Kim Komando

On her weekly call-in show, she provides advice about technology gadgets, websites, smartphone apps, and internet security.

Her Consumer Tech Update and Digital Life Hack airs on more than 390 stations seven days a week.

The Kim Komando Television Show premiered globally on Bloomberg TV on January 5, 2019.

Kim Komando also hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM's Business Channel 130 called Tech Insights.

She won the Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for Outstanding Program Host in 2007[4] and in April 2016 was the keynote speaker at the NAB Show Radio Luncheon to an audience of industry leaders.

[5] Her father, Richard Paul "Dick" Komando, served in the Army during the Korean War and was a management employee for United Airlines.

[8] She attended the nearby Catholic private high school for girls, Mount St. Mary Academy, where she was elected to the McAuley Chapter of the National Honor Society in 1981.

[5][9] After graduating from high school in 1981, one year ahead of schedule as a junior, and having skipped a grade, she attended Arizona State University.

She graduated from Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business in 1985, at the age of 19, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.

[13] She quit sales at Unisys to focus on her syndicated newspaper column and radio show.

Komando developed computer training tapes that she wrote, hosted, and called Komputer Tutor, which she sold via an infomercial.

In 2017, Komando was nominated for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Radio Award in the Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year category.

The Kim Komando television show premiered globally on Bloomberg TV on January 5, 2019.