I just saw an article that says Toshiba will recall 340,000 laptop batteries made by Sony. It has been a really bad couple of months/years for Sony. They have seen competition that has taken away their market share for the Walkman and PlayStation, there was the whole rootkit debacle, then the exploding laptop batteries, and then today the news that some of their batteries loose power too quickly. The latest recall affects some Dynabook and Satellite models.

The problems with the laptop batteries reminds me of a quote I heard on .NET Rocks! in one of the early shows. I don't remember who the guest was but he said something like "In the future there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use batteries and those who understand them." I wonder if we are not getting closer to that day...