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'shired 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.  

Mix07:

• 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.