Research note
Hi - I am a colleague Jon Collins, the analyst who did this research and wrote the article. There are a couple of things that are worth noting that may be of interest based on one or two of the above comments.
Firstly, other research we have conducted over the years outside of The Register has demonstrated pretty consistently that non-technical 'professional' users (sales guys, consultants, managers, execs, and so on) are significantly more interested in mobile access to systems than technical users. In fact, the "uber-techies" someone referred to are some of the most sceptical and least interested.
Regarding details of the survey itself, it was conducted about three weeks or so ago and 1456 responses were collected. 53% of responses were from the UK, 17% from the USA and the remainder spread across the rest of the world.
Thanks for pulling us up on this, we'll be sure to include brief details of the study when referring to research in the future.Thanks also to those who pointed out that there wasn't an ideal option offered for people who spend all of their time sitting at their desk. I don't think this had an impact on any of the conclusions, but the point is understood.
Anyway, hope you find these little surveys useful - they are not meant to provide the definitive word, just some points of interest to share ideas between readers and get people thinking.