IBM joins in battery recalls

UPDATE
Add toshiba to the list with 830,000 batteries. Fujitsu is expected to also join in the recalls today, too.

These massive battery recalls show no signs of ending.

Today, joining previous recalls by Apple and Dell Computer, IBM Corp. announced a recall of 526,000 laptop batteries made by Sony Corp.

IBM and the batteries’ distributor, Lenovo Inc. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., said the rechargeable, lithium-ion batteries are used in ThinkPad notebook computers and pose possible fire hazards. About 168,500 of them were sold in the U.S., while the rest were distributed worldwide.

Maybe a shorter list would be of the laptop batteries that don’t pose fire hazards.