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

Social media signal-to-noise ratio

I don’t generally turn to the sports pages of the Toronto Star for technology insight, but it does pop up in odd places on...

Where your digital life is

I’d been impressed with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 7 at its launch, but have only recently had a chance to play with a phone running...

Can we just say no to the BYOD movement?

Toward the end of our teleconference briefing with Cisco Systems Inc. CTO of security architecture Nasrin Rezai, I opened the Q&A with the stock...

A big data ‘aha’ moment

It may be a buzz phrase, the cloud computing of 2012, but I do find big data analytics fascinating. It's just the way my...

Canada ‘gets it,’ Cisco CEO says

Last time Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers was in Toronto, he and Ontario Trade Minister Sandra Puppatello announced a memorandum of understanding that...

IT salaries holding the line

SALARY SURVEY Our 2012 ComputerWorld Canada Salary Survey finds compensation for Canadian IT pros is rising, but not by much. What are the hottest jobs and skill sets?

A time to make promises and a time to deliver

Greg Reed, CEO of eHealth Ontario, paints this scenario: It's delivery day, 2015. We're gathered outside the low-slung bunker of a data centre....

Another year of Alternatives

IT World Canada has been a media sponsor of Neilsen Consulting Inc.'s Know Your Alternatives conference since its inception last year, and I've...

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