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]
Microsoft's Plan For 'new JPEG' Leaves Users Cold
News The 135 reader comments on the story seemed to mirror the poll results. In a poll asking whether a JPEG competitor is needed, almost half of the 5,621 voters expressed interest in a new format but voiced concern "about it being a Microsoft product".
[June 1, 2006, 11:10]
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]
Apple Is Voted Brand With Biggest Impact
News The poll by online magazine brandchannel.com asked its readers to identify the brands with the greatest impact on their lives, and say how they affected readers' behaviour and their view of the world.
[March 31, 2008, 8:32]
Reader Survey: Security Is Priority For Spending
News According to responses in a recent poll from Giga Information Group, 59 percent of IT managers said they would increase their use of Linux operating systems next year; none said that Linux use would decrease.
[June 8, 2002, 7:32]
NASA Hacker Debate Rages On
News In a reader poll, 74 percent believed the Home Secretary was wrong to extradite McKinnon to the US to stand trial. Get over it," said one reader who chose to remain anonymous. In a reference to American prosecutors not producing any evidence to...
[July 14, 2006, 12:50]
Bulldog: Problems Are Over. Users: No They're Not
News But Santry's contentment was unusual in our straw poll. There seems to be a problem with their billing," said one reader, who asked to remain anonymous. The reader said they had been billed for "service for a period even before it was activated.
[November 7, 2005, 13:40]
Ubuntu Linux Gains Another Accolade
News LinuxQuestions.org reported on Monday that of the 2500 users that voted in a site poll, 19.5 percent voted for Ubuntu as the Linux distribution of the year, narrowly beating Slackware, which received 19 percent of the votes.
[March 9, 2006, 12:40]
Windows Vista Gets A Mixed Reception
News About 45 percent of 3,000 readers who took a News.com poll said they will get used to Windows Vista. The primary definition of vista is a scenic or panoramic view," said News.com reader Jason Beaudreau, who likes the name and is looking very...
[July 25, 2005, 10:30]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
News We conducted an online poll and asked readers if they believe Cuthbert "should have been convicted of gaining unauthorised access" to a computer under the Act. You can still have your say about Cuthbert's conviction by voting in our poll or using...
[October 10, 2005, 16:00]
Euro Fear May Mask A Real Issue - Fraud
News However, other analysts, including Gartner, have dismissed the fears as "over-hyped", and user confidence backs this up, for example in a reader poll on ZDNet. A raft of hype about euro conversion problems may blind them to real problems during the...
[January 29, 2002, 15:42]
Microsoft Disables IE7 Validation Process
News According to a reader poll on ZDNet.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.com, 55 percent of respondents voted that Microsoft had dropped WGA: "To try to grow IE7's market share (at the expense primarily of Firefox) by going after the more technical browser...
[October 8, 2007, 14:11]
Anger Over Encryption Key Seizure Threat
News More then 600 people took part in a poll on ZDNet UK, which asked whether they supported the government's plans. asked one reader. Readers have reacted angrily to the news that UK police may soon have the power to demand encryption keys from...
[May 19, 2006, 17:25]
.Net Vote Rigging Illustrates Importance Of Web Services
News Microsoft's .Net Web services technology appeared to experience a sudden massive boost in popularity over its rival Java, according to a poll run by ZDNet UK. But by the time the poll closed, on 5 January, the position had dramatically changed...
[January 9, 2002, 15:31]
Britons Want Gov't Protection From New Tech
News Surprise, surprise -- the British public is largely wary of technological change, according to a new poll, with 75 percent of respondents expecting the government to "warn people of the possible dangers of new technology.even when] there is no...
[July 21, 2000, 12:15]
Must Read: ZDNet Readers On BT Pt III
News Angry reader number five We purchased ADSL through Easynet and received it about two weeks ago. When it works, it is superb and provides excellent value for money. However, there are a couple of issues worth mentioning.
[November 24, 2000, 7:02]
