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

Municipal Wi-Fi’s emergency response

We all watched dumbstruck the news footage of the collapse of a bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis earlier this month. What we...

Ok, we get it …

Appe head honcho Steve Jobs unveiled the new iMac this week, and though the improvements are largely incremental as opposed to the revolution that...

A handset worth lusting after

Technology insists on doing this to me, and probably to you, too. You put off the new laptop or desktop purchase and watch the...

Your future phone

Just basking in the afterglow of having bullied my cell carrier into a better rate and a better phone by threatening to go to...

Star Trek storage

I was never a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation -- I watched the only Trek that mattered, the one with James T....

Don’t hold your breath waiting for a Google phone

A friend sends this link to a blog posting about Google jumping into the auction in the U.S. to sell of radio spectrum that...

Cisco counter-attacks on unified communications

The company faces the threat of increased rivalry from the likes of Microsoft and Nortel, but executives say its platform is more open and carries more strength on the infrastructure side. The networking talent behind El Cajon Dam makes the business case

‘Undoing’ the math

It's all about the math, right? Not so, says Karl Fant. He's the founder of Theseus Research and he's feels there's something fundamentally wrong...

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