Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

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.

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Rates of mobile health app adoption among American adults with mobile phones hasn't budged much since 2010, according to a new survey from the American Life Project. The portion of mobile phone carrying adults with health-related apps for tracking their health remains around 10 percent. Read Original Content

More people than ever are using a cell phone to get health information. The share of mobile users doing so has gone up to nearly a third from 17 percent two years ago, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Read Original Content

App developer Castle + Anderson recently released SimMon, a tool that simulates a remotely controlled patient monitor. The app runs on an iPhone or iPad and can help train clinicians as they learn to track changes in blood pressure, oxygen saturation and heart rate. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

A spokesperson for the Red Cross told MobiHealthNews that the average daily count for Red Cross apps in October was 369 downloads. The average number of downloads per day between October 25 and October 30 was about 66,000. Read Original Content

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to develop an application so its healthcare providers can access medical images stored in its VistA electronic health record system via mobile devices. Read Original Content

The majority of medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom use smartphones and health-related mobile applications, according to a study published in the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Read Original Content

According to a recent report from iData Research, the U.S. patient monitoring market was valued at over $3.1 billion in 2011 and will grow to almost $4.2 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

A new app for iPhones and iPads has been launched that works as a reference for radiographic positioning. The app was created by Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Linda Carlson, MS, RT, and Philip W. Ballinger, PhD, RT. Read Original Content

The convergence of mobile technology with an evolving healthcare delivery system will continue to drive the mobile health applications market, which will see revenues grow from $230 million in 2010 to $392 million in 2015, according to research from Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Manhattan Research, the percentage of physicians in the U.S. using smartphones increased to 64 percent. The group increased by 20 percent between 2008 and 2009, the study found. The number of physicians using iPhones doubled, Manhattan Research found. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

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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Apple and Taiwanese phonemaker HTC have settled all their outstanding disputes over patents, ending a fight that began in March 2010.  The two firms also signed a 10-year license agreement that will extend to current and future patents held by one another.  Read Original Content

Nokia accounted for 7.2 million, or 4.3 percent, of the 169.2 million smartphones sold worldwide in the latest quarter, taking the company down from third place in the prior three-month period, research firm Gartner Inc. said.  Read Original Content

The HTC Droid DNA smartphone sports a large 5-inch Super LCD 3-HD display that is sharper in resolution than the iPhone 5’s screen. The Droid DNA runs on a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon single-core processor, LTE capability, wireless charging, and 8-megapixel rear-facing and front-facing cameras.  Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Worldwide mobile phone sales are at 428 million units out of which 39.6 percent were smartphones, representing a 46.9 percent increase from the same period of last year, according to a new report from Gartner.  Read Original Content

Verizon Wireless is teaming with Amazon to introduce a preloaded Android home screen application offering subscribers direct access to the online retailer's complete catalog of digital and physical products, including its Amazon Appstore for Android.  Read Original Content

In the coming weeks Nokia will release a maps app called Here in Apple’s App Store. It will be a free download for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners. Nokia will also release a toolkit for programmers to make Nokia-powered mapping apps for Android phones.  Read Original Content

BlackBerry 10 is finally making its debut in January after a lengthy delay, but it may be too little, too late for troubled Research in Motion Ltd.  Read Original Content

Frost & Sullivan indicates the Australian market has grown 29 percent this year outperforming online general advertising - online banner, sponsorships, integrated site content, advertorials, EDM, online directories and online classifieds advertising.  Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

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.

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ABI Research believes that more than $100 billion in NFC payments will be processed by 2016. The forecast for the following year is even greater as sales could reach as high as $200 billion. Read Original Content

In a recent report BIA/Kelsey projected U.S. mobile local advertising will reach $5.8 billion in revenue by 2016. Read Original Content

Smartdevices continue to gain momentum and according to Tapjoy’s recent study mobile commerce is expected to globally explode by 300 percent. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

Forty percent of shoppers visiting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. electronically this holiday season will do so on a smartphone or a tablet, says Gibu Thomas, senior vice president of mobile and digital strategy. Read Original Content

Starbucks has just announced it is broadening its mobile payments by accepting transactions through Square at approximately 7,000 of its coffee shop location. Read Original Content

This year Deloitte anticipates in-store sales influenced by consumers' smartphone use will account for $36 billion, or 5.1 percent of total holiday retail store sales. Read Original Content

Google recently saw a 20 percent drop in quarterly profit, partly driven by slowing ad-sales growth rates due to a shift to less-profitable mobile ads. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

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.

