensive recall for Sony which is already at the centre of a 6.4 million unit recall with Dell and Apple. Related news items Toshiba Gets Serious With New Gaming Laptop -27/06/2007 Toshiba Becomes Latest AMD Customer -27/06/2007 New Toshiba Qosmio Slightly Smaller -27/06/2007 Watch This! Sony Ericsson Bluetooth -17/06/2007 Sony Ericsson Says 'Email For All' -17/06/2007 Newer news items Check Point Plans Enterprise-Style Security For The Home -08/11/2006 Seagate To Encrypt Notebook Drives -30/10/2006 Lenovo Joins Dell, Apple In Sony Recall -03/10/2006 LAX Firecracker Had A Sony Battery -21/09/2006 Vendors Contemplate Formal Standards For Lithium Ion -21/09/2006 Older news items IBM Laptop Explodes At LAX -17/09/2006 Dell, Apple Travel Restrictions Grow -15/09/2006 "Missed Call" SPAM Under ACMA Investigation -14/09/2006 Only 6,000? Panasonic Must Have Recall Envy -06/09/2006 Unprotected Phones Abandoned At Airports -03/09/2006 Tag This Now: