
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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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
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Data for 120 army recruits found on the dark web
News The website, run jointly with Capita, has been offline since mid-March as MoD assesses the scope of the breach
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Almost half of UK employees can't spot email scams
News "Jargon" and confusing terminology cited as an issue, according to OpenText survey
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Forget Putin – WFH is fast becoming an emblem for the cost of living crisis
Opinion Despite the EU’s claims we can fight Putin by staying at home, spiralling costs are pushing more people away from the office
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Google adds "reject all" cookie buttons to appease EU regulators
News New banners will be applied to Search and YouTube in France before rolling out across Europe
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Zoom adds gestures and whiteboard to its desktop app
News Video conferencing giant announces updates and features for an ever-evolving hybrid workforce
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Google takes on bad extensions with new Chrome badges
News Two new certifications labels aim to take the hassle of evaluating extensions away from users
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Nokia to offer data centre switches to boost Azure bandwidth
News The announcement is part of an ongoing collaboration to develop the 'SONiC' networking initiative
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Microsoft Purview rebrand aims to simplify data governance and compliance
News Tech giant merges 365 and Azure Purview data-governance services into a unified suite
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Funky Pigeon site offline after "cyber incident"
News The WH Smith-owned card site has reported the breach to "the relevant regulators"
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Windows 11 has fewer users than both Windows 7 and Windows XP
News Lansweeper data suggests Windows 11 adoption rate has almost tripled over the past three months, but uptake remains slow
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T-Mobile allegedly tried to buy leaked data from a hacker forum for $200k
News The stolen information was still up for sale long after payment, court papers suggest
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DuckDuckGo app arrives on Mac
News New browser app comes with a cookie popup blocker and a password manager
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Sungard files for bankruptcy for the second time in three years
News Legacy IT firm unable to remedy its financial problems in the current economic climate
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Microsoft to partner with Finastra for SMB loans
News Programme to "initially" start in the US with 8,000 financial institutions available through Dynamics 365
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Kaseya to acquire cloud software firm Datto for $6bn
News Investor-funded transaction to be completed by the end of the year
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LinkedIn is filled with deepfake 'virtual employees'
News Stanford Internet Observatory researchers find more than 1,000 fake profiles on the business site
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Into the metaverse: Everything we learned from our virtual tour
Opinion Constant distractions – and not much collaboration – make it hard to see the business use cases
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Toshiba mulls going private after string of shareholder revolts
News The firm has established a special committee to "engage" with potential investors and review alternatives
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