Lenovo / IBM ThinkPad Battery Recall is official

The Lenovo / IBM ThinkPad battery recall is official.

Here is the link to find out if your battery is affected:
www.lenovo.com/batteryprogram

The batteries were made using the same Sony cells found in the affected Dell, Apple & Toshiba laptops.

The Census Bureau's unacceptable loss of laptops and information.

New came out last night that the Census Bureau has lost over 1,100 laptops over the last 5 years, many of which contained personal information.

This is totally unacceptable!

What IDIOT put ANY personal information on a laptop to begin with? I just can't put into words how ridiculous this is. It must be a cover up, nobody could possibly be that stupid. Honestly, this makes no sense at all.

I do NOT believe the laptops were accidentally lost or stolen.

Len (Owner)
AbsoluteRaleigh

New recycling options in Raleigh

In today's news there is a story about a recycling company that now has a shredder. The company is producing more jobs and can shred an impressive amount of electronics. They have plans to turn certain plastics into diesel fuel in the future.

It is great and they will probably do well, but, they charge for the service. There are local companies who will pay for this scrap such as TT&E. So, it will be interesting to see how this "pans out"... They do offer a service of destroying data but that already exists in the area and what IT dept can't remove hard drives before recycling?

To us it is a little confusing at first but it is great to see more recycling options in the area as a LOT of electronics waste is produced in the Raleigh area.

Exploding Sony Vaio Laptops?

Are Sony Vaio Lapops exploding now, too?

Here's a link to KMBC news' story.

Toshiba Battery Recall

Just released by Toshiba today, the Toshiba Battery Exchange Program is now in effect.

It covers certain machines manufactured between March and May of 2006. The affected batteries simply quit working. Toshiba is offering to replace affected batteries with new batteries, free of charge.

Is this news? Two things.
1. We’ve seen this problem with batteries for years.
2. The affected machines were just manufactured- if the battery quits they’re already under warranty anyways.

I guess it is a “recall” since Toshiba will replace affected batteries whether or not they have actually failed. No explosions that we’re aware of- these batteries just die.

Affected models include:
Satellite A100/A105
Satellite M50/M55
Satellite M100/M105
Tecra A6
Tecra A7

The link:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=1482876

Exploding ThinkPad Laptops?

Well, over here we are big ThinkPad fans, so hopefully this story is inaccurate or the user was using an aftermarket battery. It has been reported by a Gizmodo reader here that a T43 blew up. Go here to see a pic and the full report.

Happy Belated Birthday Hard Drive

It was the hard drive's birthday a couple of days ago. The hard drive is now 50.

Happy Birthday!

Raleigh-Durham Ranked Top Technology Hub

According to the newest survey by Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the nation's top-ranked tech hub is North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham area, which enjoys relatively affordable housing and a thriving job market.

Get the whole story on WRAL.com here.