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 patterns are contributing factors.”

Besides not assuming the blame Nvidia sends an invitation for spreading rumours and just drives the customers crazy.  An article published by The Inquirer states that the failure is not generated by overheating and failures occur due to numerous temperature variations : cold-hot-cold-hot and that the affected GPU’s are G84 and G86 (8400 and 8600 Geforce video cards). Due to the power management, laptops throttle down much more than desktops. This makes the affected mobile GPU’s to fail sooner.

On the other hand G84 and G86 are still present in various Dell and Apple notebook models, just to name two big players, so it’s hard to belive they would continue to sell notebooks with a faulty part.  Nvidia just needs to clear all the rumours and to deal with all the mess.

Yahoo! announced the launch of Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) making another move with their open strategy . BOSS is a new, open web services platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API. BOSS allows developers to take advantage of Yahoo!’s production search infrastructure and technology, combine that with their own unique assets, and create their own search experiences by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search.  During this time Microsoft - Yahoo discutions got a new chapter with the same ending, Yahoo rejected the offer again.

Just as a note: iPhone 3G is out, after days of waiting in lines in front of the stores, after the O2 servers crashed due to the high number of requests and lots of stories. I’m already bored of iPhone 3G news.

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 your name, city and state, age, and email address, to name a few. All of this information is optional and all of the information that you choose to enter will be available for anyone to see. You can use any alias you have created on a variety of Yahoo! services including Yahoo! Chat, Clubs, Classifieds, Messenger, Games, and Message Boards.

But a regular profile does not act as forwarding e-mail address. this means you will not be able to get receive emails sent on your alias instead of your ID. Maybe you have different categories of contacts—like Personal and Business—and you’d like to separate the addresses you use with each. Having two accounts is not comfortable. Maybe you don’t like your old address anymore and you are stuck with it cause you can not change your username and you do not want to start a new account cause you would lose your old contacts. In this case you can create an extra mail address.

An extra mail address is a special kind of profile that you can use specifically with Yahoo! Mail.
It is a second Yahoo! Mail address that you can use with your existing Yahoo! Mail account. It’s not a separate Yahoo! ID, and it’s not a separate Yahoo! Mail account. It’s just another address you can use to send and receive email, and any messages you get go into the same Inbox you already use.

If you already have other profiles set up, you can choose to turn one of them into your extra mail address. At this point the extra address will act as a valid email address and will have all the features of a regular profile. You will have a single inbox for your yahoo email address and the extra address and you will be able to select the from one of them as sender address address when you compose a new email.

To create an extra mail address

• Login into your email account
• Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page and select Mail Options.
• From the list on the left, click Accounts.
• The second section of this page is “Extra Mail Address.” Click Get Started and follow the instructions to create an extra mail address.