Hosting News – Sunnyvale, CA — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced wide-ranging support of OpenGL® 4.1 for Microsoft Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP and Linux across select ATI FirePro™, ATI FireGL™ and AMD Radeon™ graphics cards. The new functionality is made possible with the release of the latest professional and consumer graphics drivers, ATI FirePro™ and ATI FireGL™ unified driver 8.801, and AMD CatalystTM 10.12, available on the AMD website

Yahoo’s Lockport, New York data center which features a chicken coop design. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Yahoo ( www.yahoo.com ) announced on Thursday it has begun construction on its next data center in Avenches, Switzerland, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge .

Yahoo’s Lockport, New York data center which features a chicken coop design. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Yahoo ( www.yahoo.com ) announced on Thursday it has begun construction on its next data center in Avenches, Switzerland, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . Opening in 2012, the data center will use the company’s existing design that cools the facility with fresh air, rather than using energy-intensive chillers.

IE9 will leave a significant portion of Windows users behind If Microsoft wants to build market share for its latest version of its Internet Explorer browser, that may be all but impossible. The company has decided to make IE9 incompatible with Windows XP, as it lacks the necessary technologies to power the new browser

Free Web Site Design Most of the entrepreneurs I’ve encountered recently are launching one-woman or one-man shops, offering professional services such as writing, legal work, translation or consulting. There is no reason on earth to pay thousands of dollars for a custom-made Web site, when there are perfectly good free software platforms that are user friendly and intuitive. I built my own Web site for free — twice — on the blogging platforms blogger.com and typepad.com .

Steve Ballmer IS the right man to turn around Microsoft mobile The headline is my answer to the question “Is Steve Ballmer Really the Best Choice to Run Microsoft’s Consumer Business?” asked by Kevin Tofel at GigaOM on May 25th. There are several good reasons why Ballmer is the right man at the right time, but one stands out. He turned around another important Microsoft product: Windows.

IE9 Tech Preview beats latest Firefox alpha, as Chrome 5 clobbers King Opera How long ago would you have thought it absolutely impossible for the slowest Windows Web browser currently under development to be coming…from Mozilla? Granted, the Internet Explorer 9 Tech Preview isn’t a real browser (typically, these things need their own address bars and Back buttons). But unless Mozilla gets its JaegerMonkeys in a row in time for Microsoft to debut IE9 with real features like buttons, the number two reason users cite for switching from Internet Explorer…will be wiped off the map