Desire Athow
I have been musing and writing about technology since 1999 back in my native country Mauritius, dreaming back in 1997 of a world full of avatars and virtual reality. After completing a degree in Social Studies, I hosted a tech talk show for a national radio and have written for a number of tech websites & magazines after being called "a writer lost in IT" and enjoying being the only tech journo for a while. I joined Net Communities as Content Editor for ITProPortal.com in October 2005 and now manage an extensive team of freelancers, writers and contributors.
Articles by Desire Athow
Samsung Galaxy S3 Rival Alert : Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha Out
It is only a developer phone - which means that it won't be available for the general public to purchase - but the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha smartphone may well...
Windows 8-based HP Slate 8 iPad Tablet Rival To Have Keyboard Dock?
An anonymous source within HP has leaked a slide that sheds some light on the company's plans for Windows 8 which is set to launch later this year. More...
Galaxy S3's to Blame? HTC One X Now On £21.50 Contract
The Samsung Galaxy S3 might be the best phone ever but one has to wonder how it will fare when face with the HTC One X which is now on sale at...
Samsung Galaxy S Advance Available For £270
Samsung's follow up to the Galaxy S Plus, the S Advance has gone on sale at Three for a mere £270, significantly less than the £336 we were...
Sales Of Tablets Grow By 200 Per Cent Year On Year
Apple shipped nearly 12 million iPad tablets in the first quarter of 2012 as the tablet segment enjoyed a very healthy 200 percent rise in sale, while the...
HP Becomes Number 1 PC Seller Again
HP has become the biggest PC seller again according to figures published by analyst firm Canalys. Apple hold the title for only one quarter as the analyst...
Google Unveils BigQuery Big Data Analytics Service
Companies can now benefit from the expertise of Google in analysing big data as the search company now allows firms to upload their data to Google and then...
Bing Tidies Search Engine Results Page
Just as Google made its search page even more cluttered with the arrival of even more ad slots, Microsoft's Bing swooped in with a new version of its SERP...
An Open Letter To Developers of Ad Blocking Software
Screaming out my pain by Really Terrible Photographer "Bloggers have to eat", John Battelle, CEO Federated Media Publishing Dear Developers of Ad Blocking applications I'll cut straight to the chase. What have we done to you to deserve your wrath? The ad blockers that you design prevent our ads from being displayed.
Washington Post To Poach Digg Staff?
Some staff members of former internet darling Digg could be on the verge of leaving the firm for US publisher Washington Post. The site, which was...
Samsung Galaxy Note Available On £20.50 Contracts
Although the Samsung Galaxy Note can be had from around £355 SIM Free, some might prefer to opt for a pay monthly contract to stagger the cost. Phones4U...
Samsung Galaxy S II Now Available From £365
Better late than never, after holding out for so long, the price of the popular Samsing Galaxy S II smartphone has started to fall just hours before the...
Intel Planning Rival To Raspberry Pi?
Intel has unveiled a new platform called "Next Unit of Computing" (which reminds us of the Next Galaxy). The NUC as it is known was unveiled a couple of...
Competition : Win THREE Dragon Dictate Speech Recognition Packages For OS X
ITProPortal is teaming up with Nuance to give to three lucky readers the chance to win a copy of Dragon Dictate speech recognition package for OS X v2.5. The...
Samsung Galaxy S3 Press Shot Is Old Leak
What looked like the glossy picture (and hailed as being potentially the first legal press shot) of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has been debunked as an old picture...
