overheating

Sony announced this week that some of its notebooks may be affected by a bug that leads to overheating. On its official website the company warned:

Dear Valued Sony VAIO Customer,

Sony takes pride in the quality of its products.

Recently, we became aware of a potential issue affecting certain notebooks within the VAIO VPCF11- and VPCCW2-series, available on the market in Europe since January 2010.

After several reports that some laptop models are overheating and melting in a microphone place Acer decided to recall about 22,000 Aspire notebooks.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission alerted that a microphone wire found underneath the notebook's palm rest can short-circuit and overheat.

The recalled notebooks are the Acer AS3410, AS3410T, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ and AS3810TZG. Affected units were sold between June and October of 2009, the Commission said.

According to senior central bank researcher’s Monday statement, as money supply growth accelerated over the recent months China's economy is on the verge of overheating again.

Jiao Jinpu sees the rapid rise in the more narrow measure of money supply, M1, in recent months as an indication that money is flowing at a faster pace. That measure grew 34.6% in November from a year earlier, compared with 29.7% for the broad M2 measure.