Another PC notebook computer batteries voluntary recall! The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell, announced a voluntary recall on the batteries manufactured by Sony Energy Devices Corporation as these lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers. This battery model was used for some HP, Toshiba and Dell laptop models from 2004 – 2006. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns consumer to stop using it as there have been 19 reports of the batteries overheating, including 17 reports of flames/fire (10 resulting in minor property damage). Two consumers experienced minor burns. To avoid any further damage to the consumers, consumers should contact their computer manufacturer to determine if their battery is included in the recall and to request a free replacement battery.

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Dell Inspiron Mini 12 might be too light for you. Acer Travel Mate or Sony VAIO probably might not be your cup of tea due to their features and design. If you still can’t get a dream laptop for yourself after checking with all the manufacturers, why don’t design one and let Intel and Asus make your “Dream PC” a reality?

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Nowadays wireless technology has becomes so common and start replacing wired technology especially with the availability of more Internet capable devices such as MID (Mobile Internet devices) and UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) as well as upcoming nettop. While 802.11n is able to handle high bandwidth broadband access, but it may not robust enough to stream multiple HD (High Definition) media files simultaneously. Quantenna Communication, an US based silicon design company has taken a step further to develop what it claims to be the world’s first fully integrated 802.11n compliant chipset that is able to scale up the throughput to 1Gbps targeted for HD media streaming in digital home through wireless network.

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Are you a die-hard fan of MacGyver, Dexter or Beverly Hills 90210? You can now watch these old favorites on YouTube which have teamed up with CBS to show time-tested popular TV series on the Internet. More well-known for its homemade videos and candid films, YouTube is, however, exploring new frontiers to rake in more advertisers through its popular video-sharing website. CBC and Google have agreed to share the revenue gained from ads sold by CBS which are streamed into the website. Fans can look forward to more deals to be signed by Google with other TV networks in the near future.

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Generally, a computer is never really quiet in the true sense of the word. There is always something going on. One of the events behind the scene is the detection of updates. Many applications tend to create their own background processes to detect updates to their program. These processes consume your computer resource and take up your CPU memory. Many users will just disable or remove these unnecessary and extra processes. If you are a Google applications user, don’t forget GoogleUpdate.exe will also be installed while you install Goolge applications such as Google Chrome, Google Lively, Google Earth, etc.

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It is becoming more and more popular and convenient to take photos via the cellphone. If you are a Facebook enthusiast and like to take photo via your cellphone, you could save the trouble to download the photos to your computer and to upload it again to your Facebook account. What you need to do is to activate your Facebook mobile and upload the photos from your mobile phone straight away.

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While celebrating its 25th Anniversary, the leading publishing arm of Microsoft, Microsoft Press, offers readers the opportunity to learn and to improve their knowledge with various current Microsoft technologies and products. It is offering readers “Free e-book of the month”. Users who would like to grab this offer need to sign up and subscribe to the Microsoft Press Book Connection Newsletter to be eligible for the e-books.

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DragonBall is an upcoming 2009 American live-action film adaptation of the Dragon Ball Japanese manga series. For those who have no clue of what DragonBall is, it’s actually a Japanese manga (aka comic) series inspired by Chinese folk novel Journey to the West which was written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 through 1995, and later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha.

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