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60 percent of European online consumers are taking part in Social Computing activities such as reading or writing blogs, listening to podcasts, setting up RSS feeds, reading and writing online customer reviews, or taking part in social networking sites, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). However, the survey of more [...]

More financial services companies are demonstrating that they have their customers’ best interests at heart, according to Forrester Research, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: FORR) fourth annual customer advocacy scorecard. Based on a survey of 5,000 US consumers, the rankings evaluated 53 leading US banks, brokerages, insurers, and credit card issuers. The scorecard was released today at Forrester’s [...]

The health of the US technology sector took a dip in Q1 2007, according to the Forrester/ITAA US Tech Sector Index. The latest quarterly index from Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) and the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) dropped 2.6 points to 125.1, the first decline in a year. Overall, the index remains four points [...]

By the end of 2008, there will be more than one billion personal computers in use worldwide, according to a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). With PC use growing rapidly in emerging markets and high-profile programs in place to reach previously untapped markets, Forrester predicts that there will be more than two [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Finance Forum 2007: Beating The Competition With Superior Customer Experiences With more access to information, more sensitivity to price, and less sensitivity to advertising, consumers are getting harder to win and keep. Even as traditional marketing loses its power to bring prospects in through the front door, weak delivery [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) announced today that its just-concluded IT Forum 2007: Delivering Business Results Through IT Excellence demonstrated to professionals across the IT organization — including CIOs, application developers, enterprise architects, and infrastructure professionals — the role they must play in integrating IT and business and transitioning their organization from IT to business [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that, as anticipated, it had received an additional Staff Determination letter from the Listing Qualifications department of The Nasdaq Stock Market stating that the company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(14) because it did not file its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter [...]

The paid video download market is a dead end, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will peak in 2007, generating $279 million in revenue, up from $98 million last year. Instead, advertising models will drive the online video market. In the past year, companies [...]

As the Internet grows up, computers have moved over to make room for clothing at the top of the sales list. According to the first part of The State of Retailing Online 2007, the tenth annual Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) of 170 retailers, Americans last year spent more online on [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Finance Forum 2007: Beating The Competition With Superior Customer Experiences With more access to information, more sensitivity to price, and less sensitivity to advertising, consumers are getting harder to win and keep. Even as traditional marketing loses its power to bring prospects in through the front door, weak delivery [...]

Despite a growing awareness that environmental concerns will impact their future IT operations, the vast majority of large companies have yet to build “green IT” requirements into how they buy and use technology, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). A Forrester survey of 124 IT operations and procurement professionals in [...]

The Society for Information Management (SIM) — a community of more than 3,000 of the information technology (IT) industry’s CIOs, senior IT executives, prominent academicians, consultants, and other IT leaders — and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced a new form of relationship to help each other share knowledge, trends, and insights among the [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced total revenues for its first fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2007 of $47.3 million, an increase of 17 percent from last year’s first quarter. The company also reported that Forrester ended the quarter with cash and marketable securities of $228.4 million, compared with $207.8 million at the end [...]

Fifty-one percent of online Hispanics in the US prefer to be offered Spanish-language Web sites, and 23 percent must have Spanish online, according to a new Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Hispanic Consumer Technographics® report. Forty-nine percent of Hispanic adults — or 13.9 million people — are online at least monthly, per Forrester, up from [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) IT Forum 2007: Delivering Business Results Through IT Excellence What must the IT, business, and vendor communities do to enable IT excellence? CIOs strive to operate IT as a business, using business metrics to market IT more effectively. But operational excellence alone does not suffice — IT must also [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that it will request a hearing before the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel in response to the receipt of a Nasdaq Staff Determination letter indicating that the company is not in compliance with the filing requirements for continued listing as set forth in Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(14). As anticipated, the [...]

The Forrester/ITAA Tech Sector Index — which measures the health of the US technology industry — reached its highest level in five and a half years in Q4 2006, rising two points to 128.8. The latest quarterly index from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) and the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) indicates continued slow [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) IT Forum 2007: Delivering Business Results Through IT Excellence What must the IT, business, and vendor communities do to enable IT excellence? CIOs strive to operate IT as a business, using business metrics to market IT more effectively. But operational excellence alone does not suffice ¿ IT must also [...]

“Security spending in Europe will remain healthy in 2007 among enterprises and SMBs alike, with enterprises leading the charge,” said Bill Nagel, one of the authors of the report. “Nearly 80% of those firms that are already using security software plan to upgrade or add to that software this year. This means that the robust [...]