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• Nokia's Charger Recall Just the Latest Tech Do-Over Analysis: Here's a recent brief history of electronics recalls and official oops experiences.
• Nokia Announces Charger Recall: What You Need To Know Nokia will replace for free millions of faulty cellphone chargers that pose a shock hazard to users.
• Should You Use Standby or Hibernate? Most laptops give you a choice, but which mode works best, and why? Answers coming up.
• Toshiba Launches its First Fuel Cell Charger Toshiba's Dynario fuel cell chargers are now on sale in Japan.
• Protect Your PC From Sudden Power Outages You never know when the lights will go out, taking your data--and perhaps even your entire PC--with them. An inexpensive battery-backup can save the day.
• Technology Fails: 8 Extreme Electronic Disasters From acid-leaking game controllers to flame-shooting laptops, these eight failures are enough to shake anyone's faith in technology.
• BattCursor Helps You Keep an Eye on Your Laptop's Battery Life Keep track of battery life with BattCursor, a free program that puts the remaining battery percentage under the cursor.
• Freebie BatteryCare Helps You Get More Juice out of Notebook Batteries View battery statistics and manage calibrations with BatteryCare.
• MSI Netbook Gets 15-Hour Battery Life MSI's Wind U110 Eco netbook gets a new nine cell battery, allowing for up to 15 hours of portable power.
• Apple Investigates iPhone 3.1 OS Battery Problems iPhone 3GS users say the 3.1 operating system upgrade is a power drain; here's what to do.
• The 8-hour Laptop: Don't Hold Your Breath Hoping laptop battery life will improve in the future? A university professor says battery life has actually gotten worse in the past 20 years.
• AnandTech: IE 8 Gives Laptop Users Longer Battery Life For those of you who use your laptop mostly for browsing the Web, the browser you choose could play a large role in your laptops battery life.
• Green HDTVs Could Save You Lots of Green Samsung touts energy-saving technologies that could slash your TV energy costs and add hours to the battery life of a typical laptop.
• Lenovo to Replace Defective ThinkPad Batteries Some permanently damaged ThinkPad batteries are being recalled by Lenovo.
• Wii Battery Recharger Recall: What You Need to Know If you don't unplug your Wii 4-Dock Battery Recharge Station now, you may feel the burn — and not the good kind.
• Recharging Laptops, Netbooks, Gadgets Abroad Here's what you need to know if you're traveling with a laptop, netbook, GPS device, or other portable gadget.
• You Must Obey: The Unwritten Laws of Technology "Fix a computer for a friend or family member, and you'll be tech support for life." This is but one of 35 immutable laws of technology that we've identified and recorded for posterity. There will be a test.
• Laptop Battery Life Benchmarks Are out of Juice The battery life of laptops is far less than that cited in an industry standard, and at least one critic of the benchmark is calling for reform.
• On Your Side: What to Do When Vox Won't Talk Also: The power of cc: onyourside@pcworld.com, and HP recalls 70,000 laptop batteries.
• Class Action Suit Seeks Truth about Laptop Battery Life Analysis: Vendors have fudged claims for laptop battery life for years, but now their hyped up specs are being challenged in the courts.
• iPhone 3GS Comes Up Short on Battery Life: Is Software to Blame? As iPhone 3GS users complain their phones can't hold a charge some say it's a software, not a hardware, issue.
• Mophie Cures iPhone Battery Woes The Mophie Juice Pack Air is a simple, if pricy, solution to the iPhone's limited battery life.
• Casio Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera Handles 1,000 Shots Per Battery Charge Casio's Exilim Hi-Zoom EX-H10 shoots 1,000 images on a single battery charge.
• Save Energy, Save Money Keep your office hardware, desktop PCs, and laptop batteries running as efficiently as possible to cut ongoing energy costs.
• Netbook Battery Champs Need a long-lasting portable? Here's a guide to netbooks that last over 6 hours on a charge.