世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Research, in a survey reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at mobile phones, with this report focusing on the usage of the address books within mobile phones.

Demographics

Between the 19th and 24th of August 2009 1,070 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.9% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.

I haven’t backed up my mobile’s phone book for at least a year, I think, but then again I have so few entries that last year’s backup is probably still valid!

I was suprised to see that only about 5% use the shortcut dial feature, less than those typing numbers in directly. As far as I know most mobile phones have a feature where if you type in the address book index (one or two digits are OK, I think) then press the dial button it dials that entry, which is handy for me as my wife is registered in slot one.
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Surprisingly high levels of data security were uncovered in this recent survey from Marsh Inc and reported by japan.internet.com into computer backups.

Demographics

Over the 18th and 19th of August 2008 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.0% of the sample were male, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% aged sixty or older.

I haven’t backed-up for ages and ages, although the wife pesters me to do it weekly or so. Hopefully now that we have our new PC with a DVD-R I can set up a regular schedule. Can anyone recommend good software for that? Talking of backups, I don’t do it for the blog either…

I’m surprised, however, at the numbers who do back up, and perhaps in the full survey we would find answers to questions like why did they start backing up, have they ever had to restore, and did the backups restore correctly.
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japan.internet.com published the results of a survey carried out in the middle of September by JR Tokai Express Research into how people back up data at home. They interviewed 330 people employed in private or public enterprises; 82.4% were male, 13.0% in their twenties, 43.0% in their thirties, 27.0% in their forties, 14.5% in their fifties, and 2.4% in their sixties.

I, like almost half in this survey, back up my important stuff (mostly photos) to CD-R on a semi-regular basis. Actually, last month I almost had a back up muck-up when wifey’s install of Outlook Express suddenly lost all its address book after she tried to add a new address and I had been rather remiss about backing it up recently. It turned out, however, to be a bug in a recent Microsoft security update, which fortunately is easily resolved by following the procedure described in the linked Knowledge Base article.
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