Governments should switch to open source - study
News A new study has recommended that governments require the use of open-source software, fanning the flames of the increasingly heated debate over the place of open-source in public policy. The Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) study, from the...
[August 23, 2002, 13:47]
Study: Virus infections multiply
News The results of the study are based on the replies received from some 300 corporate and government agencies. The study was sponsored by anti-virus and computer security firms Computer Associates International, Network Associates Inc.
[July 26, 1999, 7:54]
Study: New mums apt to alter Web habits
News Women change their Web habits more than men when they become parents, according to a new study by an Internet market research group. The study examined the surfing habits of people who had become new parents in the past six months or were expecting...
[September 27, 2002, 16:45]
Study links mobile emissions to tumours
News Although the study's findings primarily focused on mobile phone radiation's impact on the blood-brain barrier, Dariusz Leszczynski believes that exposure to mobile phone radiation interferes with human cell lifecycles in a manner that could...
[June 20, 2002, 9:44]
Study: Mobile-broadband speeds are below 1Mbps
News This exhaustive study confirms the general consensus that mobile-broadband services are functional and, while currently slower in practice than their fixed-line competition, continually improving," Epitiro chief executive Gavin Johns said in a...
[June 10, 2009, 15:14]
Study: US out ahead on e-commerce
News That's according to a University of Utah professor who offered preliminary results on Tuesday of what may be the first study of consumers' experience of international e-commerce at the Federal Trade Commission's "Consumer Protection in the Global...
[June 9, 1999, 9:44]
Study: Tech for tracking offenders is flawed
News A study commissioned by the Ministry of Justice has revealed that the signal for satellite technology for tracking offenders could be lost and that offenders could remove their ankle tags and leave them behind.
[August 3, 2007, 17:46]
Outsourcers need more than technology - study
News Companies looking for a technology outsourcing partner would be wise to consider candidates' business knowledge and not just their technology chops, according to a new study. Meta released the study on Wednesday.
[January 16, 2004, 9:20]
Net can lead to addiction - study
News Kimberly Young, a psychologist on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, presented Friday a study that labels excessive Internet use "pathological". The study, examining 396 people who spent 38 hours a week or more online...
[August 18, 1997, 11:27]
Study criticises UK banking Web sites
News Many UK banking Web sites are failing in terms of performance with poor accessibility, HTML coding errors and slow response times greeting visitors, according to a new study. Examples of errors found in the study include images missing from a page...
[March 31, 2004, 11:55]
Study suggests Vista will boost US jobs
News A Microsoft-commissioned study estimates that Windows Vista could create 100,000 new IT-related jobs in the US. The study, which was performed by IDC, also estimates that for every dollar of Vista-related revenue that Microsoft takes in next year...
[December 11, 2006, 7:39]
Study: Heavy Net users mostly search
News A new US study says frequent Internet users, those who spend five or more hours a week online, spend an average of 728 hours, or 30.3 days, online per year. The study, sponsored by RealNames and conducted by Berrier Associates, found that 520 of...
[June 1, 2000, 14:51]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
News A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales. For the study, released on Monday, researchers at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina...
[March 30, 2004, 10:45]
Study claims mobile base stations are safe
News A three-year study into the possible short-term health effects of mobile base stations has found that base stations are not associated with ill health. Using a group of "sensitive" individuals (44 people) and a control group (114 people), the study...
[July 25, 2007, 12:55]
Study touts Metro Ethernet cost savings
News Telephone companies could cut their operating costs by 23 percent a year by using Ethernet services in their metropolitan area networks instead of traditional telecommunications services, according to a new study.
[January 26, 2004, 13:00]
Governments should switch to open source - study
Talkback Can we have a link to the study itself? Please email me the link to it and it's creators.
[October 5, 2003, 14:37]
Study on the Mutually Supportive Advancement of APEC'S Trade Facilitation and Secure Trade Goals Post September 11
White Papers The purpose of this study is to respond to the concerns about security while trading, by undertaking the following tasks: to examine the impact of the recent spate of terrorist acts on APEC's Trade Facilitation goal of achieving a significant...
[January 5, 2005, 2:00]
Study: Microsoft overcharges for software
News Microsoft has collected $10bn (£6.1bn) in consumer overcharges in the past three years thanks to its "monopoly" over the PC operating system market, consumer groups alleged in a study released today. The study was prepared by the CFA, the Media...
[January 11, 1999, 12:09]
Flaws don't die - study
News A study of Internet security flaws showed that for serious issues, half the vulnerable systems remain unfixed after 30 days. The study, which correlates nearly 1.5 million scans done by Qualys over a year and a half, underscores the need for...
[July 31, 2003, 8:40]
Study: Customers wary of online IDs
News Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, who authored a report based on the study, said Microsoft and AOL "are pushing this out and consumers have no choice. A new Gartner study indicates that despite compulsory sign-up programmes, consumers aren't interested...
[April 26, 2002, 14:02]



