Sony has recalled more laptop batteries that may be a potential fire hazard, but this time it’s a small one: only 100,000 batteries, compared to the 9.6 million recalled in 2006. According to Reuters:

The recall affects around 74,000 notebook PCs sold by HP and 14,400 from Toshiba.
The faulty batteries are also used in laptop PCs from Dell Inc, Acer Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd, Sony said.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission also issued “a voluntary recall” of about 35,000 products that could be affected. It has model names of about 32,000 HP models sold “from December 2004 through June 2006″, about 3,000 Toshibas (April-October 2005) and about 150 Dells (November 2004-05).

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