
Bobby Hellard
Bobby Hellard is ITPro's Reviews Editor and has worked on CloudPro and ChannelPro since 2018. In his time at ITPro, Bobby has covered stories for all the major technology companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, and regularly attends industry-leading events such as AWS Re:Invent and Google Cloud Next.
Bobby mainly covers hardware reviews, but you will also recognize him as the face of many of our video reviews of laptops and smartphones.
He has been a journalist for ten years, originally covering sports, before moving into business technology with ITPro. He has bylines in The Independent, Vice and The Business Briefing. Contact him at bobby.hellard@futurenet.com or find him on Twitter: @bobbyhellard
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McAfee appoints Greg Johnson as new CEO
News Peter Leav to step down in June as anti-virus giant continues to focus on its consumer business
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Nvidia turns to liquid cooling to curb data centre energy consumption
News More use cases are on the way as chip giant goes all-in on liquid cooling tech
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Klarna to cut 10% of its workforce due to "market restraints"
News Potentially 700 jobs losses as the payment platform aims to refocus its core business with the "right team" in the "right places"
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Icelandic tech firms are reinventing Reykjavík
In-depth A country with a rich history of fishing and tourism has a innovative tech scene that’s rising to the surface
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Europe's first autonomous petrol station opens in Lisbon
News A joint venture between Sensei and Galp offers a future of digital transformation for petrol stations
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Clearview AI fined £7.5m over improper use of UK data
News Australian facial recognition firm collected 20 billion images from the internet without consent in order to build its database
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Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review: A noteworthy flagship
Reviews The latest Ultra version of the Galaxy S-series is heavily stocked but slightly dull
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Zuckerberg teases Meta's Project Cambria VR headset
News The video features a pixelated hardware prototype and a brief insight into its mixed reality capabilities
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Tesco to pilot in-store flexible working spaces
News Areas formerly used for electrical goods could be used for meetings and co-working
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Google launches Pixel 6a and new mobile wallet at I/O developer event
News The tech giant also gives a first glimpse at the Pixel 7, 7 Pro, and Pixel tablet
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Three lessons the iPod can teach us about disruption
Opinion It wasn’t the first MP3 player – but it was the first to fit 1,000 songs in your pocket
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Microsoft reveals adaptive accessories lineup
News Tech giant to launch customisable mouse, buttons and hub in the Autumn
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Huawei P50 Pro review: A frustratingly brilliant Google-free smartphone
Reviews With an app gallery stocked like never before, Huawei's latest P-series is almost good enough to take on Android
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Salesforce acquires financial comms specialist for Slack
News Troop.ai is to be incorporated into Slack to aid customer-facing sales teams
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UK government reveals new powers to curb big tech monopolies
News Anti-competitive practices could result in a fine of up to 10% of global turnover and a further 5% for every day the offence continues
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Vodafone taps Google Cloud for unified network management platform
News Single platform for performance management to be implemented in 11 European countries
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Microsoft Edge overtakes Safari as the world's second most popular browser
News Edge use could increase as more and more install Windows 11
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Google to add more Workspace data transfer controls in Europe
News Tech giant to offer "Sovereign Controls" in 2022 and 2023 to help navigate the "evolving" data landscape
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EU claims Apple is breaking competition law on contactless payments
News The iPhone maker is accused of abusing its market position to limit access to the tech behind NFC transactions
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Google to offer US businesses $100,000 worth of digital skills courses
News Tech giant has a range of digital courses that take three to six months to complete
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Airbnb bucks hybrid work trend with 'work anywhere' policy
News Employees can work anywhere across a country or for up to 90 days in another
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Google releases public beta for Android 13
News The latest update of the next version of the OS comes ahead of the tech giant's I/O developer event in May
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Huawei MateBook X Pro (2021) review: Battery woes plague the evergreen ultraportable
Reviews A sleek and stylish MateBook once again undermined by battery life
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Russian-affiliates believed to be behind cyber attacks on wind turbines firms
News Three German-based renewable energy companies attacked as country attempts to wean itself off Russian oil
By Bobby Hellard Published
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