Acer has voluntarily instituted a safety recall program to proactively replace the microphone cable in the affected CULV notebook units to eliminate any risk of overheating.

Acer has issued a voluntary recall for some of its Aspire laptops manufactured before September 15th 2009 which are experiencing an overheat of the microphone cable after "repeated" and "extreme" pressure is applied to the left palm rest. Affected models include the AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ and AS3810TZG.

Despite a report from Digitimes stating Acer will delay the launch of its Android netbook until October, Acer said it remains on track to launch a version of its Aspire One netbook with Google's Android mobile operating system in the third quarter of this year.

Acer will expand into televisions and electronic books within five years as the PC industry slows, founder Stan Shih has said.

Google names Acer, Adobe, Asustek, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments as initial partners on Chrome OS.