There've been scattered reports of Dell Computer Co. laptops bursting into flames without warning, though there's been little urgency attached to the reports. But in a potentially catastrophic case ...

The federal consumer unit could become an ally to Dell, which is pointing the finger at the exploding laptop's lithium ion battery unit. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has repeatedly found ...

Peter Neger, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, explores recent lawsuits and claims involving some of the most ubiquitous high-tech consumer products, including allegedly exploding laptop batteries, ...

When we wrote about overreacting TSA authorities two days ago, we had no idea they would overreact to our overreaction criticism. Even if they didn’t read our post about exploding batteries possibly ...

If you, like kb, doubted the facts behind my June 21st blog entry Why Laptops Don’t belong on Laps which concerned a Dell laptop that exploded for no apparent reason at a conference then … check out ...

I missed this one when it first appeared but it seems that Dell isn’t the only laptop vendor with incendiary problems: See this Gizmodo article from June this year. Let me know if this kind of thing ...

A new way of making silicon explode could mean anyone trying to use a stolen laptop or mobile will be confronted by this message: “This machine is stolen and will self-destruct in ten seconds … “.