Two of South Africa’s leading experts on relationships and technology warn women to be alert using smartphone dating apps. During Women’s Month in August, reports from NPRi in the USA, raised alarm bells on gross privacy violations via GPS built into all smartphones. “Whilst I am a keen supporter of social media as the modern…
Have you ever searched your own name on Google? I do it all the time, and the results have become very familiar to me. When you search for “Ramon Thomas” on Google.com, this is what you will see: My own blog and my Amazon.com profile show up twice, making the 10 results displayed at a…
16 year old girl kidnapped by online predator using MXit. Avoid your child being next victim… Dear Parent and Teacher In October 2006, a sexual predator lured a schoolgirl using a cell phone-based messaging service. The suspect, a 33-year-old man, abducted and held the 16-year-old girl captive for five days, after he developed a cyber…
As you may or may not know, I was featured in the Sunday Times Metro section (Gauteng only) on 10 September 2008. This interview was done on the previous Thursday, and there was a quick photo shoot in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Well, I just came back from a week in Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown, where I attended the first-ever…