{"id":55597,"date":"2014-04-11T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55597"},"modified":"2014-04-11T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T08:30:35","slug":"sony-vaio-batteries-catching-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/55597\/sony-vaio-batteries-catching-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Vaio batteries catching fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp on Friday urged customers to stop using a model of its Vaio computers launched in February, saying there was a risk that the battery would catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said in a statement it had shipped 25,905 of the Vaio Fit 11A in 52 countries since its launch.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said three PCs had caught on fire around the battery pack, which was manufactured by Panasonic Corp.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sony<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony PlayStation 4 sees strong demand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49891\/sony-playstation-4-sees-strong-demand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony PlayStation 4 sees strong demand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony Entertainment seeks to cut $100 million in costs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49651\/sony-entertainment-seeks-to-cut-100-million-in-costs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony Entertainment seeks to cut $100 million in costs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony sells 1 million PS4s on day one\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49601\/sony-sells-1-million-ps4s-on-day-one\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony sells 1 million PS4s on day one<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony consumer electronics focus to be put to the test\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/48743\/sony-consumer-electronics-focus-to-be-put-to-the-test\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony consumer electronics focus to be put to the test<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp on Friday urged customers to stop using a model of its Vaio computers launched in February, saying there was a risk that the battery would catch fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,385,7392],"class_list":["post-55597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-sony","tag-vaio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55598,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55597\/revisions\/55598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}