Mary Branscombe is a freelance journalist who has been covering technology for over three decades and has written about everything from programming languages, early versions of Windows and Office and the arrival of the web to consumer gadgets and home entertainment.
Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and the Guardian as well as several technology publications including The Register, CIO.com, InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, ZDNet, The New Stack, Ask Woody, TechRadar Pro, Tom’s Hardware, PC Advisor, and a long list of others. She founded and edited IT Expert magazine, which covered IT consultancy for the small business market.
Mary holds an M.A., Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford and an M.Sc., Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems from the University of Essex.
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