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

SpaceX partners with T-Mobile to provide cellular service across the entire U.S.

SpaceX has partnered with T-Mobile in its first major step towards ending cellular dead zones, SpaceX chief-executive officer Elon Musk and T-Mobile CEO Mike...

Hashtag Trending Aug. 26 – Federally funded research to be open access; new U.S. privacy law gains traction, Amazon Care shuts down

U.S. government wants to make federally funded research open access, new privacy law gains traction, and Amazon is shutting down its telehealth service. That’s all...

Intel signs a ‘first-of-its-kind’ co-investment agreement with Canadian asset management company

Intel has signed a co-investment agreement for up to US$30 billion with Canadian investment company Brookfield Asset Management to fund its semiconductor expansion efforts...

Canada signs agreement with Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz to make EV batteries

Canada has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with German carmakers Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz to supply them with electric vehicle (EV) battery materials. The Volkswagen...

Hashtag Trending Aug. 24 – Oracle lawsuit; Lamborghini sells a lot of its cars; Twitch lets partners stream on YouTube and Facebook

Oracle faces a lawsuit over alleged sales of personal data, Lamborghini pre-sells its entire production run until 2024, and Twitch to let partners stream...

Dell releases XPS 2-in-1 tablet PC

Dell has added the XPS 13 2-in-1 tablet PC to its premium XPS lineup. The new 2022 XPS 13 2-in-1 leaves behind the old swivelling...

Hashtag Trending Aug. 22 – Tesla increases FSD cost; an AC that uses no electricity; hackers wants your cookies more than santa

Tesla is increasing the cost of its full self-driving (FSD) feature, a new type of air conditioner cools without using electricity, and hackers are...

Rogers provides more information to CRTC inquiry on July 8 outage

Rogers has updated its reply to the inquiries made by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) with additional information on what caused its network...

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