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The convergence of broadcast, broadband and mobile technologies is creating a dynamic content everywhere consumer market context, forcing transformation and restructuring in the consumer electronics, technology, telecoms and media industries.

The online and mobile advertising industries are set for dramatic changes. This report makes an in-depth study, looking at market size and forecasts, segments, growth forecasts, drivers and resistors, emerging models, and key player positioning.

The music industry landscape is undergoing major structural changes. The value chain is expanding to include players from other arenas into music distribution, and business models are transforming to adapt to changing market demands.

Despite widespread piracy, strong growth in digital music sales is set to offset further declines in the physical format. New legitimate music services are emerging as a result of increasing consumer demand for access to music 'anywhere, anytime'.

The demands placed on organizations' networks have never been greater. Increasing data traffic and the more distributed use of computing make the network ever more business critical, and Internet-based services are becoming increasingly important.

Enterprises are increasingly mobilizing their applications onto mobile devices to aid their sale and service field forces who are rarely or never at their desks. Unified comms are an opportunity for enterprises to revolutionize their work processes.

The SMB market is huge and, until recently, had not invested a great deal in IT nor had much attention from vendors. With growth in enterprise IT spending now slowing, the SMB sector offers a vendors a rich source of new revenue opportunities.

IT outsourcing is a growing market, with the number of firms using outsourcing for one or more of their operations increasing. Demand for IT outsourcing is strong in both established and new IT areas, but roadblocks to wider adoption still remain.

Business Process Outsourcing is the fastest growing segment of IT outsourcing, as organizations look to outsource business processes and focus on core competencies, derive cost savings, improve quality, technology flexibility and time to market.

IT majors need a new rallying cry to get big businesses and wider user communities excited about new types of IT systems, driving IT spend across the wider economy. Leading IT vendors agree that Business Intelligence is that rallying cry.

The convergence of broadcast, broadband and mobile technologies is creating a dynamic 'content everywhere' consumer market context, forcing major transformation in the Pay TV industry through adoption of OTT interactive engagement strategies.

As we move towards the so-called cashless society, and consumers increasingly want the ability to make payments online and on their mobile phones safe in the knowledge that transactions are secure the face of the payments landscape is changing.

The lines have become more and more blurred between the mobile phone industry and computer industry with consumers demanding more portability and mobility, processing capability and access to data and applications anywhere and at any time.

Convergence is ongoing across the communications and entertainment markets. Video content is now accessible via numerous channels, beyond traditional services such as terrestrial, cable and satellite and towards online and mobile platforms.

Representing a third of total social networking direct revenues, there is a substantial growth opportunity in the still fragmented social gaming market. Various players including major entertainment companies are becoming more involved in the space.