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Samsung unleashes hybrid hard drive

News Samsung says laptop users will get an extra half hour of battery life and be able to boot up their computers faster using its hybrid hard drive, which will come out in PCs in 2007. Spinning drives are one of the most power-hungry components in a...

16 May 2006, 11:24

Reality check for over-hyped Origami PC

News Bill Gates' vision of an ultramobile PC seemed like a winner: a device with all-day battery life, yet small enough to fit in a pocket and much cheaper than a laptop. Intel, too, sees a bigger market if the industry can produce smaller devices with...

9 March 2006, 10:34

Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop batteries

News Apple is recalling 1.8 million batteries that use Sony's battery cell technology, it announced on Thursday. Other laptop manufacturers use Sony's battery-cell technology in their products, but several said last week that they had not seen the same...

25 August 2006, 10:47

Sony: Fires stop with Apple and Dell

News Sony and PC makers scrambled on Thursday to reassure customers that the latest battery recall involving Apple would be the last. Just about every major PC company uses Sony's battery cells in a portion of their laptop batteries.

25 August 2006, 9:48

Apple debuts new U2 iPod

News Apple Computer on Tuesday released a new version of its U2 Special Edition iPod music player, with a 30GB storage capacity and 14-hour battery life for £239. The first U2 iPod, which was released in October 2004, held 20GB, had a 12-hour battery...

7 June 2006, 10:21

Apple recalls MacBook Pro batteries

News Under its free Battery Exchange Programme, Apple will replace the batteries for 15-inch MacBook Pro systems sold between February and May 2006. We recently discovered that some 15-inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple do not meet our high...

1 August 2006, 9:30

Lenovo laptop latest to go up in flames

News A burning laptop that frightened passengers at Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend was a ThinkPad, Lenovo confirmed on Wednesday, and that laptop ships with Sony's battery technology. Because the area of the computer containing the...

21 September 2006, 8:53

Photos: Nikon D80 comes into focus

News The camera, scheduled for release in September, has a 10.2-megapixel CCD like the D200, but a battery life, price and features closer to those of the lower-end D70s. According to the company, the EN-EL3e rechargeable lithium-ion battery for the D80...

10 August 2006, 10:08

HP recalls laptop batteries worldwide

News This battery recall comes six months after HP and the safety commission announced one involving 135,000 battery units worldwide. HP, however, is hardly alone in facing battery recalls -- computer makers such as Dell and Apple have announced similar...

21 April 2006, 8:53

News.blog: Motorola going green?

News Apparently, the screen will be able to charge a mobile's battery when the display is exposed to the sun. Though external solar-powered battery chargers are a reality, this is the first concept we've seen for a mobile phone with an integrated solar...

24 May 2007, 9:41

Trojan targets Symbian smart phones

News CommWarrior.B generates enough Bluetooth traffic to drain the battery of a smart phone in less than an hour and rebooting the phone can then cause data loss. The user can only avoid data loss if they disinfect the phone before the battery runs out...

5 July 2005, 9:10

Japanese PC makers back Sony batteries

News We have determined that there is no possibility that any battery trouble could cause smoking or fire in our laptop computers," said a Fujitsu spokesman. Most Japanese makers don't allow high voltage to flow from their AC adaptors to the computer...

18 August 2006, 9:27

New Eee PCs get UK release date

News Both based on Intel's low-power 1.6GHz Atom processor, the Eee 901 and 1000 should have better battery life than their predecessors, especially as they feature 6-cell 6600mAh batteries as opposed to the Eee 900's much-derided 4-cell 4400mAh...

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16 June 2008, 9:08

IBM pours a shot of methanol for ThinkPads

News The new battery does not require any change in the internal power architecture of the ThinkPad. Technology companies are working on fuel cells as a way to enhance the battery life of mobile devices such as notebooks, MP3 players and mobile phones.

18 April 2005, 18:15

Samsung brings 32GB solid state disk to UK laptops

News Hence they are faster, more reliable and consume less power, which means they run cooler and help boost battery life. The drive is likely to attract very tech-savvy buyers who want faster boot times, more reliable laptops or better battery life.

23 May 2007, 9:22