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It took the recalls of Dell, Apple, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Lenovo and Toshiba Sony-branded laptop batteries for Sony to realize that there may be a problem. They will be recalling 90,000 of the batteries used in their Vaio series of laptop computers. The majority of which are in Japan and China.

Sony also said that they may have to revise their annual earnings outlook for this year because of the battery non-sense and also to compensate for a price cut for the PS3 in Japan. Damn, Sony. Looks like it may be a tough year. – Travis Hudson

Sony to recall own batteries [Reuters via Yahoo]

It took the recalls of Dell, Apple, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Lenovo and Toshiba Sony-branded laptop batteries for Sony to realize that there may be a problem. They will be recalling 90,000 of the batteries used in their Vaio series of laptop computers. The majority of which are in Japan and China.

Sony also said that they may have to revise their annual earnings outlook for this year because of the battery non-sense and also to compensate for a price cut for the PS3 in Japan. Damn, Sony. Looks like it may be a tough year. – Travis Hudson

Sony to recall own batteries [Reuters via Yahoo]

It wasn’t the sexiest thing we saw at Digital Life, but for practical purposes, Antec’s NP-100 gets kudos. It’s a universal power adapter complete with interchangeable connectors that hooks up with the Dell, HP, and Sony laptops of the world (sorry, no MacBoook love here). Leave one in the office or at home and suddenly your every day gadget bag just got lighter. Available now for $75 bucks. –Louis Ramirez

Antec NP-100 [Universal Power for Laptops via CNET]

Dell has announced this lower-end 20-inch widescreen LCD display, the e207wfp. It has a 1680 x 1050 resolution with a DVI input. It also has a 5ms response time and a price tag of £150. Three hundos for a 20-inch wide monitor, hot diggity damn! It should be available immediately—it’s not on the Dell site currently, but keep your eyes out, it will be there soon. – Travis Hudson

Dell busts out E207WFP 20-inch LCD for the budget set [Engadget]

A gold and silver-plated chess set, modelled on the hands of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, is on display in Tokyo.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp.’s battery problems deepened on Friday after Toshiba Corp. joined the list of PC makers recalling its batteries including Dell Inc., Apple Computer Inc. and Lenovo.

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Virgin Atlantic is coming to its senses and relaxing the previous ban on all Dell and Apple laptops to only batteries that are in the affected serial number range. Apparently the carrier is going to check your battery against a list before you board, and if yours matches, you get to either plug in to…