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Home, sweet - and safe - home
Paul Furber
There are tons of gadgets available for making us safer while at home.
Consumer electronics have been responsible for many bad things. Singing birthday cards, for one. But there have been many good things too, especially for the home.
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Facebook can have you burgled
Theo Boshoff
According to IT security vendor, Panda Security, applications that have integrated location-based services and capabilities through social networks pose a serious risk to consumers.
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Facebook connecting
Tallulah Habib
Friendship is a strange creature, and with social media, the definition itself is changing. But is it for the better… or for the worse?
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The future of TV
Tallulah Habib
Last week, two “nobodies” released their own TV series. Backed by the world's biggest peer-to-peer file-sharing conglomerate, the pilot is expected to be viewed by over a million people - more than network TV pilots can hope for. Is this the future of television?
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Porn rules the net
Tallulah Habib
The internet is one-third porn, the number of violent games online has grown by ten percent and the number of sites about online games that reward negative behaviour has more than quadrupled in the first few months of 2010, says a new study - giving naysayers much ammunition in the fight against the internet.
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Mind control
Tallulah Habib
The brain rewires itself to adjust to different information sources, claims a new book by Nicholas Carr entitled The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.
He believes that reading on the internet has changed how we think, causing skimming, browsing and scanning of information and making us incapable of deep thought.
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Sharing, not caring
Tallulah Habib
Facebook is now offering simpler privacy controls but, remember, “Facebook is about sharing”.
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Taking Over The World
Theo Boshoff
It seems that the world is being taken over by the mobile phone - according to Brett Loubser, product manager at Samsung Mobile SA, that is.
He says that the mobile phone is fast becoming the centre of the digital world and has, in a very short space of time, evolved from a device for making voice calls and sending SMS messages to a pocket-sized handset that provides access to just about any form of content.
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Will planned paywalling save the press?
Tallulah Habib
The future could see all print publications moving online, but would you pay to read the news?
News International has announced that as of next month, content on the websites of The Times and Sunday Times newspapers in the UK will be charged for. This method is called “paywalling” and it's aimed to be the answer to a declining press.
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Why Facebook's new stuff is scary
Tallulah Habib
Privacy worries are something for conspiracy theorists and paranoid nerds, aren't they? What does it mean for me, a normal person with not much to say to the world?
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Internet Culture: for the lulz?
Tallulah Habib
Internet Culture may be entertaining and widespread, but it is more free and democratic than other
popular culture.
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More than a thought
Tallulah Habib
Our lives are becoming more and more digital. But are there some areas that should remain firmly rooted in real life?
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Still floppy?
Tallulah Habib
End of the 3.5-inch floppy announced.
It's the end of an era. Sony has announced that it will stop selling 3.5-inch floppy disks in March 2011.
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Nokia communication gets better
Theo Boshoff
Cellphone maker Nokia is stepping up its consumer messaging service - Nokia Messaging – locally. >>Read More
OLED screens: the simple facts
Roy Johnson
The latest devices (various Samsung phones, the Microsoft Zune HD and the Google Nexus One smartphone) often boast OLED (organic light emitting diode) display screens. Why exactly are these better than the LCD screens we are used to having? >>Read More
Going grey?
Roy Johnson
There are plenty of products – usually hot ones – that you cannot get from shops, official agents or approved resellers in the local market when they are released overseas. Sometimes, the delay is only a couple of weeks but it can be months – even years (remember Xbox?). >>Read More
By hook or by crook
Roy Johnson
Phishing is a major trend among the many bad things that can happen online but it is poorly understood by end users. >>Read More
Social Networking 2
Roy Johnson
How – or whether – you use services online for social networking and social media in general depends on what you want to get out of it. The whole point of the Web 2.0 trend is that is gives users choice of community, content and level of participation. >>Read More
Making the right broadband choice
Roy Johnson
We used to have only one option for broadband, but now it seems we are spoilt for choice. There are a bewildering number of offerings available and – for the average user – mastering the technical detail and pros-and-cons comparisons are not worth the migraine that follows. >>Read More
The wonders of LED
Theo Boshoff
With the strides made in lighting technology and the development of the smaller, brighter and less power cionsuming light-emitting diodes or LED lights, Valerie Poyurs, director of marketing at Radiant Lighting, believes that LEDs will become the standard source of illumination for the 21st Century. >>Read More
The value of a blog
Tallulah Habib
Over the past few years, we've been hearing more and more about “blogging”. It’s been hailed by some as giving a voice to the masses, and by others as... well... giving a voice to masses who really should never have had one to begin with. >>Read More
Policing the web
Tallulah Habib
Last month an Italian court made headlines around the world when it convicted executives from Google because they allowed a video of an autistic child being bullied to be uploaded to YouTube. The ruling has widespread implications, ones that might even spread to us here in South Africa. >>Read More
"B" to the "L" to the "O.G.G.I.N.G"
Theo Boshoff
We have spoken about blogging before, and now we get some info from the guys at MWeb, about tips on blogging and what the bare necessities are to enter the blogosphere. >>Read More
The importance of privacy
Tallulah Habib
In all the glory of social networking, how often do we forget to take into account our own safety?>>Read More
Mahala backup forever
Theo Boshoff
Are you running a small business with less than ten people, no IT department or person, and seriously doubting your backup and recovery abilities? >>Read More
Online activism needs something more
Farzana Rasool
At every login and password, one is bombarded with pleas to 'Save Palestine' or 'Fight for gender equality'.>>Read More
The Apple Way
Tallulah Habib
Apple is seldom first with the goods, so what makes them so special?>>Read More
Files transferring.
Theo Boshoff
Everyone knows about USB 2.0, but have you heard anything about USB 3.0? >>Read More
What's up with social networking?
Talulah Habib
We've all wondered where this social networking thing came from and why it's so huge. Well, here's why. >>Read More
Violence is human
Talulah Habib
Does violence in video games cause violence in real life? We explore the two sides.
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The lowdown on cellphone batteries
Theo Boshoff
When it comes to cellphones, size is no longer the issue, but rather the sustainability of power.
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