As AI avatars of deceased people become more lifelike, and thus valuable to advertisers, tech companies are unlikely to say no to monetisation offers. The most commonly cited concerns were job losses ...

After dragging on for nearly a year, Sony Corp.'s battery recall-related woes have picked up steam yet again. On Tuesday, Japan-based electronics giant Toshiba Corp. announced it was implementing ...

Eight months after recalling potentially flammable notebook PC batteries, Toshiba is again urging its customers to trade in the defective units, saying one of its notebooks caught fire on May 24.

Fallout from faulty batteries manufactured by Sony continues to plague the laptop industry. Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. recently has announced its second battery recall within a month’s ...

Fujitsu is one of the first companies to announce that it is taking advantage of the global battery-recall offer from Sony to makers of notebook PCs (see this HEXUS.lifestyle headline, Sony gets ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Fujitsu Ltd. Friday evening said a battery pack manufactured by Sony Corp. that was installed in a Fujitsu mobile computer overheated and damaged the computer. The Sony ...

There was never any chance that things would get better for Sony any time soon over debacle of the fire-risk batteries it's been selling to laptop PC makers, so the only question is, how much worse ...

A Toshiba Corp. laptop with a recalled Sony battery pack that hadn’t been replaced burst into flames last month in Great Britain. It was the third Toshiba laptop blaze suspected of being linked to the ...