Dave Webb

Dave Webb is a freelance editor and writer. A veteran journalist of more than 20 years' experience (15 of them in technology), he has held senior editorial positions with a number of technology publications. He was honoured with an Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in 2000, and several Canadian Online Publishing Awards as part of the ComputerWorld Canada team.

Articles by Dave Webb

Angry IP Scanner

This one gets the thumbs-up on the basis of the name. It scans IP addresses and ports, returns NetBIOS information and detects Web servers....

Petition won’t budge Rogers on data rates

As I write this column, almost 8,400 people had signed a petition in an effort to pressure Rogers Wireless to lower data access charges...

Bullet-point Brief: the state of the virtualization market

John Sloan, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group updates the crowd at the Southwest Ontario VMware User Group conference in Kitchener, Ont.

Memo to spectrum bidders: Please stop

Dear Wireless Spectrum Auction Participants:First of all, my sincere thanks for giving us such an exciting, compelling narrative to follow over the last three...

The new battleground for the virtualization market

Hosting desktops on a remote server will be a familiar concept to veterans of the thin-client movement. Welcome to the old new frontier

Diversinet puts personal records in your Wallet

The Toronto-based firm's MobiSecure application allow users to view, e-mail and fax personal records from a mobile phone. Why the health-care sector is an early adopter

HP puts the power of NonStop on a blade

The company looks to compete with mainframes in business-critical transaction environments with technology originally gained through the acquisition of Compaq. IDC Canada discusses the migration issues

Cisco sharpens its focus on business video lineup

Surveillance and digital signage products herald what the company is calling the Media Ready Network. Executives discuss the potential in branch office environments

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