Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:10 am

WordPress: RC1 for WP 3.0 available

San Francisco (ip-192.com): WordPress just announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0. Main new features in WordPress 3.0 (ip-192.com reported here) include multi-domain and multi-site management from a single installation of the content management system (CMS), a streamlined administration menu, and the ability to add custom menus. The coming release [...]

Symantec: Enhanced protection for SMB

Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Symantec has updated its Protection Suite aimed at Small and Medium Businesses (SMB). The new Advanced Business Edition bridges the gap between endpoint security and backup- and recovery and hooks into Symantec's cloud-based Global Intelligence Network to provide early threat warnings and automatic backups. It will provide SMBs with endpoint and messaging security [...]

PC shipments: Robust growth predicted

Stamford (ip-192.com): The outlook for the IT industry is more optimistic, as evidenced by the latest Gartner report. The Stamford, Connecticut based research and advisory company predicts that worldwide PC shipments will increase 22 percent in 2010 from 308.3 million to 376.6 million units. Worldwide spending on PC purchases is forecast to reach $245.4 billion [...]

Speed and HTML 5: Chrome 5.0 released

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google has released the next generation of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Chrome 5.0 is the fastest version of Google's browser yet, thanks to improved JavaScript performance. The V8 engine, updated from version 1.3 to 2.2, compiles JavaScript to native machine code before executing it. With the new [...]