Tom Li

Telecommunication and consumer hardware are Tom's main beats at IT World Canada. He loves to talk about Canada's network infrastructure, semiconductor products, and of course, anything hot and new in the consumer technology space. You'll also occasionally see his name appended to articles on cloud, security, and SaaS-related news. If you're ever up for a lengthy discussion about the nuances of each of the above sectors or have an upcoming product that people will love, feel free to drop him a line at [email protected].

Articles by Tom Li

Hashtag Trending 2021 holiday special – Part 2/2

Social media misinformation, semiconductor shortage, NFT’s explosive growth, ransomware attacks hit a new high, and right-to-repair gains traction. With the new year nearly upon us,...

China complains to UN about dodging SpaceX Starlink satellites

China Space Station had to dodge SpaceX Starlink satellites twice in one year.

Amazon Web Services hit with another outage, many services now restored

A power outage at an Amazon data centre in Northern Virginia caused a widespread outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The outage affected several customers,...

Hashtag Trending Dec. 22 – Amazon censors bad reviews; Facebook struggles to keep employees; Mental health app security breach

Files from Samira Balsara Amazon agrees to remove bad reviews from the Chinese president’s book, Facebook’s reputation has taken a hit this year and it's...

Scam call volume more than doubled in 2021, says T-Mobile

Scam call volume in the U.S. jumped by 116 per cent over 2020, reaching a record high, according to the 2021 Scam and Robocall...

Starlink internet performance still beating broadband download speeds in Canada

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet performance remained relatively flat in the third quarter, but it's still besting the median broadband download speeds in five...

Hashtag Trending Dec. 20 – JPMorgan fined; Meta called the worst company of the year; Amazon reverses its smartphone ban

JPMorgan fined for breaking record-keeping compliance, Meta is ranked the worst company of the year by Yahoo Finance, Amazon has removed its smartphone ban. That’s...

Intel Core i9-12900K review: Intel’s return to form

Intel’s “Rocket Lake” lineup released last year was essentially dead on arrival. Its marginally improved single-threaded performance was diminished by its unjustifiably higher cost,...

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