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 currently undiscoverable by robots.

ITunes got a new competitor as Real Networks announced the opening of its MP store, Rhapsody. The new service will allow visitors to listen a full preview of a melody before buying. First 100,000 people who sign up for an account will get $10 credit, that is enough to buy an album.

Just a few days after Bill Gates’s last day at Microsoft, the official blog of the Live Search team at Microsoft announced that they reached an agreement to acquire Powerset. Poweset is a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. According to Microsoft “That shared vision is to take Search to the next level by adding understanding of the intent and meaning behind the words in searches and webpages.”

NVIDIA Second Quarter Fiscal 2009 Business Update revealed a problem that might affect a significant quantity of older mobile GPUs.  “NVIDIA plans to take a one-time charge from $150 million to $200 million against cost of revenue for the second quarter to cover anticipated warranty, repair, return, replacement and other costs and expenses, arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of its previous generation GPU and MCP products used in notebook systems. Certain notebook configurations with GPUs and MCPs manufactured with a certain die/packaging material set are failing in the field at higher than normal rates.“  There is no information about the series affected by this problem but Nvidia released an updated driver that will start the fan sooner, at a lower temperature , to prevent overheating. Unofficially there was noticed that many customers complained about 8400GS overheating, and after the Nvidia release the  driver update,  Dell updated the driver for 8400GS GPU. This makes 8400GS the prime susspect.

It is official, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 holds the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours with 8,002,530 downloads.