Digital Media

The evolution of the connected home

Over the past decade the Internet has become part of our everyday lives and connectivity more widely available at a lower cost, revolutionising the way we work, play and communicate. From when a home with an Internet connection was a rare exception, we have evolved to the point where connectivity is now the norm. As this evolution has continued, connectivity has spread from computers to mobile phones and even televisions, enabling us to use a variety of new technological advances to network entire homes into powerful content-sharing portals - the connected home, writes Khalid Wani.

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New mindset for changing security landscape

The evolution of technology and communication has enabled people to communicate faster and more conveniently, but it has also invited individuals, and now syndicates, to exploit these channels with malicious intent. Standard protection such as anti-virus, intrusion and spam detection and prevention on their own is not enough anymore.

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Cyber crime increasingly threatens mobile devices

The security space is constantly evolving. As fast as technology is changing, cyber criminals with malicious intent are never far behind, adapting their methods to take advantage of new ways of attack. Mobile threats should now be on everyone's radar, writes Fred Mitchell.

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Click rates not always best measure of performance

With the campaign late last year for entries into the annual Bookmarks Awards, under the slogan "Be Big in Digital", 91% of the entries received as a result of the online advertising were from users who only viewed the ad, and did not click on it.

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Mobile phones are not quite getting there yet

Mobile phones have the potential to just about double the Internet user base in the country and take South Africans across the digital divide, but due to factors such as costs and ignorance, it is not quite happening yet. The first comprehensive survey in terms of a formal framework defining the use of Internet on cellphones found that a high percentage of cellular users are using their phone's Internet capacity without realising they were doing so.

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