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 ...

Shocked delegates watch as a laptop bursts into flames after the battery overheated during a conference Millions of people were warned yesterday that their laptop could burst into flames as the ...

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 ...

Computer maker Dell Inc. will recall 4.1 million laptop computer batteries because of a potential fire hazard, the company announced Monday. The lithium-ion batteries being recalled are installed in 4 ...

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 ...