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Just 10 days after Dell announced their massive 4.1 million battery recall, there are already talks that a new standard will need to be set.  AppleInsider is reporting that Apple, Dell, and Lenovo will get together at a summit next month to develop lithium ion standards so an incident like this doesn’t happend again. 

“Without a doubt, standardization can and will address the issue of operation and safety called into question by the use of lithium ion batteries.,” said John Grosso, chairman of the IPC OEM Critical Components Committee and director of supplier engineering and quality at Dell. “While the Committee had identified lithium ion batteries as the next product for standardization, we are going to accelerate our activities now.”

Lithium ion batteries are used in many of the things you use on a daily basis.  iPods, some cellphones, etc.  My question that I have after getting word of this news is where is Sony in all of this summit planning?  I mean, they’re the ones that made the defective batteries in the first place.

Read [AppleInsider]