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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

Father of Linux calls Nexus One smartphone "a winner"

February 08, 2010

Google's Nexus One got a big time endorsement over the weekend from Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds, who blogged about the Android-based smartphone being "a winner." 

50 smartphone blogs: A whirlwind tour of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry sites

February 03, 2010

There¿s quite a collection of good and colorful blogs that track iPhones, Android devices, BlackBerries and other smartphones and no shortage of overlapping coverage among them. Here¿s a spin through 50 of these blogs.

10 fun facts about RIM and the BlackBerry

January 27, 2010

Need a break from the Apple iPad? Here are 10 fun facts about RIM and its BlackBerry smartphones

Prolific Cornell networking expert wins Computer Science prize

January 07, 2010

Jon Kleinberg, a computer science professor at Cornell University, has won the 2009 Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize for his research into network phenomena, such as how Web pages link, how social media friendships happen and how peer-to-peer file-sharing works.

RIM BlackBerry outage latest on 2009's long list of network service SNAFUs

December 23, 2009

RIM's second BlackBerry network outage within a week is but the latest in a string of network service outages, including cloud computing service outages, that have plagued the industry and frustrated customers this year. Big names like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com have been among the companies scrambling to restore services in 2009. 

Google Search Appliance now highlights Twitter posts

December 10, 2009

Google on Thursday said its enterprise search appliance will now show relevant Twitter posts alongside internal and external search results.

Internet2 on prowl for CEO

December 09, 2009

Internet2, the advanced networking consortium powered by educational and research organizations, has announced that it¿s on the lookout for a new CEO.

SETI@home in spotlight after IT chief loses job

December 03, 2009

Reports this week out of Arizona about how a public school district IT chief lost his job have put the use of volunteer grid computing efforts in the spotlight.

Experts scrutinize 2009¿s most notable IT apologies

December 02, 2009

We asked the team at Perfect Apology to rate the quality of the apologies issued by top tech companies and executives this year (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, among them) for their assorted mistakes and misdeeds. And yes, we did this BEFORE Tiger Woods issued his apology today.

Tech companies had lots to be sorry for in 2009

December 01, 2009

Kanye West, President Obama and David Letterman grabbed headlines this year when they apologized for assorted ill-advised acts or rash statements. But they more than met their match in the high tech industry, where big names from Amazon to Apple to Microsoft were forced to issue mea culpas in the wake of bad and worse decisions. Here¿s a recap of what the tech industry has been most sorry about in 2009.