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Chris Chamberlain - Chris is a native of Nashville, TN and an honors graduate from Stanford University (AB History `89). Since graduation, he has taught high school in Connecticut, played guitar in a regional rock & roll band, served on advisory boards of local advertising agencies, international paper mills and internet service providers, managed new product, software and catalog production of an international mail order company and chaired the boards of the Nashville Children’s Theatre, Mockingbird Public Theatre, the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, the Brooks Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the Nashville Advertising Federation. He serves as a board member of the National Paper Trade Association and as a member of its Paper Committee and of the eCommerce subcommittee. And this was just in his spare time.

His full time job is at Athens Paper Company, a $350 million regional paper merchant with ten branches in the Southeast and five national sales offices for its Publishing Division. Since 1998, Chris has served as Vice President of Marketing. His duties include merchandising of all fine paper grade lines, incentive programs and obsolete inventory reduction, management of cut-size sales division, direction of all advertising and sales promotion activities, VMI and EDI customer interface program and major outside account responsibilities as well as serving on the expansion and acquisition team. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Idea Art, Inc., a mail order business providing pre-printed stationery and business communications and promotional products to thousands of customers around the world.

As far as personal information goes, Chris is a proud member of the National Geographic Society and the Columbia House Record and Tape Club. He is also a devout boxer-wearer who rarely eats breakfast. He donates platelets and blood regularly to the American Red Cross and thinks you should too.

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Clinton Fitch - Clinton is a member of Mobius, a Microsoft MVP in Mobile Devices, and has been writing Windows-based mobile device reviews since 1999. Currently Clinton operates Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com! and HPC:Factor, the later being dedicated to the Handheld PC platform.

By day he is a System Engineering Manager for a leading Voice Over IP Call Center implementer and software company. When not at work or at play you can usually find Clinton watching the latest Formula One (go Kimi!) or MotoGP (go Nicky!) race on SpeedTV.

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Christopher Gavula - Chris has been a COBOL programmer, a desktop support technician, network engineer, telecommunications manager, and even a professional musician. Currently, he is focused on deploying Voice over IP technologies in a large, corporate setting. He started working full-time at the tender age of 14, even before there were PCs, and will probably be working and trying to finish “just one more project” as he’s lowered into the grave.

Chris says “the great thing about this business is that it is always changing with new things to learn and do - but then that’s also the hardest thing about this business!”

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Doug Goldring - Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Doug fled all the way to Ohio where he received an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Political Science from Miami University (OH). Doug the returned to Pittsburgh where he received his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He them immediately took up the life of a nomad or more precisely an attorney with the Department of Justice (Federal Bureau of Prisons). In the next five years, Doug would live in Williamsport, PA; Lewisburg, PA; Seattle, WA; and Northern Virginia (what is technically known as the Washington, D.C. commuting area). Doug’s family is anxiously waiting to learn where their next home will be. After almost five years, however, they have grown quite comfortable in Virginia.

Doug is probably the last person you would ever expect to write for a mobile technology website. As an attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Doug negotiates multimillion dollar contracts, and litigates lawsuits from one end of the country to another (from sea to shining sea), all without the aid of even the simplest Blackberry device.

Nonetheless, before he began practicing law, Doug was a writer and journalist dating back to his high school and college days. Writing about mobile technology seemed like the perfect way to dust off those old skills, and he has not looked back. In addition to writing for Gear Diary, Doug is also the News and Review Editor for Just Another Mobile Monday. Doug rounds out the online experience by frequently participating in beta tests of some of the most well known products available for the Pocket PC.

Doug is frequently referred to as the reviewer who never sleeps, as a result of the number of 3:00 am posts that have magically appeared with his name on them. Nonetheless, Doug does have a life outside of writing, or so his wife reminds him. When not writing reviews, Doug enjoys spending time with his two sons and baby daughter. Doug also enjoys playing guitar, digital photography, and watching his stories on the talky-box in the living room.

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David Goodspeed - David is the editor of AutoworldToday at Today Newspapers in the Dallas suburbs. He is also a webmaster and photographer. He got started doing photography for the newspaper while working as a firefighter/paramedic in one of his towns, and he came to the newspaper group full time in 1992.

David entered automotive journalism in 1998 and became AutoworldToday editor in 2002. On the average, he drives some 100 new vehicles each year.He enjoys the great outdoors and as an avid fly fisherman, as is his girlfriend Tish. He especially enjoys nature photography and is inspired by the works of Ansel Adams.

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Allen Hong - Allen is a computer technician with experience spanning MS-DOS to present. Having been a Star Trek fan all of his life has given him a love for technology. Tech toys and gadgets are also a weakness of his.

Allen also loves video games, especially the classics and is a big Nintendo portable gaming fanboy and has his DS with him everyday so that he can get his gaming fix daily. He can also be considered a couch potato as he is addicted to watching TV, especially the Sci Fi Channel with its B-movies.

