Bob Brown

Executive Editor, News

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.

bbrown@nww.com (508) 490-6407 Fax: (508) 490-6438

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Recent articles by Brown

5 cool cloud computing research projects
Jun. 10, 2009
Next week's HotCloud conference on cloud computing will boast a slew of fresh research into this hottest of IT topics. Here's a glimpse at the work to be showcased.

Red Hat virtual desktop technology heads into beta tests
Jun. 03, 2009
Red Hat's virtualization scheme going forward is based largely on technology obtained via its acquisition of Qumranet. The company will offer virtual desktops and servers, plus a common management platform.

One way to build iPhone-BlackBerry-Android-Symbian- WinMobile-friendly apps
May. 22, 2009
Startup Rhomobile says its framework lets developers build native mobile applications that work across different smartphones from the iPhone to BlackBerries to Android devices

iPhones in the enterprise leaving IT pros at wit's end
May. 21, 2009
Executives smitten with iPhones are forcing enterprise IT departments to come up with ways to support the mobile devices even though big security and management questions abound.

SaaS vendors need to get a clue about APIs
May. 20, 2009
LAS VEGAS -- One big obstacle to SaaS vendors getting their applications adopted more widely is that so many of them don't offer open APIs. Offering APIs is crucial for vendors to get their applications supported by ...

Google's latest conquest: Commencement speeches
May. 15, 2009
Google really is everywhere, even at university commencement ceremonies. Google co-founder Larry Page sends off Michigan students; CEO Eric Schmidt going back to back at Pennsylvania universities

NSF wants $7B to head off demise of Moore's law, fund cybersecurity research and more - ...
May. 14, 2009
The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies.

MIT recognizes startup Ksplice for rebootless OS updates
May. 08, 2009
Ksplice, a Cambridge, Mass., startup whose software is designed to help computer users keep their operating systems secure and updated without the hassle of frequent rebooting, has been named one of six finalists in the ...

Apple yanks "Baby Shaker" from App Store amidst public disgust
Apr. 22, 2009
Apple -- on the verge of celebrating its 1 billionth App Store download -- has pulled a controversial application called "Baby Shaker" from its virtual store shelves that generated public outrage.

UC Berkeley's new Opinion Space Web site visualizes your viewpoints
Apr. 22, 2009
UC Berkeley's Opinion Space Web site visualizes participants' viewpoints.

Before Sun: Oracle's recent acquisitions
Apr. 20, 2009
Oracle hasn't been shy in recent years about snapping up other companies, including big-name outfits such as BEA Systems, PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems.

Cisco getting cozy with UC Santa Cruz
Apr. 17, 2009
Cisco, University of California at Santa Cruz are collaborating on network research via new lab

Twitter attracting techie labs
Apr. 13, 2009
As Network World's Alpha Doggs network research blogger, I've been searching Twitter in recent months for vendor, university and government labs and research operations using the popular microblogging service. While I' ...

How one network start-up is coping with hellish economy
Apr. 08, 2009
Windows data migration start-up AutoVirt gets creative in sales, charitable about compensation and keeps cranking out products.

IT security vendors worth following on Twitter
Apr. 03, 2009
Enterprise IT companies are setting up Twitter accounts in droves, and security companies are among the most enthusiastic given that Twitter is ideal for quick updates on vulnerabilities such as Conficker/Downadup..

IT security on the cheap
Mar. 25, 2009
IT security freebies and cheap solutions include leaning on interns, using Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools, and even enticing employees to act in awareness videos

Expert cites "major problem" with security policy compliance
Mar. 25, 2009
Attendees at this week's SecureWorld Boston conference got a stern talking-to Wednesday morning: Keynoter Charles Cresson Wood said organizations need to get their information security policies in order or risk going ...

Computer crime? NBA player allegedly tosses PC monitor at mall
Mar. 17, 2009
New Jersey Nets forward Sean Williams was arrested yesterday after allegedly throwing a computer monitor in a cell phone store outside of Denver, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.

Ga. Tech researchers predict North Carolina men to wear NCAA hoop crown
Mar. 17, 2009
The computer ranking system out of Georgia Tech seems to hold no grudge against the school's ACC basketball foes: It predicts North Carolina's Tarheels will be the one team standing at the end of the NCAA men's ...

MIT professor snags 'Nobel' of computer science
Mar. 10, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Barbara Liskov will receive the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.

Beyond Downadup: Security expert worries about smart phone, TinyURL threats
Mar. 05, 2009
Downadup/Conficker worm has been a nightmare, but just wait until you see what malware writers have in store for smart phones and social network sites, security expert says

Cloud computing obstacles, opportunities outlined by Berkeley researchers
Feb. 13, 2009
UC Berkeley researchers have outlined their view of cloud computing, which they say has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT resources if vendors can overcome a litany of obstacles.

25 random things about Twitter
Feb. 09, 2009
Facebook's '25 random things about me,' in which people divulge a big list of things about themselves and pass it on, is all the rage, for better or worse. We took it upon ourselves to mash up that application with the ...

12 open source movers and shakers who Twitter
Jan. 22, 2009
The recent news that Identi.ca, called by some an open source twist on Twitter, had received funding got me wondering about how active big names in the open source world are on Twitter itself.

Twitter list: 10-plus rock bands and assorted singers
Jan. 16, 2009
Here's a short list of a few musicians who twitterer (with a bent toward the alternative/indie music genre). These all look to be the real deal to me, with maybe a little bit of ghost-twittering by marketing specialists ...