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Mark Gibbs
Gibbs

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 as well as the twice-weekly Web Applications Newsletter. He also writes a blog called, with amazing creativity, Gibbsblog. For more detail on the man behind the myth please see here.

Recent articles by Mark Gibbs

Goodbye e-books, hello apps

February 02, 2012

E-book sales are, surprisingly, flattening and Gibbs knows why: E-books don't really work very well.

Smart hat monitors brain waves to watch fatigue levels

February 01, 2012

An Australian company plans to offer a system to check how alert drivers are by monitoring their brainwaves ...

The real reasons why SOPA and PIPA are real bad

January 27, 2012

A reader letter makes Gibbs sum up why SOPA and PIPA are such bad ideas.

Twine, jump-started by Kickstarter

January 25, 2012

Gibbs follows up on last week's column on the Lantronix xPrintServer and looks at Twine, a wireless sensor device that got funded on Kickstarter.

No SOPA blackout? We know who you are

January 20, 2012

Yesterday saw many major Web sites going into blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA ... but, to their shame, a few of the biggest opted out

AirPrint to almost any printer

January 19, 2012

Back when I was young printing was complicated. Printer drivers were a nightmare of options and standards were rare. Now there are all sorts of standards for printing but the nightmare still continues. Even printers that sell for $50 have multiple drivers, often support various printing protocols, have multiple driver updates, and then there is the printer installation software.

A tablet for under a Benjamin?

January 13, 2012

After he grumbles about product names, Gibbs gets very excited by the MIPS Ainovo Novo7 BASIC tablet.

Your identity up for grabs

January 13, 2012

Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.

2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

January 09, 2012

Gibbs reviews last year's predictions and sees that the end could be nigh ...

Goodbye 2011 ... What a year!

December 19, 2011

Gibbs ponders the year that just shot past ...