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Blog:Ideas On How Mobile + PC Collaboration Tech Will Evolve - Will We See Any Advance This Week?

I’m attending Apple’s special event tomorrow and Microsoft’s Windows launch on Thursday in NYC, though I won’t be at the Google and Microsoft events early next week. I’m...

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Tool:New Behaviors, Engagement Models, And Technologies Disrupt $1.35 Trillion B2B Spend

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Report:The Coming Integration Of Personal Cloud Services And Enterprise Apps

How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications

Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

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Report:Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure Markets

Cloud Services, New Technologies, And The Rise Of Informal Computing Buyers

Important trends are surfacing in computing infrastructure markets that will cause vendor strategists to take a fresh look at new buyer behavior, shifts in business models, and adoption of emerging...

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Report:Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies

The Info Worker Population Will Grow From 555 Million To 865 Million By 2016, With Growth Markets Leading The Way

Employees that use Internet-connected computing devices for work — info workers — will trample the boundary between work and personal spheres. In this report, we summarize how it came to...

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Tool:US Consumers Experience A Broad Set Of Personal Computing Challenges

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Blog:How Can Apple Improve Mobile Me To Fulfill More Of The Vision Of Personal Cloud? Plus, Mozy To Add File Sync.

Most of the hype in advance of today’s Apple media event is rightly about a new iPad. Sarah Rotman Epps will post on her blog about the new iPad for consumer product strategists after the...

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Blog:The Consumerization Of IT Proceeds Unevenly, From Growth In Tablets To Anemic BYOPC Adoption

Tablets are a red hot topic since the launch of Apple’s iPad more than a year ago. Tablets are the most visible aspect of a broader topic on the minds of vendor strategists – the...

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Report:The Personal Cloud: Transforming Personal Computing, Mobile, And Web Markets

An Empowered Report: Sizing The Opportunity As Individuals Embrace New Services For Managing Their Work And Personal Digital Lives

The personal computing experience for individuals is broken, ruptured by the fragmentation of personal information across PCs and mobile devices and the scattering of content across a multitude of...

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Tool:Forecast: US Personal Cloud Subscribers, 2010 to 2016

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Tool:PC Decision-Makers Expect Many More Web Apps And Continued Native App Growth

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Blog:Apple’s iCloud And Siri Herald A Shift To Personal Cloud And Voice Interfaces

The name of Apple’s event today “Let’s Talk iPhone” indicates where much of the news focus is — on the new iPhone. But that focus distracts vendor strategists from...

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Tool:Overall, Twenty-Eight Percent Of All US Online Adults Now Use Personal Cloud Services

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Report:The Age Of Computing Diversity

The ICT Industry Is Broadening Out From The Wintel Monoculture

The computing industry is exiting an era built mostly on general-purpose, good enough central processing units (CPUs), servers, systems designs, software, Web apps, and client devices. These...

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Blog:Employees Use Multiple Gadgets For Work — And Choose Much Of The Tech Themselves

Employees that use smart devices — PCs or mobile devices — for work have expanded their use of technology more than most people realize. How many devices do you think a typical...

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Blog:The Strategy Of Consumerization Was One Factor In HP's Decision To Keep PSG

HP made the right decision today to keep the Personal Systems Group. Beyond the reasons cited, supply chain and sales synergy and expense of spinning out, it's also crucial for HP to remain in...

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Blog:Solving The Duplicate Address Book Problem Is One Of The Drivers For Development Of Personal Cloud

At yesterday’s HP Summit 2011, CEO Leo Apotheker made a public case for personal cloud — online services that work together to orchestrate and deliver work and personal information across...

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Blog:Upcoming Forrester Webinar — Windows: The Next Five Years

Microsoft Windows will power just one-third of personal computing devices sold during 2012. Say what? Over the past five years, the transition to mobile devices has transformed Microsoft’s...

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Report:Consumerization Will Erase Boundaries Between Corporate And Consumer Technology Markets

Vendor Strategists Must Overhaul Business Units And Products Aimed At Information Workers

Execs plotting new information and communications technology (ICT) products and services face changing information worker behaviors driven by five innovations that empower users to provision and use...

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Blog:Do info workers prefer iPads or Windows 8 tablets? Let's ask them! And other interesting questions...

For our Forrsights Workforce survey, Forrester annually surveys information workers.* I’m leading final preparation of our Forrsights Workforce survey focused on end user hardware and aimed at...

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Blog:Amazon’s Cloud Drive Is The First Step To Being A Personal Cloud Ecosystem Player

Today, Amazon announced the Amazon Cloud Drive. I think it is the first salvo in a series of steps that will lead Amazon to compete directly for the primary computing platform for individuals, as an...

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Blog:Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise: 1/5 Of Global Info Workers Use Apple Products For Work!

Have you noticed an increased presence of Apple products in public spaces and workspaces in the last few years? Turns out that 21% of information workers are using one or more Apple products for...

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Report:Computing Futures 2016: How Hardware Advances Will Shift Vendor Prospects

CPUs, Disks, Sensors, And Displays Change Dramatically In The Next Five Years

Hardware innovation will continue to roil the tech ecosystem through 2016, forcing vendor strategists at software and services firms to adjust continuously to new hardware capabilities, plus the new...

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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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Report:Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise And Reshapes The Markets For Personal Devices At Work

More Than 21% Of Information Workers Use Apple Products For Work

Apple's products are much more visible in business environments than they used to be. To quantify Apple's business presence, Forrester surveyed almost 10,000 information workers — workers that...

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