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RSS pollMobiles, internet, email - which tech can't you live without?
News The latest silicon.com reader poll pitted four technologies against each other to find out which is the most addictive to the high-tech fraternity. Almost half (45 per cent) of the more than 250 poll... [10 Nov 2009]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News Wonder no longer - in a poll of more than 350 silicon.com readers who were asked to decide which was their favourite Microsoft desktop operating system, Windows XP came out the clear winner, grabbing more than half (52... [09 Nov 2009]
Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments
White Paper Virtualization is the hottest technology for CIOs today with it ranked one of the top 5 important trends for 2008 according to a recent poll from CIO Insight.6 With the cost-savings, agility and convenience... [06 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News Despite an ever-increasing amount of malware in the wild, almost four in ten respondents to a silicon.com poll have never been hit by a virus. The poll, which asked readers when their PC was last... [05 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News It's a situation that looks unlikely to change, despite the launch of a new Mac OS: a recent poll of the silicon.com CIO Jury found none of the IT chiefs surveyed said the release of Snow Leopard will prompt their... [02 Oct 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News And a poll of US tech chiefs also found a lack of interest in moving to Macs on the back of Snow Leopard's launch. Apple may be reinvigorated with CEO Steve Jobs back at the helm and a new OS just out of the gates, but... [21 Sep 2009]
Third of techies check their work email every day on holiday
News The latest silicon.com poll, which asked how often people check their work email while vacationing, found more than a third of respondents (35 per cent) said they check their work emails at least once per day. [07 Sep 2009]
Wake up, brush teeth, log on: Most techies check email before 9am
News The majority of IT workers are now checking their email, either on a PC or a mobile device, before 9am, according to a poll of silicon.com readers. The research found that 8am was the favoured time for techies to log on... [24 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.08.09
Round-Up In fact, it would also give you a chance to take silicon.com's two-second latest poll, which asks how often you check your email when on holiday. Ah, the lazy days of summer in the IT department. Cricket and cream teas... [21 Aug 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News A straw poll of ten CIOs revealed a unanimous yes vote to the question 'Is there a place in business for tablet PCs? In tech terms, the tablet is nothing new: Microsoft first announced tablet PC software back in 2001,... [13 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up According to the poll, 83 per cent of respondents said email is what they read while sipping their morning coffee and crunching aspirin. The second most popular app - though still a country mile behind email - is the web... [31 Jul 2009]
Morning glory: Office workers fire up email first
News There may be more ways to communicate than ever - from mobile phones to IM and even microblogging sites such as Twitter - but email is still the first port of call for the majority of UK office workers, according to the latest... [30 Jul 2009]
Seven ways to boost your workplace confidence
Comment One of the world's most charismatic business leaders appears anything but confident during serious interviews, yet poll after poll of business leaders consistently ranks him the most admired CEO.... [29 Jul 2009]
Connecting the Enterprise: CDW's 2009 Unified Communications Tracking Poll
White Paper CDW's new tracking poll, which surveyed 766 IT professionals who work on unified communications (UC) or component technologies in business, government, higher education, and healthcare, indicates that IT executives are... [22 Jul 2009]
Hardware-hungry techies pack more than five PCs each
News At the low end, 11 per cent owned up to having a pair of PCs, five per cent said they own just one and a hardware-shunning one per cent said they have no PCs at all (which presumably means they responded to the poll... [21 Jul 2009]
