Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 25, 2014

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.

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Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Cyber Security News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly

Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here!

A weak spot in the IT market since the previous quarter has been slowing growth in mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), due partly to price erosion and a more mature installed base. IDC has lowered its forecast for total IT spending growth this year from 4.6 percent to 4.1 percent in constant currency, primarily as a result of downward revisions to mobile device forecasts. Read Original Content

Apple is requesting a retrial after a Californian jury ordered Samsung to pay the U.S. company $119 million in damages for infringing two of its patents.  Read Original Content

New research released by Counterpoint shows 87 percent of Americans were using smartphones at the end of the first quarter of 2014. Of those, Apple remains the top vendor.  Read Original Content

The cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications can actually meet or exceed the original cost and time to implement those systems. In their new report, “StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps”, 451 Research details the advantages of StarMobile’s app development tool and how it can drastically reduce the cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications. Download report here: http://starmobileinc.com/report-451research-starmobile-transforms-mobile-apps-into-enterprise-apps/

Kantar Worldpanel has released a new market analysis report on the smartphone market in different regions of the world. The data shows Android is winning heavily in a lot of areas and is maintaining and even still growing in some, while others take hits in various regions and only gain a few percentage points in others.  Read Original Content

Pyramid Research forecasts a 13.7 percent compound annual growth rate in unit sell-through from 2013 to 2018, resulting in a 2018 total of 1.9 billion units.  Read Original Content

LG ranked third in terms of revenues in the global mobile phone market in the first quarter of this year, behind Samsung and Apple, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

Both Android and iOS increased their dominance in the UK smartphone market during the three months ending April, at the expense of Blackberry.  That's according to the latest statistics from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech. Read Original Content

The smartphone market in Europe is becoming increasingly fragmented as global brands, such as Apple and Samsung, face competition from smaller manufacturers emerging from the East.  Read Original Content

According to a New Research Report from ReportsnReports.com, analysts forecast the Global Recruitment Software market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10.2 percent over the period 2013-2018. According to the report, the growth of the Global Recruitment Software market is driven by several factors.  Read Original Content

Philips will launch a range of smartphones and feature phones as the Dutch consumer electronics maker re-enters the extremely competitive and crowded Indian smartphone market, which is one of the fastest growing in the world.  Read Original Content

Waterford mobile technology player FeedHenry will see its focus on the U.S. market grow from 30 percent to 60 percent of its business by the end of next year through its focus on making it easier for businesses to deploy mobile clouds and go mobile-first.  Read Original Content

In the first quarter of 2014, Samsung's share dipped by 1.7 percentage points, to 30.2 percent.  Apple's share slipped 1.6 percentage points, to 15.5 percent, according to a recent report from IDC.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics Co. is planning to unveil a smart watch that works as a stand alone phone in the next few months.  Samsung’s watch phone will be able to make and receive calls without being tethered to a smartphone.  Read Original Content

T-Mobile US, along with its MetroPCS prepaid brand, surpassed Sprint and Sprint's MVNOs as the third-largest U.S. carrier in terms of smartphone volumes purchased in the first quarter, according to a new research report.  Read Original Content

Latest Articles on http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com

How Many Solutions Does it Take to Implement Enterprise Mobility?
Information Dominance as a Company's Mobile Strategy
Mobile Expert Interview: Mobile Labs' Dan McFall
Highlights from the Enterprise Mobility Focused Conference M6 Mobility xChange Last Week
Mobile Strategies They Don't Teach in Business Schools or Computer Science Labs
Insurance Disrupted - Crowdsourced Policies and Social Marketing

Webinars of Note (Recorded)

Rapidly extend any enterprise application to mobile devices without coding, APIs, or integration.
Virtualization ≠ Mobilization

Whitepapers of Note

A Comparison of the StarMobile MORPH Protocol vs. Traditional Remote Computing Protocols
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Managing BYOD and Legacy Systems
The Secret to Enterprise Mobile Application Adoption
Solving The Mobile Developer Scarcity Problem
StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps
The True Cost of Mobility

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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Editor

Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Cyber Security News Weekly – Week of May 25, 2014

Welcome to the Mobile Cyber Security News Weekly, our newest online newsletter. Mobile Cyber Security will focus on the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile and cyber security, mobile malware, mobile application management, cyber warfare (and more!) that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market trend information.

Also read Connected Globe 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

Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here!

