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Micro Focus: IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills
News While some 60 percent of those surveyed said that core systems and databases are business-critical, 56 percent confirmed that newer, web-based technologies are the skills currently being recruited for the most.
[December 1, 2008, 17:11]
Bleak outlook for IT outsourcing
News All government respondents surveyed said their ultimate goal in using ITO to deliver business transformation was service improvement rather than cost reduction. PA surveyed over 300 international IT chiefs in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America...
[June 7, 2006, 10:10]
Workers chose Web over coffee
News Fifty-one percent of employees surveyed said they spent only two hours a week on personal Web surfing, while IT managers estimate that the figure is likely to be in excess of six hours. That may explain why 49 percent of employees surveyed...
[April 29, 2004, 15:35]
Phone users hang up on m-commerce
News Kearney surveyed 5,600 mobile phone users in Asia, the United States and Europe, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge. Forty-four percent of those surveyed said they would like to use their phones to purchase small items using m-cash.
[March 21, 2002, 11:53]
HP warns of datacentre-capacity shortfall
News In addition, 46 percent of those surveyed expect to see an increase in the number of datacentre-transformation projects being planned. The biggest challenge currently facing companies in the UK with respect to managing their datacentres, according...
[November 24, 2008, 16:36]
Wireless tech may hinder holidays
News OfficeTeam surveyed workers and executives at the nation's 1,000 largest companies, and conducted interviews with sources such as workplace and technology experts. Eighty-seven percent of executives surveyed believe telecommuting will increase in...
[June 16, 2005, 10:15]
Network managers have to do more with less
News While some users will meet this demand by buying new bandwidth, some 34 percent of network managers surveyed by Peribit don't expect to increase their WAN investment at all in 2005. Of those surveyed, 71 percent agreed that they will be under...
[March 21, 2005, 15:30]
Online sales more fulfilling this year
News The majority of the Web sites surveyed in the 2000 study indicated that lead times for standard shipment modes are averaging nearly 10 days, compared (with) claims of about five days last year. Some 51 percent of online stores recently surveyed by...
[December 18, 2000, 9:21]
Business agility could boost UK Plc by £68bn
News The report assumes a key role for IT in the agile enterprise, a view that was supported by the views of the executives surveyed: 81 percent want to see systems in place to benchmark themselves against peers, and 9 out of 10 of them believe IT will...
[July 15, 2002, 16:06]
Roundup: Dot-com downturn - where do companies go from here?
News McKinsey surveyed more than 200 business-to-consumer Internet companies in North America, Europe and Latin America. The ePerformance Scorecard study from McKinsey & Company, the management consultants, showed that 12 percent of the companies...
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
Surfing's up for mamas and papas
News The study, which surveyed 1,677 Americans, defined "nonparents" as those without a child under 18 living at home. Nearly three in four of the parents surveyed for the study said the Internet helped them learn new things, and 61 percent said it...
[November 18, 2002, 8:37]
82 percent of companies to use RFID
News The old problems with RFID still remain, however - 28 per cent of companies surveyed expressed concern about proving ROI from an RFID implementation and a similar percentage were dogged by standards fears.
[July 22, 2005, 9:55]
2005: More money means more decisions
News Forrester Research takes an even more conservative stance, predicting an increase in IT spending of just 3.9 percent, but again sees signs of more robust investment plans than in 2004 from most of the IT managers it surveyed.
[December 31, 2004, 11:10]
Online confidence plummeting
News The majority of those surveyed -- 61 percent -- curbed their willingness to disclose credit card information online. Forty-six percent of those surveyed who indicated they were no longer opening emails that appeared to come from their banks fell...
[March 2, 2005, 9:05]
SMEs see increasing value in IT
News Eighty percent of those surveyed said the people they work with think so too. The surveyed consisted of interviews with 567 executives from companies with fewer than 1,000 employees. IT is helping to boost productivity at small and medium-sized...
[December 16, 2004, 14:35]
Businesses lack spyware protection
News The vast majority of executives and IT managers surveyed, 96 percent, feel that their existing antivirus and firewall software protect them from outside threats, according to the study. However, 82 percent of those surveyed said their desktops are...
[October 28, 2004, 8:54]
Cisco studies data-loss risks in different cultures
News In Brazil, the study found, 39 percent of employees surveyed talk about sensitive company information with their friends and family, and eight percent of the time they talk to strangers. Specifically, the study surveyed 1,000 employees and 1,000 IT...
[October 1, 2008, 12:01]
Personalising Web sites 'wastes money'
News More than 25 percent of consumers surveyed by Jupiter said they avoided Web site customisation because of concerns that marketers would misuse the information. That marketing push is paying off for the vendors, according to the report: Thirty-five...
[October 14, 2003, 8:30]
Web survey shows privacy shortfall
News Our view is, less than 10 percent of the sites they surveyed had all the aspects of privacy" that were singled out in the survey as being important, said Ari Schwartz, a policy analyst at the Centre for Democracy and Technology.
[May 13, 1999, 10:27]
UK citizens confused by security terminology
News Thirty-nine percent of people surveyed were unfamiliar with the word Trojan. AOL claimed that the majority of people surveyed understood Internet scams after they were given a simple definition of the word "phishing".
[April 4, 2005, 12:55]
