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Micro-USB Mobile Phone Charging Standard Announced

Sep 22, 2007   2 pm
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usbpendrive_mount Relief from the tangled mess that is the cell phone charger market today is finally in sight

Last week a group of power players in the mobile phone manufacturing industry gathered to discuss the future of phone charging and data exchange. The companies reached an agreement to put an end to the mess of incompatible proprietary power connectors that has plagued the cell phone industry for years.  The companies agreed to adopt a new USB standard called Micro-USB: a shrunk-down portable version of the USB 2.0 standard.

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Dell Laptops Still Exploding

Aug 27, 2007   2 pm
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dell_log “It looked like fireworks, which would have been cool had it not been in my house.” The latest in a series of laptop fires.

A computer network administrator at a Columbus, Georgia, hospital is the latest consumer to encounter the flaming laptop syndrome.

Douglas Brown said his Dell 9200 wide-screen laptop’s batteries exploded into flames, he called 911 and the fire department responded with two pumpers, a ladder truck, the HAZMAT unit, an ambulance and the battalion chief.

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