{"id":5122,"date":"2008-09-06T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-06T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T07:32:00","slug":"sony-laptops-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/5122-sony-laptops-recalled.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony laptops recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 laptop computers of Sony&rsquo;s Vaio TZ series, manufactured from May 2007 to July 2008, overheated, the company said. Of the cases, 83 were reported in Japan and the rest overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Seven people suffered light burns which were not serious, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Sony urged the owners of 440,000 laptop computers, which span 280 models, to come to the manufacturer for free repairs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The laptop computers overheat in the section connecting the display and the keyboard, as the joint section bites into a bunch of wires inside the computer,&rdquo; a Sony spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>But the company will not recall the products because there is no risk of fires or serious injuries, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony said that overheating notebook computers slightly injured seven people and urged customers to bring in some 440,000 units for repairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}