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Asia Pacific Technographics®
For the past seven years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. As in recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online and...
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....

Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...
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Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...
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Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...
Latin American Consumer Technographics®
Over the past couple of years, Latin America has risen on many global companies' priority lists of new markets to focus on and understand. Given the meteoric rise of social networks like orkut and...

Talk of "the year of mobile" is not only passé but also irrelevant. The disruptive forces of mobile arrived more than two years ago and will fundamentally change businesses in the decades to...

The Impact Of Media Fragmentation Patterns On Communication Strategy
Consumers across Europe are embracing new media platforms that change the way they consume content. This year's European Technographics® data shows a continuous growth in the amount of time...
The Convenience Quotient Of Mobile Services: A Facebook Case Study
Although a majority of consumers still prefer the traditional PC to a mobile phone when performing any task related to eBusiness, our research shows that mobile penetration continues to rise....
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...

Mobile Activities And Mobile Internet In Asia Pacific And Across The Globe
Mobile phones in Asia Pacific are mainstream, and adoption of more advanced mobile activities such as mobile Internet, social networking, and mCommerce is widespread. In fact, consumers in Asia...
Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition
Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...
The Lessons To Learn From Gaming, Mobile's Most Advanced Content Market
The Western European mobile gaming market is set to grow from €764 million at the end of 2010 to €1.46 billion by the end of 2015. Growth will come from a combination of a rise in the...
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Mobile Media And Messaging Forecast (Western Europe): Total SMS and MMS volume. Usage of and revenue generated from ring tones and ringback tones, mobile gaming, and mobile video. Distribution of the...
Business models and rights issues have both distorted and fragmented the consumer digital music experience and products. A new generation of 360-degree music services is emerging that leverages cloud...
Forrester recently launched its Latin American Technographics® research to help companies understand the emerging offline and online trends of consumers in Brazil and Mexico. This report is...
A Reality Check On European Video Consumption
While the PC has now emerged as a popular platform for video consumption among European Internet users, the TV is still the primary platform. And with mobile video still nascent, a substantial...

Assess Capabilities, Not Intent, To Benchmark Competitors Or Potential Partners
At every new product launch, Apple secures enormous attention, in part due to Apple's cultivated mystique. Forrester advises firms to see through the magic by using threat analysis to predict what...
The mobile industry is in full swing. Its center of gravity is shifting from hardware to software, from voice to data and services, and from traditional telecom stakeholders to new entrants. Google's...
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Mobile Media And Messaging Forecast (US): Usage and volume of SMS and MMS, segmenting SMS into application SMS and P2P SMS. Includes usage and revenue generated from categories of mobile media such...
2010 will be a key transition year at the start of the mobile decade — not only will we start moving toward more mainstream mobile services audiences but a strategic shift will also take place....
The adoption of digital music differs greatly in different regions across the globe, presenting unique sets of challenges and opportunities. Europeans, for instance, are more active than Americans in...
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Digital Music Sales Forecast (US): Number of music buyers and total spending by the purchase format, online, offline, digital subscription, and digital download, including mobile OTA and sideload....
The amount of time that US adults spend listening to radio has been on the decline. The trend is especially marked among young adults, who have taken to other audio platforms at a much greater rate....
The mobile revolution is only just getting started. Consumers will continue to shift their attitudes toward mobile phones — perceiving them not only as communication tools but also increasingly...