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Sony will pay for replacement of lithium-ion batteries
By Rochelle Garner (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-30 08:47
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Sony Corp said it will pay to replace more lithium-ion batteries worldwide after IBM and Lenovo Group Ltd became the latest manufacturers to recall them because of a fire hazard.
 Sony's booth at an exhibition in Shanghai. Sony Corp said it will pay to replace more lithium-ion batteries worldwide after IBM and Lenovo Group Ltd became the latest manufacturers to recall them because of a fire hazard. [newsphoto] |
Lenovo, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and IBM said in a statement on Thursday they will recall Sony batteries used in 526,000 ThinkPad notebook computers, including 168,500 in the US Apple Computer Inc and Dell Inc took similar steps last month.