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

In Conversation with BitDefender’s Shaun Donaldson

BitDefender's director of alliances discusses how security architecture changes in a virtual environment with Dave Webb, ComputerWorld Canada editorrn

I’m out of ‘bad news’ headlines for RIM

I am bereft of words at the trainwreck of a year that Research in Motion Ltd. is having. I've occasionally opined quietly to the likeminded...

RIM

The struggling mobile device maker refocuses on the enterprise with a complement to BES that manages Apple and other mobile devices. How Fusion will add Balance, and why one CIO is cautiously optimistic

Big Data analysis the stuff of heroes

The hero of the next age will be the person who can manage Big Data, says futurist Thornton May. Plus, how your dark data can inform your analysis of social media

Is the Anonymous threat on Toronto credible?

OPINION The City is taking the hacking collective seriously when it threatens to remove Toronto from the Internet if members of the Occupy Toronto movement are evicted.

Anti-social networking, anyone?

Nikki and Jennifer were 30-something best friends in Polk County, Iowa. They were planning a party. Jennifer asked Nikki to create a Facebook...

Discontent growing among RIM shareholders

According to the CEO of the merchant bank calling for the removal of co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis at Waterloo, Ont.-based mobile...

Robots are the coolest. Thing. Ever

If you've known me for a while, you're aware a have a deep and abiding fascination with robots. (At one point about six years,...

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