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ALERT: What to do if your accelerator sticks, how to stop your car.

car TechGeekandMore may have a focus on Technology, however, we all drive cars. Toyota has  just announced that they are recalling Millions of Cars and also stopping production of much of their car line because of a sticking accelerator issue (until Toyota can figure out why its happening http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-01-26-toyota_N.htm (http://www NULL.usatoday NULL.com/money/autos/2010-01-26-toyota_N NULL.htm)), TGM felt that it was important to share this video from abc news. We all hope that something like this will never happen, but if it does it is very important that you know what to do. 

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ALERT: Laptop Battery Recall – HP

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   This week (Week ending May 16th, 2009), HP has announced a voluntary recall of laptop batteries. Its estimated that about 70,000 batteries that were made in China for both the HP and Compaq brands are at Risk.  These batteries have a chance of overheating, which could cause then to do anything from catch fire up to exploding if the batteries rupture. Not all HP/Compaq batteries are affected by this recall.   

   You can find specific model and serial number information for each of the affected batteries at the Consumer Product Safety Commission Website http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09221.html (http://www NULL.cpsc NULL.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09221 NULL.html) or from the HP website at http://bpr.hpordercenter.com/hbpr/ (http://bpr NULL.hpordercenter NULL.com/hbpr/) .

Some of the affected models are -

  • HP dv2000, dv2500, dv2700, dv6000, dv6500, dv6700, dv9000, dv9500, dv9700
  • Compaq A900, C700, F700, V3000, V3500, V3700, V6000, V6500, V6700
  • HP G6000, G7000
  • Compaq 6720s
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