Posted on 09/19/2006 10:01:38 AM PDT by rawhide
TOKYO — Toshiba is recalling 340,000 laptop batteries worldwide made by Sony Corp. (SNE), the latest in a series of problems for the company....
....The problems are found in some of the battery packs for Dynabook and Satellite laptop models manufactured by Tokyo-based Toshiba from March through May this year, and they will be replaced for free, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Assuming $50/battery to process (the sunny side), that's a 17 million dollar recall. Yikes.
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