China’s decision to suspend its involvement in a cyber security working group with the U.S. after being accused of commercial spying has threatened to undo efforts aimed at finding common ground to tackle hacking.  Read Original Content

Nokia has decided to launch a dedicated security unit that will act as its central office for security processes, partnerships and guide for developing product.  The new unit will help ensure new products have security baked in, enhance the portfolio of security products and services, and develop business models around telecom security.  Read Original Content

A recent survey showed 84 percent of organizations allow access to public cloud services like Dropbox and 65 percent don’t encrypt data between cloud and mobile devices.  Read Original Content

The True Cost of Mobility - Companies are under tremendous pressure to develop and deploy mobile apps for their business systems, yet the traditional approach to mobile app development typically costs $250K+ and takes 6+ months for a single app. Today IT professionals are exploring platforms that radically reduce costs and time-to-market for their mobile initiatives, especially around complex applications such as SAP, Oracle, or custom applications. Download the whitepaper - https://www.capriza.com/resources/whitepapers/?resource=true-cost-of-enterprise-mobility&adgroup=MES

Thirty-five percent of apps consist of malware, 80 percent of mobile apps pick location information, 82 percent can identify device ID, and 57 percent record the usage of the phones.  Read Original Content

The Korean government has developed a security chip to protect smartphones from hacking. The chip, dubbed MeeMo, can protect users’ password, official authentication and other private information from cybercrimes that target smartphones.  Read Original Content

According to reports, a brand new Android bug has been detected that allows harmful apps to take control of smartphone cameras and upload the images to an unknown server without the user's consent.  Read Original Content

According to Symantec's latest Norton Report, nearly half of mobile users don't take basic security precautions, such as passwords, security software or back-up files for their device and more than one-third of mobile device users experienced mobile cybercrime last year.  Read Original Content

Samsung and Apple have added fingerprint scanners, the most basic application of biometric security, to their phones. Senator Al Franken wants to warn Americans that fingerprint scanning is not as safe as you think. "Fingerprints are the opposite of secret. You leave them on countless objects that you touch throughout the day.”  Read Original Content

Samsung is taking smartphone security to a whole new level. The company intends to include Iris (Eye) Scanner Technology to its future smartphones to provide additional layer of security, says The WSJ.  Read Original Content

The International Business Times reported a forthcoming Facebook mobile app update will be able to collect and save data captured by your smartphone’s microphone--a development that privacy experts find worrisome.  Read Original Content

Latest Articles on http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com

How Many Solutions Does it Take to Implement Enterprise Mobility?
Information Dominance as a Company's Mobile Strategy
Mobile Expert Interview: Mobile Labs' Dan McFall
Highlights from the Enterprise Mobility Focused Conference M6 Mobility xChange Last Week
Mobile Strategies They Don't Teach in Business Schools or Computer Science Labs
Insurance Disrupted - Crowdsourced Policies and Social Marketing

Webinars of Note (Recorded)

Rapidly extend any enterprise application to mobile devices without coding, APIs, or integration.
Virtualization ≠ Mobilization

Whitepapers of Note

A Comparison of the StarMobile MORPH Protocol vs. Traditional Remote Computing Protocols
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Managing BYOD and Legacy Systems
The Secret to Enterprise Mobile Application Adoption
Solving The Mobile Developer Scarcity Problem
StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps
The True Cost of Mobility

************************************************************************

Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Editor

Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of May 25, 2014

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 Connected Globe News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Cyber Security News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here!

By 2019, 19.6 percent of all transactions made in the UK will be made by methods such as mobile payments, vouchers, coupons and PayPal, as opposed to 9.3 percent of transactions made today.  Read Original Content

Intuit has announced its acquisition of the mobile payment and bill management services company, Check, in a $360 million deal. A provider of mobile account management and bill payment software, Check joins a roster of financial services software offerings at Intuit that provide the technological backbone for billing, payroll, accounting, and financial management at small businesses across the U.S. Read Original Content

"Mobile commerce began to become popular in Indonesia in early 2013 and it has increased in the first quarter of this year. Transactions through mobile commerce accounts for 20 percent of total e-commerce transactions," the founder and CEO of online store Lojai.com, Agus Tjandra, said in Jakarta.  Read Original Content

The cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications can actually meet or exceed the original cost and time to implement those systems. In their new report, “StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps”, 451 Research details the advantages of StarMobile’s app development tool and how it can drastically reduce the cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications. Download report here: http://starmobileinc.com/report-451research-starmobile-transforms-mobile-apps-into-enterprise-apps/

