Sony said Thursday it will initiate a global replacement program for certain battery packs that use its lithium-ion cells in notebook computers in order to address concerns related to recent over-heating incidents. Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK) and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) initiated a voluntary recall Thursday of about 526,000 lithium-ion batteries worldwide manufactured by Sony.
Whew, over 500,000 batteries! I can’t think of how this year could possibly get any worse for Sony. They used to be a name you could trust… and now trust is a laughable thought.