In 2015, cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated that a Jeep Cherokee could be hacked and its critical systems commandeered over the internet. They were able to completely disable the vehicle in one scenario; later they showed how they could arbitrarily control the vehicle’s acceleration, steering, and braking. Chrysler recalled 1.4 million of the vehicles to patch the exposed vulnerabilities, at great expense (and embarrassment) to the company.
What’s a computer?
Ask anyone that question, and you’ll probably get variations of, “A machine with a screen and a keyboard and pointing device, used for running various software programs.” This has been the general “high-level” definition since the personal computer became popular in homes and businesses in the early 1980s.
Advertising. Almost every business depends on it, in some form, as a major (if not primary) marketing tool. And for some companies—in fact, some entire industries, such as broadcast media and print journalism—advertising is the main source of revenue. Google could hardly fund its wide-ranging initiatives and services without the money it rakes in from online advertising.
In 1994, the first smartphones became must-have devices and changed the way we do everything. It’s reasonably safe to say the mobile platform is here to stay.
We’ve discussed cross-platform mobile app development quite a bit in this space in the last couple of years. It seems like every time we turn around, there’s another cleverly (if non-descriptively) named framework that claims to overcome the limitations of the others and promises ever-higher rates of code reuse across platforms.
We’ve discussed digital transformation—what it is, why it’s become so important, and how it benefits businesses that pursue it. By migrating business processes to digital platforms—and optimizing those processes, as part of the transformation—businesses realize greater efficiency, productivity, and cost savings.
