Sony now recalling 69,000 Vaio AC adapters
Sony has some bad news for the owners of their Vaio laptops.
The company has announced that they are recalling around 69,000 Vaio AC adapters because of safety concerns.
Sony said that the problem is related to insulation that can fail over time in some of the units shipped [...]
Hewlett-Packard announces a major recall of laptop batteries
Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced that HP is voluntarily recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that were shipped with some of their laptop models in the recent years.
HP revealed that the recalled laptops are from:
Nine models of HP Pavilion
Nine models of Compaq Presario
Two models of HP
One model of [...]
Facebook to implement security measures to meet state demands
Facebook is said to have agreed to implement several security measures to protect younger users on their social networking service.
The company would take as many as 40 steps to meet the demand from the US state governments.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in a statement that these [...]
Marshal: YouTube servers being used to send spam mail
Security firm Marshal has said in a report that Google owned video sharing service YouTube is being used to send spam mails. These mails are being delivered through YouTube servers.
Bradley Anstis, Marshal’s director of product management spoke on their research findings: “YouTube users have a facility where [...]
Nokia batteries continuing to blow up in India
Several instances of batteries inside Nokia phones blowing up have been reported in the media.
And this has resulted in a situation where the rival mobile phone makers are benefiting in the Indian market.
Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Samsung have all reported that their sales have improved in [...]
Matsushita to pay for the Nokia mobile phone battery recall
Matsushita and Nokia have together stated that Matsushita would be paying for the recently announced Nokia mobile phone battery recall.
The batteries were manufactured by Matsushita and are used in some of the most popular Nokia mobile phones.
Masatsugu Kondo, president of Matsushita Battery said in a statement: [...]
Nokia warns about overheating mobile phone batteries manufactured by Matsushita
After laptop batteries, its mobile phone batteries which are becoming a security risk for the common man.
World’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia has now warned that 46 million batteries used in its mobile phones could overheat.
The company is now offering free replacements to their customers. They [...]
Sony now recalling around 416,000 digital cameras
Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony has announced that they are now recalling around 416,000 digital cameras.
The problem exists in their cases which may wrap creating a sharp edge. The company said that they would be replacing the camera’s bottom casing, where the problem occurs, at no cost.
The company added [...]
Toshiba recalling more Sony manufactured Laptop batteries
Japanese consumer electronics maker Toshiba has announced that they are now going to recall more Sony manufactured laptop batteries.
The company said that up to around 5,100 battery packs are defective. However, the recall would be made for around 10,000 batteries.
The two companies however stated that this recall is not [...]
SiteAdvisor suggests that music and tech related searches products riskiest results
If you are search for some music or technology related material on Google, you need to take some extra care as these search results are likely to be having more sites with spyware and other malicious code.
This was revealed in a study conducted using the [...]
