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Exploding Dell forces Yahoo evac

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Sep 21, 20061 min

Yahoo! Santa Clara HQ smoke alarms were triggered this week by yet another exploding laptop battery, “forcing several hundred employees to evacuate the building”.

Flickr exec Stewart Butterfield snapped the laptop and placed the image on the pic stream site.

“We just all had to leave the building for 45 minutes because this thing set off all the fire alarms. It was on the 8th floor and we could smell it on the 3rd,” he wrote on Flickr.

Question for Dell (which Tech Watch will be asking): Is this latest firey battery from the mega-recall replacement batch?

Butterfield says in his photo post that the battery is a Sony, so apparently it was an individual’s computer which had not had its battery replaced. We’ll still ask Dell 🙂

So the question we posed, Free battery refresh, or pain in the butt?, appears to be answering itself with an explosive pain in the behind.

But do feel free to comment further.

mike_barton

Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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