BATTERY SHORTAGE TO HIT BACK

The Taiwan-based firm�s principal financial wonk, Jackie Ding, told official sources yesterday that notebook battery supply may strike its targets in the 2nd quarter of 2009. Simplo had formerly projected the scarcity to end by the 1st quarter of next year. In May agreement notebook PC producer Compal Electronics Inc was enforced to scale back its Q2 consignment growth foretell, blaming a