Mobile messaging applications may be the future of mobile commerce. A growing number of these apps are being released and many of them are being designed with mobile payments in mind.  Read Original Content

Groupon, the massive daily deals website that had been a tremendous success before it nearly brought itself to the point of annihilation, has entered into the mobile payments market in an effort to try to restore some of its former victories in the online world.  Read Original Content

According to a new Reportlinker.com report, mobile shopping is well established in Europe. Moreover, of the developed countries worldwide, Sweden and the UK stand next to Asian-Pacific and North American countries regarding mobile shopper penetration.  Read Original Content

German mail order and e-commerce association Bevh and Creditreform Boniversum have published the results of a survey on shopping by mobile phone and tablet. It found 57 percent of respondents use their mobile device to purchase goods, up from 40 percent a year earlier.  Read Original Content

The Mobile Marketing Association's Case Study Hub has recently been launched. It is a searchable database of around 450 case studies from over 40 countries they believe will inspire brands and ensure effective integration of mobile into the marketing mix.  Read Original Content

According to Mark2Media, 52 percent of Americans use mobile devices to research products while browsing in-store, and comScore reports that four out of five consumers use smartphones to shop.  Read Original Content

One in five mobile handsets will have mobile wallet functionality by 2018, against less than one in ten at the end of last year.  That’s the new projection from Juniper Research shared with MMW this week.  Read Original Content

Shomi, an Australian startup, has developed Shomi codes, which are similar to QR codes in that they link to digital content, but what makes the Shomi variety different is that it is based on font, which makes them smaller and does not limit them to back and white, giving them greater flexibility.  Read Original Content

According to IT research agency Gartner, global expenditure on mobile advertising is expected to hit US$18 billion, an increase from the estimated US$13.1 billion last year.  Read Original Content

According to Juniper Research, by the year 2018, one fifth of all smartphones will have mobile wallet functionality, and one third of all of those payment apps will involve contactless capabilities such as NFC technology.  Read Original Content

Apple is gearing up to incorporate Near Field Communication technology in the iPhone 6, according to a report from BrightWire. The report also notes Apple has struck a deal with China UnionPay to integrate the banking company's services into Passbook and elsewhere.  Read Original Content

According to some of the latest statistics from ICM Research, consumers are now visiting m-commerce websites more frequently than apps, though they are more likely to make an actual purchase using the application.  Read Original Content

Standard Bank, a pan-African banking organization, has launched a new mobile payments application called SnapScan. Mobile commerce is becoming quite popular in Africa, especially as more people in various countries gain access to smartphones and tablets.  Read Original Content

Latest Articles on http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com

How Many Solutions Does it Take to Implement Enterprise Mobility?
Information Dominance as a Company's Mobile Strategy
Mobile Expert Interview: Mobile Labs' Dan McFall
Highlights from the Enterprise Mobility Focused Conference M6 Mobility xChange Last Week
Mobile Strategies They Don't Teach in Business Schools or Computer Science Labs
Insurance Disrupted - Crowdsourced Policies and Social Marketing

Webinars of Note (Recorded)

Rapidly extend any enterprise application to mobile devices without coding, APIs, or integration.
Virtualization ≠ Mobilization

Whitepapers of Note

A Comparison of the StarMobile MORPH Protocol vs. Traditional Remote Computing Protocols
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Managing BYOD and Legacy Systems
The Secret to Enterprise Mobile Application Adoption
Solving The Mobile Developer Scarcity Problem
StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps
The True Cost of Mobility

************************************************************************

Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Editor

Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

How Many Solutions Does it Take to Implement Enterprise Mobility?

How many different solutions do you need in order to implement an enterprise quality mobile solution?  I think this is a worthy question.  In years past MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) and MADP (mobile application development platform) vendors tried to cover all of your needs, but the market has determined this is not an acceptable model going forward.  Companies are just not comfortable putting all their eggs in one basket and betting the mobile farm on an unprofitable VC backed mobility vendor.  Enterprise mobility is just too strategic.  Even when companies have standardized most of their internal business solutions on a major ERP vendor, they want to keep their options open.  SAP understands this and has worked to make their SAP Mobile Platform environment play nice with other vendors and toolkits.

