Professional Biography
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe are freelance technology journalists and regular bloggers for ZDNet UK.
Mary has been a technology writer for nearly two decades, covering everything from early versions of Windows and Office to the first smartphones, the arrival of the Web and most things in between, from consumer to small business technology. Simon specialises in architecture and enterprise IT and sometimes describes his move into computer journalism as 'career as verb rather than noun'; he has a background in academic, military and telecoms research, ran one of the UK's first national ISPs and found writing a natural progression from consultancy around the time of the dotcom boom.
With a Blackberry in one pocket, an iPhone in other, a Windows Mobile smartphone in one hand, clutching an Android phone and schlepping tablet PCs and netbooks around we're rarely away from computers entirely, but when not working we're most likely to be found absorbed in a book, off travelling, making a fuss of our cats, cooking something elaborate with a lot of garlic or - in Mary's case - thinking about taking up pottery again, or finishing the knitting, embroidery and patchwork quilts I've been working on for the last umpteen years... Simon is likely to be taking photographs and maybe, just maybe, finishing an SF short story...
Interests
Number of Interests: 56
- Notebooks
- Monitors
- PC/Desktops
- Peripheral
- Processors/Components
- Printers/Scanners/Mult...
- Consumables
- Client Storage
- Office Productivity Ap...
- Desktop Operating Systems
- Creativity Software
- Application Development
- Business Intelligence
- Content Management Sys...
- Enterprise Resource Pl...
- Customer Relationship ...
- Financials
- Middleware
- Data Management/Database
- Mail & Messaging
Discussions
Number of Discussions: 18
- I have one word for you 20/11/09
- network - exactly 19/11/09
- Dictatorial, disastrous, dire: Mandelson must... 19/11/09
- Murdoch versus the Net? Game on. 12/11/09
- At what point should Microsoft get scared? 03/11/09
- At what point should Microsoft get scared? 02/11/09
- No Email Program in Windows 7??????? 30/10/09
- At what point should Microsoft get scared? 30/10/09
Blog
Number of Posts: 15
- GPU to the future 19/11/09
- Oslo transforms into the underlying applicati... 18/11/09
- FAST Search for SharePoint promises custom se... 16/11/09
- Mobile apps to get pushy, have presence on Bl... 12/11/09
- Bye bye browser? 06/11/09
- That's how they did it: VAIO X Series uses Sa... 03/11/09
- Watch out, your metadata is showing 30/10/09
- What Microsoft understands about virtualisati... 29/10/09
Reviews
Number of Reviews: 0
Links
Number of Links: 5
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