by Tony Haffner
Do you have a laptop? Have you heard about the millions of lithium ion batteries that are being recalled worldwide? If not, you need to get your act together - and fast! Incidents of laptop going up in flames are not isolated to western world only.
What actually is making these lithium ion batteries leak, overheat, or cumbost? Mostly short circuits - the battery heats up and bursts into flames, or melts causing a lot of damage. A lithium ion battery typically contains several cells. These cells are insulated from each other using separators; a short circuit usually happens when a separator fails. With newer gadgets that are more power hungry, the trend is to manufacture smaller yet more powerful batteries - but that is done by decreasing the thickness of separators. That is why there is always a warning on lithium ion batteries about never throwing them in fire or puncturing them.
So who all have joined the battery recall bandwagon? Dell tops the list with 42 lakh batteries recalled. Then comes apple with 18 lakh recalls, Toshiba with 8.3 lakh, IBM/Lenovo with 5.26 lakh, Fujitsu with 2.87 lakh units, Hitachi with 16,000 units and HP with 15,700 units. Sony manufactured most of the batteries and they have there own recall as well; but the number of units to be recalled is not clear. If you have a laptop manufactured with any of these big names, you need to logon to there website, go to the support area and look around for the battery replacement program. You will need to check/enter the serial number and they will tell you whether you laptop battery is 'at risk'. Better safe than sorry!
Labels: Laptops
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 by Tony Haffner
Everyone's favorite web-slinger is often seen carrying his reporter clothes in a web-bag whenever he takes to the buildings of New York, but that is probably due to the fact that Spiderman somehow missed out of the
Velocity Pro Spyder Backpack. Targeting the geek community, this unique backpack comes with Xtreme Padded Comfort collar straps that make lugging even a 3kg notebook easy on your shoulders. The bag also consists of industrial strength zippers, a patented CORE3 protection system to offer an extra layer of defense against knocks and bumps, and puncture-proof BuckBlast suede. The Velocity Pro Spyder Backpack caters to notebooks that are 15" to 17" in size and retails for $99.
Labels: Laptops, Travel Gadgets
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Monday, March 12, 2007 by Tony Haffner
Orkut being blocked all over the universities, educational institutes and has been condemned many times for the generous openness which it shows. But that does not seem to stop Google to keep orkut updating with new features. And the orkut lovers enjoy the service too.
At its third birthday
Google blog has made an announcement that
orkut users will soon be able to scrap to there friends via cell phones and receive the scraps in cell phones. One will be able to read the friends profile from his/her cell phone itself. Isn't that great! The one thging thats left behind with Orkut is use of Flash comments...Unfortunately Orkut dosent allow you to share pictures or upload videos. MySpace is long way ahead in these aspects. If Orkut comes up with these feautures and may be in a more advanced way , history might repeat itself . We might see what happened to Friendster in 2003 happening to MySpace ..or should see more ....
The service is being initially launched in Brazil, where orkut has gained the maximum number of users. Soon the service will be available to people around the globe. Time to eat, drink, sleep, bath, ride, walk, think....orkut with your cell phone!
Labels: Google, Orkut, Scrap, Social Networking, Web 2.0
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by Tony Haffner
Mio ( Mio Technology Europe ) has come up with another GPS Pocket PC Phone called the Mio A501. The device is expected to be released in March of this year.It’ll only weigh 135 grams with battery and run Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition AKU 3.5 on a TI processor
Mio A501 is a quad-band GSM phone with bluetooth support, with both USB port and SD/MMC slots and 2MP digital camera.Coming soon more informations
Labels: Cell Phones, PDA, Pocket PC
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