Articles by Stephen Withers Stephen Withers is one of Australia's most experienced IT writers and editors with 30 years in the trade. He has held staff positions at PC Week, Australian MacUser and Australian Personal Computer (APC). The list of publications that Stephen has written for is as long as your arm, but highlights include The Age, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Macworld, Australian PC World, Australian Personal Computer, Business Review Weekly, Computerworld Australia, Good Weekend, iTWire, MIS, PC Authority, PC Week, and Technology & Business. He has also held hands-on and management roles in IT in the university, banking, and publishing sectors. Stephen holds a BSc (Hons) in Management Sciences and a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies, both from the University of Warwick.

Articles by Jake Widman Jake Widman is a technology writer based in San Francisco, California. Besides writing for iTWire, he is a regular contributor to Computerworld.com and bMighty.com. He also writes a design column for Layers magazine and covers the wide-format printing industry for The Big Picture. And he occasionally writes about beer for a San Francisco news site and city guide.

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Stan Beer has been involved with the IT industry for 30 years, both as a technology professional and industry commentator. After graduating with a B.Sc., majoring in electronics and computer science, Beer joined Telstra forerunner Telecom Australia as a computer systems officer. Beer started his career as a technology journalist and commentator in 1986 with Computerworld Australia, where he was an associate editor. Since then he has worked on the staff or contributed to most of the major technology and business publications in Australia. More recent staff positions include High-Tech Correspondent for The Australian (1994-1997) and Senior Technology Journalist for The Australian Financial Review (1997-2000). After a two-year stint as Strategy Director, Technology, at Melbourne PR firm Royce Communications, Beer returned to his long time role as a technology journalist and industry commentator. In 2002, Beer took over a regular weekly column called Chatroom at Fairfax Publications titles The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, which appeared in the technology section of both newspapers each Tuesday. In 2004, Beer co- founded a technology news and information website called The BeerFiles. In 2005, The BeerFiles was merged with daily telecommunications email journal Exchange Alert, published by Stuart Corner, to form iTWire.

Articles by Ian Grayson Ian is a senior journalist with more than 15 years’ experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries. Currently working as a freelance journalist, he writes regularly for a range of publications including IT Wire, The Australian newspaper, Cnet.com.au and ZDnet.com.au. Prior to establishing a freelance business, Ian worked full-time at The Australian newspaper where he was editor of the paper’s industry-leading weekly IT section. In this position he was responsible for a team of 16 journalists and production staff which produced stories for both print and online editions. Before accepting the role of editor, Ian was a senior writer for The Australian specialising in telecommunications and networking. Prior to this, he worked in the United Kingdom for seven years, writing for a range of newspapers and IT industry publications.

Articles by Sam Varghese Sam Varghese is a journalist who has flirted with tech on and off. After his first experiments with Linux began in 1998, he began using the Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use. Since then he has written widely about the use of both free and open source software. His personal opinions will form the core of this blog. His personal blog is at http://wildcard.gnubies.com  

Articles by Davey Winder A pioneer of UK Internet journalism, Davey has spent the best part of 20 years analysing and evangelising the online world for print and broadcast media. He was the first UK journalist to have a column about the Internet in a national newspaper, helped launch .NET magazine (the first magazine about the Internet in the UK), wrote some of the first books about the Internet in the UK and both scripted and presented the first TV series about the Internet for Brits. As well as being Contributing Editor of the best selling UK monthly IT magazine, PC Pro, Davey is the author of more than 20 books covering everything from sex to travel with a technological slant. His latest, Being Virtual, was a joint venture with the Science Museum in London and is best described as part-autobiography and part exploration of who we really are when we live our lives online. A founder member of the Internet Society of England, member of the National Union of Journalists and Society of Authors, Davey is also an award winning writer. Over the years he has been honoured with such accolades as 'Technology Journalist of the Year' and has been 'IT Security Journalist of the Year' for two out of the three years it has been awarded.