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Shipments of cellular M2M modules are forecast to rise from 76 million in 2012 to 104 million next year, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. Read Original Content

The wireless industry could see a $1.2 trillion revenue opportunity out of the connected devices market by 2020. Within this market, M2M is instrumental in enabling communications across wider "horizontal" platforms in several key sectors. Read Original Content

A new study from Juniper Research has found the telematics and consumer electronics sectors are rapidly becoming the two anchor industries for the M2M market. The report forecasts the market for M2M and embedded devices will reach 400 million by the end of 2017, up from a little over 110 million at present. Read Original Content. Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

According to Pike Research, revenue from smart grid renewables integration will grow from $3.8 billion in 2012 to just under $13 billion in 2018. Read Original Content

A report by Berg Insight projects the deployment of 110 million smart meters through 2017, meaning a compound annual growth rate of 20.5 percent. Total smart meter deployments at the end of 2017 will reach 154.7 million. Read Original Content

Telematics and consumer electronics sectors are the fastest growing sectors of the M2M communications market, according to the latest research by Juniper Networks. The report forecasts the market for M2M and embedded devices will reach 400 million units by the end of 2017, up from a little over 110 million today. Read Original Content

The M2M network security market is on a set course for growth—to the tune of $752 million by 2017, according to a report by ABI Research. Read Original Content

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Smart Grid Communications market to grow at a CAGR of 13.37 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increase in smart grid construction. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

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.

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According to the Nielsen Company, as of June 2012, smartphones accounted for more than half of all mobile phones in the U.S., up from less than one-quarter in early 2010. By 2015, it is estimated that 500 million smartphone users will have medical apps on their devices. Read Original Content

In April 2012 there were 13,600 health apps, and by 2016 mHealth apps for patient monitoring are expected to be a $20 billion industry. As many as 90 percent of clinicians are expected to be using smartphones as clinical tools by the end of 2012. Read Original Content

The global mobile health market is expected to grow at the compounded annual growth rate of 24 percent over the next few years. Some of the key factors contributing toward this growth are the rising trend of remote patient monitoring and the emergence of a number of innovative products like smartphones. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Honeywell has launched a rugged mobile phone called the Dolphin 70e Black to allow healthcare and retail workers to identify and capture data. Read Original Content

A new report from Juniper Research has valued the next-gen wearable devices market, including smart glasses, to be worth more than $1.5 billion by 2014, up from just $800 million this year. These revenues will be largely driven by consumer spending on fitness, multi-functional devices, and healthcare. Read Original Content

Mobile health company AirStrip Technologies filed a lawsuit this week against mVisum over recently issued patents for remote patient data monitoring on iPhones, iPads and other smartphones. Read Original Content

Healthcare market research Kalorama Information predicts the remote and wireless patient monitoring market will grow from $6 billion in 2011 to more than $18 billion by 2014, continuously driven by diversity of products available, number of health conditions that require monitoring, and growing demand for compact portable monitoring products. Read Original Content

The Journal of Medical Internet Research has found the availability of electronic health and mobile health services plays a major role in the delivery of public health services around the world. Read Original Content

In the latest attempt to get consumers to embrace personal health records, health insurer Aetna is making its MyActiveHealth PHR portal with the mobile iTriage app. Read Original Content

An online survey of medical students and junior doctors in the U.K. indicates widespread use of smartphones and medical related apps. According to the survey results, published n journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 79 percent of medical students and 74.8 percent of junior doctors owned a smartphone, with 56.6 percent of students and 68.4 percent of doctors owning an iPhone. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, 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 SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

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 SMAC News Weekly - Week of November 4, 2012