Given that market manifesto, companies must now pick and choose their own variety of mobile solutions, platforms and toolkits.  The first question, again, is how many solutions do you need?  I am going to suggest at least one more than you may have thought.  Several vendors including Aternity (www.Aternity.com) and B2M Solutions (http://www.b2m-solutions.com/) propose that you must understand your business process and systems' performance first, second your mobile app performance, and thirdly your workers' performance (KPIs) in the field.  How many of you have recognized this solution category in the past?  Not many I think.  This is an area generally overlooked in most mobility projects.

Think about this scenario - Your team develops the world's best mobile app, however, it sucks and nobody will use it!  How could that be?  The business process, back office systems, APIs and security environments are too slow to support the needs of the mobile app and by extension the mobile user.  That is a critical problem.  It would have been nice to measure the performance of those required systems and processes before you invested in the development of the mobile app. Many IT environments were not designed with mobility in mind.  Today, major work must be done in many enterprises to support the new digital and mobile realities.

I am recommending that enterprises first measure the performance of the business process and relevant systems before they start developing the mobile app.  Once the performance is deemed satisfactory, then develop the mobile app and measure its performance.  Isolate performance issues at each step of the way.

Once your business processes, systems and mobile app performances are all deemed satisfactory, then seek to start measuring workforce productivity and KPIs via the mobile apps.  This data can be used to better understand "patterns of life" and "patterns of work" and optimization efforts implemented.

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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Editor

Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Information Dominance as a Company's Mobile Strategy

In many industries today the competitive battleground is quickly shifting to the effective use of data to drive marketing, sales, customer support, R&D, and to deliver hyper-personalized user experiences and digital products.  These changes are most readily seen in companies that engage customers on the web and through mobile apps.  As more and more of customer interactions and engagements move to mobile apps and websites these changes will be all the more pronounced.  Just think about mobile banking, mobile commerce, mobile search, mobile media, mobile news/content and mobile travel apps.  These apps and the companies behind them are now offering incredible levels of near instant personalization based upon their knowledge of your preferences, location, shopping history, loyalty status, etc.  The more effective companies are at using their knowledge of you to personalize your experience, the more attractive, convenient, productive and sticky their apps become.  We at Cognizant call the effective use of data, "Code Halos" strategies.  Code Halos are the data that surround you, your activities and preferences.  It is the combination of personal and enterprise data used to provide the optimal experience.

Companies that will win in this competitive battlefield will understand that data collection, processing speed, analysis, situational awareness and the hyper-personalization of the users' experiences are the keys. They will recognize it is about speed.  It is a race to collect, analyze, and personalize.  The late US Air Force Colonel and great military strategist John Boyd coined the acronym OODA for observe, orient, decide and act.  He identified the fact that decision-making could be a competitive advantage.  If you can make good decisions faster than an opponent you have a powerful advantage.  Think about this in terms of a boxer in the ring, or a fighter pilot in the sky.  If you can understand the situation, make good decisions and act faster than your opponent you will likely win.  The same is true when the effective use of data is involved in user experiences and commerce.

Code Halo strategies is a way to think about and structure your information logistics in a manner that will give you information dominance.  Information dominance means you have an information logistics infrastructure in place for collecting data, analyzing and personalizing experiences better and faster than your competition.  This information, with the right IT infrastructure and architecture, can be used to instantly provide hyper-personalized experiences on the web and on mobile apps for customers, prospects, partners and employees.

Your information logistics systems must be fast enough to keep pace.  If your information logistics systems lag due to legacy systems that cannot support a "real-time" environment that is required for mobile apps and websites, then you have some hard choices to make that will impact your company's ability to succeed in this new world dominated by information.

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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Editor

Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of May 25, 2014

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 Connected Globe News Weekly
Also read Cyber Security News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here!

Panasonic Corporation and Jewish Home Lifecare have launched a pilot program, "Pathways to Health".  It uses Panasonic's home gateway solution to transform ordinary televisions into interactive remote healthcare management portals to monitor, query and communicate with patients.  Read Original Content

The new OM Biometric Smartwear shirt is a type of wearable technology that has the ability to act as a fitness monitor and can track breathing rate and volume, heart rate, movement intensity and the number of calories the wearer burns, among other tracking features.  Read Original Content

The worldwide market for mobile health applications, and the services that go with them, reached $2.4 billion in revenue in 2013 and will grow to $26 billion by the end of 2017, according to a recently released report from research2guidance.  Read Original Content

