| Intel Signs Up Vendors for Classmate PC in India
Intel Corp. has tied with three large Indian PC vendors to assemble the Classmate PC, a PC specially designed for schools. The three vendors-- HCL Infosystems Ltd., Wipro Ltd., and Zenith Computers Ltd.-- will start shipping the product to Indian schools next month. .
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Toshiba Recalls Sony-Made Batteries
Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corp. began recalling about 10,000 Sony-made batteries for laptop computers in Japan and overseas, company officials said Thursday. Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Omori said there have been three cases in which the batteries caught fire between September and June. There were no injuries from the three fires; two in Japan and one in Australia, he said. .
Elgato Turbo.264 update adds iPhone support
Elgato has released a software update adding a number of new features to the Elgato Turbo.264, a hardware video encoding accelerator in USB stick format. The new software edition adds iPhone export presets, allows user-customizable settings for video conversion, and enables manual selection of soundtracks from DVDs. It also adds improved widescreen detection, performance improvements, and a number of bug fixes. The Turbo.264 1.1 application now has two iPhone presets that follow Apple's recommendations; 4:3 source material produces 480x360 pixel video, 16:9 source is encoded as 480 x 270 pixels. Also users can now set, save, and name their own presets. You can set video parameters such as size, aspect ratio, frame rate and bit rate, as well as audio encoding parameters, and save those settings for future exports.
Nokia to swap 46M batteries
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is offering to replace up to 46 million batteries after determining original power packs were causing overheating problems.
The problem was pinpointed after about 100 Nokia handsets were found to have overheated while recharging, The Times of London reported Tuesday. The world's largest cell phone manufacturer issued its "product advisory" for BL-5C batteries supplied by Matsushita of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006.
While "no serious injuries or property damage" have been reported to have been caused by faulty batteries, a Nokia spokeswoman said it's possible a too-hot battery could damage a surface on which a handset was left.
Analysts said the bulk of the cost of replacing batteries will most likely be covered by Matsushita.
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