Mobile application revenues will increase from less than $1 billion in 2009 to more than $35 billion in 2017, according to a new forecast issued by research firm Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

In a recent report Morgan Stanley forecast worldwide smartphone shipments will reach 226.3 million units in the fourth quarter, a rise of 26 percent from the third quarter.   Read Original Content

Gartner predicts that with tablet shipments to businesses tripling by 2016, Microsoft is set to own 39 percent of the market.  Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

More than half of U.S. mobile device users now own a smartphone, according to the latest comScore MobiLens data.  Read Original Content

The biggest piece of the mobile operating system market-share pie belongs to Google's Android, which was running on 75 percent of smartphones in the third quarter, says IDC. Apple's iOS system, used in iPhones, was second with a market share of 15 percent.  Read Original Content

A recent Ernst & Young survey shows nearly half of global companies interviewed on the issue of global mobility assignments intend to increase the number of staff sent to growth markets, such as Africa and China, over the next year.  Read Original Content

IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa region will grow 1.4 percent during 2013 to reach $1.154tn, according to a report by Gartner. Analysts believe the increase in investment will mainly be driven by investment in mobile devices and software.  Read Original Content

Verizon announced on Monday it is discontinuing its Verizon Apps program on Android and BlackBerry smartphones. By March 2013 Verizon will shut down its app store on Android devices and uninstall any apps already on users devices.  Read Original Content

Juniper Networks analyzed over 1.7 million apps on the Google Play market from March 2011 to September 2012. Juniper found most app users are being tracked and put at risk for exposure.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Simon Miller

Many people missed the announcement of SAP's acquisition of a company called Right Hemisphere last year.  Right Hemisphere is now called SAP Visual Enterprise, and enables very large and complex CAD files to be animated and presented as much smaller files on mobile devices.  The power here is that these files are mobile ready and can be used in a million different ways by service technicians and others needing to better understand how an object is designed, assembled or disassembled.

In this interview Simon Miller with SAP walks us through SAP Visual Enterprise.  Put on your thinking caps and figure out how this can best be used by your enterprise or clients' enterprise.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, 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 SMAC 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 November 4, 2012

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.

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Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

During last week's Q4 2012 earnings call, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said the Starbucks Mobile Payment app is now being used more than 2 million times per week on average. Since its launch in January 2011, customers have used the app to make more than 100 million mobile transactions. Read Original Content

Internet advertising revenues climbed to an all-time high during the first six months of 2012, galvanized by dramatic growth in mobile ad spending, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read Original Content

Business and enterprise apps are quickly becoming the fastest growing app category in application storefronts, with an overwhelming 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies planning to implement their own apps by then end of 2012, reported enterprise software provider SAP. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

The use of smartphones and tablets to carry out safe shopping online is already growing significantly in the UK, but between 2012 and 2015, it is predicted the market will expand by at least 300 percent globally, with western countries making the biggest impact. Read Original Content

Google Wallet, the mobile payment system originally released in May 2011, can now be used to make purchases directly from a smartphone. Read Original Content

Online giant eBay announced third quarter profits edged up two percent from a year ago to $597 million, driven by gains in mobile shopping and payments. Read Original Content

According to the most recent data released by Facebook, during the third quarter, 14 percent of the ad revenue it generated came from mobile commerce. Read Original Content

Vodafone has partnered with mobile commerce company CorFire to put its mobile wallet product CorPay on smartphones to allow users to pay for goods and services via their devices with a downloadable app. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly – Week of Week of November 4, 2012

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

The M2M network security market is on a set course for growth of $752 million by 2017, according to a report by ABI Research. Read Original Content

The market value for Intelligent Transport Systems deployed in public transport operations in Europe was worth nearly $1 billion in 2011. Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 15 percent, this number is expected to reach $1.9 billion by 2016. Read Original Content

Numerex has announced it has added 121,000 M2M subscriptions during Q3, representing 31 percent overall growth. Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

According to Northern Sky Research, the global satellite SCADA/M2M market is expected to reach $2.7 billion in 2021, growing more than two-fold from today’s $1.2 billion annual revenue base. Read Original Content

