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U.S. Postal Service to ban shipment of mobile devices with lithium batteries

This change can affect companies in two ways.

No battery-related problems found in Windows 7, says Microsoft

We reported last week on how some users have come forward complaining of battery issues after installing Windows 7. Suspicion has been initially cast on problems with firmware giving erroneous

Supercomputer used to develop lithium-air battery

IBM is working together with the Department of Energy (DOE) to use the latter's supercomputers to model and simulate the new materials required to create new materials for batteries based on

Taiwanese researchers work to make lithium-ion batteries safer

Researchers in Taiwan have created a new polymer they are calling "self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture"--or just STOBA for short. According to them, STOBA can help prevent

Lithium-air batteries could pack 10 times the energy

PolyPlus, a Berkeley, Calif.-based company has developed single-use lithium metal-air batteries for the government. Expected to hit the market in a few years, the company also claims to have

Sony recalls laptop batteries

It's time to check the batteries on your office laptops. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced that computer makers are recalling 100,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp.