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news.cnet.com - 8/19/2009

laptop battery fire - CNET News

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Fri Oct 13 2000 Dell recalls notebook batteries suspected of fire hazard The giant PC maker recalls as many as 27,000 notebook batteries suspected of causing fires--the second major problem the company has had with portables this year. Posted by Joe Wilcox Fri Oct 27 2000 Compaq to recall ...

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EU’s exploding-iPhone investigation heats up
iPhone News Updated — I’m on my third iPhone (having upgraded twice), and I’ve also owned an iPod Touch. I loved them all dearly, largely because they never exploded into flames, burning me and my family alive. Just saying. But it seems that other people might not have been so lucky. Numerous reports say the European Commission is now looking into accounts of exploding iPhones and iPod Touches–and Apple is cooperating, according to The New York Times. Apple said “these are isolated incidents,” commission spokeswoman Helen Kearns told reporters in Brussels. “They don’t consider that ...

CNET Apple News: Exploding iPhones, Music Event Sept. 9th.
MacFixIt — ... has turned up 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that include cases of burning or flaming iPods. There have been many well-documented cases of laptop batteries bursting into flames , so it's plausible that iPhones could heat up too, given that they use the same (or similar) battery technology. "We are aware of these reports and we are waiting to receive the iPhones from the customers," Apple said in a statement late Tuesday afternoon. "Until we have the full details, we don't have anything further to add." Editors' note: The damage to this ...