Dec 14, 2006 10:24 AM

Laptops to Blow Up Less Often

Think your job sucks? How’d you like to be the guy charged with setting explosiveness standards for the Portable Computer Battery Working Group, a new trade group set up by PC makers to address that embarassing flaming laptop issue. The group expects to have new safety standards for laptop batteries in a year or so. […]

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