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A Year Ago: Technology tackles pirates
News For its second annual survey on software piracy and UK businesses, the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) and consultancy KPMG polled senior managers from a cross-section of industries on the management of software and licences.
[May 29, 2001, 6:28]
Chinese developers place confidence in open source
News Following news from Beijing that China wants to develop a Windows clone operating system, Evans Data Corporation's first survey of the People's Republic of China indicates that its infant software industry is highly enthusiastic about open source.
[July 25, 2002, 7:53]
Web services branch out
News The survey was conducted by application development software vendor Borland, at its annual BorCon 2002 conference. A survey of 100 developers and IT directors in London has shown organisations already using Web services to link business...
[November 29, 2002, 15:00]
Study: IT spending to slow
News Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Wednesday released its annual year-end survey of chief technology officers at 150 of the Fortune 1000 companies. The survey shows that budgets will grow just 8 percent in 2001, compared with this year's 12 percent increase.
[December 21, 2000, 11:40]
Gartner: It's business intelligence 2.0 time
News Gartner's annual CIO survey showed that BI is still an important subject in the minds of senior IT managers. Commenting on the survey, Bitterer said, managers must understand that "BI is not a project, it doesn't have an end as such".
[January 30, 2007, 16:18]
Study: Ability to invent inspires engineers
News The survey from a scientific-software company explains that most engineers are highly creative, entrepreneurial types with a desire to change the world -- or at least some small corner of it. MathSoft, which develops math, science, engineering and...
[February 21, 2002, 9:14]
The UK's best tech employers: And the winner is...
News An annual survey by The Sunday Times tracked Britain's best companies to work for, with 10 tech companies in the top 100 -- including the top spot. The way Microsoft treats its workforce is unmatched in this survey with a 93 percent score of staff...
[March 3, 2003, 14:19]
Broadband lures small firms to hosted services
News The survey backs up the company's feeling that the time is finally right for software as a service. Around 44 percent of small businesses are ready to pay for hosted services, which could produce a £167m annual market if they all sign up over the...
[May 23, 2005, 17:45]
Surveys show Vista struggling one year on
News Early results from the Linux Foundation's annual survey of Linux use indicate that, in those businesses and organisations that have deployed Linux desktops, just under 40 percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines.
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
Tech billionaires a little less wealthy
News Forbes' 16th annual survey painted a grim picture of the technology industry, as all of the tech titans in the top 10 declined in net worth and several notable executives fell off the list altogether.
[March 1, 2002, 16:40]
Employees 'more of a worry than terrorists'
News Employee blunders and hardware and software failures are more of a worry for IT directors than the much-hyped threat of terrorism when it comes to disaster recovery planning, according to a new survey.
[October 16, 2003, 13:55]
Ellison's call: Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade
News In a recent survey, Forrester found that only 26 percent of companies of the "Global 3500" planned to purchase enterprise applications this year, down from 58 percent in 2001. But Oracle executives have taken pains at this week's annual AppsWorld...
[April 10, 2002, 10:37]
Business and tech execs clash on disaster preparedness
News Business and information-technology executives at US companies have very different views about how prepared they are for a disaster, according to a survey to be released Monday. The survey, sponsored by data storage giant EMC, found that only 14...
[July 14, 2003, 8:22]
Over 10000 laptops are lost every week in US airports!
Blog Yesterday article in PCWorld with reference to the Ponemon Institute survey claims close to 637,000 laptops lost in large US airports each year. According to the earlier survey of the same Ponemon Institute the average cost of compromised record...
[July 1, 2008, 14:57]
Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas
News Neal Krawetz is returning to tackle image forensics, showing how to peel back the layers to find less-than-obvious manipulation; Dan Kaminsky is presenting his annual Black Ops survey; and Phil Zimmermann is returning to talk once again about his...
[July 31, 2007, 9:43]
Microsoft trashes its brand -- and Apple's the winner
Blog White reckoned that, in the 2007 version of this annual survey, 42 per cent said they’d switch to Linux, but two years later in 2009, half said they’d switch. A recent survey of over 1,100 IT managers and commissioned by KACE, a systems management...
[April 16, 2009, 9:48]
US Report: Violent video games under fire
News While giving the industry an 'A' for putting ratings on games, the survey gave stores a 'D' for their lack of enforcement of those ratings. According to a survey by the IDSA, more than one out of two kids and one of every four adults said...
[December 2, 1998, 18:06]
Firms tiptoe into utility computing
News In a survey of 34 corporations, IDC found that IBM and Hewlett-Packard were among the top choices for providing utility computing, a budding approach to hardware and software needs that treats information technology as a service much like...
[February 14, 2003, 8:20]
IT recruitment crisis deepens
News Despite recruitment difficulties caused by the skills shortage, fewer survey respondents than last year feel driven to consider software as a service (SaaS) as a means of plugging the gap — just 23 percent said they have considered using SaaS...
[August 8, 2007, 15:54]
Counting the cost of forgotten passwords
News Over 35 percent of respondents to a survey carried out by service management software specialist Axios Systems said that password queries accounted for between 40 and 60 percent of all calls received by their company's IT helpdesk.
[January 14, 2003, 16:00]