The True Cost of Mobility - Companies are under tremendous pressure to develop and deploy mobile apps for their business systems, yet the traditional approach to mobile app development typically costs $250K+ and takes 6+ months for a single app. Today IT professionals are exploring platforms that radically reduce costs and time-to-market for their mobile initiatives, especially around complex applications such as SAP, Oracle, or custom applications. Download the whitepaper - https://www.capriza.com/resources/whitepapers/?resource=true-cost-of-enterprise-mobility&adgroup=MES

Research2guidance surveyed mobile health app developers and examined those who had made significant revenue and those who hadn’t.   The apps that made revenue had some things in common: their revenue model is service-based, rather than based on paid downloads and they integrate with other databases or health tracking devices.  Read Original Content

Patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators have significantly lower risk of death and re-hospitalization if they are followed through an automatic, wireless remote monitoring system, a Yale clinical study has found.  Read Original Content

Patients using the Boston Scientific Corp. LATITUDE Remote Patient Management system with wireless telemetry demonstrated significantly lower mortality and fewer hospitalizations than patients with LATITUDE-compatible devices that were not followed on the system, according to results from the PREDICt-RM study.  Read Original Content

"We know that readmission rates for cardiac patients are 12 to 15 percent nationally," said Janice Takeda, director of specialty programs at Memorial Hermann. "We've been able to get that down to 7.3 percent with our Cardiac Life program and to (as low as) 5 percent when we also use the monitor."  Read Original Content

June 12 is Demo Day. After three months of intense learning, creating, mentoring and collaborating, the 10 companies participating in the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars will gather at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City to deliver their Demo Day presentations.  Read Original Content

In a sample of 808 apps from the Apple, Google, Windows, and BlackBerry app stores, 30.9 percent were fitness apps. The next largest categories were medical reference (16.6 percent) and wellness (15.5 percent).  Read Original Content

Privacy protections aren't keeping up with fitness-tracking apps and devices that collect personal health information and the developers who store and sell the lucrative data, The Washington Post reports.  "This is really, really a privacy nightmare," says Deborah Peel, the executive director of Patient Privacy Rights.  Read Original Content

Latest Articles on http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com

Mobile Expert Interview: Mobile Labs' Dan McFall
Highlights from the Enterprise Mobility Focused Conference M6 Mobility xChange Last Week
Mobile Strategies They Don't Teach in Business Schools or Computer Science Labs
Insurance Disrupted - Crowdsourced Policies and Social Marketing
Mobile Expert Interview: Carlo Cadet, Perfecto Mobile
Mobile Expert Interview: Jack Gold, Mobility Analyst
Mobile Expert Interview: Feedhenry's Steve Drake

Webinars of Note (Recorded)

Rapidly extend any enterprise application to mobile devices without coding, APIs, or integration.
Virtualization ≠ Mobilization

Whitepapers of Note

A Comparison of the StarMobile MORPH Protocol vs. Traditional Remote Computing Protocols
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Managing BYOD and Legacy Systems
The Secret to Enterprise Mobile Application Adoption
Solving The Mobile Developer Scarcity Problem
StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps
The True Cost of Mobility

************************************************************************

Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Editor

Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Connected Globe News Weekly – Week of May 25, 2014

Welcome to the Connected Globe News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to the connected globe, including 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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Cyber Security News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here!

Huawei and ZTE are rising and creating intense pricing pressure in the mobile machine-to-machine modules in emerging markets in Asia and other parts of the world, said Infonetics Research.  Read Original Content

The global M2M market in the retail industry is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent to 2018.  One of the main drivers in this market is the increasing usage of electronic payment devices.  Read Original Content

A federal regulator's plan to pay smart-grid companies, including Comverge Inc. and consumers such as Alcoa Inc. for using less electricity, was struck down by a U.S. appeals court, handing a victory to utilities that argued the system would discourage power-plant investment.  Read Original Content

The cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications can actually meet or exceed the original cost and time to implement those systems. In their new report, “StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps”, 451 Research details the advantages of StarMobile’s app development tool and how it can drastically reduce the cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications. Download report here: http://starmobileinc.com/report-451research-starmobile-transforms-mobile-apps-into-enterprise-apps/

Connected Living, according to the latest market study by Frost & Sullivan, is defined as a world in which people use many different devices to experience compelling new services that integrate video, voice, and data services to provide access and ubiquitous connectivity anytime and anywhere.  Read Original Content

Wireless technology test and measurement company Rohde & Schwarz has announced it is joining the M2M Alliance, a move it says shows an increased commitment to M2M communications and the IoT. M2M Alliance is the largest association for the machine-to-machine sector.  Read Original Content

