Laptop Fire Highlights Flaws in Some Computer Batteries

Business analysts would probably agree that Dell, with sales in the billions, is a hot computer company.

Folks at West Virginia Wesleyan College, which endorses Dell computers for its students, recently found out just how hot a Dell computer can be after a student's laptop overheated and started a fire in the college library.

Duwane Squires, director of computing services at West Virginia Wesleyan, says a student was sitting at a table in the college library, writing an e-mail

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