Mobility

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If you've been waiting to purchase a business PC prepared for tomorrow's 64-bit world, the Dx5150 Business Desktop -- HP's first business system to have an Athlon 64 CPU -- may be just what you need. Built around AMD's 2.2-GHz Athlon 64 3500+ processor, the Dx5150 is ready for future 64-bit operating systems; plus, it comes stocked with components.

It seems that China and Korea have launched a new generation of super warehouse ships that are moving the growing tide of goods from Asia to the US. This shipping boom has led to thousands of new longshoremen jobs in the New York and New Jersey area, to an effort to install improved freight handling systems on the docks, and to a multi-year effort to dredge the Port of New York harbour to provide more docks for the bigger ships.

Apple has launched a global battery exchange program for iBooks and PowerBooks. The company says: "In cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and other international safety authorities, Apple is voluntarily recalling certain lithium ion rechargeable batteries that were sold worldwide from October 2004 through May 2005 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4."

Two more Taiwanese companies will offer notebook computers containing Turion 64-bit mobile processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), making Asia the strongest base of support for the AMD chips. Notebook computers have been hot sellers this year, making it important for AMD to get Turions on the market.

Thanks to a tip from an unidentified caller, South Korean police have arrested seven men suspected of stealing flash memory technology from Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and planning to use it in their own factory in China.

As expected, Intel Corp. took the wraps off two new Itanium 2 processors Monday that will tide the company over until the expected launch of its first dual-core Itanium processor later this year.

Oracle Corp. has dropped its licensing price for multi-core processors by 25 per cent, but the strategy might not be enough for customers to favor Oracle over rivals like IBM and Microsoft, an analyst said. Last Friday's announcement by Oracle was evidence of an on-going price war the company is waging against Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp., said Joshua Greenbaum, principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting, a research and technology consulting firm in Berkeley, Calif.