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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Business intelligence even Elmer Fudd can use

A Toronto BI consulting company releases Wabit, a fwee

OPINION: The Facebook revolt and why it matters

If Facebook can unilaterally change, without notice, what is essentially a licence to use its software and infrastructure, what about your applications

High-def from your laptop

Makers of the Tandberg PrecisionHD USB Camera are calling it the

Speedware strikes deal to port AS/400 apps and data

The Montreal company will bring Sykora-ML's migration software and services package to North America, hoping to convert the venerable minicomputers still in the wild. Plus: Wild tales of AS/400 survival

Wild tales of AS/400 survival

Stories of the minicomputer's durability border on urban legend territory

Federal budget provision could boost hardware spending

A temporary tax break allowing companies to write off 100 per cent of their hardware and software purchases is getting a positive reaction from the industry, but a BDO Dunwoody CGA cautions that companies spending without a business case are just bankrupting themselves more quickly

Obama’s ‘Buy American’ policy could hurt Canadian IT

Trade Minister Stockwell Day and CATA's John Reid say trade barriers are a bad idea, and there

Websense buys Montreal UGC spam filter company

Websense Inc. has added technology that filters spam from user generated content, announcing it has bought Montreal-based Defensio, a two-year-old blog spam fighting company...

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