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Chat Mobility with Me (Kevin Benedict) on December 7th

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Tweet Meet Dec. 7th, 9:30 AM EST I just read about a company that conducts weekly Twitter chats with their community and thought that was a great idea.  Is anyone interested?  It will be interesting to attempt to communicate about a complex topic such as enterprise mobility in 140 characters, but I am always up for a challenge! For those interested in chatting with me via Twitter, let's all gather on Twitter at the hashtag #kbmobile next Friday, December 7th at 9:30 AM EST and see how it goes :-) Cheers! ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant Read The Future of Work Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the comp

Connecting the Strategic to the Tactical - Enterprise Mobility

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There is a term, revolution in military affairs , that when searched brings up many interesting articles that directly relate to enterprise mobility and business transformation.  One article in particular found at http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/sept/military.htm  and written by Sharjeel Rizwan offers deep insights. Here is one of the article concepts as interpreted by me - mobile technologies permit a direct connection and data exchange between the strategic and the tactical levels of an organization.  Many layers of  management hierarchy, IT infrastructure and paper based reporting processes can be eliminated and huge savings and speed of data delivery can occur with mobile technologies.  These capabilities permit changes in processes, organizations and strategies, which enables agility, speed, productivity increases and efficiency gains. Let me share a quote from Matt Green, VP of Product Management with Software AG, "Imagine a single activity stream that carries an aler

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read SMAC News Weekly Within the last three months, iPhone 5 sales boosted Apple to the number one spot in the U.S. market, with handsets running on Apple’s iOS operating system accounting for 48.1 percent of smartphone sales in the country, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.   Read Original Content The Nokia Lumia 920 is starting to make some rumbles in the smartphone market, selling out on Amazon.com and seeing some wait times on AT&T for some versions. Read Original Content According to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, Android has claimed a domin

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read SMAC News Weekly A new Pew Research report found that 31 percent of cellphone users had used their device to access health information. That was nearly double the 17 percent who said they did so two years ago. Read Original Content A new report from Juniper is the latest in a flurry of forecasts about the role smart wearable devices, or wearables will play in the mobile technology market over the next few years. Juniper says wearables will be a $1.5 billion market by 2014, up from just $800 million this year. Read Original Content A new survey on Mobile

Mobility, Business Transformation and the Fifth Dimension

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Enterprise mobility is not simply a new set of gadgets and technologies for communications.  Enterprise mobility is transformational.  Business transformation is a process that impacts at least four major areas: •          Concepts •          Processes •          Organizations •          Technologies Most often changes and innovations in any one of these areas, invites change in all of the areas.  Is your company re-thinking concepts, processes, organizations and technologies because of the capabilities mobile and SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) solutions have made possible? Historically militaries have focused on four dimensions of warfare: land, sea, air and space.  They have focused all of their attention on building military platforms (guns, tanks, ships, aircraft, missiles, etc.) that work in these physical environments.  Today they have added a fifth dimension – information.  Today, modern militaries are focused on information-based capabi

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read SMAC News Weekly Smartdevices continue to gain momentum and according to Tapjoy’s recent study, m-commerce is expected to globally explode by 300 percent. Read Original Content U.S. social media ad revenues are expected to reach $9.2 billion in 2016, up from $4.6 billion in 2012, representing a compound annual growth rate of 19.2 percent, according to the fall update of the BIA/Kelsey’s U.S. Local Media Forecast. Read Original Content Mobile payment

Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of November 25, 2012

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In this update on "What's New in HTML5" the debate around the merits of HTML5 continues as Brightcove's CEO Jeremy Allaire says Mark Zuckerberg was "dead wrong" about HTML5. Now for the news... Nokia’s new free cloud-based map service, HERE, will be available on multiple operating systems, including an HTML5 version for Apple’s iOS.   Read Original Content Mobile social gaming platform GREE is expanding its compatibility with HTML5 and will roll out the enhanced HTML5 functionality worldwide in open beta this month.   Read Original Content Caplin Systems has launched a Web-trading tool, Caplin Trader 3, built entirely in HTML5 to provide support for all platforms from one codebase.   Read Original Content The New York Times has redesigned its crosswords page with a new HTML5 version to enable game play within the browser, allowing players to access puzzles without leaving the NYTimes.com website.   Read Original Content BoosterMedia provides an

