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 cheap VPS hosting 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 16 May 24

Updated The best cheap VPS hosting can make it simple and easy for you to host your website with better speeds and more control over customizations.

Apple could revive a legendary product it killed 13 years ago — heir to Xserve to run on M2 Ultra silicon according to reports but no sign of Mac OS X Server yet

By Desire Athow published 10 May 24

Apple throws down the gauntlet at Google and Microsoft in the race toward AI domination

Best landing page creator of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 10 May 24

Updated We list the best landing page creators, to make it simple and easy to set up pages to direct sales through as part of an online marketing campaign.

Bluetti AC200L during our testing process

Bluetti AC200L power station review

By Desire Athow published 9 May 24

We went hands-on with the Bluetti AC200L expandable power station - a heavyweight in every sense of the word.

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Best website design service of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 8 May 24

We list the best website design services, to make it simple and easy to build your own website, without having to do any coding yourself.

Best proxy for YouTube of 2024

By Benedict Collins last updated 7 May 24

No more popups saying, "This video is not available in your country.”

Best small business printers of 2024

By Steve Clark last updated 17 April 24

Updated We've put the best small business printers to the test - and these are the top picks for your workspace, whether you're working from home or the office.

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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.

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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 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.

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

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The cheapest printer to run or own in 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 22 February 24

We spend hours every month looking at the cheapest printers to own and the cheapest printers to print

Best cheap dedicated server deals of 2024

By Desire Athow last updated 22 February 24

Updated We list the best cheap dedicated server deals currently available, to make it simple and easy for you to upgrade and expand your web hosting portfolio.