With the proposed Motorola acquisition, Google risks straining its relationships with other smartphone makers who rely on Android, wrote Charles Golvin, a Forrester Research consumer product analyst, in an online report.
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The new distribution model will also help Good meet increased demand for its product, says Think Equity Partners analyst Pablo Perez-Fernandez.
The Location Analytics product is directly integrated to standard business analyst tools such as IBM Cognos and Microsoft Office.
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Companies are increasingly copying one another just to keep the product pipeline full, notes Morgan Stanley analyst Michael Steib.
That will become a serious drawback as video-on-demand quickly becomes a standard product, says Craig Moffett, an analyst at Sanford C.
The shortcomings of some pretty widely used MS apps have moved a former Microsoft analyst to help produce a product designed to disrupt them.
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Skechers offered investors a glimpse of new products to be released in coming months, and demonstrated the evolution of their Shape-Ups product line, according to Wedbush Securities analyst Camilo Lyon.
D. is a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research serving Consumer Product Strategy professionals.
James McQuivey is a Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research serving Consumer Product Strategy professionals.
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"I think people were assuming that the presentation would be about the new product, " says Albert Rauch, an analyst at A.G.
This upbeat data seems to be crossing swords with many analyst expectations for UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures that are due on Friday.
"They didn't understand how much demand they would create with this new product, " says John Spooner, an analyst with Technology Business Research of Hampton, N.
"It has been more than a decade since there was a truly successful consumer product, " says Andrew Haskins, an analyst at James Capel Pacific in Tokyo.
"These manufacturers would rather not have to send a truck to your home if something goes wrong with their product, " says Tony Massimini , an analyst with Semico Research in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Sarah Rotman Epps is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professionals.
Thomas Husson is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, serving Consumer Product Strategy professionals.
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Tony Costa is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professoinals.
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James Staten is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professionals.
Meanwhile, it's still too early to tell whether netbooks have created a new global product segment or cannibalized traditional ones, says Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa.
"It is fully conceivable that this product will be terminated, " wrote Timothy Anderson, an analyst at Sanford C.
The RBI said that India's gaping current account deficit--which analyst expect to exceed 6% of gross domestic product in the current fiscal year through March--was another obstacle to cutting rates.
"There are a number of markets where they can enter and have impact that are a logical extension for their condo product, " said Robert Curran, a home-building analyst with Fitch Ratings.
"You can't simply go into China, open the doors, and say 'Here's our product, go play it', " said Edward Williams, analyst at BMO Capital Markets.
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However, one analyst suggested there would be significant demand for such a product if Microsoft was able to overcome the hurdles involved in bringing it to fruition.
Lower product costs should also help PVH in the coming months, says Deutsche Bank analyst Dave Weiner.
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This time around two-thirds of Cat's product line is for economic sectors that have been in recession, estimates machinery analyst John McGinty of Credit Suisse First Boston.
"If you give a customer a good quality product, you can charge a premium price, " says Janice Meyer, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.
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