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This section presents news briefs on the U.S. computer industry as of May 10, 2004. Howard Schmidt, chief security officer at eBay Inc., announced that he will not seek the 8th District congressional seat being vacated in his home state of Washington. The former White House cybersecurity adviser and onetime chief security officer at Microsoft Corp. said he plans to work more closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security instead of running for office. Meanwhile, Novell Inc. made its Mono open-source application development software available for beta testing and said it expects to ship Version 1.0 by the end of June 2004. Mono is designed to be an alternative to Microsoft's .Net technology. It includes a runtime environment for .Net applications, an integrated development environment and a compiler for Microsoft's C# language. In a separate news, Intel Corp. said that it plans by the end of next year to shift all of its processor designs to dual-core chips, affecting everything from notebook computers to multiprocessor servers. As part of the move to put two-processor cores on a single chip across the board, the company has dropped single-core microprocessors code-named Tejas and Jayhawk from its product road map.