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.

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Bullet-Point Briefing: Dan Ariely

The behavioural economist and author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions speaks out on the power of the default, why we cheat and the value of the experimental method to decision-making

How do you solve a problem like Web 2.0?

Websense will intro a new appliance specifically targeted at security threats from applications like Facebook, mash-ups and widgets. Why the volume of user-generated content means a different approach to security

Conficker: Was that it?

What did and didn

Blogosphere: Windows 7’s removable IE8

You have to take it with a grain of salt when Microsoft positions changes to the Windows 7 release candidate that allow IE 8 and Media Player to be removed from the OS as being about

New legislation will drive IT temp jobs out of Ontario, critics say

A bill extending severance and holiday pay rights to temporary workers will have a "dramatic" impact on IT staffing agencies in Ontario, according to those in the industry. WITH VIDEO

Editor’s Picks: Toshiba pushes touch screen

Toshiba launches six new notebooks, while Sans Digital unveils a pair of rack-mounted storage arrays. Plus, Other World Computing's new Blu-Ray drives

How low can we go?

IDC Canada revises its December forecast for IT buying through 2012, and the news is grim. Three scenarios, from guarded optimism to worst case. Plus: University of Toronto economics professor Jack Carr on whether the doom and gloom is a self-fulfilling prophecy

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