Sony recalls batteries

Still recovering from it's $400 million recall just two years ago, Sony has issued a recall for 100,000 units of lithium-ion batteries for laptops. Users complained of overheating in many cases sometimes even smoking or even flaming. These batteries were made by the same subsidary of Sony as the last batch to be recalled, based in Tochiji, Japan. 

The company most effected by this recall is HP with over 72,000 of the 100,000 existing in their laptops. Sony claims that the effected batteries were produced in 2004 and 2005, before both the reforms of the production technique and even the previous recalled batteries. HP, Dell and Lenovo have offered to replace batteries free of charge. This recall came at one of the worst possible times for Sony who reported very low earnings for September and October and had to lower their projected profit for the year.