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Submission + - Sony Announces Global Battery Recall

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snafu109

on Friday September 29, 2006 @05:51AM

snafu109 writes: "Since the laptop battery recalls initiated by Dell, Apple, IBM/Lenovo, Toshiba & Fujitsu, some may have wondered whether the entire lot should be recalled. Well, over at MarketWatch, a new article reports just that. "Sony said Thursday it will initiate a global replacement program for certain battery packs that use its lithium-ion cells in notebook computers in order to address concerns related to recent over-heating incidents." In related news, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission have released some tips on how to lower the risk of your laptop batteries exploding, no matter who the manufacturer."

Submission + - No full HD playback for 32-bit Vista

Submitted by on Thursday August 24, 2006 @08:35AM

snafu109 writes: Pity the Vista user with a 32-bit CPU. Senior Program Manager Steve Riley announced today at Tech.Ed Australia that full HD content shall only be played at the full resolution where only signed drivers are used — only in the 64-bit version of Vista. From the article: "'Any next-generation high definition content will not play in x32 at all,' said Riley. 'This is a decision that the Media Player folks made because there are just too many ways right now for unsigned kernel mode code [to compromise content protection]. The media companies asked us to do this and said they don't want any of their high definition content to play in x32 at all, because of all of the unsigned malware that runs in kernel mode can get around content protection, so we had to do this,' he said."

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