Toshiba is latest to be affected by Sony-produced notebook batteries. The
company announced on Monday that
it
would recall 340,000 batteries found in its Dynabook and Satellite series
notebooks -- 100,000 of which were sold in the United States. It should be
noted that this recall doesn't involve batteries catching fire as in previous
recalls. Instead, this recall is related to the battery packs unexpectedly
losing power under normal operating conditions. Toshiba says that the affected
batteries were produced between March and May of 2006 and free replacements will
be offered.