Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
MacBook and MacBook Pro owners should not get alarmed because your battery won't overheat and explode. However, if you want the battery to charge properly or in some cases your computer to recognize it at all, you may need a software update.
According to an alert on the Apple website, some
batteries for the company's new notebook range may have performance
issues. Specifically, MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks bought between
February 2006 and April 2007 may need to run battery update software.
Apparently, running this software will improve battery performance.
Like all major notebook manufacturers, Apple's portable computers use
high performance lithium ion batteries. In August last year, Apple like
Dell, Lenovo and other first tier vendors using Sony batteries, was
forced into a massive worldwide recall of 1.8 million batteries
suspected of suffering a manufacturing defect that could cause the
batteries to short, overheat and explode into flames in a process
called thermal runaway.
While there is no suggestion that the current battery issue at Apple
has anything to do with overheating, the vendor does issue a request
for owners to return notebooks with batteries to authorised Apple shops
if, among other things, the "battery pack is visibly deformed." How a
battery could come to be visibly deformed is left unsaid.
In an effort to keep good faith with customers, Apple has extended the
battery warranty on notebooks with Core Duo processors to up to two
years from the date of purchase. More details are available on the
Apple site.
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