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

Build loyalty the Apple way

IT WORLD CANADA CURATED Forbes contributor Roger Dooley outlines how Apple took a unique tack on building customer loyalty: by defining an enemy

This generational shift is not about the hardware

Worldwide personal computer shipments just filed their seventh consecutive quarter of flat sales growth, according to research house IDC. If that was the economy...

Google in the cloud

IT WORLD CANADA CURATED At its Google I/O conference in June, the search giant announced it was moving into the infrastructure-as-a-service market. Can Google be the one to upend Amazon?

GM bringing IT back in-house

IT WORLD CANADA CURATED The carmaker's CIO, Randy Mott, figures to save money by consolidating the company's 23 data centres to two. That name should be familiar to HP, which stands to lose $2 billion a year in revenue. Find out why

Network comes first at Toronto waterfront campus

George Brown College's soon-to-open waterfront campus is so technology-dependent, every element of the network had to be preconfigured and tested in the lab so it will be up and running before the doors open

Lessons learned from Toronto City Chase

Alicia and I did the Mitsubishi Toronto City Chase on Saturday. Well, we *started* the Mitsubishi Toronto City Chase, but that's Part 2 of...

Gen Y: More tech savvy, less security conscious

A recent study released by Check Point Software Technologies Inc. notes that older users are more concerned about computer security than their millennial counterparts,...

Dell exec outlines health care trends at Toronto conference

Health care needs data for better collaboration and management, the company's chief medical officer says. Find out why people want to manage their own health information

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