Speed, Mobility and Online Sales

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I read an article in the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) today titled, Big-Box Stores Wrestle E-Commerce Gorilla .  Here is an interesting excerpt, "Amazon sells many of the same products as big-box stores but can undercut them on prices due to lower overhead.  It also uses computer algorithms to adjust prices in real time .  Traditional retailers often can't move as rapidly because online prices must match those in stores."  I would like to also point out that an increasing amount of Amazon's sales are coming from mobile devices.  That means Amazon stands to benefit from the show-rooming trend where customers search online for deals while in big-box stores. Note the mention of "real-time" and "rapidly" in the excerpt.  Amazon is beating big-box retailers on speed, real-time analytics, business strategies and dynamic responses.  Yesterday, I wrote an article titled, Time-Space Compression and Enterprise Mobility .   In this article I discussed dromolo

M2M News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read SMAC News Weekly Compass Intelligence, a global consulting and market analytics firm, released its latest forecast of the M2M market today. The cellular M2M market will reach 33.3 million connections in the U.S. in 2012 and grow to 114.7 million connections by 2016 with an annual growth rate of over 36 percent. Read Original Content Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas last month insti

Time-Space Compression and Mobile Strategies - Video Comments

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I have been doing a lot of research lately on technology trends and the impact of enterprise mobility on the way companies conduct business.  I am particularly focused on business transformation and mobility.  In the course of this research, I began studying time-space compression and how mobility relates to it.  In this Video Comments I share my latest research and observations in this area.  Video Link: http://youtu.be/lrbdR8WJCtM ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant Read The Future of Work Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

SMAC News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week. Each of us is impacted by SMAC.  We all use mobile devices and social networking solutions like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  We use search engines, maps and weather apps, all of which use analytics and are in the cloud.  SMAC is the combination of all of these trends coming together on mobile devices.  This convergence is impacting businesses in many different ways.  We will do our best to capture these by reporting on the SMAC trends, numbers and forecasts in this weekly newsletter. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly If 2012 was the year of big data hype, interest and pilot projects, 2013 will bring production deployments, early returns on investment and a bit of disruption. By 2

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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The Field Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read SMAC News Weekly Survey technology firm Terrametrix is utilizing mobile mapping system StreetMapper to perform detailed surveys of 7,250 bridges throughout the state of California.   Read Original Content In 2011, 21 million consumers used smartphones to scan a QR barcode, and the number is forecast to increase to 26 million.   Read Original Content City officials in Hattiesburg, Mississippi used National GIS Day to explain to residents how GIS technology provides access to statistical and physical data to city planners to aid in planning for proposed

Time-Space Compression and Enterprise Mobility

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There is a time to recognize sea change and to take action.  That time is now for developing an enterprise-wide mobile strategy and to start implementing enterprise mobility.  I think companies in the past couple of years have not been sure the role mobility would play in their specific company, markets and industries, however it should be clearer now.  It is time to act and be bold. I propose that mobility is just the beginning.  Mobility is part of a historic time-space compression shift that is impacting all people and industries.  It is important for us to understand the impact this shift will have on each of our companies. Paul Virilio wrote a great deal about time and speed, and time-space compression.  He calls the science of speed dromology , and strategies around time chronostrategy .  He proposed that the speed at which something happens may change its essential nature.  His argument is - that which moves with speed quickly comes to dominate that which is slower .  The

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 92 percent of South Australian children aged 5-14 access the Internet, up from 65 percent in 2006, and 31 percent now have mobile phones. Read Original Content Japan Display Incorporated has unveiled three new prototype displays, combining mobile display technologies from Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi.   Read Original Content China Unicom’s chairman states the iPhone 5 is currently being tested by authorities, and the company will begin selling the device once it has been approved.   Read Original Conte