| Toshiba Recalls More Sony Batteries
Toshiba is recalling 5,100 laptop batteries sold around the world after three instances of the batteries catching fire, two in Japan and one in Australia. Affected batteries were manufactured by Sony in December 2005 for Toshiba's Dynabook, Dynabook Satellite, Satellite and Tecra lines. The computer maker said the batteries in question were not part of last year's massive recall of Sony batteries, which affected over 10 million units shipped by Dell, Lenovo, Apple and Sony itself. The problems are caused by metal particles falling into a battery during production, causing it to short circuit. Toshiba previously recalled 340,000 batteries, and the latest recall follows one from Gateway last month. .
Toshiba begins another recall for Sony batteries
Toshiba Corp. is recalling a small batch of laptop batteries that could overheat and burn users, a company spokesman said Thursday. About 5,100 Sony Corp.-made lithium-ion batteries are defective, spanning 10 models of Toshiba computers, some of which are essentially the same model but carry a different name in different regions, said Manuel Linnig, Toshiba spokesman in Germany. .
Cameras offer YouTube capture mode
VANCOUVER - Casio Cameras with YouTube Capture mode, starting at $240. Casio has introduced two new cameras, the EX-S880 and EX-Z77, that come with a YouTube capture mode and bundled software to provide the best settings for recording, storing and uploading video. Record and upload videos to YouTube in two steps or upload multiple videos at once. The EX-S880 will be available in red and black and is expected to sell for $350 when it lands on store shelves in August. The EX-Z77 will be $240. Mustek Portable MP100 Portable DVD Player with swivel screen, $300. Rotate this screen a full 180 degrees so you can watch from any angle. Watch DVDs, listen to CDs or use the memory card slot to view photos or videos from your camera or camcorder. It has a 10-inch LCD screen, remote control, a USB connection and is DivX compatible.
Xbox, PS3 and Wii: The Future of Storage
This might sound a little weird coming from a lifelong propeller head, but the last home video game I played was Pong back in the 1970s, and that was because one of my cousins got it for his birthday. Pong and other early games bear little resemblance to the games of today. Besides the technology and realism, today's games are different just in the volume sold. In the early 1970s, much of the market for the computer industry was created by both business and government desire for faster, bigger and cheaper systems. In the 1990s, the market was driven by the home PC, inspired by widespread Internet access. Everything in the industry became a commodity based on the PC and the Internet. Today I think it is quite likely that we will see a shift in the market where gaming devices become the driving force and the PC will become an add-on to the gaming device.
Epson debuts new inkjet printers
Epson has added four new printers to its inkjet line-up. The $160 CX9400Fax All-In-One includes an auto document feeder for multi-page faxes and can print a 4"x6" photo in 26 seconds and claims a 32 page per minute text printing speed. Meanwhile, the $90 Stylus C120 offers a black-and-white speed of 25 pages per minute in normal mode, and 10 pages per minute in color mode. It can also print 37 black and white pages per minute in draft mode, and 20 pages per minute in color draft mode. The C120 also includes a "quiet mode," which delivers slower print speeds, but reduced volume operation. The new CX7400 is priced at $70 and includes memory card slots. It delivers up to 28 pages per minute. The CX8400, priced at $100 includes a 2.5" LCD and has a slightly higher speed (30 pages per minute) than the CX7400.
Hurricane Flossie Blog Coverage
4:11 p.m. From Ben in the weather center: One of the tools we're using here calculates how long it would take a storm or rainfall to reach a certain point on land. I took the leading edge of the storm on Doppler radar and looked at how long it would take the closest rainband to reach Na`alehu if it were moving WNW at 7 miles per hour. The computer says it won't get there until 8:53 p.m.! But that's if it maintains current forward momentum, which has been slowing quite a bit in the last one to two hours. It could still speed again, of course. 3:53 p.m. From Ben in the Weather Center: Justin and I have noticed that Flossie forward WNW motion has slowed to a crawl. We took some distance calculations and it appears the center of the storm on Doppler radar has barely moved in the last hour.
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