You might have noticed there’s been a bit of a fuss in the media about water filled weights being used on washing machines instead of the traditional concrete or in a few cases, iron weights wet, here’s our thoughts on it.
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More Connected Appliance Woes
We’re on a roll this week with stark warnings about connected appliances and the security (or lack thereof) surrounding them with new warnings from a police chief constable now.
Spied On By Your Vac
We’ve been on about this for ages now, smart appliances are not good and we’ve got lots of reasons to be skeptical about them, we’ve just been given another. Robotic vacuum cleaners might be spying on you in effect.
Whirlpool Tanks
Whirlpool might have done okay in it’s home market of the USA but increases there are not compensating for the tanking in other regions with profits from dipping lower during the second quarter, and the Whirlpool has lowered its earnings guidance, blaming rising raw-material inflation and slow Ch…
Daewoo Up For Sale Again?
Korean sources indicate that Dongbu Daewoo Electronics is looking for a new owner that is highly likely to be a foreign company.
Electrolux Buys Best Hoods
Electrolux announced on Friday that it has agreed to acquire Best, a European manufacturer of cooker hoods but the financial terms were not disclosed.
AO Buys Into Recycling
AO has bought the Shropshire-based WEEE specialist The Recycling Group (TRG) in a move which will apparently make it the UK’s biggest fridge recycler.
Claiming Hotpoint Over Grenfell
We’re piecing this together a little here as we caught a report from The Mirror that speculates that residents of the Grenfell Tower that tragically went on fire may have a claim against Hotpoint if the fridge freezer is proven to be the cause.
Samsung Build US Factory
Samsung are splashing out about $380 million to establish a appliance manufacturing base in South Carolina of the United States to be churning out washing machines from early next year and creating 950 jobs over the next three.
Is My Fridge Freezer Safe?
In light of the recent tragedy suffered due to the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in London we have been getting asked a lot about the safety of fridge freezers and whether they are a fire risk, should people buy a new one or not and so on Please understand that in this article we are not doing …