Joaquim P. Menezes

Apple Computer Inc. is recalling 1.8 million lithium-ion laptop batteries, following incidents where nine of its notebooks overheated causing minor burns in two users.

The Samsung SC-X210L is promoted by Samsung as a 'Sports Camcorder' (hence the SC) cum multifunction device. The image on the box of camcorder

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how about video? If we're talking online, it's worth a great deal more than words, or images, or even audio for that matter.

Google's replacing the Froogle link on its home page with one to Google Video may seem small change, but its having a really big impact, writes IT World Canada's online editor Joaquim P. Menezes.

Some commentators framed this as a security vs. privacy issue. To my mind, there's a problem with such formulations. They assume something that's never been proven: that strengthening public security involves sacrificing individual privacy, writes IT World Canada's online editor Joaquim P. Menezes.

Stats Can lie. Take the recent survey "finding" by Statistics Canada - based on a 2005 general social survey - that "heavy" Internet users spend less time in social face-to-face contact with other people. My first reaction was to accept that "finding" at face value. It's only on further reflection that some of the cracks in the argument became apparent.

Yahoo Canada's newly redesigned home page is choc full of features likely to appeal to consumers

"Only connect!" wrote English author E.M. Forster in his 1910 novel Howard's End. "Live in fragments no longer. Only connect