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When Technology Goes Wrong
By Newsdesk | September 4, 2008
Getting a product to market first even it is only weeks ahead of the competition can literally make or break a company and often fortunes are won or lost on this aspect alone.
Equally important is the get it right first time factor, which is a highly important aspect of the design criteria. The closer to market a product gets the more it costs to make a change….simple as that.
But by far the most costly of all is the product re-call and in a global market involving sometimes hundreds of thousands of units the costs can shake even the mightiest of corporate giants.
Right now one of those shaking giants has to be Sony which must still be recovering from the devasting recall around two years ago involving overheating batteries, although that recall also involved other corporations as well.
Sony has just announced the recall of over 400,000 laptops due to overheating problems that affect the Vaio TZ-series PCs due wiring irregularities.
You can read more about this announcement here
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