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WebCT Case Study: Georgia Board Of Regents
White Papers In the fall of 1998, members of ALT undertook a study to evaluate what courseware offerings USG institutions were using as enterprise applications. The Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT) group, a central office division of the Georgia Board of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
56K Modem Standard Agreed But Confusion Continues
News The Geneva, Switzerland meeting of Study Group 16 was described as "being on a high after having completed the work" by a member of the group, who also said that "it's some sort of a record for the ITU to achieve this [modem standard] in such a...
[February 4, 1998, 16:27]
3G Sales To Be Weak 'until 2006'
News ARC Group's study also predicted that the global mobile handset market will expand by 16 percent with consumers buying 561 million new mobiles this year, up from 482.5 million in 2003. ARC Group's study also predicted that global handset sales will...
[November 12, 2004, 11:30]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News And the important thing is that there will be a standard: it will be agreed by the ITU Study Group 16, sometime in October. Gartner Group reckons the "dead on arrival" figures for some Compaq machines (portables only) has been as high as 25 per...
[June 14, 1997, 8:00]
Consumers Buying Into Pay-for-play
News Subscription-based Web sites are gaining more traction with customers, according to a study by an Internet research company. According to the study, people were also willing to pay for ConsumerReports.org, with 880,000 subscribers, and for material...
[July 11, 2002, 7:57]
Emerging Markets To Drive PC Growth
News The number of personal computers in use globally will almost double by the end of the decade, but that won't necessarily mean good news for Western PC makers, according to a new study by Forrester Research.
[December 15, 2004, 8:15]
Britons Baffled By Incomprehensible Technology
News British consumers are in danger of tech burnout, according to figures unearthed by a new study, which found that the general public is aware of more and more high-tech products but does not understand what they are or how they relate to daily life.
[April 2, 2001, 6:18]
New Security Group Locks Down The Real World
News In 1996, only 16 percent of companies reported computer-security incidents to law enforcement, according to a study conducted by the FBI and the Computer Security Institute. The situation has only improved somewhat, with 34 percent of companies...
[April 15, 2003, 7:51]
802.11g On Track For Finalisation
News The specification has bolstered the growing global market for wireless networking gear, according to a study from the Dell'Oro Group, with products based on 802.11g accounting for 16 percent of the wireless networking market's revenue and 17...
[May 22, 2003, 8:22]
802.11g Approved, 802.11n Is Next In Line
News Even before being approved as a standard, 802.11g technology has bolstered the growing global market for wireless-networking gear, according to a study done by The Dell'Oro Group. Those tests have been under way for some time and the group is...
[June 13, 2003, 10:49]
Salary Outlook Remains Grim
News The starting salaries of US information technology workers are projected to fall an average of 1.6 percent next year, according to a new study by Robert Half Technology. What's more, the American Electronics Association trade group said in a report...
[November 7, 2003, 8:10]
ICANN Under Fire For Dodgy Domains
News More than 8 percent of all Internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according to a US government study into the prevalence of phoney Web sites. The study, released Wednesday by the US General Accountability Office...
[December 8, 2005, 8:40]
Keeping Your Ear To The Blogosphere
News The Ban Trans Fats suit was eventually dropped, but BuzzMetrics' study showed that the damage had been done: Kraft and Oreo were mentioned in 17 percent and 26 percent of the 2.6m comments about trans fats, respectively, showing that the public...
[January 4, 2006, 14:15]
Scandinavian Countries Take E-government Lead
News Few European countries will be able to meet the region-wide goal of getting all government services online by 2005, according to a study by IDC released this week, which projected that e-government spending will nearly double in the next five years.
[December 17, 2003, 16:45]
Nokia Urges Users To Recycle Mobile Phones
News Conducted by Nokia, the study polled some 6,500 people in 13 countries, including China, India, Indonesia, Germany, the US and the UK. Some 25 percent of respondents said they pass their old phones on to friends or family, while 16 percent chose to...
[July 9, 2008, 9:35]
British Women Give Online Porn The Thumbs Up
News The NetValue study confirms that Britons feel comfortable about accessing the profitable areas of pornographic Web sites, which require them to enter their credit card details. Adult content is surprisingly popular with the over 50s, with almost 16...
[August 13, 2001, 8:30]
Government Aims To Pull Women Into Tech Jobs
News The study found only 11% of women use the Internet and many respondents feel that the Web is of no interest or use to them. To this end, Cable and Wireless in partnership with Arcadia Group (owners of high-street fashion stores such as Principles...
[November 19, 1998, 12:41]
Students Propose Defence For DoS Attack
News A 2-year-old study of Internet traffic found that every week about 4,000 attacks lasting more than 10 minutes each are launched. Less than two weeks ago, such an attack made Unix software maker SCO Group's Web site largely inaccessible for several...
[May 13, 2003, 13:30]
UK Public Embrace IT But Shun Tech Hype
News Only a quarter of the UK adult population can be classed as "technology enthusiasts" who find new IT products fun and exciting, according to RealityIT -- Technology and Everyday Life, a study from the Work Foundation's iSociety project.
[July 24, 2002, 15:04]
Companies Warned On IM Dangers
News However, the study also found that 35 percent of companies have no official policy regarding instant messaging. A report issued on Thursday by Meta Group found that 57 percent of the people surveyed at 300 companies worldwide use IM at work for...
[November 12, 2004, 8:30]
