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Bob Brown
Bob Brown

Bob Brown

Executive Editor, News

Network World, Inc.

Responsibilities: To work with NW's writers in shaping the paper's Client/Server Applications and Local Networks section coverage and to shape the weekly news coverage. Tasks include forumulating story ideas, editing stories, writing headlines, coordinating art, long-term project management and hiring.

Past experience: Worked for the Boston Herald's Business Section and for an inhouse newspaper at Boston University.

How to reach: Best to reach early in the week. Mondays are the best day, Thursdays and Fridays the worst.

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Recent articles by Bob Brown

Apple warns iOS developers: Don't monkey with App Store rankings

February 07, 2012

Apple has warned iOS developers not to use services that manipulate App Store rankings to make their iPhone and iPad apps seem more popular than they really are.

Google piques curiosity with Solve for X website, video

February 06, 2012

Google on Monday released a website and video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is "a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems."

Motorola, Woot 'fess up to reselling uncleared Xoom tablets

February 03, 2012

Motorola Mobility is warning people who bought but then returned Android-based Motorola Xoom tablets between March and October last year that the devices might have been resold by bargain-of-the-day website Woot with the ex-owners' sensitive data still on them.

Apple to launch iPad 3 in March, Japanese report says

February 02, 2012

The iPad 3 rumor mill has heated up this week, fueled by a report from Japanese Apple blog Macotakara that the much anticipated tablet will come out in March.

Steve Jobs lives on in endless Apple stories, marketing schemes

February 02, 2012

Although it's been nearly four months since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died, there has been little slowdown in Steve Jobs news since then. In fact, some days there seems to be more than ever.

Facebook ripe for ridicule as it suffers outage a day after IPO filing

February 02, 2012

Social networkers resorted to Twitter during and following a brief Facebook outage on Thursday, a day after the company filed for its initial public offering.

Most tweets are garbage, Twitter users say

February 01, 2012

Twitter has been celebrated for its ubiquity and impact on world events from natural disaster recovery to political uprisings. But researchers from a group of big time universities have found that useful tweets are few and far between.

9 "university researcher approved" tips for awesome Tweeting

February 01, 2012

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have issued a list of 9 tips for better tweeting based on a study of Twitter usefulness (see "Most tweets are useless, Twitter users say").

Samsung: No Galaxy S3 at Mobile World Congress

February 01, 2012

Samsung has confirmed that its Android-based Galaxy S3 (or S III) smartphone will not debut at the Mobile World Congress later this month, but will be introduced at a separate event by mid-year, closer to commercial release.

More Android users take phones into bathroom than do iPhone, BlackBerry users

January 31, 2012

A new survey of 1,000 Americans confirms what you always suspected: A good many of those incoming Android, iPhone and BlackBerry calls and texts are originating from bathrooms.