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Colorado massacre: Poll blames guns and the Net
News Americans think the Internet shares almost as much blame for the massacre in Littleton, Colorado as the availability of guns, according to a Gallup poll study. The poll could indicate the coming of age of the Internet as yet another source of blame...
[April 28, 1999, 9:34]
Connecting the Enterprise: CDW's 2009 Unified Communications Tracking Poll
White Papers CDW's new tracking poll, which surveyed 766 IT professionals who work on unified communications (UC) or component technologies in business, government, higher education, and healthcare, indicates that IT executives are working to integrate...
[July 22, 2009, 11:41]
Telstra caught in online poll swindle
News ZDNet logs showed that a "bot," which is set up to send an automated online response, had been let loose from a Telstra Internet Protocol address, bombarding the ZDNet poll with rogue answers. In an interesting aside, before the results of the...
[January 29, 2002, 13:56]
Obama/McCain Poll Tracker
Downloads Stay on top of the very latest tracking polls with Obama/McCain Poll Tracker as the days count down to the election! The up-to-date information and quick access to the most recent data makes Obama/McCain Poll Tracker much easier than wading through...
[November 6, 2008, 8:15]
Microsoft on Trial: Fairness of poll questioned
News The chief economist for the defence in the Microsoft antitrust trial Thursday said he had no idea that an opinion poll cited in his written testimony was commissioned by company Chairman Bill Gates specifically to support his company's views in...
[January 15, 1999, 10:22]
Government panel recommends digital poll tax
News While the BBC claims the panel's funding proposals do not go far enough and threaten the future of the BBC's digital output, commercial channels and consumer groups criticised the increase as a "digital poll tax".
[August 6, 1999, 10:33]
ZDNet ADSL reader poll
News Please take part in our reader poll on ADSL rollout in the UK. Have you applied for ADSL from BT? Have you received it? Are you still waiting, but have received correspondence from BT? If so, were you satisfied with the response?
[October 13, 2000, 15:21]
Google tops brand-popularity poll
News Google was named as the number-one place to work in 2007 for offering staff benefits including free meals, a swimming spa and doctors available onsite for free health checkups, according to a top 100 poll in Fortune magazine.
[January 11, 2007, 8:57]
Palm Pre defect poll prompts 'sell' recommendation
Blog An analyst has recommended investors sell their Palm shares, after he read a poll on a Palm fan website that suggested very high return rates for the smartphones. The poll, which took place on the PreCentral.net website, saw 40 percent of...
[July 21, 2009, 14:39]
A Year Ago: Government panel recommends digital poll tax
News While the BBC claims the panel's funding proposals do not go far enough and threaten the future of the BBC's digital output, commercial channels and consumer groups criticised the increase as a "digital poll tax".
[August 8, 2000, 7:06]
Labour wins tech policy poll
News In a virtual poll at Internet World UK 2001, Labour's manifesto was voted the best for tech policies, with 48 percent of the votes compared to the Tories (29 percent) and Liberal Democrats (23 percent).
[June 7, 2001, 17:35]
Egg.com cracks popularity poll
News Online bank Egg.com has come top of the pile of Britain's favourite financial Web sites in a report released Tuesday. The win will be a gratifying achievement for the firm which suffered security scares soon after the service was launched.
[July 19, 2000, 10:00]
Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll
Talkback A ghekko lizard once climbed into our laser printer. It must have short-circuited something, and in the process destroyed both itself and the laser printer. What's more, as anybody who has ever worked in the tropics will know, dead ghekkos smell...
[October 15, 2003, 11:15]
Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll
Talkback An airport shuttle van was dropping me off at home after a long business trip. As the driver removed my luggage from the back of the van, I began to move it from the driveway to the lawn. Distracted by a friend, I looked away for a minute.
[October 15, 2003, 8:07]
Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll
Talkback In the late eighties Psions main mini computer was effectively buzzed to death by an enormous vibrator! The builders on the adjacent site were experimenting with different techniques of pile driving. One of these involved the use of giant vibrators...
[October 14, 2003, 14:12]
BT straw poll: Does it do what's best for you?
News As the EC is forced to get tough on BT (quote: BT) this week imposing a December deadline for unbundling of the local loop, ZDNet has decided it is time to put BT's commitment to the Internet to the test with a little homegrown poll.
[July 17, 2000, 12:00]
Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll
Talkback I had a user who brought her laptop in to me after she had a car accident. She stated that she wasn't able to get it started. When I opened the lid, I noticed sand and it smelled of sea water. I asked what happened and she stated that she was...
[October 14, 2003, 14:17]
Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll
Talkback I have had a customer whos floppy drive failed due to a 2 inch stell washer being jammed in the works. Maybe he though it would reveal some arcane engineering data? Another claimed not to know why his PC had failed but on removing the lid I noticed...
[October 14, 2003, 21:15]
Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll
Talkback My wife came home drunk one night and lied down on the couch next to my new laptop. A few minutes later she complained of feeling a little unwell and promptly vomited all over my laptop. I had to go around to my friends house who is a hardware...
[October 14, 2003, 8:33]
Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll
Talkback Most clients tell me they simply wish to throw their PCs out the window. House windows in the south of Spain have bars on them though. Laptops would fit nicely. Laptops with sherry spilt on them smell nice.
[November 28, 2003, 15:28]
