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Battery Recalls A Blow to Sony's Recovery

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ouch dept.

Yasser writes to mention the fallout from yet another Sony battery recall. Sony's stock hit a one-month low today on the news that they'd be pulling over a million batteries off the market. The recall is expected to have little impact financially, but has prompted the Japanese government into ordering Sony to look into the battery problem. From that article: "The ministry instructed the two companies to investigate the safety of Dell models Latitude, Inspiron and Precision and report on their findings by the end of August, the ministry said. Earlier this month, problems with battery cells supplied by Sony forced Dell to recall an unprecedented 4.1 million laptop batteries in the United States. "

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  1. Re:Who pays? by Doctor-Optimal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sony. http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/08/24/ap2 972235.html

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  2. Sony, some baloney by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Really, I'm sorry that your profits - that you earned so hard by putting out piles of junk - now get eaten into by recalling said junk.

    It all started to go downhill after Akio Morita died. The way I saw it his influence kept Sony's focus on high quality, innovative products. After his passing Sony became more interested in profitability over quality. The stories of Sony products not being up to snuff are no legion. Too bad. They had one of the best names, because of the reputation and now they're wrecking it over profits and rushing things to market before adequate testing.

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  3. 1.8 Million Mac G4/iBook batteries, too! by Markvs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sony also made the recalled Mac batteries...

    http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060824 111724500
    http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060825 081604956

    Affected ranges of serial number prefixes are as follows:

    12-inch iBook G4, battery model: A1061

    ZZ338 through ZZ427
    3K429 through 3K611
    6C510 through 6C626
    12-inch PowerBook G4, battery model: A1079

    ZZ411 through ZZ427
    3K428 through 3K611
    15-inch PowerBook G4, battery models: A1078 and A1148

    3K425 through 3K601
    6N530 through 6N551
    6N601

    To see if your PowerBook or iBook is affected, visit
    https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbook/batterye xchange/.

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