]
] Motorola hopes investors will pay up to $19.50 a
] share, or nearly $2.73 billion, for slightly more than 30
] percent of Freescale Semiconductor, its chip subsidiary,
] according to documents filed yesterday by Freescale with
] the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Motorola Will Spin Off 30% of Subsidiary in Microchips

] If you follow the tech industry at all, you're familiar
] with serial lawsuit filer SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX -
] News). Growing out of Linux software provider Caldera,
] SCO reinvented itself as a UNIX provider, and then it
] made another frightening transformation into the world's
] Linux bogeyman by threatening to sue anyone on the planet
] who uses Linux without sending SCO a check. It has also
] made itself something of a laughingstock by suing much
] bigger firms like IBM (NYSE: IBM - News), DaimlerChrysler
] (NYSE: DCX - News), and AutoZone (NYSE: AZO - News) over
] a variety of licensing issues.

Their GAPP loss widened this quarter to $10M as revenue fell 50%.

Motley Fool: SCO Keeps Sinking

] Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus is opening up operations
] in China with the launch of a new site, Spamhaus.cn, this
] week.

Spamhaus assaults 'Great Wall of Spam'

] After months of waffling, Microsoft clarified plans for
] future versions of Windows Server, pegging 2007 as the
] target for a server version of the company's
] next-generation operating system, known as Longhorn. A
] client version of Longhorn should come six to 12 months
] before Longhorn server, but company officials stopped
] short of saying the client would arrive in 2006.

This is waaaay late. About 10 years ago, they were way late on
Win95, then codenamed Chicago. The big difference is back then,
they weren't staring down the barrel of open-source software
gearing up to take the desktop.

M$ and OSS in conjunction have set the bar exceedingly high for
Longhorn. It must be better enough than older Windows to be worth
the upgrade (hardware as well as software!) and better enough
than GNOME/KDE to keep people from switching to OSS for good.

Microsoft Puts Date On Longhorn Server

] The reason is increased competition for labor, thanks in
] large part to American companies' rush to outsource work
] offshore. In fact, the competition has become so fierce
] that typical Indian operations in business processing -
] including call centers and offices handling payroll,
] accounting and human-resources functions - can expect to
] lose 15 to 20 percent of their work forces each year,
] versus single-digit percentage losses in the late 1990's.

Economics carries the day...

As a Center for Outsourcing, India Could Be Losing Its Edge

] Royal Bank of Canada has notified SCO it has elected to
] convert 10,000 shares of SCO's Series A-1 Convertible
] Preferred Stock it currently holds into a total of
] 740,740 shares of SCO's common stock. Further, it has
] sold 20,000 shares of Series A-1 stock to BayStar so that
] "after completion of the conversion, Royal Bank of Canada
] will have no equity interest in SCO other than the shares
] of common stock it receives from the conversion."

RBC Cashes out of SCO

] Former Vice President Al Gore and a group of investors
] said today that Vivendi Universal Entertainment had sold
] them Newsworld International, a cable television network
] that they plan to transform into a news channel aimed at
] young viewers.

Gore Announces Acquisition of Cable TV Network

] AMD accounted for 52% of all retail desktop-PC sales for
] the week ended April 24, compared with Intel's 47%. Toni
] Duboise, who conducted the study, says it's the first
] time she can remember that AMD systems have surpassed
] Intel in retail.

Forbes.com: AMD Sells Without Dells

] In an age when cable and satellite television companies
] offer channels by the hundreds, the service that Aaron
] White receives at his home in Sandy, Utah, seems almost
] quaint. For $20 a month, Mr. White has a dozen specialty
] channels, including ESPN and the Discovery Channel, along
] with all his local high-definition stations for just $20
] a month.

The FCC has fucked up HDTV so badly...

Local Broadcasters Offer Cheaper Premium Services

] Wall Street loves Google, but the feeling isn't mutual.
]
] That is the message permeating nearly every page of the
] public offering statement that Google Inc., the Web
] search engine company, filed yesterday. In a frank and
] provocative statement, the company's leaders argued that
] companies cannot manage for the long term unless
] investors and analysts have limited say in the way they
] are run.

More on the Google IPO.

Google Says to Investors: Don't Think of Flipping