
Darien Graham-Smith
Darien began his IT career in the 1990s as a systems engineer, later becoming an IT project manager. His formative experiences included upgrading a major multinational from token-ring networking to Ethernet, and migrating a travelling sales force from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95.
He subsequently spent some years acting as a one-man IT department for a small publishing company, before moving into journalism himself. He is now a regular contributor to IT Pro, specialising in networking and security, and serves as associate editor of PC Pro magazine with particular responsibility for business reviews and features.
You can email Darien at darien@pcpro.co.uk, or follow him on Twitter at @dariengs.
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Need to know: Intel Core i7-980X
News Intel today launched its first ever six core processor. We give you the run down of what you need to know about this brand new chip.
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Intel to launch 32nm CPUs this week
News Chip giant Intel looks set to unveil the first fruits of its Westmere architecture this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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Head to head: Firefox vs Internet Explorer
Reviews In our latest head to head, we weigh up the web's most popular browsers: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox.
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Microsoft Security Essentials review
Reviews Microsoft is having a second stab at the anti-virus suite, only this time its package is free. Has it got it right second time around?
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Opera 10 review
Reviews The final version of Opera 10 has arrived. Can its unique features help it compete in an increasingly crowded browser market?
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Opera 10 beta review
Reviews Opera was a real innovator in the browser space, but its desktop offering is something of the forgotten man in the industry. We take a look at the beta of its latest release.
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Easeus Partition Master review: Professional Edition
Reviews If you need to resize a hard disk partition there are several options out there? Is it worth investing in this package from Easus?
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Battle of the Betas - 4-way browser head-to-head
Reviews Which is the best browser right now for speeds, features and ease-of-use? We take a look at the latest betas of the four of the big contenders.
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AVG adds behaviour detection in security upgrade
News AVG has updated its free and paid-for editions, including extending behavioural tools in the latter.
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