Toshiba recalls 340,000 Sony laptop batteries
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Toshiba said Tuesday it would replace about 340,000 laptop computer batteries made by Sony, the latest in a string of Sony battery woes. The batteries, used in Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops manufactured between March and May this year, could fail on the road because of problems with storing and transmitting power, Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Ohmori said.
Ohmori declined to estimate the cost of the move, saying it would not affect earnings, and would not say whether Toshiba was asking Sony to foot the bill. Toshiba said that the faulty batteries would not cause fires and that battery failure would occur “only in rare cases,” but that the battery could fail regardless of how carefully it is used.
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