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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Year in review: The public sector and Web 2.0

Social networking technologies were on governments' radar in 2008. Plus privacy, security, and the strange case of the jailed network admininstrator

Crush data leakage – literally

So you've got some PCs at end-of-live and you want to make sure the data on thosehard drives doesn't make you the next TJX....

Our week in blogs: Cope at the Bat

Poetry in privatization; Malcolm Gladwell's latest tome; and more fun than you've ever had with a hard drive. Read all about it in IT World Canada Blogs

CATA will ask feds for stimulus package

John Reid, president of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance(CATA), shared with me a draft press release in which the advocacygroup will ask Ottawa to...

ISPs want user-generated content in broadcasting definition

As the CRTC asks for input on new media broadcasting, the Canadian Association of Internet Providers say the exclusion of UGC is "a fundamental error." How UGC, levies to compensate commercial artists and the threat of a net that's not neutral are intertwined in the debate

Globalization versus outsourcing

In October, on the more-or-less anniversary of the opening of Cisco Systems Inc.'sGlobalization Centre in Bangalore, I visited the campus (and the city) to...

Our week in blogs: Goodbye, Mr. Rogers

Competitors mourn the passing of Canada's ultimate entrepreneur; the most recession-proof jobs in IT; and Cisco ain't Scrooge. The best of last week's blogs on IT World Canada

The rewards of 21 billion lines of data

A Groupe Aeroplan subsidiary offers retailers and suppliers analysis run against all purchase data in the last two years -- "a platinum mine" for users, according to one analyst. SEE VIDEO DEMO BELOW.

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