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

Half of Canadians want TV, video phone calling on their PCs

But with 20 homes generating as much traffic as today's Internet in its entirety by 2011, can the recreational Internet and business traffic continue to co-exist on the same network?

Rove Mobile offers ‘by-the-administrator’ pricing

Licensing by the user, not the server, means the remote network administration software company will get into more servers, Rove's CTO says. But one analyst wonders whether admins would rather opt for cheap or free options

Dan Swanson joins our blogging team

I'm pleased to let you know that security expert Dan Swanson has joined our blogging team. Dan is a 25-year internal audit and information...

The Green Data Centre: Four ways to save power — and money — now

Lowering power consumption is a bottom-line game. Here are some strategies that can start paying off now

Bullet-Point Brief: McAfee CEO’s security snapshot

Dave DeWalt stops in Toronto to chat about escalating attacks, working with governments and the trouble with smart phones. Plus: Who

WEBINAR: Security Threats and Solutions

IT World Canada's John Pickett moderates as John Quin of Info-Tech Research, Darren Leroux of HP Canada and Dennis Morgan of Intel discuss the security paradigm of tomorrow. Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and Intel

Raritan PDU tracks rack temperatures

The company says it's the only power distribution unit on the market that offers such granular monitoring of heat in the data centre. Plus, why you always have to wear long sleeves

Broadband users ‘hostage’ to P2P traffic, Bell exec says

The telco's chief of regulatory affairs defends the traffic shaping policy that has incensed Internet resellers and led to an application for a cease-and-desist order from the CRTC

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