There've been scattered reports of Dell Computer Co. laptops bursting into flames without warning, though there's been little urgency attached to the reports. But in a potentially catastrophic case ...

A Dell notebook computer that burst into flames last month in Osaka, Japan, has damaged more than just the conference table where it sat smoldering. The incident, publicized in photos on the Internet, ...

Digital Journal — Oh boy. Someone is going to get chewed a new one for this: Dell is recalling more than four million laptop batteries following complaints its PCs are overheating and bursting into ...

Yahoo! Santa Clara HQ smoke alarms were triggered this week by yet another exploding laptop battery, “forcing several hundred employees to evacuate the building”. Flickr exec Stewart Butterfield ...

A couple of weeks ago Dell recalled a batch of bad batteries that were potential Molotov Cocktails and then this week Apple did the same thing. Now we find that in the case of Dell, whose batteries ...

If you, like kb, doubted the facts behind my June 21st blog entry Why Laptops Don’t belong on Laps which concerned a Dell laptop that exploded for no apparent reason at a conference then … check out ...

Here we go again, it’s IT Blogwatch, in which we make no apology for covering the latest in the exploding Dell laptop saga — Dell is blaming Sony’s batteries. Not to mention August’s Pop-up Potpourri… ...