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
Latest articles by Bobby Hellard
Google to add more Workspace data transfer controls in Europe
By Bobby Hellard published
News Tech giant to offer "Sovereign Controls" in 2022 and 2023 to help navigate the "evolving" data landscape
EU claims Apple is breaking competition law on contactless payments
By Bobby Hellard published
News The iPhone maker is accused of abusing its market position to limit access to the tech behind NFC transactions
Google to offer US businesses $100,000 worth of digital skills courses
By Bobby Hellard published
News Tech giant has a range of digital courses that take three to six months to complete
Airbnb bucks hybrid work trend with 'work anywhere' policy
By Bobby Hellard published
News Employees can work anywhere across a country or for up to 90 days in another
Google releases public beta for Android 13
By Bobby Hellard published
News The latest update of the next version of the OS comes ahead of the tech giant's I/O developer event in May
Huawei MateBook X Pro (2021) review: Battery woes plague the evergreen ultraportable
By Bobby Hellard published
Reviews A sleek and stylish MateBook once again undermined by battery life
Russian-affiliates believed to be behind cyber attacks on wind turbines firms
By Bobby Hellard published
News Three German-based renewable energy companies attacked as country attempts to wean itself off Russian oil
Data for 120 army recruits found on the dark web
By Bobby Hellard published
News The website, run jointly with Capita, has been offline since mid-March as MoD assesses the scope of the breach
Almost half of UK employees can't spot email scams
By Bobby Hellard published
News "Jargon" and confusing terminology cited as an issue, according to OpenText survey
Forget Putin – WFH is fast becoming an emblem for the cost of living crisis
By Bobby Hellard published
Opinion Despite the EU’s claims we can fight Putin by staying at home, spiralling costs are pushing more people away from the office
Google adds "reject all" cookie buttons to appease EU regulators
By Bobby Hellard published
News New banners will be applied to Search and YouTube in France before rolling out across Europe
Zoom adds gestures and whiteboard to its desktop app
By Bobby Hellard published
News Video conferencing giant announces updates and features for an ever-evolving hybrid workforce
Google takes on bad extensions with new Chrome badges
By Bobby Hellard published
News Two new certifications labels aim to take the hassle of evaluating extensions away from users
Nokia to offer data centre switches to boost Azure bandwidth
By Bobby Hellard published
News The announcement is part of an ongoing collaboration to develop the 'SONiC' networking initiative
Microsoft Purview rebrand aims to simplify data governance and compliance
By Bobby Hellard published
News Tech giant merges 365 and Azure Purview data-governance services into a unified suite
Funky Pigeon site offline after "cyber incident"
By Bobby Hellard published
News The WH Smith-owned card site has reported the breach to "the relevant regulators"
Windows 11 has fewer users than both Windows 7 and Windows XP
By Bobby Hellard published
News Lansweeper data suggests Windows 11 adoption rate has almost tripled over the past three months, but uptake remains slow
T-Mobile allegedly tried to buy leaked data from a hacker forum for $200k
By Bobby Hellard published
News The stolen information was still up for sale long after payment, court papers suggest
DuckDuckGo app arrives on Mac
By Bobby Hellard published
News New browser app comes with a cookie popup blocker and a password manager
Sungard files for bankruptcy for the second time in three years
By Bobby Hellard published
News Legacy IT firm unable to remedy its financial problems in the current economic climate
Microsoft to partner with Finastra for SMB loans
By Bobby Hellard published
News Programme to "initially" start in the US with 8,000 financial institutions available through Dynamics 365
Kaseya to acquire cloud software firm Datto for $6bn
By Bobby Hellard published
News Investor-funded transaction to be completed by the end of the year
LinkedIn is filled with deepfake 'virtual employees'
By Bobby Hellard published
News Stanford Internet Observatory researchers find more than 1,000 fake profiles on the business site
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