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...Numbers 4.1 million Number of lithium-ion batteries recalled by Dell, the world's largest PC maker, over fears they could cause laptop computers to burst into flames $400 million Maximum estimated cost of the recall, which Dell will share with the batteries' manufacturer, Sony Corp...
...Richard Shim, a PC industry analyst at IDC, says that the recall itself could be Dell's voluntary response to a well-publicized laptop fire that occurred earlier this summer at a business meeting in Osaka, Japan. Shim says that Dell, hit by bad publicity that could harm consumer sales, took this opportunity to reach out to its customers. "It's part of a long-term strategy to build back the trust of consumers," he says...
...everybody else's ear. It took 100 years to do it. It was big centralized power companies, nuclear power plants. Transmissions lines. Big, centralized phone companies.... And then look what happened. Communications is now point of use. You carry a cell phone. Computing - you carry a PC. I think in the next decade or two, as the rest of the developing world stands on the shoulders of what we've created over the last few hundred years of the industrial revolution ... they don't have to go through the painstaking evolution of all those tasks...
...best part about the elegant interface is that it encourages collaboration. That is, it allows multiple users, logged in from different computers, to update the same spreadsheet simultaneously while text-chatting in a separate window. (The chart is stored on a Google server, rather than locally on a PC's hard drive.) You can invite others to edit or view your spreadsheet with a quick email without leaving the page. Google, having recently purchased Writely.com is expected to introduce a similar free tool for writers who wish to collaborate in real time...
...list of search returns - a green check means it's safe to proceed, a red X means it's not; a yellow icon indicates nuisances such as spam or pop-ups. Why would you need this? Because simply clicking through to a suspect site can wreak havoc on a PC, and risky sites comprise a growing portion of search returns. If you want a service that will flag for inappropriate content such as porn, try Scandoo...