Technology presents both opportunities and barriers for international marketing research. 3com commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct the world’s largest interactive Internet-based poll. Fully 1.4 million respondents in 250 countries around the world participated in Project Planet. In many countries, respondents entered their answer in an online survey. In remote areas without telephones and computers, interviewers were sent with portable handheld tables for data entry. When interviewers returned from the field, the data could be uploaded to the database. In this research effort, 3com was able to reach even technologically disenfranchised communities. While the results were not truly representative, the effort still represents an important, if imperfect global effort at collecting meaningful cross-cultural information.