News at a Glance: Crickee explores the web

What's up on the web? This week Crickee has explored Techmeme, a software agent to surface blogs you might have never heard of or a news site you don't have time to scan. Coverage is driven in real time by a mix of industry insiders, passionate independents, and established journalists. Here is a Crickee selection of five news of the week.

• Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash
  Yahoo will announce the acquisition of open source online/offline office suite Zimbra this evening, we just heard through a very solid source. The price: $350 million, in cash, confirmed.
  via TechCrunch
• anySIM is here: open source GUI iPhone unlock app
  Today is the day! We just fixed up our issues with the toolchain and are pround to announce the GUI version as the latest greatest opensource tool.
  via Hacint0sh
• Google prepping offline Gmail client?
  It’s certainly not the strangest rumor we’ve heard. Word on the street is that Google is preparing an offline Gmail client based on their popular Google Gears infrastructure.
  via The Boy Genius Report
• First Look at Microsoft’s Free Web Analytics Tool ‘Gatineau’ (With Slides)
  I wasn’t expecting any notable announcements at Web Analytics Day, an annual industry conference organized by Brussels-based web analytics agency OX2, but when Ian Thomas (Director at Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions) took the stage for a 15-minute slot as sponsor of the event, he surprised everyone with an extensive introduction to Microsoft’s upcoming free web analytics tool (codenamed Gatineau), along with some screenshots.
  via BlogNation
• Announcing FanCast mobile, chat, Twitter and Columbia Records
  So to summarize: Columbia Records, FanCast, inline chat and Twitter integration. Stay tuned for more exciting news, let us know how these new features work for you and have fun using SplashCast!
  via SplashCast