Posted by Jon Siegel, Senior Vice President, Methodology

Innovation is once again accelerating in the market research world. Although some advocates in the blogosphere believe these new methods will replace the tools we use today on a whole-sale basis, I think it is much more likely that these new techniques will add diversity to our toolbox. After all this is an evolution, not a revolution.

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media, & Telecommunications

Technology had dramatically changed the way we work and it can do the same for education--there is the potential that technological integration will revolutionize how our children learn and how state and federal governments spend our education tax dollars.

Posted by David Duganne, Senior Research Director, Business & Industrial Research, Automotive & Transportation

As the saying goes, “Knowledge is power.” When winning over a driver to alternative powertrain technologies, such as plug-in hybrids, fuel cell or electric vehicles, automakers face challenges. Harris’s 2011 AutoTECHCAST US study is gauging the magnitude of these roadblocks in order to help automakers understand how to open consumers’ minds to alternative powertrain technologies.

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media, & Telecommuniations

In the beginning your relationship with your cable company was great. Then after years of mundanely paying your monthly installments, the relationship started to lose its luster, and you began to see it for what it had become – sour and one-sided. Now you start to ask yourself, is it over? What options exist out there for newly single cord cutters and how do cable operators feel about the prospect of a breakup?

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Forecasts called for 3% growth in PC shipments worldwide for the quarter. On the contrary, Gartner recently reported that the PC market suffered a 1.1% decline, with 84.3 million unit sold in the first quarter of this year. Not only does this mark the first year-over-year worldwide PC decline in a year and a half, but the PC market in the US has declined by 6.1% from a year ago.

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media & Telecommunications

On March 2, Apple announced the release of a “thinner, lighter, faster” iPad. News of iPad 2 and the threat of Apple running away with the majority market share has sent some would-be competitors scrambling to figure out their next move in the increasingly competitive tablet computing market. But is it enough?

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media & Telecommunications

AOL has certainly seen its fair share of highs and lows. Layoffs, massive operating loss, completely closing all European business. Despite the bleak past, AOL is making choices that could rescue its future. Is the lynchpin Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post?

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Much has been made about the reliability of the AT&T wireless network over the last several months. Customers and pundits alike have relentlessly and unapologetically taken to their blogs, Twitter and Facebook to trash AT&T for the deluge of dropped calls and stability of the data network experienced in some of the United States most populous cities.

With the Verizon iPhone looming large in the near future, what sort of impact can AT&T expect and how should they prepare?

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media & Telecommunications

So now that the celebrities have gone home, the winners have claimed their status and prizes, the hangovers are starting to wear off and the winter storm delayed flights are finally starting to arrive at their destinations, we can once again reflect on CES and try to discern which trends will hold steady through 2011.

Posted by Manny Flores, Vice President, Technology, Media & Telecommunications

“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”  While that phrase may hold true after a raucous celebration of your last night of singleness or after splitting a pair of kings on Blackjack and losing the mortgage, what happens during the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) shouldn’t be kept on the DL.