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- Consumer Reports: Apple leads in support - by double digits (updated)
- In Consumer Reports' annual reliability survey for the June 2008 issue 80 percent of the users that contacted Apple's technical support reported that they had their computer problem solved. The industry average last year was 60 percent. The survey polled subscribers on their experiences with...
- Tags: Consumer Reports, Apple Inc., Survey, Laptop Computer, CR, Marketing Research, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- SurveyGold (exe)
- This complete software system is for building and administering surveys and exams and then analyzing their results. It is ideal for individuals, educational institutions, and organizations that need to quickly create and conduct exams or surveys over the Web, over the phone, or with a printed questionnaire form. It provides...
- Tags: Survey, Golden Hills Software, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-25
- Survey Plat Tools (zip)
- Survey Plat Tools allows you to create Professional Plats or Maps in AutoCad. You can import points, export points, label lines with Bearing and Distances, Create Line Tables, Label Curves, Insert Point Symbols, Insert professional Title Blocks, and many other features. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Survey, Point, LT, Survey Plat Tools, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-23
- Survey Data - CA
- Towards the beginning of April, I was approached by representatives of CA who wanted me to discuss a then-recent survey about the adoption of virtualization technology. Having conducted numerous studies while I was with IDC, I'm always skeptical when looking at survey data. The results may either be...
- Tags: Result, Survey, Computer Associates International Inc., Results, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- IT Departments on Data Security: A Research Concepts Survey
- A survey of 185 IT professionals finds that, although computer and data security are high priorities, they are surprisingly unprepared to prevent data breaches and computer theft. One out of four organizations surveyed had a data breach in the past year. Preventative measures are found to be consistently undermined, with...
- Tags: Absolute Software, Information Technology, Survey, Measure, Data Security, Computer, Marketing Research, Productivity, Security, Marketing
- White papers 2008-04-17
- QuizForce (zip)
- QuizForce is a comprehensive and easy-to-use toolkit which allows you to create Flash-based quizzes, surveys and assessments without the need to know programming. Create Flash quizzes and surveys in a minute. With the help of QuizForce you can create Rapid and efficient Flash-based quizzes and surveys for e-learning on your...
- Tags: Survey, Elearningforce, QuizForce, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-15
- DC Portal - Data Collection Portal (15)
- DC Portal is designed and built to allow its users to create and publish online surveys, questionnaires, application forms and other means of data collection over the Net. Features include but not limited to: Multiple Pages in one Survey. Editable field types, free text (short and long, date picker, group...
- Tags: Data Collection, Radio, Survey, Argo Computing, DC Portal, Portals, Marketing Research, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-08
- 81% of Americans feel the country is on the wrong track
- 81% of Americans felt “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” That was up from 69% in 2007 and 35% in early 2003. Only 4% of survey respondents said the country was better off than it was five years ago, while 78% said it was worse, New...
- Tags: Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, AM
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunch
- Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunchOutsourcingOne of our idiot directors (actually, I don't mean to imply we have multiple idiot directors...rephrase...one of our directors, an idiot...) recently told a bunch of us that "we have no choice but to move to an outsourcing or offshore model - the...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, outsource, information technology, outsourcing, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunch
- CIOs and technology managers are less strategic than they were a year ago, pondering job jumps and still struggle to deliver projects on time and under budget. Yet these folks want to be more intertwined with their respective businesses. A Harvey Nash/KMPG survey of 258 respondents paints...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Leader, Survey, Marketing Research, Outsourcing, Strategy, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Keeping SOA, the silo killer, from creating new silos
- Wasn't SOA supposed to bring us all together? What about all these SOA "islands" that are now sprouting up across our enterprises? There's no such thing as one single enterprise SOA I just had the opportunity to co-present a Webinar with IBM's Leif Davidson...
- Tags: SOA, Survey, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Green thinking is well established. Green brands, not so much
- Oh goody, I'm home at my computer on a Saturday night (yes, sad). But, bonanza, I've just hit the jackpot: Some green tech stats for you to contemplate with your Sunday morning coffee! Two sources for you. The first is the third EcoPinion survey from EcoAlign,...
- Tags: Brand, Green Technology, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-15
- Those scoundrels, Part 2. Brit IT managers aren't feeling the heat when it comes to reducing power consumption
- Those bloody good fellows at 1E, which sells a power management utility for Windows called NightWatchman, revealed some data this week that suggests a troubling number of IT managers in its native country aren't yet tuned into the virtues of curtailing the electricity usage of the computer fleets under their...
- Tags: Green Technology, 1E Ltd., Power Consumption, IT Manager, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Survey: CIOs moderately upbeat about IT spending
- Survey: CIOs moderately upbeat about IT spending"Solid maybe ; though the huge oil transfer into China isn't French"There is one full year ahead of this Yuan and U.S. Treasury one dollar note to benchmark with the rising transportation expansion. I guess we'll be reading all about it here, since I...
- Tags: Transportation, IT-spending, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Webcast: IT productivity challenges: Google Surveyed IT professionals to find out more
- Listen to this recorded TechRepublic Webcast, sponsored by Google, to learn about the results from Google's annual survey of 575 global IT professionals questioned about their message security and compliance priorities and concerns. The survey included questions about what productivity challenges IT faces and asked, "Who is...
- Tags: Security, Google Inc., Webcast, Information Technology, Compliance, Survey
- Webcasts 2008-03-07
- IT salary Survey: Not all technical certs created equal
- Some technology certifications don't land you more pay; multitasking is critical and IT worker salaries are up slightly from a year ago, according to a survey by Global Knowledge and our sister site TechRepublic. The survey surfaces a bevy of key points (see PDF download), but for...
- Tags: Certification, Information Technology, Survey, Salary, Information Technology Worker, Quality, Benefits, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Survey: Generation Facebook's skills wasted at work
- Survey: Generation Facebook's skills wasted at workIT-savvy?I wonder how IT-savvy the "Facebook generation" really is. When the previous generation was growing up, geeky types played with programmable home computers. Many of those people are now working in IT, software development in particular. I get the impression that kids today use...
- Tags: Strategy, survey, information technology, IT Skills, Facebook, realistic concept, catered-too little tushy, little tushy
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Visual Overseer (msi)
- Visual Overseer has friendly step-by-step processes which guide you through the creation of core values vision statements strategic goals strategic plans hiring documentation and e-mail surveys. With Visual Overseer you can revitalize staff and volunteers in your ministry or church by giving them the strong leadership they need. Version 2...
- Tags: Hiring, Survey, Rohawk, Visual Overseer, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Strategy, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-03-04
- Survey: CIOs moderately upbeat about IT spending
- Cisco, Dell and others have seen lumpy customer demand, but the folks that are producing those volatile sales patterns--CIOs--are moderately optimistic and expect solid technology spending in 2008, according to a survey by UBS. In its survey, UBS noted that: Our CIO survey--completed in February--points toward...
- Tags: CIO, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, PC, IT-spending, Survey, UBS AG, Marketing Research, Servers, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own Business
- If only the Big 4 and the top consultancy firms could run on sustainability thought leadership white papers instead of free cash flow, 2008 would surely be a banner year. The latest epistle is from McKinsey who this week publish an insightful survey on corporate philanthropy. The...
- Tags: McKinsey & Co., Philanthropy, NetSuite Inc., Survey, Business Goal, Marketing Research, Marketing, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
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