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Mark Gibbs

For more than 25 years, Mark Gibbs has done just about everything in the networking business short of hacking into NORAD. He worked as an executive in various companies, has created companies, and has consulted on product and service development for many businesses. As an author he has written four books and numerous articles about networking and computer technology. Gibbs has been a regular contributor to Network World since 1995 and pens (well, keyboards) the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns and he's also a blogger for Forbes.

Recent articles by Mark Gibbs

Ten jobs robots won't take away from you in the next 10 years

May 20, 2013

There are jobs that robots might be able to do in the near future. Gibbs has ten that they're unlikely to steal from meat machines.

No more Adobe Dreamweaver, so how about Xara Web Designer?

May 16, 2013

If you're doing serious Web content engineering you might well choose an all-singing, all-dancing product such as Adobe's Dreamweaver. The latest version of Dreamweaver in Adobe's Creative Suite 6 (released just over a year ago) was really impressive with new features such as an improved user interface, support for jQuery UI widgets, better cascading style sheet Version 3 support and support for PhoneGap. All in all, a very cool and comprehensive Web development platform.

The International Space Station Goes Linux and RunRev goes open source

May 10, 2013

On the ISS, Linux is in and XP is out and open source is the way of the future

Why your next big IT project is doomed

May 09, 2013

Have you had a IT project go astray? Maybe you were lucky and it was a brief hiccup with minimal financial consequences. Or maybe you had a disaster of biblical proportions, such as the one that befell Levi Strauss in 2008.

Enterprise vendors: There's no such thing as product secrecy any more

May 06, 2013

Some enterprise vendors try to keep what they are offering away from what they think might be the wrong eyes. This is never a good idea.

Pneuron, an outstanding enterprise data infrastructure solution

May 02, 2013

How would you like to build a global enterprise-scale data access infrastructure? A daunting prospect, yes? Imagine creating a system that could make any subset of any significant data resource in your organization available where it's needed without incurring insane implementation and maintenance costs ... sounds too good to be true?

Directly connected to the Internet of Things

April 25, 2013

Last week here in Backspin I discussed how real-world "things" that aren't easily augmented with digital instrumentation, such as bicycles, cars and even dogs, can be indirectly connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) using physical ID tags and online proxies. This is, as I pointed out, a powerful concept.

Jynxbox Android a great way to make your TV smart

April 24, 2013

This week two outstanding products: The Jynxbox Android HD and Seagate Wireless Plus

Indirectly connected to The Internet of Things

April 22, 2013

Not everything needs to, or can, connect to the Internet of Things by IP

Logitech Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam: Outstanding portable video

April 19, 2013

Considering the enormous webcam market and the number of products available it's hard to believe that anyone could come up with anything new, novel and useful but, impressively, that's just what Logitech has managed to do with its Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam, a really well-designed webcam for OS X and iOS only.