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Just 5% of Brits trust tech firms with data, claims study

In modern society, many of us find ourselves giving more and more of our personal data to better experience and use products/services provided by a range of industries. One of those key industries is the tech sector. Interested in data protection, MoneyTransfers.com analysed the latest data from YouGov, to establish which countries in the world…

15 July 202127 July 2021 Chris Price Cybersecurity

Google survey reveals trend for local Christmas shopping

Research from Google and YouGov reveals 71% of Brits who celebrate Christmas are willing to embrace different festivities this year, including shopping more locally. While two thirds (66%) of Brits acknowledge that Christmas is likely to be different this year, the research reveals that we’re a resilient nation and are ready to embrace change by…

26 November 202025 November 2020 Chris Price Retail

Over half of users have problems with mobile network, says GWS

Mobile network tester Global Wireless Solutions has released the results of its most extensive nationwide customer experience test of mobile network performance to date. The detailed assessment involved GWS’ engineers collecting close to one million data and voice task tests on iOS and Android devices, alongside nationwide focus groups conducted in partnership with Jigsaw Research,…

3 February 20203 May 2020 Chris Price Mobile phones

YouGov site reveals how people rate each of Trump’s tweets

Heaven help us. As if the guy doesn't get enough publicity for his frankly insane social media activity, YouGov has unveiled a new website – TweetIndex.YouGov.com – showing how people rate each of Donald Trump’s tweets. YouGov TweetIndex is a new site that shows how the public reacts to a tweet’s content. To showcase the service, YouGov…

15 March 201715 March 2017 Chris Price Gadgets, Poll, Polls, Social Media, Twitter

Students realise internet is real: concern of internet follies harming job prospects

News flash: the internet isn't some otherwordly place of no consequence to the "real" world. What happens on the internet does NOT stay on the internet, it will follow you around. 42% of students are becoming concerned that some…

27 October 2011 ShinyJess Facebook, Internet, Social Media, Tech Digest news

Study shows Orange is the least favourite Network for iPhone Users

A new study from YouGov shows that 15% of Orange iPhone users are planning on leaving the network. The study which tracked 1,880 iPhone users in the UK over a month period, showed that Orange has the highest proportion…

26 October 2010 LauraScott Apple, iPhone

Would you watch more online TV if you had faster broadband?

Sure people watch online TV quite happily now, but if they are happy with their current connection they are either 1, getting a solid fast connection and have a really good experience of watching things like the BBC iPlayer, or 2 just used to slow loading video, drop outs etc.

10 August 200926 November 2017 Shiny Internet, IPTV

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.

21 June 200728 May 2020 Andy Merrett Internet

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