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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
You know what they always say: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Apparently Yahoo is applying this mantra quite liberally, as just a fortnight after signing a deal with Acer to make Yahoo the default search engine on all of its future notebooks, the distantly-second place search giant is teaming up with HP. Yahoo has been on a tirade of sorts in its attempt to partner with as many other firms as possible, but landing a deal with the world’s second largest PC maker just might provide the usage boost its been after. North American HP PCs will sport an Internet Explorer 7 toolbar that automatically channels any search requests to Yahoo’s servers, while European PCs will be greeted with a Yahoo home page each time they launch their browser (until they change the default setting, that is). Also noteworthy is the newfound partnership between HP and Vonage, which will toss in advertising brochures and an offer for “unlimited premium residential broadband telephone service,” thoroughly showering your fresh HP box with “pre-selected offerings.” Whether or not this turns out to be a two-fer-one (or are we up to three now?) deal for Yahoo, considering HP just acquired VoodooPC and all, remains to be seen — but we can’t imagine Voodoo customers warming up to an advertisement-laden OS anytime soon.
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Read - Vonage connects with HP
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Filed under: Laptops
It took them long enough, but it looks like Sony is really coming clean on this battery issue, and urging all affected manufacturers to get on the recall bandwagon. Toshiba is recalling 840,000 batteries across a wide swath of their laptop lines, in addition to the 340,000 they recalled a couple of weeks ago for an unrelated power-loss issue. Fujitsu is recalling Sony-made batteries from 19 of its laptop models, but no word on exact quantity of laptops. Dell is also expanding their own recall, with 100,000 more batteries due to “additional information” they’ve recently received about the batteries from Sony. Oddly enough, while Sony seems to be encouraging all OEMs to get going on a recall, we still haven’t seen a recall for Sony’s own laptops — which seem to be just as defective as the rest of them, peep that picture above — but hopefully Sony will be fessing up to those soon so we can all be one big, happy screwed-by-Sony family.
Read - More headaches for Sony over batteries
Read - Dell recalls 100,000 more battery packs
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