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Technology News Update

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Tiger Woods is leaving the rehab center

Tiger Woods is leaving the rehab center in Mississippi where he reportedly has been treated for sex addiction, RadarOnline.com reports.

Elin Nordegren has flown to Hattiesburg to bring Tiger home, sources told the celebrity gossip site. He is due to leave by the end of the week. At that time, the couple plans to go away together out of the public eye for a while, a source says.

gov't examines Toyota Prius brakes

Toyota faced mounting pressure Thursday as the government opened a probe of brake problems with the Prius. The automaker said it was "too soon" to decide whether to add the hybrid to the millions of cars it has recalled.

Toyota recall models

Millions of Toyota car users are still wondering as to whether their cars are on recall lists or not. And if the car is in recall list what they are supposed to do with those cars.

Many people went to the extent of religiously getting their Toyota cars toed to the nearest Toyota dealers fearing that they may be awaiting some retribution if they don’t do that.

People spent substantial amount of money on buying the luxurious Toyota cars that don’t come cheap and they are now suffering due to a problem that the company did not detect even years after their launch.

Lately, Toyota has released the models affected by the recall and even suspended the sales of the vehicles.

Here is the list of new and used Toyota vehicles that are affected by the voluntary recall:

- Avalon VINs beginning with “4T1” MY 2005 – 2010
- Matrix VIN # beginning with “2T1” MY 2009 – 2010
- Tundra VIN # beginning with “5TB” MY 2007 – 2008
- Tundra VIN # beginning with “5TF MY 2007- 2010
- Sequoia VIN # beginning with “5TD” MY 2008 – 2010
- Camry VIN # beginning with “4T4” MY 2007- 2010
- Camry VIN # beginning with “4T1” with CTS pedal MY 2007- 2010
- Corolla VIN # beginning with “1NX” and “2T1” MY 2009 – 2010
- Highlander VIN # beginning with “5TD” MY 2010
- RAV4 VINs beginning with “2T3” MY 2009 – 2010

Here is the list of Toyota vehicles that are not affected by the latest recall:

- Toyota Yaris
- Toyota Prius
- Toyota Corolla with VINs that begin with “JT”
- Toyota Camry with VINs that begin with “JT”
- Toyota Camry with VINs that begin with “4T1” AND are equipped with Denso accelerator pedals
- Scion – All models
- Toyota Venza
- FJ Cruiser
- Highlander with VINs that begin with “JT”
- RAV4with VINs that begin with “JT”
- Land Cruiser
- Sienna
- 4Runner
- Tacoma

Brittany Murphy's death ruled an accident

Brittany Murphy's husband and mother join Larry King on Friday night to discuss their loss and remember the life of the actress.

the Los Angeles County coroner said on Thursday that Actress Brittany Murphy's death was an accident caused by a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and "multiple drug intoxication"