About us
Between them, the team of writers and reviewers at ITReviews boast decades of experience in the industry, testing the latest kit for home users and small businesses. That's why you can rely on ITReviews to bring you the most independent and accurate reviews of computer hardware, software and games on the web, together with invaluable advice on choosing and using IT products in our buyer's guides.
Darren Allan
Contributor
Darren has been writing for IT Reviews since 1999. During the past decade, he has covered a wide range of games, hardware and software. Darren is a particularly avid gamer, devouring all genres, and has previously written for publications including PC Gamer, PC Gameplay, Total PC Gaming and EuroGamer. He's also the co-author of several non-fiction...
Hugo Jobling
Hugo Jobling knew that Journalism was the career for him when he discovered that people really were willing to exchange their money for his opinions, which he had previously offered vociferously and free of charge to anyone willing to pay attention. Hugo is either an expert in the technology field, or does a convincing impression of one - so far...
Cliff Smith
Cliff Smith has been reviewing digital cameras since 1996, which is longer than most companies have been making them. Formerly Reviews Editor of Digital Photography Made Easy, Deputy Editor of What Digital Camera and Digital Photography Editor of TrustedReviews, he also helped launch Digital Photographer and Better Digital Photography magazines,...
Rob Beattie
Contributor
Rob Beattie has been writing about this computer stuff since 1981. He’s edited many magazines including PC User and Computer Life. For years Rob wrote weekly technology columns for the Daily Express and Evening Standard but hopes no one will hold that against him. The iPhone now inhabits the space in his heart once...
Jamie Carter
Contributor
Jamie Carter is a freelance journalist specialising in technology and travel gadgets. His reviews and features have been published in publications as diverse as The Guardian, T3 magazine, BBC Focus magazine, TechRadar, Pocket-Lint, Real Travel magazine, BBC Sky At Night and many other print and online outlets.
Martyn Clayden
Contributor
Martyn has been an IT and games reviewer for 20 years for a wide range of magazines and gaming websites. He's an avid fan of World of Warcraft, The Witcher, Portal and anything involving shooting, adventuring and role-playing, and he has a stupidly large 3D HDTV. He still thinks the Game Gear was the best portable games console. Ever.
Alex Cruickshank
Contributor and founding editor
IT Reviews’ founding editor, Alex started writing for computer magazines when the Internet was just fields. He hopped on the online bandwagon and launched IT Reviews in 1998, running it alongside various other writing and IT consultancy projects before eventually selling it to Net Communities in 2010. These days he writes for pleasure, lives in...
Gareth Halfacree
Contributor
Gareth Halfacree, contributor Gareth has been buying, breaking, fixing, and otherwise fiddling around with IT for most of his life, and doesn't look like stopping any time soon. When he's not voiding the warranty on his latest purchase, he even bothers to do a bit of writing. An ardent open source enthusiast, Gareth's dislike of monopolies...
Benny Har-Even
Contributor
Benny Har-Even has been a tech journalist for over 12 years, beginning in newsstand computer magazines before moving on to write for a number of tech websites. As a freelance reviewer and writer he has contributed to broadsheets including the Sunday Times, and more recently Wired. He currently works as an analyst on the latest mobile network...
Paul Lester
Contributor
Paul Lester has been working in publishing and journalism for the last 12 years, and has spent the previous four working as a freelancer writer. During this time he has had a book published, co-edited major tech websites, bought a flat and has kept up to date with the changing face of technology by testing and reviewing the latest hardware and...
Kelvyn Taylor
Contributor
Kelvyn Taylor started his computing career in 1992 in the product testing labs of PC Magazine UK, after many years working in oilfield geophysics. He became deputy editor of PC Magazine, and was editor of Personal Computer World magazine from 2007 until its closure in 2009. He now works as a freelance writer, specialising in consumer and small ...
Sandra Vogel
Contributor
Sandra has been writing about technology for more than ten years. She has contributed to web sites, written blogs and books, been a consultant, reviewer, features writer, web site editor, awards judge: you name it, she’s probably done it. She has a particular fondness for smartphones, but likes anything tech-related and has a home full of gadgets.
Leo Waldock
Contributor
Leo Waldock fell into the world of IT products entirely by chance in the late 1990s. Over 13 years since, he’s written for a wide range of computer magazines and websites. Aside from a handful of military conflicts and the rise of broadband internet, the other major event was the passing of Leo's 40th birthday, ushering him into a brave new world...
Simon Williams
Contributor
Simon Williams has been writing about most aspects of computing for the last 25 years and now specialises in printers, peripherals and utility software. He writes reviews, articles and tutorials and has contributed to national newspapers, key newsstand magazines and premium web sites. When not writing about technology, he writes and performs...
