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Report:Predicting Individuals' Loyalty To Mobile Computing Ecosystems

As Multidevice Adoption Spreads, Today's Weak Attachment To Vendor Ecosystems Will Strengthen

Personal technology vendors are engaged in a battle for their customers' loyalty, which (they hope) will translate to ongoing investment in related devices, software, and services. As individuals...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Navigating Diversity In Operating Systems And Browsers

Heterogeneity Is Here — And Mobility Is Driving It Further

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals face a splintered landscape of operating systems (OSes) and browsers, which complicates investment decisions tied to what they deploy and support for...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Smartphone Adoption Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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Smartphone installed base and subscriber data in the United States. Includes data on subscribers by operating system (2011-2013 only) as well as age and income ownership demographics. Includes...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Smartphone Adoption Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

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Smartphone installed base and subscriber data for 16 countries in Western Europe. Includes age and income ownership demographics by country as well as subscribers by operating system for selected...

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Report:Forrester Research World Smartphone Adoption Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global)

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Global installed base and subscribers for smartphones in 54 countries. Also includes global and regional data on subscribers by operating system (2011-2013 only). Breaks out age and income...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends

More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple

Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Next In Tech: Indoor Positioning

Indoor Venues Are The Next Frontier For Location-Based Services

Location is a cornerstone of mobile experiences and enables some of the most widely used mobile apps, such as Foursquare and Yelp. Location has also become a new battleground as Apple, Google, and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research World Tablet Adoption Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global)

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Global sales and installed base for tablet devices in 53 countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Endpoint Encryption Technologies, Q1 2013

Protect Your Sensitive Data With Endpoint Encryption

Security and risk (S&R) professionals often turn to endpoint encryption technologies to protect corporate data, meet regulatory requirements, and prevent accidental data leaks. Full disk and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Defining The Boundary Between Business Tech Buying And Consumer Tech Buying

Understanding Who Chooses And Who Pays For Devices That Span Business And Personal Tasks

The spreading bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has created a more complex landscape of tech buying. But traditional divisions between consumer tech purchases and business tech purchases still...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Computing: It's All About The Ecosystem

Competition Shifts From Devices To Ecosystems

CIOs might interpret the recent flood of mobile device product announcements, highlighted by the September 12 unveiling of Apple's iPhone 5, as competing vendors fomenting demand for the holiday...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The State Of Mobile Technology Adoption

A Benchmarking Guide For eBusiness Professionals

Mobile technology for both hardware and software is experiencing a frenetic pace of change. What table stakes or "being in the game" means is constantly moving. eBusiness professionals have procured...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Mobile Apps For Marketing

When And How Interactive Marketers Should Build Apps For Marketing Purposes

Mobile apps hold exciting potential for interactive marketers to reach their audiences through mobile devices in ways the mobile Web can't. But today, mobile apps receive a mixed response from...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2012: Investments In Mobile And Tablet Commerce

Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey online retail executives on their adoption of various web-related technologies and the investment levels associated with those initiatives. This...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Strategy Deep Dive: Imbibing Macs In The Enterprise

Apple Mac Shops Share Their Secrets For Success

Chances are that you have employees using Apple Macs at your firm today, and they're doing this without the support and guidance of the infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization. IT...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Future Of Mobile Messaging

eBusiness Professionals Must Prepare For New Messaging Paradigms

Mobile messaging is somewhat dull today, but it is on the verge of becoming more interesting as it transitions from a nuts-and-bolts telecom model to an Internet model with rich feature sets....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Design Mobile Apps From The Outside In

Policy And Procedures: The Mobile App Development Playbook

This report outlines best practices in mobile app design that application development & delivery professionals can use to design great mobile apps. Customer expectations for mobile apps have never...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:The Fight To Control The TV Becomes A Platform War

The fight to control the TV is a battle for the more than 114 million TV households that, until now, have been under the quiet control of cable and satellite providers and the broadcast and cable...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape

We'll Use Tablets As The Conductor For PCs, Devices, And Personal Cloud Services At Work And At Home

For a new technology that is just two years old, tablets are huge hit. For CIOs the question is — will they last and what are the long-term implications? How do tablets interact with other...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Wearable Computing

The Next Devices And Platforms That Matter To Your Product Strategy

Consumers are adopting technology faster than ever: Witness the rapid mainstreaming of devices such as the Apple iPad and Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360. Wearable devices will be next, but right now...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Tablet-TV Connection

Tablets and TVs are big business: Forrester forecasts that 112.5 million US consumers will own a tablet by 2016, and tablets are disrupting several multibillion-dollar industries related to TV,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Consumer Tablet Forecast Update, 2011 To 2016

Low-Cost Disruptors Expand Tablets' Addressable Market

With 55 million iPads sold through December 2011, and an estimated 5.5 million Amazon Kindle Fires sold in their first quarter on the market, tablets have gained unstoppable momentum. Forrester...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Determine Your Workforce Computing Hardware Budgets For 2012

Balance Security And Efficiency With Responsible Empowerment

IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders spend nearly 25% of their IT hardware budget on workforce computing hardware. However, Forrester finds that these priorities and budgets favor security...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Google, Amazon, Apple, And Facebook: What eBusiness Executives Need To Know For 2012

As four of the largest and arguably most currently influential technology companies — Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook — continue to exhibit ambitious tendencies to capture...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Digitization Of The In-Store Experience

Mobile Devices And Interactive Displays Are Redefining The In-Store Experience For Sales Associates And Customers Alike

Retailers are ditching the term multichannel. Instead, in the era of agile commerce, they talk about delivering a "buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere" experience to their customers. In pursuit of this...

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