HP Not Recalling Sony Batteries
HP goes for the hat trick of brilliant moves....

Hewlett-Packard is making a high-stakes bet that it won't get burned by a bad battery.

Dell, Apple, Lenovo, Toshiba and Fujitsu are recalling 7.7 million laptop batteries made by Sony. The batteries can, in rare instances, overheat and catch fire.

HP uses Sony battery parts, too, but it is not recalling them. The company believes it is safe because it reviewed and rejected Sony battery parts for nearly a year before buying any, spokesman Mike Hockey says.

Although HP can't say for sure, since it doesn't have all the information from Sony, it believes the problematic batteries were among those that did not meet its quality standards, Hockey says. About 1 million to 2 million HP laptops currently have the Sony battery parts. No overheating problems have been reported, he says.

But HP may just be "playing the odds and waiting it out," says tech analyst Richard Shim at researcher IDC.

Read all about it here, courtesy of usatoday.com:

-Eric