Dell's battery recall reveals the technology industry's vulnerabilities.

戴尔电池召回事件暴露了科技产业的软肋。

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The company insists that despite recent problems such as the battery recall, the turnaround is going well behind the scenes.

该公司坚持认为，尽管诸如召回电池之类的问题最近层出不穷，但颓势正在悄然扭转。

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When the company announced the recall last month, it identified "a battery cell issue" and said it had stopped using batteries from that supplier, which it did not identify by name.

上月宣布召回时，三星确认是因为“一个电池问题”并表示已停止使用来自涉事供应商的电池，但三星未公布该供应商的名字。

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So you probably remember yesterday's scary report which quoted a Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesperson predicting that Sony's upcoming US battery recall will expand beyond just laptops, and might include portable DVD players and videogame consoles too.

ENGADGET: CPSC: Sony recall will include laptop batteries only

PS3 is a litmus test for Sir Howard's turnaround effort, one of the aims of which is to get Sony's various divisions to co-operate more fully. (A spat between its electronics and content units left the field open for Apple's iPod.) The company insists that despite recent problems such as the battery recall, the turnaround is going well behind the scenes.

ECONOMIST: Can the PlayStation 3 revive the ailing electronics giant?

The series of laptop computer fires that led Dell and Apple to recall 5.9 million Sony-made battery packs this summer were sparked by those same lithium ion batteries.

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