The wireless industry could see a $1.2 trillion revenue opportunity out of the connected devices market by 2020. Within this market, M2M will be instrumental in enabling communications across wider "horizontal" platforms in several key sectors. Read Original Content

The market for M2M and embedded devices is set to quadruple over the next five years according to a new report from Juniper Research. It will rise from just over 100 million units currently to reach 400 million units by Q1 2018. Read Original Content

Two types of software platforms, Application Development Platforms and Connected Device Platforms that underpin the development of the M2M market are forecast to generate $3.85 billion in revenues by 2017, according to a new report from ABI Research. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Smart Grid Communications market will grow at a compound annual rate of 13.37 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increase in smart grid construction. Read Original Content

The market for smart grid technologies that help integrate renewable energy sources will grow steadily over the next six years - from $3.8 billion this year to just under $13 billion in 2018, according to a new report from Pike Research. Read Original Content

Inmarsat and SkyWave claim to have sold 12,000 of their IsatData Pro terminals aimed at satisfying M2M needs in the transportation, oil and gas, utilities and mining sectors so far this year. Read Original Content

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Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP and SMAC Compilation
Mobile Expert Video Series: Raj Bala
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Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
The Mobile Business Forecast 2012
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Yankee Report "MDM is Dead, Long Live MDM"

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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.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 28, 2012

Quantas Freight has launched its new HTML5-based mobile app and mobile site for smartphones.  Read Original Content

Phineas Barnes, in the article “HTML5 Is the Real Loser In The iPhone Maps Fiasco” in Business Insider, believes that the native app experience is much better than web apps and HTML5 comes out the loser.  Read Original Content

QNX Software Systems has announced the HTML SDK, an extension of the open source BlackBerry WebWorks framework, specially optimized for automotive environments.  Read Original Content

Apple has purchased Particle, an HTML5 web and web app design firm that has done HTML5 work for Google, Motorola, Amazon, Yahoo, Sony, and Apple.  Read Original Content

Christian Heilmann of Mozilla believes developers shouldn’t abandon HTML5 - even with bumps along the road, as the benefits of HTML5 will ultimately prove worthwhile.  Read Original Content

Mobile social game company Gree has launched a new open-source tool for creating Unity - and HTML5-based smartphone apps with Flash content.  Read Original Content

Developer Eran Zinman of Conduit shares his “real life experience” with “Native, HTML5, and Hybrid Mobile App Development”.  Read Original Content

 The DevCon5 HTML5 Developers and Design Conference will be held November 27-29, 2012 in San Francisco and will feature leading HTML5 developers, engineers and evangelists.  For conference information, go to http://www.html5report.com/conference/california/.  Read Original Content

InfoWorld highlights “7 Apps Making the Most of HTML5” illustrating how to make the most of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.  Read Original Content

Oracle has released its Application Development Framework Mobile, an HTML5 and Java-based framework to enable developers to build, deploy and extend enterprise applications for mobile environments from a single code base.  Read Original Content

Cookeatshare.com is developing a free HTML5-based site for iOS and Android devices.  Read Original Content

Mike James describes how to utilize HTML5’s Media Capture API when creating web apps in this article in i-programmer.  Read Original Content

Microsoft‘s HTML 5-based Office Web Apps are now live and available through SkyDrive and Outlook.com.  The new web apps have been fine-tuned to work properly with the final version of Internet Explorer 10, Windows 8 and iOS 6.  Read Original Content

According to LongTail Video’s “State of HTML5 Video”, 79 percent of the market can now play HTML5 video.  Read Original Content

Jeff Corbin of theIRapp outlines why he feels HTML5 misses the mark in mobile investor relations strategies in his whitepaper “Investor Relations (IR) Apps: Native or HTML5?”  Read Original Content

“Mobile applications and HTML5” are number two on Gartner’s list of the top ten strategic technology trends for 2013, and one of the assumptions by year end 2014 is that HTML5 will be the “mainstream enterprise app vehicle”.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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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.

