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Report:Mobile Payments Enter A Disruptive Phase

The pace of innovation in mobile payments is accelerating. 2011 is finally the year when Near Field Communication (NFC) will reach the hands of millions of consumers, while initiatives in the digital...

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Report:Mobile Location Becomes Invisible

No Longer A Service, Location Will Be Embedded In Mobile Products

eBay's recent acquisition of Where and Groupon's acquisition of Whrrl show how two Internet pure players looking to develop mobile transactions plan to integrate new location-based features into...

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Report:2013 Mobile Trends For Marketers

Multiyear Strategies And Larger Investments Define This Year

With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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Report:Product Strategists At Telcos Shouldn't Obsess About "Bit Pipe Syndrome"

More Innovation Is Needed, But Fundamental Connectivity Remains A Valuable Service

Product strategists in various industries tend to dismiss telcos' role in service innovation, focusing instead on disruptors such as Google and Apple. It is true that new entrants and over-the-top...

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Client Inquiry:MVNO Overview In Europe

What kinds of companies are launching mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Europe? What makes an MVNO successful?

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Report:NFC: What Lies Beyond Contactless Payments

How NFC Will Enable New Product Experiences By Bridging The Physical And Digital Worlds

Forrester estimates that close to 100 million Near Field Communication (NFC) devices will ship in 2012. As it finally moves past the chicken-or-egg stalemate of the past five years, the contactless...

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Report:Mobile World Congress 2011: Going Beyond Mobile

Internet Innovation Is Incubating In The Mobile Crucible

The future of the Internet is now being shaped on new mobile networks and ever smarter mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. The 2011 edition of Mobile World Congress (MWC) showcased the future of...

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Report:Case Study: PagesJaunes Embraces The Local Social Web To Drive Mobile Product Innovation

The French Yellow Pages Firm Is Turning Mobile Market Disruption Into Competitive Advantage

Local and social trends are converging and are strong mobile catalysts: These factors have accelerated the importance of mobile to PagesJaunes and its customers. The French yellow pages company has...

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Report:UK Telecom Operators Join Forces To Fight Market Disruption

Product Strategists Should Employ Joint Ventures To Avoid Irrelevance

On June 16, 2011, the main UK telecom operators — Everything Everywhere, Telefónica UK, and Vodafone — announced they would form a mobile marketing and payments joint venture. This...

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Report:2011 Mobile Trends

For consumer product strategy professionals who want to engage with their customers in the mobile environment, navigating the complex mobile ecosystem with its many different devices, platforms, and...

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Report:Gambling: Bet On Mobile Products And Services

After so many years of unmet expectations, gambling is finally going mobile. Although it's not yet the promised El Dorado, and despite the fact that competition is likely to be fiercer in a complex...

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Report:Best Practices: How To Implement A Mobile Product And Service Road Map

After jumping on the iPhone and Android app bandwagons, some global brands are beginning to realize that participating in the fragmented world of mobile comes at a high cost. Mixing the right mobile...

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Report:The Mobile Application Life Cycle

Refine Your App Strategy In Anticipation Of The Second Wave

The Apple App Store and Google Play have recently passed the threshold of 40 billion cumulative apps downloaded. The smartphone boom is driving exploding usage of mobile apps across the globe....

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Report:Western European Mobile Forecast, 2011 To 2016

Product Strategists In All Industries Must Contend With The Disruption Caused By Mobile

The European mobile market will continue booming in the next five years. Forrester expects smartphone and mobile Internet penetration rates to reach 67% and 54%, respectively, by the end of 2016. To...

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