Bob Brown
Bob Brown is the former news editor for Network World.
FAQ: What is 802.11ay wireless technology?
Products based on the IEEE 802.11ad (WiGig) standard have really only begun rolling out over the past year, but an effort to deliver an enhancement dubbed 802.11ay in the unlicensed 60 GHz spectrum band that promises to deliver faster...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2016 by the numbers
On the heels of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, the numbers crunchers share how the holiday shopping season is shaping up.
2016 technology industry graveyard
Dell, Google and Microsoft are among those that have killed off products or services in 2016.
13 top paying cities for software engineers
You need to factor in cost of living to determine real earnings. Online jobs marketplace Glassdoor has crunched the numbers, looking at the ratio of each city’s median software engineer base salary to its official cost of living...
Crypto dream team Diffie and Hellman wins $1M A.M. Turing Award
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, whose names have been linked since their seminal 1976 paper introduced the concepts of public key encryption and digital signatures, have been named winners of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
Open-source community mourns Debian creator Ian Murdock
The open source community was stunned this week to learn that Ian Murdock, the "ian" in Linux distribution Debian, has died at the age of 42.
Acacia's $125M IPO filing a rarity among networking firms in 2015
Acacia Communications, an optical networking company that boosts bandwidth for cloud and other service providers, filed for an IPO -- a rarity during a year in which the number of tech companies going public is at its lowest since...
Best Buy pulls away curtain on Black Friday 2015 tech deals
Best Buy overnight revealed its Black Friday deals, which include a slew of tech products from vendors such as Apple, Microsoft, Dell and Samsung. A handful of deals are already live, too.
Heat map to show where burning need is for cybersecurity pros
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is funding creation of a heat map visualization tool that will show where cybersecurity jobs are open across the country. The first rendition should be out late next year.
Heat map to pinpoint where burning need is for cybersecurity pros
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is funding creation of a heat map visualization tool that will show where cybersecurity jobs are open across the country. The first rendition should be out late next year.
Has FCC "gone off the rails" with latest Wi-Fi blocking fines?
Critics of the FCC's crackdown over the past year on organizations purposefully blocking consumers' Wi-Fi hotspots might actually have a couple of kindred spirits on the Commission itself.
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