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of October 28, 2012

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

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Mobile Health Application market to grow at an annual rate of 40.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is increasing adoption of smartphones and social networking sites. Read Original Content

The use of mobile health tools will become more widespread, but barriers, such as security issues and a lack of best practices remain, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

Mobile health tools are helping socially disadvantaged citizens with diabetes around the world better manage their condition, a report from the non-profit group eHealth Initative says. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

An increasing variety of mobile health apps are now available to European patients in their local languages. PatientView’s European Directory of Health Apps 2012-2012 contains mobile apps across 62 health specialties and features apps in 32 different European languages. Read Original Content

To better serve the elderly at home as well as patients requiring remote monitoring outside of hospital and nursing home environments, AT&T last week announced it will provide mobile Internet capabilities for Embedded Wireless' Zilant Wellness Remote Monitoring Platform and mobile personal emergency response system. Read Original Content

Mobile health company LGTmedical has announced plans to launch a signal-processing platform to enable vital-sign monitoring using smartphones, tablets and laptops. Read Original Content

The use of telemedicine helped a primary care clinic more than double the percentage of diabetic patients undergoing screening for retinopathy over the course of a year, according to a research letter published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware.

A mobile application that enables health professionals to make evidence-based decisions on students’ health while on-the-go was launched by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization this week, during the Ninth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. Read Original Content

A new mobile health application allows consumers to use any smartphone camera to measure their heart rate in real time. The Cardio Buddy app, developed by consumer health company Azumio, utilizes a smartphone camera to detect a user's heart rate in real-time based on changes in facial coloration. Read Original Content

A new iPhone app developed at the University of Michigan enables athletes with concussions to track their injuries, symptoms, activities, and then to share that information via e-mail with physicians, coaches and trainers. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Finally a Modern HTML5 Answer for Windows Mobile Users
Enterprise Mobility a Mighty Shift
Mobile Expert Video Series: Dr. Ahmed El Adl
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP and SMAC Compilation
Mobile Expert Video Series: Raj Bala
Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 21, 2012
Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP - In Australia and New Zealand
The Military, Mobile Strategies and Mobile Apps
Mobile Expert Video Series: Tony Kueh

Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
The Mobile Business Forecast 2012
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Yankee Report "MDM is Dead, Long Live MDM"

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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.

Mobility News Weekly – Week of October 28, 2012

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

Apple could double the number of iPads it has sold to date in 2013 alone, with close to 200 million iPhones sold in the same upcoming 12 month period, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley.  Read Original Content

Global mobile phone vendors shipped a total of 445.7 million units in the third quarter of 2012, compared to 434.1 million units in the third quarter of 2011, according to latest statistics from International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content

Japan's Panasonic has said it will end its brief return to the European smartphone market, pulling out less than a year after launching its first handset outside of Japan since 2005.  Read Original Content

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Microsoft has unveiled its two official Windows smartphones from Nokia and HTC, plus a third from Samsung at its Windows Phone 8 launch event. It also unveiled a host of never-before-seen features that it hopes will pull people away from their iPhones and Android devices and towards Microsoft.  Read Original Content

Last week ZTE told analysts after it reported weak third-quarter earnings that it expects to sell 25 million smartphones in 2012, 10 million fewer than it had initially forecast. ZTE sold around 15 million smartphones in 2011.  Read Original Content

According to the India Mobile Handsets Market Review report released by research firm CyberMedia Research, the smartphone market has grown to 5.50 million units in the first half of 2012.  Read Original Content

ERICSSON, the Swedish telecoms company, is calling on software developers living in sub-Saharan Africa to write applications targeting urban areas in Africa.  Read Original Content

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that while she does not expect her company to release a smartphone until 2014 at the earliest, HP will be a major force in the tablet and mobile PC markets.  Read Original Content

According to a report from Korea Investment & Securities, Samsung is expected to sell 284 million units globally, giving the company a 37 percent share of the worldwide smartphone market in 2013, over Apple's 20.4 percent to 157 million units.  Read Original Content

Finally a Modern HTML5 Answer for Windows Mobile Users

Things often move in slow motion in large companies.  It takes months and sometimes years to get your IT project on a priority list that gets funded.  You must seek and receive approvals from dozens of executives and managers who are often playing musical chairs on the organizational chart.  But with months or years of persistence, you may finally gain all necessary approvals and a real budget.   Now you must deliver on your projected ROIs over the next 36 months.

