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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in conjunction with retail giant Wal-mart, has issued a recall for some 1.5 million Durabrand standalone DVD players sold in its stores from January 2006 through July 2009. The players are compact, silver-colored units with a U-shaped opening on top for DVD disc; Wal-mart has had a dozen reports of the units overheating, five of which have caused fires leading to property damage—although… Read More

The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Performance Designed Products (PDP) have launched a recall on PDP Rage Wireless Guitar controllers for the Nintendo Wii. If the AA batteries the unit requires are installed incorrectly, what PDP describes as a “defect” in the circuit board can cause the batteries to leak, which might lead to chemical burns. The recall is based on a single incident of a customer being burned as a result of… Read More

This recall is limited solely to cell phone batteries, as there are no defects with the Kyocera phones. Kyocera Wireless Corp.'s (KWC's) stringent ongoing quality control processes revealed that a battery supplier, since terminated, intentionally provided KWC with batteries containing unapproved battery cells, the internal power sources within the batteries. The supplier's deceit resulted in fraudulent batteries shipping… Read More

According to a CNN report, a California teenager was volunteering at an Ontario youth recreation center whenwitnesses heard a loud “whooshing” sound, said Frank Huddleston, a fire department investigator. Huddleston said the victim didn't even know what was happening, and witnesses said they thought it was fireworks. The phone was so damaged that the model number could not be immediately identified. Kyocera and… Read More

Mobility Electronics will work with Dell to provide retrofit kits for power adapters that could pose a safety hazard if used with third-party power cords. According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, the adapters were sold as an option for Dell notebook computers including their Latitude D400, D500, D505, D600, D800, X300, and Inspiron 300M, 500M, 510M, 600M, I8500 and I8600 models.

Among the 18 reports involving the TM-510 batteries, a phone exploded and burned the user, and a fire in a car began after a phone overcharged, spokesman Scott Wolfson of the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday. The batteries lack safety devices to detect overcharging, the commission said. San Diego-based LG Infocomm USA, a subsidiary of LG Electronics, said some of the TM-510 batteries may be counterfeit. Using a non-LG… Read More

Kyocera and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the voluntary recall of 140,000 batteries sold with the 7135 Smartphone. On four occasions, the batteries have short-circuited and erupted with force or emitted excessive heat. In December, a Philadelphia area man suffered second-degree burns on his leg when his Kyocera 7135 battery short-circuited in his pocket. The black and silver flip-up phones say