At press time, the Wall Street Journal was reporting that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft's proposed $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and Yahoo's $680 million buyout of the rest of Right Media as well as Google $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal. Neither Microsoft nor Yahoo have gotten the second request for information that Google has.

War Debt
Although PC units are expected to be up 10% this year, the Semiconductor Industry Association has slashed its 2007 revenue growth forecasts from 10% to 1.8%, citing the sharp decline in the ASPs of processors, DRAM chips and NAND Flash. It's figuring annual sales at $252 billion. Meanwhile, Intel is supposed to be cutting prices on its top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo chips as much as 50% ahead of AMD's Barcelona debut.

Acer Blames Vista
Acer, complaining the slow consumer adoption of Vista, has trimmed its PC shipment projections back from over 40% growth to only 30%-40%.

Talend in the Chips
Talend, the open source data integration ISV, is moving to an SaaS model. It also picked up $3.5 million in financing from AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners.

Reiser's Murder Trial Delayed
Linux programmer Hans Reiser's murder trial was supposed to get started Monday but, after a conference between his lawyer and the judge, it's been delayed until September or October after what is forecast to be a month spent empanelling a jury. And the prosecution wants a gag order forbidding attorneys on either side to talk to the press. It may have to settle for limited comments. The trial itself is expected to take months.

'Mr. Wizard' Dead
Don Herbert, NBC television's beloved 'Mr. Wizard' from 1951-1965, died of bone cancer Tuesday at the age of 89.

Talend in the Chips
Talend, the open source data integration ISV, is moving to an SaaS model. It also picked up $3.5 million in financing from AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners.

Reiser's Murder Trial Delayed
Linux programmer Hans Reiser's murder trial was supposed to get started Monday but, after a conference between his lawyer and the judge, it's been delayed until September or October after what is forecast to be a month spent empanelling a jury. And the prosecution wants a gag order forbidding attorneys on either side to talk to the press. It may have to settle for limited comments. The trial itself is expected to take months.

'Mr. Wizard' Dead
Don Herbert, NBC television's beloved 'Mr. Wizard' from 1951-1965, died of bone cancer Tuesday at the age of 89.