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Report:Don't Confuse Tablet And Mobile Marketing

Contextual Marketing Demands A Unique Approach To Tablets

Too many marketing leaders still lump tablets and smartphones in the same mobile bucket. That's a mistake. Why? Because tablets are not primarily mobile devices. Instead, they are mostly used within...

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Report:Mobile App Discovery: Best Practices To Promote Your App

Most brands would love to have their apps among the top 25 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store or Google Play. With more than one million apps available, there's a great risk that your app...

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Report:How Extended Packaging Will Redefine Relationships Among Brands, Retailers, And Customers

A European Perspective On Mobile Bar Codes

You've seen them everywhere: in the corners of print ads, across billboards, on buses, or in pieces of direct mail — those small blocks of even smaller squares. Marketers are increasingly using...

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Report:The European Tablet Landscape

A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

2012 was undoubtedly a pivotal year for tablets. With double-digit growth in tablet uptake across Western Europe, about one in seven online Europeans now owns a tablet. And with further double-digit...

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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:2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

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:How To Start Bridging The Mobile Monetization Gap

Use Mobile Engagement To Extend Existing Business Models

Facebook, Groupon, Pandora, Path, Rovio, and Twitter are companies that get a lot of media or investor attention and have a common denominator: Each has a large mobile audience but an unproven...

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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: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:Forrester's Mobile Maturity Model

Forrester's Framework Benchmarks Mobile Capabilities And Provides A Road Map For Progress

Everyone needs a mobile strategy, but what is the right approach and what are the appropriate objectives and metrics? To help product strategists and executives in charge of defining their company's...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

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...

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Report:Drive Product Innovation To Mature Your Mobile Strategy

Mobility is at the core of global digital disruption trends, and product strategists are best positioned to anticipate how smartphones open up new opportunities for product and service innovation. To...

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Report:2012 Mobile Trends For CPS Professionals

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...

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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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Report:iPhone 4S Cements Apple's Product Strategy Leadership Position

Apple's Cross-Device Product Strategy Drives Product Differentiation And Customer Loyalty

Let's face it: Many observers, anticipating a redesign and a raft of hardware innovations, reacted with disappointment to Apple's iPhone 4S unveiling. Does it matter? No. Why? Because Apple launched...

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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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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:The Global Mainstreaming Of Smartphones

Understanding Global Smartphone Adoption Today And Tomorrow

In a global population that exceeds 5 billion subscriptions, consumer product strategists recognize that smartphones are a niche today. Yet in the US and in some European countries, smartphone...

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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: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: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:Google Wallet Is Not About Mobile Payments

Google's statement that mobile payments are just getting started is correct. Its announcement on May 26, 2011, was another early salvo in what will be a long and hard-fought battle to change...

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Report:Why The "Web Versus Application" Debate Is Irrelevant To Your Mobile Product Strategy

Consumer product strategists designing product experiences for mobile phones and smartphones must decide on their development priorities across the mobile Web and applications. While some believe...

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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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