Three Questions on Areas that Need More Clarifications
1. On the subject of web hosting, it was mentioned in the article that these are available in two forms: paid and free. Although more information was presented on the comparative evaluation of the two forms, one would have wanted to know, more or less, how much is money is shelled out for paid web hosting in various time frames: annually, quarterly, or monthly. This is interesting to know since one is intrigued on the reasons why, maybe despite exorbitant costs, users opt to capitalize on paid web hosting.
2. What current statistics are available regarding consumers who actively shop online? This is an interesting topic since researchers would like to determine any evident pattern in the thrust and trend for online shopping, in any particular demographic area, country, or on global scale.
3. Aside from security issues being discussed under emails, there is no other topic where the issue on security, privacy and confidentiality was expounded. In this regard, how prevalent is security breaches in the internet still existing in contemporary times? This is an interesting topic since the magnanimity of information accessed in the Internet and from the Web exposes users to security breaches, as well as identity theft.
Three Interesting Points
1. An interesting point noted was pertinent to the discussion on Remote Desktop Connection. This is an interesting and important issue given that most users work from different work settings (either at home, in the office, or out in a vacation). As such, the discussion provided appropriate information to assist in setting up the Remote Desktop Connection, as deemed needed.
2. Another interesting point was regarding spam. To think that it was categorized as junk mail, it was surprising to have been oriented that an estimated cost of about $10 billion in lost productivity among U.S. Corporations were attributed to spam only in 2003. As such, for the time that transpired since then, it would have been interesting to know any updates on this particular information to determine whether some ways to solve this has been made.
3. Finally, it was also interesting to know more about web advertising. The article provided very little information and no advertisement costs. It is therefore interesting to know details on costs according to the advertisement type for various sizes of advertisements.
