Android device makers, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and (catastrophically) HP (NYSE: HPQ) have made little dent so far in the tablet market, currently dominated by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and the iPad, and a new report out today from Forrester says that you may as well add Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to that…

Watch out, Apple: The Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet, widely expected to be released this September or October and to be cheaper than the iPad, will be the “only credible iPad competitor in the market” and will “completely disrupt the status quo,” Forrester says today in a new report. Forrester analysts…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has all but cornered the market for tablets in the U.S., say researchers at Forrester, who predict that its iPad will take 80 percent of all tablet sales this year in North America. But that’s not entirely the case in Europe, it seems.

Given Google’s core search business and ad-based revenue model, why is the company making the major investment that is the recently-announced *Google* Wallet—an NFC-based mobile payments solution? Because Google’s product strategists’ focus is not on the payment itself; it’s on all of the other elements that comprise a commerce experience…

Kicking off our paidContent 2011 conference at the Times Center on a beautiful spring morning, Forrester senior analyst Sarah Rotman Epps threw the tablet opportunity in to sharp relief for media owners…

People love to debate the merits of free vs. paid content. But overlooked in all this is the cost of access to that content—that’s where the action is. We’re paying more than we ever have to receive our movies, news and music, according to Forrester analyst James McQuivey. Here’s his…

Just last month, Forrester Research was sticking with its May forecast that sales of e-Readers would hit 2 million this year. Now it’s dramatically revising that estimate to 3 million units in 2009, predicting that 900,000 devices will be sold during the holiday season, that 40 percent of all sales…

And now for a not-so-negative online advertising forecast: Forrester Research is pegging the U.S. interactive ad market to reach $55 billion over the next five years—meaning marketers will go from spending just 12 percent of their total ad budgets online this year, to 21 percent by 2014. Search and display…

Forrester Research has bought rival tech and media analyst JupiterResearch along with its parent company, JUPR Holdings, from MCG Capital Corporation for $23 million in cash. The announcement was made by the Jordan, Edmiston Group, which managed the deal. In addition to the cash, the purchase also covers JupiterResearch’s liabilities.…