Ross Kelly

News and Analysis Editor, ITPro

Ross Kelly is News & Analysis Editor at ITPro, responsible for leading the brand's news output and in-depth reporting on the latest stories from across the business technology landscape. Ross was previously a Staff Writer, during which time he developed a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership, cloud computing, and emerging technologies.

He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro in 2022 after four years working in technology conference research.

Articles by: Ross Kelly

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Where we stand after 60 years of Moore’s Law

By Ross Kelly published

Moore’s Law has defined the pace of development in tech for over half a century - where do we go next?

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'We should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things': How Arthur C Clarke predicted the rise of AGI and the looming demise of humanity back in 1964

By Ross Kelly published

From loose ideas of 3D printing to artificial general intelligence (AGI), Arthur C. Clarke made some spooky predictions way back in 1964

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'It’s ironic, because what we were trying to do, store data on the internet - and do it really, really well - was not so simple': Celebrating 20 years of Amazon S3

By Ross Kelly published

It may be 20 years old, but Amazon's popular cloud storage service shows no signs of slowing down.

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OpenAI celebrates 10 years of existence — but how has it lived up to its promise of AGI which 'benefits all of humanity'?

By Ross Kelly published

OpenAI officially launched as a non-profit 10 years ago, and it's come a long way

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'I collect the names and make sure the servers are running...and spend the rest of the time fixing my boat': Tech entrepreneurs, Tonga, and the lucrative scheme to shake up the world wide web

By Ross Kelly published

The .to top-level domain became highly popular in the late 1990s during the early web boom time

AMD CEO Lisa Su

This chip maker mounted a challenge to Intel's Pentium range - so AMD bought it

By Ross Kelly published

AMD acquired NexGen for a bumper fee in the mid-1990s in a bid to boost its own chip range

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Top 3 USB-C ports on the UGreen Nexode 500W 6-Port Charger

USB hit the scene 30 years ago this month - we look back on its journey to standardization success

By Ross Kelly published

From USB 1.0 to USB-C, we’ve come a long way to reach some degree of standardization

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How Broadcom went from a simple Hewlett Packard division to eventually grew and become a tech industry behemoth

By Ross Kelly published

Broadcom's early beginning date back to the 1960s - we take a look back.

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This obscure company could’ve taken the storage market by storm – but building commercially viable holographic storage was simply a bridge too far

By Ross Kelly published

InPhase Technologies could've taken the storage market by storm, but it just couldn't get a solid working product.

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This pioneering instant messaging platform tried to keep up with the times - we take a closer look at why ICQ failed

By Ross Kelly published

ICQ was a real trailblazer when it came to instant messaging - so what went wrong?

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Microsoft created a tablet years before Apple, but it never took off - here's why

By Ross Kelly published

Bill Gates proudly displayed a pioneering Microsoft tablet device way back in 2000, but it never really took off.

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Windows 1.0 released 40 years ago today - and started Microsoft's road to success

By Ross Kelly published

Windows 1.0 didn't exactly blow the industry away, but it laid the groundwork for Microsoft's future success.

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In 1970 a patent for an obscure computer device was granted - and it changed personal computing forever

By Ross Kelly published

Adoption of the computer mouse took time, but pioneering Silicon Valley figures helped spur it forward.

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Fiber optics entered the common lexicon in 1960 – and we've come a long way since

By Ross Kelly published

From humble beginnings in a 1960 research paper to today, connectivity has come on leaps and bounds.

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The IBM deal that sparked Microsoft’s rise to prominence

By Ross Kelly published

Microsoft's landmark deal to deliver an operating system for IBM changed the face of tech.

HPE

On this day in 2015, Hewlett Packard split - creating two industry heavyweights and rocking the technology world

By Ross Kelly published

Hewlett Packard's decision to split made perfect sense at the time - and it has paid dividends.

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Intel’s 386 processor was a game changer - here’s why it was so important for today's tech landscape

By Ross Kelly published

The launch of Intel's 386 CPU marked the beginning of a huge boom for the chip manufacturer.

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the company's Cloud Next '18 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Why Google rebranded to Alphabet - and why it paid dividends

By Ross Kelly published

Google's decision to rebrand to Alphabet made shocked the industry at the time, and it's since paid dividends.

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How Lenovo’s IBM PC acquisition took it from global market minnow to industry heavyweight

By Ross Kelly published

Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC division instantly made it the third-largest manufacturer globally

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How a dispute over royalties gave birth to the PNG file format

By Ross Kelly published

The rise of the PNG came from a royalties dispute, and the format continues strongly today.

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Remebering Be Incorporated - the early 90s startup whose fate was decided by Steve Jobs

By Ross Kelly published

Former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée co-founded Be Inc in the early 1990s, hoping to take on Silicon Valley titans.

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Steve Jobs’ iconic NeXT venture officially launched 40 years ago

By Ross Kelly published

Steve Jobs came full circle after his sacking from Apple, forming a new venture which was eventually acquired by the tech giant

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Long before Google took the world by storm, this search engine paved the way for everyone

By Ross Kelly published

While Google is a mainstay of the modern web, Archie is widely acknowledged as the first search engine

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I journeyed into the web archive of an iconic consumer electronics magazine – here’s what I found

By Ross Kelly published

Byte magazine was a staple for technology news readers from the mid-1970s and well into the 1990s - and now you can journey through time.

Bill Gates and Jay Leno at the Windows 95 launch in 1995

Windows 95 at 30 - Way ahead of its time, or the greatest Microsoft game-changer?

By Ross Kelly published

Windows 95 changed the game for Microsoft and set the standard for the company's iconic operating system.

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