Bob Brown
Bob Brown is the former news editor for Network World.
Annual WITI summit taps into awareness, frustration over lack of women in IT
Next week's Women in Technology Summit will shine a light on the accomplishments women have made in the industry
Utah researchers make light-speed computing breakthrough
University of Utah researchers claim light-speed advances could make their way to supercomputers super soon
What's behind Microsoft's not-so-crazy startup spending spree
Microsoft so far this year has been the most acquisitive company in enterprise IT, snapping up at least four firms on top of four others that it bought in the last two months of 2014. And while the buyouts might at first glance appear...
Top enterprise IT companies where people want to work
Startup Poachable shares insights based on passive job-seeker interests
FCC calls blocking of personal Wi-Fi hotspots 'disturbing trend'
The FCC vows that no more Marriott-like Wi-Fi blocking schemes will be tolerated
Apple yanks buggy iOS 8 update
Apple released an update to iOS 8 on Wednesday to fix a bunch of bugs -- but the update itself is now causing all sorts of trouble
Crashing Apple's iOS 8 party
Mobile apps performance management company Crittercism finds iOS 8 is outcrashing iOS 7 on iPhones and iPads in a big way so far
Free app outs iPhone and Android phone energy hogs
Researchers at UC Berkeley, University of Helsinki sniff out troublesome iPhone, Android apps via Carat
25 cool cloud, security, and mobile startups to watch
Disappearing messages and reinventing the mobile operating system are among the newcomers' angles
'Nobel Prize in Computing' goes to Microsoft Research principal
Leslie Lamport wins the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work in enabling distributed computing systems
The 2013 computer crime blotter
Prisons around the world this year made way for techie criminals alongside the more garden-variety murderers, thieves, and schemers
Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme
Like CAPTCHA, GOTCHA's inkblot password system relies on humans' visual skills
Android antivirus products a big flop, researchers say
Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, but the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented
Turing Award goes to MIT crypto experts
The $250K 'Nobel Prize in Computing' honors a pair of MIT professors for their work in provable security
Microsoft reveals workaround to Google Maps on Windows Phone
Windows Phone technical evangelist spells out a way for Windows Phone users to access Google Maps after Google blocked access
'Creative' is king of LinkedIn buzzwords in 2012
LinkedIn users increasingly describe selves as responsible and analytical, less as dynamic and having communications skills
Syria suffers nationwide Internet blackout; charts show dramatic traffic collapse
Syria has experienced partial blackouts this year, but this nationwide blackout is unprecedented
Google Talk users lash out over major outage
Google acknowledges chat service problem affected 'a majority of users,' though restoration is now underway
Yammer buyout could fit with many Microsoft businesses
Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy enterprise social network company Yammer for $1 billion-plus