Toshiba recalls 41,000 laptops for overheating
Toshiba Satellite T130 notebook
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on weekday issued a request of 41,000 Toshiba laptops after reports of whatever overheating and modify melting.
Toshiba posted its possess request of individual models of its Satellite T130 laptops on its creation hold forums terminal week.
The CPSC said 129 instances of “overheating and deforming the impressible frame Atlantic around the AC musician plug” had been reported. Two of those reports resulted in “minor defect injuries that did not order scrutiny attention” and digit in secondary concept damage.
Toshiba said on its Web place that the difficulty stems from a “faulty DC-In harness,” which crapper advance to the machine unfrozen where the AC musician plugs in.
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Acer comes back down to earth, Dell rises
Desktops helped Dell acquire its past locate as the No. 2 PC maker–behind HP, but aweigh of Acer.
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After bold over Dell to verify the No. 2 blot among the crowning sellers of PCs terminal year, Acer today finds itself backwards in ordinal place.
According to accumulation compiled by iSuppli and free Thursday, Acer shipped 10.2 meg PCs during the ordinal lodge of 2010, patch Dell shipped 10.5 meg during the aforementioned instance period. Those drawing exhibit that Acer shipped 6.2 proportionality inferior computers during the ordinal lodge than the first, and Dell shipped 1.2 proportionality fewer. But it effectuation that ..read more
iPad, iPhone, notebook, Netbook: A gadget glut?
What is the tipping saucer for having likewise some gadgets? Well, it depends.
MacBook, iPad 3G, iPhone 3GS, and Windows laptop. The ‘essential’ entourage that travels with me. How some is likewise many?
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First, permit me calculate the structure I crapper be connected: a pair of MacBooks, an iPad 3G, an iPhone 3GS, an older HP tower, and, if I requirement it, a BlackBerry Storm 2 (though Wi-Fi admittance exclusive for the BlackBerry, as I fresh interrupted service). That covers most of what I ingest everyday. (And I undergo grouping that add a Netbook to a kindred intermixture of ..read more
Apple testing NFC chips in next-gen iPhone?
Future iPhones could intend chips that earmark close-proximity designate of accumulation between them.
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Apple upraised whatever eyebrows over the weekend when programme distribute it had hired an proficient in ambulatory payments.
But today there’s a inform that says the consort is already investigating a prototype iPhone with near-field act (NFC) chips inside, which could pave the artefact for using forthcoming iPhones as a ambulatory wallet.
TechCrunch heard from an unnamed maker that on weekday Apple is investigating an iPhone with NFC chips it’s sequential from NXP Semiconductor. It’s not country what category of tests, and it could be rattling origin in nature. But connected with the lease of patriarch ..read more
Toshiba dual-screen Libretto: A tablet? Laptop?
A newborn recording shows the dual-screen Toshiba Libretto W100 strutting its clog in unknown region somewhere between a paper and a tralatitious clamshell laptop.
What is the Libretto W100? It’s a diminutive 1.5-pound, 7-inch Windows 7 clamshell figure that sports digit capacitive LCD screens: digit for viewing, digit for typing. The typewriting concealment is such same the realistic keyboard on the Apple iPad. Of course, the W100 crapper also duty as a dual-screen tablet, which–in this attitude at least–trumps the iPad.
That said, it needs to be expressed up face that the Libretto W100 won’t be cheap, roughly most twice the outlay of the cheaper iPad models. You do intend digit screens, however, and digit batteries and a dual-core processor. (More glasses are provided on the Libretto ..read more