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Its quite rare these days that Creative releases a new driver for their product. It was a suprise for me to find out that they just release a new one for their Audigy series and at the right time too (for me). I’ll be re-installing my OS from scratch this coming weekend.

This download contains an improved version of the drivers found on the Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2 series, and Audigy 4 series installation CDs. It also supports Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

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The deal is closed.

For a mere $1.65 billion in stock and cash, Google bought Youtube. In comparision, Myspace sold to Newscorp for only $60 million.

Google video and Youtube will remain seperate, however this gives Google practicly all of the online video market.

Google Inc. said Monday it’s buying No. 1 Internet video sharing Web site YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock. The deal is regarded as a largely defensive one that leapfrogs Google into a leading role in a burgeoning Internet marketplace. Moreover, the Google/YouTube deal highlights how Google and other Internet companies are betting heavily on video to attract more customers and generate more advertising revenue.

Indeed, many analysts chiming in on the deal Monday suspect Google’s competitors will now seek to buy YouTube-wannabes in order to keep pace with their rival. On Monday, the boards of directors of both Google and YouTube approved the terms of the deal, which was announced after the market closed for the day

News Source: MarketWatch

Could Internet Explorer 7 be released tomorrow as part of Microsoft’s regular patch cycle? The Washington Post had an article up that said just that but then changed it to say “this month”.

Last week, Security Fix mentioned that Microsoft intends to ship 11 patches tomorrow, including a “high-priority update.” According to a post on the company’s IE blog, that high-priority update could be IE7, a long overdue upgrade to IE 6 that includes new security features and other enhancements that most other Web browsers have long possessed.

Source: Washington Post

Looks like Microsoft is now getting into web hosting. Windows Web Hosting is a subset of the complete Web hosting details found in The Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting version 4.0. In order to help hosters quickly grasp the concepts and obtain practical experience in Windows-based Web hosting, Getting Started on Windows Web Hosting offers a simplified set of deployment and provisioning documentation, samples, and scripts for two basic Web hosting deployment scenarios.

Link: Microsoft