Tag: survey
Survey shows people so attached to mobile phones, a million quid wouldn't make them give up
According to the latest installment of the Carphone Warehouse's "Mobile Life" research, the Great British public are so attached to their mobile phones that they wouldn't give them up – even for a million pounds.
The results come out of depriving 24 pour souls out of their mobile phones for a week, in order to understand how they shape our behaviour.
One in three people said they wouldn't give up their phone for a million pounds. 76% said they believed it was a social requirement to have a mobile phone, while 85% think that having a mobile phone is vital to maintaining their quality of life.
Set a cookie! Blog about it! Most hated Internet words revealed
YouGov has conducted a poll of over two-thousand UK adults, on behalf of the Lulu Blooker Prize (yes, blogs from books – blooker), and found out which Internet-inspired words are hated the most.
Top of the pile came “folksonomy”, a term used to describe a user-genreated web classification system (I have enough trouble getting my head around a taxonomy, without folk messing about with it).
Second came “blogosphere”, used to describe the universal collection of “blogs”, which came third.
Brits can't live without their broadband
A new survey by Orange Broadband has found that 61% of Britons can’t live without the Internet, with half saying that they spend three or more hours online every day.
New study suggests digital gadgets are going to waste
A new survey of 1,000 adults by Virgin Media suggests that more is being spent on digital gadgetry than on home improvements.
Three-quarters of those surveyed said that they had spent over ten grand on electronic equipment in the past year — seven times more than on their homes.
However, one in twenty people are letting these devices go to waste, because they don’t know how to set them up. That apparently includes the likes of plasma TVs (how hard can it be?).
UK's biggest iPhone survey: iPhone looks great, it's expensive, and 7.6% want one!
The results of last month’s Shiny Media iPhone survey are in, and it makes for some interesting reading.
With 487 respondents, it’s the UK’s largest iPhone survey to date.
One in three people listen to radio via the Internet
New research from Sony suggests that one in three people now listen to the radio via the Internet.
15% of people listen to radio programmes on stations outside their traditional broadcast area, while 18% have downloaded shows after they were broadcast by visiting the station’s web site.
Last chance: Tell us what you think about the iPhone and win some iPod goodies
Apple’s iPhone has to be one of the most hotly anticipated mobile devices of the year, and we want to hear what you think about it.
Take a few minutes to complete the Shiny Media iPhone Survey, and you could win one of three Logic3 i-Station IS10 iPod Alarm Clock Radios*.
Tell us what you think about the iPhone and win some iPod goodies
Apple’s iPhone has to be one of the most hotly anticipated mobile devices of the year, and we want to hear what you think about it.
Take a few minutes to complete the Shiny Media iPhone Survey, and you could win one of three Logic3 i-Station IS10 iPod Alarm Clock Radios*.
With six months to go, one in ten Glaswegians haven't heard of digital switchover
Surprising as it may be with the amount of press and TV coverage, one in ten Glaswegians haven't heard about the digital TV switchover, two-thirds said they weren't prepared for it, and 6% said they were refusing to get rid…
Majority of business travellers don't want mobile phone use in-flight
A survey by Barclaycard Business suggests that any introduction of in-flight mobile phone use would be unpopular with the majority of business travellers. Over 4,000 businesspeople were questioned, and found that six out of ten would not want such technology…