The worldwide market for mobile M2M modules reached $1.4 billion in value last year, with revenues increasing by six percent compared to 2012. Future expectations are the upward trend will continue and this will result in revenues of $2.9 billion by 2018, according to Infonetics Research.  Read Original Content

The M2M market represents an interesting and potentially huge revenue stream for the satellite industry. Terrestrial network currently covers only 10 percent of the world, and has created a need to switch toward satellite networks, which would help to cover the remaining 90 percent of the world.  Read Original Content

As part of an ongoing, effort to identify and solve a variety of municipal problems, Kansas City will work with Cisco Systems Inc. to make it a "smart city." The model uses a variety of network capabilities to offer information to address such city challenges as transportation, safety, parking and infrastructure.  Read Original Content

Governments are beginning to see the advantages of “smart cities” and key initiatives to make use of them have begun around the globe. The market is expected to be worth $408 billion worldwide by 2020.  Read Original Content

According to Frost & Sullivan, The total connected living market will reach $731.70 billion by 2020. Connected city will contribute the largest percentage at 54 percent, equating to an estimated market potential of $392.94 billion, with smart governance and education services making up 50 percent of growth in this segment.  Read Original Content

Latest Articles on http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com

Mobile Expert Interview: Mobile Labs' Dan McFall
Highlights from the Enterprise Mobility Focused Conference M6 Mobility xChange Last Week
Mobile Strategies They Don't Teach in Business Schools or Computer Science Labs
Insurance Disrupted - Crowdsourced Policies and Social Marketing
Mobile Expert Interview: Carlo Cadet, Perfecto Mobile
Mobile Expert Interview: Jack Gold, Mobility Analyst
Mobile Expert Interview: Feedhenry's Steve Drake

Webinars of Note (Recorded)

Rapidly extend any enterprise application to mobile devices without coding, APIs, or integration.
Virtualization ≠ Mobilization

Whitepapers of Note

A Comparison of the StarMobile MORPH Protocol vs. Traditional Remote Computing Protocols
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Managing BYOD and Legacy Systems
The Secret to Enterprise Mobile Application Adoption
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StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps
The True Cost of Mobility

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Kevin Benedict

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Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of May 25, 2014

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.

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PointInside has released a report based on their 2013 data that has revealed apps that use geolocation technology are considerably increasing the engagement customers have in their interactions with retail stores while in the shop.  Read Original Content

American Reliance, Inc., has revealed major upgrades to the ROCKY RF10, the world's only 17.1" fully rugged laptop. Adding performance to a proven platform, AMREL has boosted the ROCKY RF10 with a powerful i7 processor, expanded memory, Solid State Drive option, and a faster graphics processing unit.  Read Original Content

Getac has unveiled its T800 rugged tablet. Running on Windows 8.1 Professional, the tablet offers a quad-core Intel N3530 2.16 Ghz processor and can endure drops from six feet, as well as shocks, spills, vibration, dust and more.  Read Original Content

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Samsung Electronics has launched a series of new smart wireless printers in Nigeria as part of its efforts to drive innovative convergence technology to boost digitalization.  Read Original Content

Epson has announced support for Android Printing, the native printing platform introduced in Android KitKat in an effort to drive simple wireless printing anywhere, anytime.  Read Original Content

The City of Saskatoon is hoping to save taxpayers money by attaching barcodes to garbage bins that link the garbage bin to the resident’s address. The barcode is scanned by the trucks on collection day and helps track if a cart has been emptied or missed. The project could save the city $200,000 per year.  Read Original Content

Within the past year, Google has invested perhaps $5 billion in IoT-related businesses, including its 2013 acquisitions of smart-thermostat company Nest Labs, and at least seven robotics firms.  Read Original Content

Airbus S.A.S officials in France have named Fujitsu Limited as radio-frequency identification solution provider for the Airbus RFID Integrated Labels project. During the manufacturing stage of all Airbus planes, major aircraft components will be individually marked with an RFID label to enable component tracking and accurate traceability.  Read Original Content

BlackBerry has unveiled what it said is the cornerstone of its vision for the Internet of Things, codenamed Project Ion. In general terms, it will offer the resources necessary to access massive amounts of data from multiple sources and analytic tools, and then turn that data into actionable insights.  Read Original Content

Business2Community says there are four things you might not know about field service data. Citing the report Transforming Service Delivery, the article states nearly 30 percent of managers believe their organization is ineffective at using the data they collect to make decisions.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Editor

Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.