Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe

Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe are that dangerous combination, a married couple of IT journalists. Mary’s background mixes classics and artificial intelligence. She worked on various computer magazines before moving up to London to run the technology channel for AOL UK for five years. Now she’s settled down to freelance writing on everything from gadgets up to servers.

Simon prefers to think of career as a verb rather than a noun, having worked in academic and telecoms research, run the the technical side of UK Online (the first national ISP with content as well as connections) and moved into consultancy and technology strategy. He’s built plenty of large-scale Web applications - including the Web-based email service for Freeserve - designed architectures for multi-terabyte online image stores, implemented B2B information hubs, and come up with next generation mobile network architectures and knowledge management solutions. In between doing all that, he’s been a freelance journalist since the early days of the Web and writes about everything from enterprise architecture down to gadgets.

They lost count of the number of computers in the house sometime in the late 90s but there are definitely four cats and two robots.

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