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EDITORIAL
Group E ditor Daniel Booth
Technical E ditor Sherwin Coelho
Production Editor Graham Brown
Art E ditor Katie P eat Around this time of year you g et lots of
ADVERTISING predictions from tech ‘experts’ who a re
Advertising Director Charlotte Milligan
Advertising Manager Alexa D racos paid far t oo much to imagine w hat t he
future might l ook l ike. Their utopian
MARKETING A ND CIRCULATION
Subscriptions Rachel Hare forecasts usually i nvolve more robots, m ore
Marketing P roduction Manager Gemma Hills
For s ubscription enquiries r ing 0 330 333 9493 driverless c ars, m ore t alking gadgets and
so on. R arely d o t hey f ocus on the ‘ boring (page 7 4) he’ll b e t esting brain-training
PRODUCTION
Group P roduction Manager but useful’ s tuff t hat o rdinary people r ely o n games t hat c laim t o k eep y ou mentally fit.
Stephen Catherall
Production Controller – s oftware, e xtensions, a pps, downloads. I I h ope y ou enjoy i t.
Sophie Griffin guess t hat j ob falls to Computeractive, a nd I’d l ike t o t hank you f or reading
MANAGEMENT we’re h appy to take it on. I n o ur Cover F eature Computeractive in 2017, a nd for y our m any
Managing D irector John Garewal
MD of Advertising Julian Lloyd-Evans we recommend t ools (all free) t hat’ll be emails, w hich p rovide me with priceless
Commercial a nd Retail Director David B arker particularly useful throughout 2018. insights into what interests y ou. M erry
CFO/COO Brett R eynolds
Chief Executive James T ye One t ech b offin w hose judgement I d o t rust Christmas!
Company F ounder Felix D ennis
is Simon B rew , former editor o f Micro Mart. Daniel Booth
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