Nokia has responded to a story ZDNet Australia published on Wednesday in which a reader, Linda Lisica, sent in photographs showing how her battery shot out of a charging phone and exploded.
Exploding batteries are back: last Friday, the battery of an Australian readers' Nokia 6230i phone exploded and flew across the room, burning a hole in her floor.
Nokia has offered to replace 46 million mobile phone batteries because they are at risk from overheating -- but the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer denies its actions constitute a product recall.
Nokia has issued a recall for Lithium-ion batteries used in over 50 of its mobile phones under suspicion that faulty units could pose a risk of overheating.
It's been a high-profile summer for lithium ion notebook batteries, much to the chagrin of Dell, Apple Computer and Sony.
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Australians are slowly jumping aboard the environmental bandwagon, but in Japan, a law mandating the recycling of home appliances is already six years old.
The next generation in DVD technology will let consumers carry the equivalent of a hard drive on a disc, but what are they supposed to do with all that capacity? Interact, supporters say.
Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.
Sony and Toppan Printing are making a new mark on Blu-ray disc technology.
Toshiba and NEC are demonstrating a new DVD recording technology that promises a significantly higher storage capacity without a major investment in new production facilities.
Matsushita has announced a desk lamp that sets up an IPv6 Internet address and can be controlled through a local area network.
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A consortium of companies developing Blu-ray Disc technology, a recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers, announces the start date for the licensing of the technology.
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