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

Two buildings, one broadband service

Get the skinny on connecting two offices to a single broadband connection from Ron Nutter. There maybe both wired and wireless options.

Let the bidding begin: Canada’s spectrum auction

There are 27 companies lined up to get a piece of the wireless pie, including the major incumbents and a slew of fledgling startups. Get up to speed with our complete pre-event coverage

MTS dissolves spectrum bid partnership

The carrier says it couldn

World Police & Fire Games a unique IT challenge

Everyone deals with scalability. But from one site with 12 employees to 40 venues and 3,000 volunteers -- in 90 days? WPFG 2009's VP of venues tells us how

OPINION: Telus will switch to GSM; Bell’s not the only traffic-shaper

Telus's closed-mouthed communications policy suggests that even admitting the company's considering the switch is a sign the decision's been made. Also: tried Skype on a Rogers account lately?

Interactive’s platform extends Office Communications Server

With Microsoft entering the unified communications market, it's a great idea, says one analyst. But is it enough to overcome the deal Redmond signed with Aspect at VoiceCon in March?

Ryerson’s virtual savings

When the university ran out of data centre space and cooling capacity, it replaced its infrastructure with virtual servers on blades. Find out how much power the school saves -- and why perhaps one in three enterprise servers isn't in use at all

Bullet-Point Briefing: ProCurve’s GM speaks out

John McHugh, who leads Hewlett-Packard's networking arm, talks with Network World Canada about the state of the market, how the industry dodges economic downturns and a 50-year trend in business that we're halfway through

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