Articles by Desire Athow, Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro

Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

Then followed a weekly tech column in a local business magazine in Mauritius, a late night tech radio programme called Clicplus and a freelancing gig at the now-defunct, Theinquirer, with Mike Magee as mentor. After an eight-year stint at ITProPortal.com, where he discovered the joys of global techfests and transformed the publication into one of the biggest tech B2B independent publishers, Désiré moved to TechRadar Pro where he has been the editor for nine years.

He has an affinity for anything hardware and staunchly refuses to stop writing reviews of obscure products or cover niche B2B software-as-a-service providers. He is an avid deal hunter and can be found lurking around on various deals forums.

Articles by: Desire Athow

Best online form builder of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 9 April 24

Updated We list the best online form builders, to make it simple and easy to collect customer feedback and marketing data, using drag and drop functionality without coding.

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Best Residential Proxy Service Providers of 2024

By Benedict Collins last updated 8 April 24

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the need for secure, reliable, and efficient internet operations is paramount.

Best datacenter proxies of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 3 April 24

If you’re looking for efficient proxies to conduct market research, protect your business emails, and prevent phishing attacks or scraping, you should consider datacenter proxies.

Best customer experience (CX) tool of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 1 April 24

Updated We list the best customer experience tools, to make it simple and easy to collect feedback to help improve sales, support, and provide business insights.

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Interview: The truth about business AI, data centers, and why startups need support too

By Desire Athow published 26 March 24

We talk AI, data centers, and startups with John Yue, the CEO and Co-Founder of Inference.ai

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Best microSD cards of 2024: top picks for your micro storage needs

By John Loeffler last updated 26 March 24

Updated Looking for the best microSD cards? We tested the best and these our top picks based on price, reliability and warranty.

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Best NAS hard drives of 2024: our picks for network storage drives

By John Loeffler last updated 24 March 24

Updated Want the best NAS hard drives? We put the top models to the test to see which ones deliver a fast, connected storage system for business and personal use.

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Getac: Rugged mobile technology is stronger than ever, but we're sticking to computing devices for now

By Desire Athow published 17 March 24

Paul Waddilove, Managing Director, UK & Nordics at Getac reveals what to look for when buying a rugged device and why we won't see a Getac rugged phone any time soon

How to hide your IP address with a VPN

By Desire Athow last updated 15 March 24

VPN Your IP address reveals a lot about your online activity to nosy ISPs, advertisers, and even the government. With a VPN, however, you can hide it.

Best text editor of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 15 March 24

Updated We list the best text editors, to make it simple and easy to code without text formatting issues messing up your work.

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Best freelance website of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 14 March 24

Updated TechRadar Pro tests the best freelance websites to connect freelancers and clients.

Best CDN provider of 2024

By Mike Williams last updated 11 March 24

Updated From personal blogs to big business websites, these best CDN providers (content delivery network) are suitable for everyone.

Best website monitoring software of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 1 March 24

Updated We list the best website monitoring software, to make it simple and easy to ensure your website stays online by sending you alerts if any problems are detected.

Best lead generation tool of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 29 February 24

Updated We feature the best lead generation tools to help you integrate existing marketing or CRM software for better analytics and KPIs. to increase customer base and maximize sales.

MWC 2024 — all the B2B news and announcements from Mobile World Congress

By Mike Moore published 28 February 24

TechRadar Pro was at MWC 2024 - here's all the biggest news we saw.

One of China’s largest phone makers launched a laptop that will turn heads — Honor’s MagicBook Pro 16 has 32GB RAM by default and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 GPU

By Desire Athow published 28 February 24

There’s another player wanting to grab a share of the premium laptop market

Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

By Desire Athow published 27 February 24

Reddit over-indexing on Google, then the $60 million Google AI deal: Is something else brewing?

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World’s largest laptop vendor wants you to buy fewer notebooks by allowing users to change batteries and other parts — but a tiny tweak could be a deal breaker

By Desire Athow published 27 February 24

Lenovo is partnering with iFixit to deliver ThinkPad laptops with user-replaceable parts