Alan Martin
After a false career start producing flash games, Alan Martin has been writing about phones, wearables and internet culture for over a decade with bylines all over the web and print.
Previously Deputy Editor of Alphr, he turned freelance in 2018 and his words can now be found all over the web, on the likes of Tom's Guide, The i, TechRadar, NME, Gizmodo, Coach, T3, The New Statesman and ShortList, as well as in the odd magazine and newspaper.
He's rarely seen not wearing at least one smartwatch, can talk your ear off about political biographies, and is a long-suffering fan of Derby County FC (which, on balance, he'd rather not talk about). He lives in London, right at the bottom of the Northern Line, long after you think it ends.
You can find Alan tweeting at @alan_p_martin, or email him at mralanpmartin@gmail.com.
Latest articles by Alan Martin
Microsoft unveils a unified search experience across apps
By Alan Martin published
News “Getting pages of results with hyperlinks to other information is simply not enough”
Facebook plans free privacy training for SMBs
By Alan Martin published
News A helpful gesture or PR chicanery?
BT is slashing 13,000 jobs and plans to leave central London
By Alan Martin published
News BT cuts deep as it plans to reduce costs by £1.5 billion
Facebook misses MP deadline to answer data privacy question
By Alan Martin published
News Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer has asked for an extension to answer the 39 questions
Opera kills off mobile VPN
By Alan Martin published
News But the desktop version will remain available for now...
US politicians make Zuckerberg sweat
By Alan Martin published
News The Facebook CEO’s time in Washington is over, though he has a lot of homework to do
Mark Zuckerberg at Congress: Why, when and where to watch
By Alan Martin published
In-depth Mr Zuckerberg goes to Washington
Twitter a “toxic place for women,” says Amnesty
By Alan Martin published
News 78% of women surveyed said they didn’t feel they could express an opinion without backlash
Tmper-proof Bitcoin wallet hacked by a British 15-year-old
By Alan Martin published
News Ledger and the hacker disagree to the extent that the problem has been solved
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: What happened?
By Alan Martin published
News Whistleblower Christopher Wylie has some alarming accusations about how a political influencing company acquired its data
Tim Berners-Lee: Google and Facebook are weaponising the web
By Alan Martin published
News World Wide Web founder highlights the myriad problems with our online world
Elon Musk steps down from OpenAI board
By Alan Martin published
News Tesla and SpaceX CEO departs the company he co-founded
Intel has hit a “major breakthrough” in quantum computing
By Alan Martin published
News The CES 2018 keynote covered quantum computers, self-driving cars and a self-learning AI chip
Meet the man getting big screen cybersecurity right
By Alan Martin published
In-depth Movies often gets hacking wrong. Ralph Echemendia is trying to put that right
4G London Underground coming in 2019
By Alan Martin published
News No more internet blackspots, even under ground
Currys slashes £250 off the Surface Pro
By Alan Martin published
News £849 including a type cover makes Microsoft’s wonder hybrid a tempting impulse buy for Black Friday
Cash Converters hit by UK data breach ransom demand
By Alan Martin published
News Personal details, passwords and masked credit card numbers could be about to leak
Paradise Papers: Apple drawn into tax haven scandal
By Alan Martin published
News The Paradise Papers contain a massive trove of documents showing offshore empires of tech firms
Witchsy exposes sexism with fake male CEO
By Alan Martin published
News Witchsy invented a fake male CEO, and instantly noticed things getting easier
Two million customers hit by CeX hack
By Alan Martin published
News CeX tells customers to change passwords after being targeted by hackers
Uber donates $1.2 million to Girls Who Code
By Alan Martin published
News Susan J Fowler – the author of the Uber sexism memo – is unimpressed by the gesture
Robotics experts write killer robots to the UN
By Alan Martin published
News Autonomous weapons threaten to be the “third revolution in warfare”
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