http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3526 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:10:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3526#comment-225170 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:36:12 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3526#comment-225170 [...] China must be taking lessons from Sony in terms of battery problems. Though really, if you’ve been tracking the news, this is just the latest in a series of safety problems stemming from products from China, from melamine in dog food, unsafe Thomas the Tank Engine toys, diethylene glycol-laced toothpaste, recalled tires. Now there are exploding cell phone batteries. Chinese regulators in the southern Guangdong Province, one of the world’s biggest electronics manufacturing centers, said this week that they had found Motorola and Nokia mobile phone batteries that failed safety tests and were prone to explode under certain conditions. [...] […] China must be taking lessons from Sony in terms of battery problems. Though really, if you’ve been tracking the news, this is just the latest in a series of safety problems stemming from products from China, from melamine in dog food, unsafe Thomas the Tank Engine toys, diethylene glycol-laced toothpaste, recalled tires. Now there are exploding cell phone batteries. Chinese regulators in the southern Guangdong Province, one of the world’s biggest electronics manufacturing centers, said this week that they had found Motorola and Nokia mobile phone batteries that failed safety tests and were prone to explode under certain conditions. […]

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