BT Straw Poll: Does It Do What's Best For You?
News We want a straw poll on this so while we appreciate your detailed responses be sure to tell us at the head of your mail whether you AGREE or DISAGREE. As the EC is forced to get tough on BT (quote: BT) this week imposing a December deadline for...
[July 17, 2000, 12:00]
ZDNet's Straw Poll - Online Security Fears
News Following the success of our BT straw poll, we'd like to ask ZDNet readers what they think of Internet security. Questions will be asked in parliament Tuesday about how the government intends to tighten up data protection laws on the Internet...
[July 21, 2000, 16:02]
Roundup: E-Britain On Crumbling Foundations
News Vote in ZDNet's straw poll ZDNet's straw poll -- online security fears Are you still willing to put your credit card details online? E-Britain's reputation is being gradually eroded by a long list of security cock-ups.
[July 20, 2000, 17:00]
ID Card Bill To Test New Government
Talkback He once asked a straw poll to some electorates and quoted this in his manifesto, "If re-elected I shall take further soundings [on ID cards] before a decision is put to the House of Commons". Actually Dr.
[May 9, 2005, 22:48]
Sun: IT Departments Must Tackle Energy Ignorance
News Wilkinson conducted a quick straw poll of the audience, which revealed that only around a fifth of the IT professionals present knew what their company's energy usage was. A similar poll showed that everyone present knew what their home energy...
[November 28, 2007, 16:31]
Top Ten Stories Of The Year
News And all over a straw poll. But this was not just any story: A poll run by ZDNet UK asking people whether they planned to deliver Web services using Java or Microsoft's .Net technology showed a dramatic swing as voting continued.
[December 27, 2002, 6:10]
Gartner: Linux Continues Drive Into Datacentres
News A straw poll of attendees at Gartner's Data Centre Conference in January revealed that 40 percent of them were running a combination of Linux or Unix and Windows. This shows that there is little sign that "Linux will 'hit a wall', the analysts...
[March 13, 2006, 17:25]
Firms Have Little Faith In E-government - Report
News The straw poll of the 60-odd delegates from leading dotcoms and blue chip firms will make grim reading for PM Tony Blair who has pledged to make the UK the best place to trade electronically by 2002. Internet firms have little faith in the UK...
[May 22, 2000, 9:32]
If You Can't Do The Time, Don't Get Online
Leader A straw poll of the ZDNet.co.uk office revealed that around 80 percent of our staff have in the past quietly nipped onto a Netgear here or a Linksys there, when other connectivity failed or was not available.
[August 23, 2007, 16:59]
There's A New Set Of IT Priorities On The Block
Leader A straw poll of the audience indicated that some 10 percent already ran some desktop Linux in their businesses. In the wake of the recent tech downturn, we hear a familiar refrain echoed throughout the industry: that the people who are here now are...
[September 29, 2004, 13:40]
Novell Identifies Explosion In Workplace Bullying
News In a straw poll conducted at Ziff-Davis, the publisher of PC Daily News, where over 150 employees are connected using Lotus Notes, the vast majority of respondents did not feel that their own personal experience matched the findings of the Novell...
[June 3, 1997, 15:27]
Gartner: Open Source On Windows Is The Future
News A quick straw poll of the audience of around 50 IT professionals at the Gartner event showed that around half were using Linux and roughly two thirds were planning to deploy it in the near future. The next few years will see many companies opting...
[June 23, 2006, 14:30]
Patent Holders On The Ropes
News In a straw poll last week, members of a key Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group signalled their opposition to a royalty-free policy. The news in recent weeks and months has not been good for patent-holding members of standards...
[December 3, 2002, 10:31]
Will Postini Help Google Win Over Businesses?
News But a straw poll of ZDNet.co.uk members following the Google/Postini announcement reveals that IT professionals still have some fundamental misgivings about trusting their data to a hosted applications provider — even Google.
[July 12, 2007, 15:39]
Government Panel Recommends Digital Poll Tax
News He described the additional fee as a "final straw" for this group, preventing them from taking part in the digital revolution. While the BBC claims the panel's funding proposals do not go far enough and threaten the future of the BBC's digital...
[August 6, 1999, 10:33]
PeopleSoft Board Says No To Oracle
News Anticipating that Oracle will, in fact, get half of the shares by 19 November, PeopleSoft President Kevin Parker sought to downplay it ahead of time, calling it "a nonbinding straw poll". PeopleSoft's board on Wednesday rejected Oracle's "best and...
[November 11, 2004, 8:07]
Bulldog: Problems Are Over. Users: No They're Not
News But Santry's contentment was unusual in our straw poll. Andrew Morley, Bulldog's chief commercial officer, told ZDNet UK that Bulldog had "turned a corner", following Ofcom's decision last month to close its investigation into the company.
[November 7, 2005, 13:40]
A Year Ago: Government Panel Recommends Digital Poll Tax
News He described the additional fee as a "final straw" for this group, preventing them from taking part in the digital revolution. While the BBC claims the panel's funding proposals do not go far enough and threaten the future of the BBC's digital...
[August 8, 2000, 7:06]
