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Tom Steinberg of mySociety.org to Give Keynote Address at Government 2010

Tom Steinberg of MySociety.org is to give a keynote address at Government 2010 on October 22nd, 2009.
mySociety is a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK. These include the Parliamentary transparency website TheyWorkForYou and the somewhat self-explanatory FixMyStreet. mySociety’s missions are to build websites that give people [...]

Digital photos given new lease of life in Web 2.0 Britain

Research from Blurb® reveals that people are sharing their lives online via images, then turning to print to keep, share, and gift their digital photographs
London, UK – 25th August, 2009 – Research released today shows that people are turning to online platforms and services to record and share their digital photographs and avoid them slipping [...]

The Traditional Call Centre is Dead; Online Customer Service is King

A potential £1.4bn in lost sales as 38% of British consumers say they would stop using a company following poor customer service*
· 91% of British web users say customer service is important or very important when conducting transactions online
· 66% of people say [...]

Solicitors put in the dock by consumers that feel out of the loop

Results of YouGov survey reveal that consumers expect to be let down by solicitors failing to adopt modern methods of communication
Total Ltd (Total), a provider of managed mobile data and applications to the professional services industry, today announced the results of a survey it conducted with YouGov, focused on consumer expectations of solicitors and [...]

Dangerous misconceptions surround security of virtual IT environments

22 April 2009 — While adverse global economic conditions may be affecting other sectors of the IT market, the virtualization explosion continues. However, in the rush to take advantage of the cost benefits of virtualization, many firms may be compromising their security, according to IP-based security and unified threat management (UTM) specialist, Clavister.
A recent YouGov[1] [...]

Orange survey reveals business personality UK managers would most like to take to see a film

London, 22 April, 2009: An Orange poll has revealed the Godfather to be the favourite film choice of over 900 business managers in the U.K. Asked by the YouGov survey to vote for their top business based film, the Francis Ford Coppola classic topped the votes (38%) closely followed by Wall Street (25%) and Jerry [...]

Green Office Week Set To Help Workers Being Forced To Leave The Environment At Home

New research has revealed that UK offices are holding back their workers from being environmentally friendly. A YouGov research poll has exposed that, despite office workers being keen to make a positive difference when it comes to the environment, they are being held back by a lack of empowerment and facilities. Key facts emerging from [...]

East London tops UK fraud hotspots

 

9 of the 10 most fraudulent areas of the UK fall within Greater London
 
East London has today been unveiled as the region most at risk of ID fraud in the British Isles, according to a new fraud ranking developed by credit reference agency Callcredit[1]. The news comes as a further blow for East London, which [...]

Trust the UK Government with my data? No way!

Recent cases of lost data have damaged Scottish public perception of government competence
Over 80% of the population in Scotland has lost confidence in the UK government’s ability to look after personal data; this is the stark finding of the first comprehensive survey of its kind into the psychological impact of recent public sector information losses. [...]

What’s in a name? Almost half of the UK public don’t know what recession really means

However, 55pc of people to take more notice of Monday’s pre-budget announcement as economy struggles
Independent research commissioned by credit reference agency Callcredit has revealed that 44pc of the UK adult population do not know what a recession is, with 57pc of women unable to define the term.
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