Dell increased the recall of Sony battery packs with 100.000. The total Dell recall has risen to 4.2 million units. All the batteries recalled are about 7.000.000. Dell also said that the increase was made due to additional information received about the affected battery packs containing cells manufactured by Sony.

Separately, Toshiba recalled 830.000 batteries. Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Omori said Toshiba's recall was in response to Sony's request, and Toshiba hadn't found any cases in witch the laptops were at risk of catching fire. They just wanted to assure and satisfy the customers.

Apple has also recalled 1.8 million batteries worldwide, warning at the same time that they could catch fire.

This happened only a few hours after Toshiba, Fujitsu and Sony announced they will do some recalling as well, and after 526.000 batteries were recalled by Lenovo and IBM that were caught with their pants down. The lithium-ion batteries were (are) used in their ThinkPad notebooks. I was wondering at that time what are the other Sony clients waiting for. And I'm glad they didn't wait too long. (Well, only a few months since the first incident).

Also, I told you of how the U.S. CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death and released a "guide" on how to handle batteries after a report was made and deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents are said to cost the nation more than $700 billion annually - 47 battery-related incidents were reported.