http://www.softarea51.com/blog Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:05:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dell will offer limited warranty enhancement to all affected customers worldwide on Nvidia die packaging issue. This announcement follows the BIOS updates releases that is trying to reduce the heat throttle. Until now only HP has announced similar actions. There are no announcement from other companies on this issue although ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/dell-to-offer-limited-warranty-enhancement/ HP has published a list of 24 notebooks affected by the Nvidia faulty GPU issue that includes several Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 and Compaq Presario V3000/V6000 models.  The issue has been under their attention since November 2007. HP recommends all owners of the listed models to update the BIOS system of their ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/hp-reacts-on-nvidia-faulty-gpu-issue/ Dell has released  during the last month BIOS updates to prevent NVIDIA GPU failure issue for 10 notebook models. The issue is a weak die/packaging material set, which may fail due to GPU temperature fluctuations. The affected models are: Inspiron 1420 Latitude D630 Latitude D630c Dell Precision M2300 Vostro Notebook 1310 Vostro Notebook 1400 Vostro Notebook 1510 Vostro Notebook ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/dell-releases-bios-updates-to-prevent-nvidia-gpu-failure/ Week 28, July 6 - July 13 Nvidia has not disclosed yet what chips are affected by the "certain die/packaging material" problem. "“While we have not been able to determine a root cause for these failures, testing suggests a weak material set of die/package combination, system thermal management designs, and customer use ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/week-28-recap/ Linda and Patti are two Sony Ericsson new phones codenames. Allthough they were not afficially announced yet they have leacked on several sites. Linda is the codename for W580's successor: W595. W959 has the same design as his predecesor and  features the Walkman 3 player, as well as an FM radio. ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/hello-linda-hi-patti/ Week 27,  June 30 - July 7 Adobe Systems  announced, on Tuesday, a plan that involves Google and Yahoo and aims to improve search results for dynamic Web content Relevant Products/Services and rich Internet applications (RIAs).  The search engines will be able to index the Flash file format and uncover information ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/week-27-recap/ Mozilla Firefox  3 was officially launched and it has already close  to establish a new world record as the most downloaded software in 24 hours. 17th June was named The Download Day by the  Firefox community who got prepared for this event quite well since  over 8.000.000 people downloaded the ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/week-25-recap/ When you register with Yahoo, you automatically create a Yahoo! Public Profile page for each Yahoo ID and alias that you establish. You can create up to five different profiles with different aliases for a single Yahoo ID. Yahoo Profiles gives you the ability to post personal information about yourself including ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/yahoo-extra-email-address/ The new Sony Ericsson F305 with Motion Gaming puts ‘fun and entertainment’ at the heart of the mobile phone. In addition to horizontal gameplay and dedicated gaming controls – to let you control the action the way you are used to – the F305 lets the user control the action ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/sony-ercisson-f305-unveiled/ After all the rumors in the last two months Sony Ericsson top Cyber-shot C905 is now official : "C905 is Sony Ericsson’s first Cyber-shot slider and its most advanced camera phone yet. With an 8.1 megapixel camera and real camera flash amongst its cutting-edge capabilities, it offers easy photo-taking ... http://www.softarea51.com/blog/sony-ericsson-c905-unveiled/