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RSS voters in newsPublic sector says no to web 2.0
News She pointed to the success of the London Borough of Redbridge, which hosts the mayor's blog on its website and recently consulted voters online over which services should be boosted and which should be cut. [15 Sep 2008]
Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss
News Other voters were slightly less draconian in their views with 31 per cent suggesting company bosses should be fired for losing data.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the... [14 Feb 2008]
Blair goes YouTube to toast Sarkozy
News He's already experimented with speaking with the electorate over IM; using a mobile chatroom and asking for opinions from voters via e-petitions. YouTube's not just for clips of Diet Coke and Mentos: Tony Blair has used... [09 May 2007]
E-counting under scrutiny in election shambles
News Campbell, who runs usability consultancy Foviance, said voters had difficulty with two separate ballot papers. She said: "No one explained the process, so voters were rating all 10 candidates, when they... [04 May 2007]
Council offers election results by text
News South Oxfordshire District Council is giving voters the option of receiving local election results as a text message. Voters are in the process of casting their ballots at polling stations in England,... [03 May 2007]
Stories of the month - April 2007
News Microsoft took a philosophical approach to these 10,000 anti-Vista voters. April is the cruellest month - and it's certainly been less than kind to CrackBerry addicts in North America who were forced to go cold turkey as... [30 Apr 2007]
Brits warm to hot biometrics and cold lager
News While many people remain opposed to large scale biometric schemes such as those being proposed to underpin new passports and ID cards, 40 per cent of voters in a silicon.com poll said they would be prepared to register... [31 Oct 2006]
Google mashes up US elections
News Google has created a mash-up that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the US congressional races coming up in two weeks. The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool indicates the US' 436... [23 Oct 2006]
IT vendors 'more honest' than estate agents
News A poll of silicon.com readers has discovered that given a choice of five of the most common kinds of salesmen, voters backed the IT vendor as the least dishonest, with estate agents far and away the least trusted. [17 Jul 2006]
E-counting tech to be used in Scottish elections
News The use of e-counting will help with calculating the result following the introduction of the complicated Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, which is being used for the Scottish local authority elections, where... [13 Jun 2006]
Microsoft's plans for 'new JPEG' leave users cold
News 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". The world is ready for a new photo... [01 Jun 2006]
UK held back by IT-illiterate MPs
News A poll of silicon.com readers revealed little faith among voters that the Houses of Parliament contain anywhere near the level of necessary experience in IT. UK business and innovation is being held back by a lack of MPs... [12 May 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News Fitzpatrick's bill, called the Deleting Online Predators Act, or Dopa, is part of a new, poll-driven effort by Republicans to address topics they view as important to suburban voters. MySpace.com has recently found... [11 May 2006]
Tony Blair asks punters to chat on instant messaging
News Tony Blair - a self-confessed "technophobe" - will be turning to instant messaging to chat with the voters. The PM will be using MSN Messenger to chat to 10 members of the public, who will be invited to put questions to... [15 Mar 2006]
"False dawn" for tech in 2005 general election
News The Labour Party's eCampaigns unit used emails and text messages to mobilise core voters across the country but the party said it did not find e-campaigning to have been particularly influential. The Conservative Party... [20 Dec 2005]
