May 3rd, 2007
News to know: Big Blue chips; Zimbra; Apple's green missive; ActiveX bugs
Notable headlines:
IBM puts vacuum spaces in chips. Gallery (right). Video.
Russell Shaw: Google-compatible Phone Interface platform described in Patent app.
David Berlind: Solving the Web app’s ‘offline problem’: How Zimbra did it (and others will follow). Gallery.
Epicenter: PC World Editor Quits Over Apple Story. News.com story. Techmeme.
Facing economic realities of muni Wi-Fi.
Larry Dignan: Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the Prius.
A battery of questions about lithium ion.
Donna Bogatin: Google data centers 'manufacture Internet services.'
Ryan Naraine: And now, Month of ActiveX Bugs.
Russell Shaw: Clearwire announces WIMAX laptop card: here's where it will work. 
John Spooner: AMD's hired guns.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Erasing Hard drives.
George Ou: Vista RAW image support getting better.
Photos (left): Cracking open Hewlett Packard's IIP, the original personal LaserJet printer.
On Hollywood coverage:
- Dan Farber: Hollywood execs still cautious about user generated content. Kevin Rose–'If they sue us, they sue us'.
- Andrew Keen: Arianna is golden. Virtual reality in Hollywood.
- Donna Bogatin: Big, BAD contextual Web: Do you want journalism with your ads?
Martin Lamonica: Silverlight on Linux? We're in, says Mono founder. Ryan Stewart: Mono founder says Silverlight will come to Linux.
Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application for its browser messenger. Yahoo: Introducing Robots-Nocontent for Page Sections. Yahoo! Messenger, hold the download.
- Time to talk about the new Microsoft?
- Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live Calendar, Prese
nce coming soon to a dev platform near you.
Next target of cell phone industry: Navigation. Gallery (right).
LucasArts tries to get back in the game.
Larry Dignan: Are financial markets prepared for the next disaster?
AP: JDS Uniphase posts loss. RealNetworks profit surges. IAC/InterActiveCorp 1Q Profit Rises.
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry Curve 8300 announced: here’s pic, details. Virtual GPS now available for most BlackBerrys. RIM's big BlackBerry 8300-BlackBerry Curve muck-up.
Joe McKendrick: Surprise: new Harvard-MIT study finds IT does 'matter' — a lot.
Jason O'Grady: An iPod in every room: XtremeMac Luna.
Dan Kusnetzky: Single system image clusters — Where do they fit today?
Steve O'Hear: Q&A: Flock CEO Shawn Hardin.
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