Tom's Hardware Guide
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Tom’s Hardware Guide is a technology website founded in 1996 by Dr. Thomas Pabst. It was intended to be a focal point for the worldwide community of IT professionals, early adopters and technology innovators. It has since expanded operations in the United States, Europe and Asia and features subsidiary sites in eight languages.
Although Thomas Pabst is German, the website was originally set up in the United States. However, it does have considerable following in Germany, with a strong German edition of Tom's Hardware Guide in existence. Furthermore many editors, including the current editor of Tom's Hardware Guide USA and the editor of the news section, TG Daily, are German. One of the larger testing labs used by Tom's Hardware internationally is based in Munich.
Tom's Hardware Guide is owned by Tom's Guides Publishing, which generally goes by the acronym TG Publishing.
As of January 2006, Omid Rahmat is the CEO of the company, [1].
In March 2006 Tom's Hardware Guide launched a UK & Ireland edition, bringing to 12 the number of editions which exist worldwide.
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[edit] Criticism
The website restricts UK users from accessing the US version of the site. Tom's representatives have also not denied, when questioned, that the UK is the only region currently experiencing these restrictions. The website does claim that the UK articles are exactly the same as the US articles, although for instance the site's CPU charts [2] were showing an out-of-date copy to UK users for several days after the charts had been updated for the US. The reason cited by the site was that they needed to update the UK chart with commercial links to UK-based sites selling the CPUs.
[edit] Tom's Hardware Guide senior staff
- Hermann Eiden - Vorstand, TG Publishing AG (German Headquarters)
- Omid Rahmat - CEO, TG Publishing LLC (U.S.A.)
- Christine Meier - Senior Vice President, Sales
- Patrick Schmid - Managing Editor, Tom's Hardware Guide
- Aaron McKenna - Managing Editor, Tom's Hardware Guide US, UK & Ireland
- Tim Higgins - Managing Editor, Tom’s Networking Guide
- Jim Buzbee - Editor, Toms Networking Guide
- Wolfgang Gruener - Managing Editor, TG Daily
- Rob Wright - Managing Editor, TwitchGuru
- Barry Gerber - Managing Editor, MobilityGuru
- Uwe Scheffel - Editor-in-Chief, THGweb.de Germany
- Stéphane Kauffmann - Editor-in-Chief, Tom's Hardware Guide France
- Roberto Buonanno - Editor-in-Chief, Tom's Hardware Guide Italy
- Stanislav Vasilev - Editor-in-Chief, Tom's Hardware Guide Russia
[edit] External links
- TG Publishing
- Tom's Hardware Guide
- THGweb.de, German edition
- Tom's Hardware Guide UK & Ireland
- Tom's Hardware Guide French edition
- Tom's Hardware Guide, Italian edition
- Tom's Hardware Guide, Russian edition
- Tom's Hardware Guide, Chinese edition
- Tom's Hardware Guide, Swedish edition
- Tom's Hardware Guide, Turkish edition
- Tom's Hardware Guide, Hungarian edition
