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Power costs 'buying priority' for IT execs
News Energy considerations are playing into data centre buying decisions, according to a survey commissioned by Sun. The Sun-commissioned study validates Sun's decision to focus on energy efficiency in its server product design and marketing, said...
[October 11, 2006, 8:40]
Software tunnels through great Firewall of China
News The news and propaganda wing behind the US government's Voice of America broadcasts has commissioned software to let Chinese Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their regime. In response, the IBB commissioned anticensorship activist...
[April 16, 2003, 15:49]
Report: UK trails US, Europe in e-commerce
News A report commissioned by prime minister Tony Blair is expected to criticise UK business for failing to exploit the full potential of the Net. Originally commissioned to find out how best the UK could compete in the e-commerce arena, the findings...
[August 23, 1999, 8:50]
Study suggests Vista will boost US jobs
News A Microsoft-commissioned study estimates that Windows Vista could create 100,000 new IT-related jobs in the US. Microsoft commissioned a similar study for Europe that found the release of Vista could create 50,000 technology jobs in six major...
[December 11, 2006, 7:39]
CIOs last three years in their posts
News According to research commissioned by EDS, UK tech chiefs stay in their posts for an average of 38 months. With such a fast turnover of top tech executives, any IT project needs to be commissioned within 100 days of an IT boss being appointed, the...
[August 28, 2007, 8:53]
UK economic woes encourage working from home
News More than half (55 percent) of employees are working from home more frequently since the financial crisis began, according to research commissioned by BT Business. According to research commissioned by networking company Avaya, Europeans spend...
[May 14, 2009, 10:19]
Public rejects high-street enrolment for ID cards
News Only 25 percent of more than 2,000 people questioned for the government's Central Office of Information would consider having their fingerprints, photo and signature recorded for an ID card in a supermarket, according to research commissioned by...
[November 17, 2008, 7:09]
Intel-iquette: Intel Releases Mobile Etiquette Report
Blog As CNBC Correspondent Julia Boorstin, notes, “The chip giant commissioned a "Holiday Mobile Etiquette," hiring Harris Interactive to conduct a carefully weighted poll of 2,625 adults to better understand how people use technology, so it can better...
[October 20, 2009, 17:32]
Union wades into offshoring row
News The investigation, which will address e-commerce, call centres, Internet services, IT, and software development, in addition to other, non-IT related, back-office functions, is likely to run in parallel with a study commissioned by the DTI into...
[February 9, 2004, 8:05]
Computer passwords reveal office workers' secrets
News So many people tend to subconsciously believe that their password has to sum up the very essence of their being in one word," said Stephen Dyer, chairman of CentralNic who commissioned the poll. The Internet domain name registry CentralNic who...
[June 28, 2001, 12:37]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
News However, all the research was either carried out on behalf of, or commissioned by, software giant. The analyst reports commissioned by Microsoft have been transparent in the scope of their methodology and assertions.
[January 29, 2004, 15:15]
Research firm clarifies its 'integrity'
News Another recent Forrester study, commissioned by software maker PeopleSoft, supported PeopleSoft's claims that it provides a higher level of customer service than its rivals, including Oracle. Research commissioned by a single company makes up only...
[October 8, 2003, 12:20]
Microsoft's lobbying budget 'outstripped Enron's'
News Roeder said that although the research was commissioned by the CCIA -- a known critic of Microsoft -- the evidence was based on the "extraordinary public record of Microsoft's political activities during the timeframe of this trial.
[February 12, 2002, 12:06]
Microsoft launches Office Communications Server
News It's going to be a messy market for next five to 10 years," said Dewing, who did not participate in the Forrester study commissioned by Microsoft. A Forrester Research study commissioned by the company found that typical customers could save $5...
[October 17, 2007, 9:19]
Chipmakers agree to sponsor cancer research
News In 1999, the SIA commissioned a panel on the issue, which recommended further study. The group then commissioned the Johns Hopkins researchers to determine whether enough data existed on past practices to perform a full epidemiological survey on...
[March 19, 2004, 9:00]
Don't split up BT, says government advisor
News Let the editors know what you think in the Mailroom.s2106101,00.html"> advised the government to begin trading in wireless spectrum in a report commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry. In March, Professor Cave advised the government...
[December 2, 2002, 17:03]
IBM cleared of cancer charges
News The industry has commissioned numerous studies into the effects of commonly used chemicals. IBM, for one, has commissioned researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to review its records and to interview employees to see whether any...
[February 27, 2004, 9:15]
Cisco studies data-loss risks in different cultures
News These are some of the results of a survey commissioned by Cisco Systems and released Tuesday. In Germany it's apparently acceptable to have non-employees roam the offices, while in Brazil corporate secrets are commonly shared with family members...
[October 1, 2008, 12:01]
Dumped business PCs pose sensitive-data risk
News Nearly one-third of British business PCs still have sensitive data on them when they are discarded, according to research commissioned by Lenovo. Many companies simply erase data or format the disk on the PC, which leaves information easy to access...
[July 6, 2007, 15:58]
Global Planning Survey: Operations and Strategy - Who Wins?
White Papers Cartesis' Global Planning Survey was commissioned to explore planning processes across companies of varying sizes and locations. Based on a series of interviews with planning decision makers, it is designed to reveal the trends in opinions towards...
[January 31, 2009, 7:12]
