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Owners of Apple's iPhone 4S are complaining that the device's battery life is much shorter than advertised. Theories and proposed solutions abound, but nothing yet from Apple.

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Ditching Adobe Flash on your Apple MacBook Air can extend your battery life by two hours, according to reports. Chris Foresman at Ars Technica discovered battery life in the new MacBook Airs is 33 percent longer without the Flash plugin installed. According to his tests having Flash installed shaved two hours off the laptop's battery life.

Sony has developed a new type of alkaline manganese button-cell that contains no mercury and will put it on sale later this year, it said Wednesday.

Boston-Power Inc., which now builds lithium-ion batteries in Taiwan, is seeking $100 million in federal stimulus funds to build a 455,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Massachusetts.

Toshiba will kick production of its long lasting, fast charging SCIB battery into high gear in 2010 with a new factory to be build in north west Japan.

Engineers at Panasonic have succeeded in reducing the size of a prototype methanol fuel cell so that it's no larger than a laptop battery pack but provides all-day power.