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Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. said Wednesday it is recalling 287,000 laptop batteries manufactured by Sony Corp., the latest in a massive global recall of the batteries that can overheat and catch fire. Affected are 224,000 laptops sold overseas across 10 models, including the popular Lifebook series, according to Fujitsu spokesman Masao Sakamoto. The remaining 63,000 were sold across 17 models in Japan. Fujitsu was still working out recall logistics, Sakamoto said. He did not know how much the recall would cost Fujitsu. Almost every major laptop maker has told customers to return Sony-made lithium-ion batteries, which can overheat and...

The recall of Sony-manufactured laptop computer batteries was extended on Thursday to about 1.1 million battery packs used in systems sold by Apple. The recall was announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and follows a similar recall of 4.1 million Sony-manufactured batteries used in Dell laptops announced last week. Dell and the CPSC had reported six known instances of battery problems in Dell computers, including some well-documented occurrences of fires associated with the batteries and computers. The CPSC said Apple has received nine reports of batteries overheating, including two reports of minor burns from handling overhead computers and...