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

Days numbered for standalone NAC, anti-data leakage firms?
Nov. 12, 2008
Bargain hunting was all the talk of the 451 Group event this week in Boston, where one security pro quipped that vendors should be paying customers to install their software and where anyone remotely smelling of money ...

Venture fund not abandoning enterprise IT
Oct. 28, 2008
Fairhaven Capital Partners has closed a $250 million venture fund that will be invested in enterprise and consumer technology companies, among others. The fund's closing stands in contrast to a slew of recent bad news ...

Data shuffling: A safer way to analyze confidential data?
Jun. 19, 2008
Oklahoma State University's Technology Business Assessment Group recently announced it will fund research on an approach to information protection called data shuffling. The project is led by Professor Rathindra Sarathy ...

Kansas to win NCAA basketball tourney: So says computer system and me
Apr. 04, 2008
A computer ranking system out of the Georgia Institute of Technology was perfect this year in picking the teams in this year's NCAA men's basketball Final Four games on Saturday. The system, dubbed LRMC, says Kansas ...

No April Fools: UC Berkeley system gets your sense of humor
Mar. 31, 2008
University of California Berkeley's Jester joke recommendation site is deadly serious about advancing the art and science of recommendation systems, like those used by Amazon.com and others.

What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor
Mar. 26, 2008
Microsoft security honcho Bret Arsenault says application exploits, virtualization security and attacks coming from .edu domains are among the things that keep him up at night.

Why you should never ask a NASCAR race analyst about technology
Feb. 19, 2008
Interview with virtual Darrell Waltrip on cars, sex and rednecks via new NASCAR Web program created in honor of Daytona 500's 50th anniversary.

Wireless whiz weighs in on pervasive computing, muni Wi-Fi, RFID and 802.11n - Network ..
Feb. 04, 2008
Q&A with head of Rutgers University's wireless lab on topics ranging from municipal Wi-Fi's challenges to the overhyping of RFID.

Behind the scenes of Internet2
Jan. 30, 2008
Interview with network operations manager for massive, high-speed Internet2 network.

EMC CSO shares lessons learned from protecting storage giant
Jan. 17, 2008
EMC's CSO shares security lessons, including encrypting laptops and using security information management tools.

Social media start-up Mixx sets self apart via "ultra-personalization"
Jan. 03, 2008
Mixx.com CEO Chris McGill recaps the action from his social media site's first few months in business as a competitor to Digg and other such sites.

Net engineer crafts social media site for peers
Dec. 04, 2007
You'd think that between Slashdot, Digg, Mixx, Propeller, StumbleUpon and dozens of other social media and news aggregation sites that there would be something for everyone. But David Mackey hasn't been wholly satisfied ...

Mixx.com: Diary of a (pretty) early adopter
Dec. 03, 2007
You might not know it from meeting me, but I'm really cool. Or so say my dozen or so friends and followers at Mixx.com, the news/photo/video sharing Web site that some are calling the new Digg.

Open source's future: More Microsoft, bigger talent shortages
Nov. 27, 2007
The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage.

5 cool wireless research projects worth checking out
Nov. 08, 2007
A review of 5 cool wireless research projects focused on municipal Wi-Fi, sensor networks and more.

50 Greatest Network Arguments: What readers are saying
Nov. 02, 2007
Readers debate the 50 Greatest Arguments in Networking and suggest a few more of their own involving Microsoft and other technologies.

Cell phones, text messaging and the 10 rudest office behaviors
Oct. 10, 2007
Actions might be funny on “The Office” TV show but not in real life, study finds

Internet pipes not ready to burst, researcher says
Sep. 19, 2007
New Web site monitors Internet traffic growth and finds growth rate is slowing despite influx of video and other traffic

How Gateway's tech support tortured an editor
Sep. 17, 2007
Tech editor documents nightmarish tech support from Gateway.

What 'The Sopranos' taught me about technology
Sep. 13, 2007
HBO's "The Sopranos" TV show could teach you a lot about technology, from the Web to cookies to hacking.

Minneapolis bridge collapse spurs schools to tout bridge-safety research
Aug. 08, 2007
The collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis has sent universities into overdrive promoting the wireless and nanotechnology research going on in their labs that could one day make bridges and other ...

Is securing your network worth the money?
Jul. 03, 2007
P2P threats, vulnerability disclosures and hacker profiling are among topics being researched by experts in economics and IT security.

EMC exec targets open source plan for sustainable innovation
Jun. 28, 2007
Storage kingpin EMC hatches open source-oriented R&D plan.

Why network-based security doesn't cut it anymore
Jun. 14, 2007
A venture capitalist argues that the focus should be on client-side, rather than network-based security.

Using "offensive technologies" to secure networks
May. 14, 2007
The First Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies is coming to Boston on Aug. It's hard to resist an event called WOOT, even though we weren't quite sure what it was all about. So we shot an e-mail to Tal Garfinkel, a ...