Dell will not honor dual core Xeon systems sold in China for $140 CDN. Intel is cutting jobs at its Indian offices. Lenovo will preload Linux on some of its notebooks. In Octoboer Dell is suppose to release AMD based notebooks. Ouch, the British biometric passport has been hacked.

Lukas Grunwald, a consultant with a German security company, claims to have discovered a method for cloning the information stored in the new passports.