Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:17 am

Japan: Negative growth for SMB IT market

Tokyo (ip-192.com): Small and medium-sized businesses (SMB’s) in Japan continue to struggle after the earthquake that did strike the east coast in March 2011, and the negative growth is forecast to remain in effect for all industry sectors. In 2011, the International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates the Japan SMB IT market will reach 3,381 billion [...]

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 [...]

AMD favored in HP’s new laptop lineup

Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Hewlett-Packard (HP) is favoring AMD processors in its new laptop lineup. The company introduced 14 notebooks utilizing VISION and VISION Pro Technology from AMD, giving consumers and businesses a wide range of mobile products and a vivid visual experience at virtually every price and performance level. "Businesses and consumers can turn to [...]

Free BES Express for BlackBerry

Waterloo (ip-192.com): BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) Express is coming soon to a BlackBerry near you, Research In Motion (RIM) announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. BES Express is aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB’s) that want to take advantage of RIM's wireless BlackBerry mail and calendar syncing services, as well as [...]