Recent national newspaper adverts from
Dell promise
customers a 'hot deal' if they order online.
The advert, featured in
The
Times on 16 August, appeared one day after Dell issued a
recall of
four million laptop batteries due to a risk of fire. The promotion urges
customers to 'go online for a hot deal!'.
Sony faces a
potential
loss of more than $225m after notebook PC batteries it supplied to Dell
apparently exploded or caught fire, industry sources revealed to
vnunet.com.
The recall comes after reports of Dell laptops bursting into flames. A
Dell
laptop caught fire at a conference in Japan in June, as reported by
vnunet.com's sister
site
The
Inquirer.
A further case involving a
Dell
laptop catching fire in Illinois came to light at the end of July.
Pictures of another Dell laptop that
set itself on
fire emerged in August. The incident occurred in November last year in
Singapore.
Dell responded at the time, stating that it was
aware of the
incidents and "taking the appropriate action".
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