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Joel McLaughlin - Joel is a system admin for a local college in Columbus, OH. He is married and has one son. These people also try to curb his techno gadget lust, but fail, most of the time! His passions in technology are Open Source, UNIX, Handheld computers of all sorts from the Nokia Internet Tablets to Pocket PCs and the new UMPC’s that are coming out.

He also tends to be pretty mobile. When he knows of an issue with one of his servers he wants to fix it NOW! Hence the propensity to go more towards mobile computing. Operating systems he uses are Windows XP, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux.

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Doug Moran - When Doug is asked “Where are you from?” he usually answers either, “Uh, Most recently, you mean?” or “The Northeast,” which is about as specific as saying “The Western Hemisphere.” The fact is, after kicking around Connecticut, New Hampshire, Long Island, and northern Virginia, the longest Doug stayed any place was the 12 years he spent in Santa Cruz, California. His caustic sense of humor precludes saying he is a Santa Cruzan, however, so he usually says, “Uh!”

With a Computer Science degree in his hot little hands and a modicum of writing ability, Doug somehow fell into a career as a technical writer in the computer biz, which allows him to work from his current home in Austin, Texas, be with his two kids, and still get in plenty of time researching new gadgets, watching science fiction DVDs, playing with A/V software, and hitting the frisbee golf courses nearby. Doug’s insanely tolerant wife (who once encouraged him to buy a sports car so as to preclude any midlife adulterating) fluctuates between living with his weird hobbies and urging him to engage in them even more, which helps explain why he is so inordinately fond of her.

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Mitchell Oke - Mitchell Oke is an 18 year old university student studying film and TV production at the JMC Academy “down under” in Sydney, Australia. He has a great love for gadgets, always wanting to have the latest and greatest phones, PDAs and other electronic toys.

He is a huge fan of Star Trek, Seinfeld and NCIS, citing them as his favourite TV shows. In December 2006 he became a Mac convert, having used Windows since he was 5. Gadgets he uses regularly are his MacBook Pro, Samsung SGH-i600 with 1GB data plan, HTC Universal and Zune, as well as a self-built Media Centre PC running Vista.

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Jenneth Orantia - Jenneth is a 29-year-old technology journalist based in Sydney, Australia. Amongst her list of accomplishments are working as a sub-editor and writer on APC, deputy editor on Australian Windows XP Magazine and editor of Roam magazine. Her current source of livelihood is freelance writing for illustrious tech publications such as APC and T3 and the technology sections in FHM, ZOO Weekly and Alpha.

Mobile devices are her passion; she has been using PDAs since 2001, and is one of those people who can’t help but leave a trail of PDA convertees in her wake.

Gadgets that she regularly uses include a Nokia N95 with 2GB SanDisk MicroSD card, Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod, Canon EOS 400D, Asus R2Hv and Apple MacBook (black). Other less-used gadgets strewn across the homestead include a Nintendo DS Lite, Sony PSP, and BlackBerry 8800.

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Wayne Schulz - Wayne is a diehard Blackberry user, new Apple Computer convert and consultant specializing in Sage MAS90 and MAS200 accounting software. He lives in Glastonbury CT with his two children.

When not helping them with their homework or pushing the latest school fundraiser off on his co-workers, he is active in hiking, Scuba Diving and investigating all manner of technology.

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Chris Spera - Christopher Spera has over 15 years of IT experience in consulting and development roles. He also has over 16 years of experience in manufacturing, sales and marketing and software quality; and is an expert in Process Engineering and System/ Methodology Implementation. He has been a rigorous PDA Advocate since 1997 when he purchased a Casio E10. His current PDA Corral include an iPAQ 6515, i-mate K-JAM, Siemens SX66 and Dell x-50v. Chris has been writing for pocketnow.com since the fall of 2001.

Chris has been writing since 1996 when he helped CMPnet get FileMine off the ground. He’s had a column on the Computing Pro forum of CompuServe since 1999, and has written for ROAM Magazine, CPU Magazine, The Gadgeteer, Pocket PC Thoughts, and WUGNET: The Windows User’s Group Network.

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Kerry Woo - Kerry, aka “WonderDawg”, is a certified gadget nut since he was able to walk and hold a transistor radio. His friends lovingly tease him about perpetuating the Asian stereotype with his love of anything that has an electrical cord or batteries attached including electronics and woodworking tools.

Kerry can’t stand to throw anything away, in the hopes that should he become famous or win the lottery, the WonderDawg Museum of Music, Schwag and Gadgets will serve as a repository of cardboard boxes containing artifacts of life before the dawn of digital such as several thousand LPs, old Macs, electronics and promotional items from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Otherwise, excellent yard sale stuff.

Married to Becky with two grown kids and two dogs, Kerry resides in Nashville, TN. He is heavily wired into the blogging community with his own blog. Kerry loves life, people and especially practical jokes.

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