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  • Microsoft trumps Apple in branding, takes top spot

    Microsoft came out on top in a brand survey conducted by Forrester Research, beating often-trumpeted Apple because of Microsoft's ubiquity in consumers' lives and its cross-generational appeal.

    Written by Gregg Keizer08 Jan. 14 18:01
  • Gartner: Global IT spending will grow slightly in 2014

    Global spending on IT and telecom products and services will grow 3.1 percent between 2013 and 2014, compared to just 0.4 percent a year earlier, with enterprise software spending driving much of the growth, according to Gartner projections.

    Written by Grant Gross06 Jan. 14 16:10
  • Global IT spending outlook 'better but subpar' for 2014, Forrester says

    Global spending on technology will rise 6.2 percent in U.S. dollars to US$2.22 trillion in 2014, helped by an improving economy and growing interest in areas such as mobility and cloud computing, according to new data from Forrester Research.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus02 Jan. 14 16:22
  • How the 'modern man' will wear technology

    Forrester takes a page from da Vinci to paint an image of what the modern man will don in terms of wearable technology.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige11 Dec. 13 19:01
  • Tech spending slows, thanks to Congress

    Forrester Research has lowered its projection for tech spending growth this year from 5.7% to 3.9%, and it attributes the slowdown mostly to moves in Congress.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau04 Nov. 13 10:06
  • Tech spending hurt this year by Congress

    Tech spending in the U.S. will increase by a smaller amount this year than earlier predicted, Forrester Research said today. And it blames Congress for the forecast decline.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau28 Oct. 13 20:08
  • Advanced mobile customer apps are target of Kofax software

    Business interactions with customers who increasingly rely on mobile devices are especially complex. The new version of Kofax's TotalAgility has been extended to let businesses create and manage so-called "customer facing" mobile apps.

    Written by John Cox10 Oct. 13 19:10
  • VM-based storage platform scales out to multiple sites

    Enterprises that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage.

    Written by Stephen Lawson08 Oct. 13 17:40
  • 5 Things You Need to Know About Geofencing

    This location-based mobile service lets marketers send messages to smartphone users when they enter a defined geographic area, such as a shopping mall.

    Written by Lauren Brousell28 Aug. 13 12:50
  • Forrester: Survey data dispels 'myths' about software industry trends in 2013

    Enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications may run the core operations of companies around the world, but enterprises are placing a higher priority in 2013 on other types of software, in particular business intelligence (BI), according to a new Forrester Research survey.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus07 Aug. 13 18:33
  • Time for Chromebooks in the enterprise?

    Chromebooks, the stripped down "laptops" running Google's web-focused Chrome OS, have almost no presence in the market, after two years. But a new report from Forrester Research says these "post-PC" devices could fill a niche, or more than one, in the enterprise.

    Written by John Cox29 July 13 18:06
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