In a move not altogether surprising, Motorola says it will split into two companies. One will focus on mobile phones, the other on networking infrastructure. Analysts contend that the company “had to do something,” and that a healthy Motorola phone unit is “needed to provide some balance with Nokia. A Nokia-Samsung duopoly isn’t good for anyone.” IBM partners with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University to push cloud computing in hopes of bolstering the autonomic capabilities of physical and virtual servers in broad-scale computing. Related: Cloud computing begins to emerge from the haze. Oracle breaks the Linux clusterting component out of RAC and offers it to customers of Unbreakable Linux. Hackers seize on Excel vulnerability. Researchers at Symantec spot a Web site hosting a malicious file that, if downloaded, can infect PC and redirect victim to the site. And Cringe continues the discussion about Smoking guns and broken voting machines. “Once again, rather than open itself up to public scrutiny, Sequoia shops for friendly test firms who answer only to them,” Cringe reports on the e-voting company and its comically crippled machines. Technology Industry