And a Happy GUI Year.

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This article offers updates on several companies within the U.S. information technology sector as of 2004. The licensing revenue of SCO declined by more than 90 percent after its last remaining investor canceled their business relation. In November 2004, the Motion Picture Association of America filed lawsuits against alleged file swappers in the U.S. During the past year, Microsoft Corp. settled disputes with Intertrust ($440 million), Novell ($536 million), Sun Microsystems ($1.6 billion), shareholders, and a host of others. In 2004, chipmaker Intel canceled two planned processors, issued a recall of one chip, delayed production of another, and saw its central-processing unit market share decline to 82 percent.