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

Dawson City, Toronto art schools team up for distance learning

A few hundred kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, the gold rush town of Dawson City's wealth of natural beauty and long summer days have drawn a colony of artists. That community spawned the Dawson City Art Society, which took a dilapidated Odd Fellows Hall and, with the help of volunteers, governments and NGOs, created the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) School of Visual Art, a school to deliver the first year of a Bachelor of Arts program.

Avaya gets SIP certification

SIPconnect compliance validates interoperability among IP communications equipment manufacturers

Why

The Beijing Olympics and more Mac attacks are also on the radar as Websense releases its Top 10 list of threats for next year. Also: a major hacker bust

OCAD links to Yukon art school with videoconferencing

Toronto instructors at the Ontario College of Art and Design lecture Klondike Institute of Art and Culture students 4,500 km away over a Tandberg system

Eats, shoots and phishes

There's an old writer's joke about the importance of punctuation that goes like this:

Google’s spectrum play

So Google will be a player in the upcoming 700 MHz

Five skills network admins need now

The job has evolved since the 1990s, and so has the skill set admins have to bring to the table day to day. Veteran educator Jason Eckert discusses the changing skills landscape

New network skills: Open source

It's taken a while, but enterprises have warmed to open source software for its customizability and future-proofing

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