Dallas Business Journal

John Barrett, director of research at the Dallas market-research firm Parks Associates, compares GameStop with another Dallas firm, Blockbuster Inc., which rents video games and movies both online and in bricks-and-mortar stores.

A survey completed by Parks Associates found a correlation between how much a person spends on a personal computer and his or her education and income levels.

The Consumer Decision Process Annual Survey polled more than 5,000 U.S. consumers on their 2008 - ...read more

Several factors add complexity to the process of deploying smart meters, analysts say.

Bill Ablondi, a New York-based director of home systems research at the market research firm Parks Associates, says utilities must get - ...read more

Harry Wang, director of health and mobile product research at Dallas-based Parks Associates, was among the few to forecast cell phone sales growth. Wang expects sales in the United States to hit - ...read more

Nintendo is the market leader in portable gaming devices, but Sony Corp. may wind up a big winner. In a survey of 2,000 Internet users who plan to buy such a gadget, 49% told Dallas-based Parks Associates they will go for the Sony PlayStation Portable. Two Nintendo - ...read more

Less than one-third of U.S. households with dial-up Internet service are interested in upgrading in the next 12 months, indicating a significant decline in potential broadband subscribers over the past year.

According to Parks Associates' Trends in U.S. Broadband - ...read more

HO2 figures that the market for unified messaging could reach between $2 billion and $5 billion within the next three years.

"That prediction may be a little aggressive," says Hongjun Li, director of research at Parks Associates, a market research firm - ...read more

Once that deal is wrapped up, VoiceStream will offer service in 15 of the top 25 markets nationwide and have over 1 million subscriber.

Once it does decide to build out its Dallas network, the company will face heavy investments of time and money. Hongjun Li, - ...read more

And Hongjun Li, director of research at Dallas-based Parks Associates, says the market for traditional PBXs, which technology like VocalData's aims to replace, is nearly saturated for small- and medium-sized businesses. "It's mainly a replacement market," he - ...read more