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Bus, Bike, Car and Now Web: The Changing Face of Commuting
White Papers recently joined forces to conduct a survey on the subject of Web commuting. To get to the bottom of this growing trend, Citrix Online and the polling company? More workers than ever are performing at least part of their jobs outside the traditional...
[February 3, 2009, 9:09]
Open source gets boost from the cost-conscious
News Another finding from the survey reflects the growing interest in using company data to improve business performance. The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a survey released on Monday...
[January 5, 2004, 15:40]
Online growth plateaus
News Instant messaging is particularly popular among teenagers and young adults, the survey said. The survey indicates that the drop off in the number of people getting online for the first time began toward the end of 2001.
[December 23, 2003, 13:35]
Gary Clark, VP EMEA, SafeNet
Talkback Our own survey of 1,200 IT managers and security professionals last year shows that only 44 per cent of the data on laptops is encrypted. Fining Nationwide for losing a laptop containing customer details highlights an ongoing security problem faced...
[February 15, 2007, 10:25]
Banks not cashing in on e-payments
News In an online survey carried out by Banner and ZDNet UK, 32 percent of companies were either already using a B2B e-payment scheme, in the process of implementing or intending to implement over the next 12 months.
[June 20, 2002, 14:31]
Broadband users take flight
News The survey highlights what appears to be a growing trend of discontent among broadband users in the UK. Bad service is driving Europe's broadband customers to swap ISPs in search of a better deal, a survey published on Tuesday indicated.
[October 26, 2005, 14:25]
3.5G devices see huge annual growth
News The GSA survey highlights another growing mobile trend: GPS. Laptops and PC data cards are the next largest product segment (103 apiece), followed by wireless routers and USB modems (60 apiece), the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) survey...
[April 8, 2008, 12:51]
IT offshoring spending set to grow
News The report, based on a December survey of 50 US-based chief information officers, also found that spending on offshore IT services represents a small but growing chunk of budgets allocated to IT services.
[January 7, 2005, 8:15]
DVD set to rule, says MORI
News Bryan Welsh, chairman of online DVD shop DVDplus supports the survey and is convinced DVD is set to soar. Eleven percent thought DVD was the fastest growing media for home entertainment. This will ensure that the trend towards DVD and away from...
[October 13, 1999, 14:14]
Web services market still up for grabs
News Fifty-eight percent of system integrators -- those companies that assemble working business applications from off-the-shelf software -- listed Microsoft .Net-based products as their favourite for building Web services programs, according to a...
[February 7, 2003, 13:09]
'Another four years of software gloom' ahead
News In its annual Global Software Survey, Ovum said the $152bn (£97bn) software market declined 5 percent in 2002, and although the rate of decline is slowing, it will continue falling till at least 2005.
[July 21, 2003, 11:34]
Home workers' online mischief puts employers at risk
News A Cisco-sponsored survey of more than 2,000 remote workers and IT managers worldwide uncovered a lack of discipline and vigilance among home workers on the internet. Eleven percent of those who took part in the survey confessed to hijacking their...
[February 7, 2008, 14:51]
Linux skills in short supply
News The full results of silicon.com's fifth annual skills survey are out. In a survey of skills types in short supply, Linux is the only one to have seen any growth over the past year. The headline UK inflation rate for the 12 months to February -- a...
[March 28, 2003, 10:45]
Linux use doubles in financial organisations
News In fact the growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past 12 months, say the researchers writing in the Financial Technology Strategies 2005 survey.
[January 28, 2005, 16:20]
IT spending still growing slowly
News But the survey also found that firms are still investing in IT security. According to analysts IDC, the main obstacle to new IT spending is this growing culture of "good-enough" computing, with business leaders deciding that their existing...
[April 7, 2005, 17:55]
Teleworking 'is good for your health'
News More than 90 percent of BT's teleworkers who responded to a European Union-backed survey said they experienced less stress and that their productivity increased -- plus, they had more leisure time. Adrian Hosford, director of BT group social policy...
[October 14, 2002, 18:17]
Statistics mask tough job market
News Unemployment is down and optimism is up for some tech professionals, according to federal statistics and a recent independent survey. A similar trend occurred among electrical and electronic engineers over the same period.
[August 19, 2004, 16:40]
UK firms still don't get security
News Viruses, hackers and spam are a growing problem for UK firms because many are failing to pay enough attention to IT security, according to the DTI Information Security Breaches Survey 2004 (ISBS 2004), which was published on Tuesday.
[April 28, 2004, 10:40]
Apache booms in 2003
News Microsoft powers about 49 percent of SSL servers in Netcraft's survey, followed by Apache with about 36 percent and Sun with about 3.5 percent. The Apache Web server fared well in 2003, growing far more rapidly than its nearest rival, Microsoft's...
[January 12, 2004, 16:45]
London still Wi-Fi capital of the world
News Singapore and Tokyo were the second and third Wi-Fi cities respectively, with Tokyo racking up an impressive 118 percent growth, taking it to within a hair's breadth of its Asian neighbour.iPass, which gives mobile workers access to multiple...
[March 17, 2008, 7:30]
