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“Apple will decline in the post Steve Jobs era,” writes Forrester Research Chairman and CEO George Colony in a new blog post provocatively entitled “Apple = Sony.” While Apple continues to report record earnings, “Apple’s momentum will carry it for 24-48 months,” writes Colony. “But without the arrival of a new charismatic leader it will [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that Forrester Chief Financial Officer Michael A. Doyle will speak at Baird’s 2012 Growth Stock Conference, on Thursday, May 10, 2012. Michael Doyle will address the conference attendees on Thursday, May 10, 2012, at the Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago, Ill., at 12:40 p.m. Central. For more information and [...]

Forrester Research forecasts in a just-published report that in 2016 there will be 375 million tablets purchased globally and 760 million tablets in use. This growth — from 56 million sold in 2011 — represents a 46% compound annual growth rate. The consumerization of IT is not a trend Forrester sees going away: By 2016, [...]

Google’s Project Glass is just the start. A new Forrester report argues that “like mobile and tablets today, in three years, wearable computing devices will matter to every product strategist.” Wearables will “enter the mainstream by exploiting the relative strengths of the big five platforms” of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, writes Forrester Senior [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 12, 2012 . . . Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) will broadcast its first-quarter 2012 conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, April 26, 2012. The call will be available at forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log in to forrester.com at least 15 [...]

Tablets are displacing PCs and single-purpose devices, acting as a major disruptor in the digital home, according to a new Forrester report. In fact, 35% of US tablet owners use their laptops less frequently since getting a tablet, and 45% have no plans to buy an eReader now that they own a tablet. This is [...]

Tablets are displacing PCs and single-purpose devices, acting as a major disruptor in the digital home, according to a new Forrester report. In fact, 35% of US tablet owners use their laptops less frequently since getting a tablet, and 45% have no plans to buy an eReader now that they own a tablet. This is [...]

<p>With the US economy showing signs of improvement, the US tech market has been rejuvenated, according to a new US tech market forecast from Forrester, which is forecasting US tech market growth of 7.5% in 2012. This is up from the 6.6% growth projected in November 2011. For 2013, Forrester is forecasting 8.3% growth. Including [...]

Forrester Research Senior Analyst Sarah Rotman Epps blogs about the release of the Nokia/Microsoft Lumia 900: “The smartphone market is ripe for disruption — Palm is dead, Symbian is sunsetting, RIM is faltering, and every player in the ecosystem (other than Google and Apple) want a third player to wedge between Google and Apple. Windows [...]

Latin Americans are some of the most voracious users of social media, and according to a new Forrester Research report, that love affair with social also extends to mobile. Fifty-four percent of online Mexicans living in metropolitan areas and 38% of online Brazilians living in metro areas regularly connect with others via social networks like [...]

Forrester gives a thumbs up to the new iPad: “Apple’s insistence on blending hardware innovation with services innovation will keep the iPad at the front of the tablet pack for the forseeable future,” writes Forrester Research Senior Analyst Sarah Rotman Epps. Forrester forecasts that 112 million Americans — one-third of US adults — and 106 million Europeans will [...]

More than 112 million Americans — one-third of the US adult population — will own a tablet by 2016 according to a new Forrester Research report released today. With Apple reportedly set to announce its next-generation iPad tomorrow, the Forrester report shows no significant Android challenger to Apple’s dominance of the tablet market: Our latest [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that Chief Financial Officer Michael A. Doyle will speak at the Credit Suisse 14th Annual Global Services Conference on Monday, March 12, 2012. Michael Doyle will address the conference attendees at the Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz., at 4:00 p.m. Mountain time.

A joint ANA (Association of National Advertisers) and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) survey of more than 100 national advertisers illustrates a renewed belief in the effectiveness of television advertising. Compared with 2010, the number of respondents who believe TV ads have become more effective in the past two years has tripled. In addition, respondents express a growing confidence [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced its 2011 fourth-quarter and full-year financial results. The company also announced that it has instituted a new quarterly dividend, with the first dividend of $0.14 per share to be payable March 21, 2012, to shareholders of record on March 7, 2012. Fourth-Quarter Financial Performance Total revenues were $74.7 [...]

Chief marketing officers (CMOs) want to have greater influence in setting business strategy, and they feel an increasing need to raise their technology IQ, according to a new global CMO survey by Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). “The Evolved CMO 2012” report is based on a survey of nearly [...]

Cambridge, Mass., January 18, 2012 . . . Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) will broadcast its fourth-quarter and full-year 2011 conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, February 9, 2012. The call will be available at forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log in to forrester.com at [...]

Today, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) honored the seven final 2011 Forrester Groundswell Award winners for excellence in effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational or business goal. Winners of the fifth annual Forrester Groundswell Awards in the International Business-to-Consumer (B2C) division were honored at Forrester’s Marketing & Strategy Forum EMEA in London. [...]

Today, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) honored 12 Forrester Groundswell Award winners for excellence in effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational or business goal. The winners were announced at the Forrester Consumer Forum in Chicago. The fifth annual Forrester Groundswell Awards support and recognize the principles outlined in the Forrester books Groundswell: [...]