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 tli@itwc.ca.

Articles by Tom Li

Microsoft announces Surface Pro 9 with an Arm processor option

The Microsoft Surface Pro 9, announced today, offers a new processor option alongside Intel. Hint, it isn’t AMD. Microsoft Surface Pro 9 specifications Device Surface Pro 9...

Rogers is the first carrier to offer Microsoft’s Teams Phone Mobile

Rogers has become the first carrier to offer Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile, a new communication service that lets users place and manage mobile phone...

Hashtag Trending Oct. 11 – Dutch court says employees can keep webcam off; Papa Johns sued for data collection; one million Facebook account information...

Dutch court rules that employees have the right to keep webcams turned off during work hours, Papa John's receives a lawsuit for data collection...

Shadow APIs a key target for malicious attacks, reveals new report

Malicious API requests targeting unprotected application programming interfaces (API) are the top threat in the industry, a new research report by Cequence Security revealed. To...

Musk offers to buy Twitter at the original price if Twitter drops court actions

Elon Musk has offered to purchase Twitter at the originally offered share price of US$54.20 if Twitter drops court actions, according to a filing...

Why bringing SAS Viya onto Microsoft Azure Marketplace is a big deal

With files from Lynn Greiner. On Sept. 27, SAS officially brought its Viya analytics platform to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The service enables Azure customers...

Hashtag Trending Oct. 3 – Touch ID future; mapping the brain; more efficient solar panels

Apple’s Touch ID won’t be returning to iPhones anytime soon, new international research begins to better understand the human brain, and a new solar...

TV service providers ask CRTC to increase basic TV prices

Several major TV service providers have applied to increase the price of their basic TV package. The application, filed to the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission...

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