That is often how big enterprise mobility projects work in the world of rugged and industrial grade mobile and handheld computers.  This is a world foreign to many people familiar only with the consumer mobility space where new mobile apps are released daily, handsets and smartphones are released weekly and new versions of mobile operating systems are released quarterly.

In this industrial world of concrete and rivets, dust and rain $2,000 rugged handhelds must last 4-6 years, not months.  That means tens of thousands of companies and millions of industrial users are still using ruggedized handheld computers and mobile devices that may be 6 years old.  These are generally running on Windows Mobile operating systems.  These ruggedized mobile devices are ancient compared to the iPhone in their pocket and iPad on their desk.

These ancient mobile devices still function, but have been until now limited to only running old versions of software that are still capable of running on old versions of Windows Mobile.  That means entire industries are missing the mobility revolution and all the powerful news mobile applications and innovations that have been delivered over the last few years.  This is not a good position to be in.  These users have hit reached a dead end with their mobile technology and have missed the entire wave of mobile web based innovations, that is until now.

Earlier this month Intermec announced, http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120925005237/en/Intermec-Offers-Industry’s-Flexible-HTML5-Capable-Browser, a new HTML5 browser that runs on old Windows Mobile devices.  This is HUGE news!  If you can now use new HTML5 based mobile applications on ruggedized mobile dinosaurs, then you have jumped one of the biggest hurdles that exist in the industrial mobility industry.  Here is an excerpt from Intermec’s announcement, “Intermec’s HTML5 offering includes a true web browser application, based on WebKitTM, for multiple models of Intermec’s handheld computers for Windows® Mobile and Windows Embedded operating systems.”

Here is another excerpt from Intermec’s press release, note the references to the words – modern, latest, extends and future proofing, ““Intermec’s new HTML5-capable browser offers enterprises the flexibility to equip their mobile workers with a modern user interface and latest business logic, along with the right device for their specific working conditions and usage demands,” said Earl Thompson, Intermec Senior Vice President, Mobile Solutions Business Unit. “Offering much more than the next iteration of web language, Intermec’s HTML5 offering extends the Web paradigm to a whole new class of future-proofed applications by allowing for them to be developed and deployed cross-platform.”

This news means that there is now hope for millions of Intermec users which Microsoft had left behind several years ago, dead-ended on old Windows Mobile operating systems.  Today, they have the potential of leap frogging ahead and using innovative HTML5 based mobile apps on their same old ruggedized devices.

The term I am using, old ruggedized mobile devices, does not mean they don’t have real and important value.  They may be perfect for the tasks they do.  However, today, with this announcement, their ROI and value may have just jumped considerably.  I am excited to hear what ClickSoftware’s Gil Bouhnick’s says when he reviews Intermec’s browser and HTML5 capabilities.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, 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 SMAC 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 October 28, 2012

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.

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InMobi has released its latest round of stats and, for the first time, Apple has recorded negative growth in impressions. Impressions served on Apple mobile devices fell 0.4 percent over the last three months, while Android saw an increase of 2.7 percent from the previous quarter. Read Original Content

Gartner predicts that in 2016 there will be 448 million m-payment users, in a market worth $617 billion. Read Original Content

Vodafone on Monday signed a multi-year contract with NFC security specialist Gemalto that will support the rollout of contactless payment services across the operator's global footprint. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

A total of 30 Girl Scout councils throughout the country offered mobile payments earlier this year, allowing the girls to accept debit or credit card payments through an attachment on mobile devices. Sales, primarily done outside retail stores and door-to-door, increased significantly. Read Original Content

As part of Facebook’s third-quarter results, the world's biggest social media company disclosed for the first time that some 14 percent of its ad revenue came from mobile advertising. Read Original Content

Apple’s iPhone remains the number one smartphone device when it comes to monetization, according to Opera’s “State of Mobile Advertising” report for the third quarter of 2012. Read Original Content

Research firm eMarketer estimates that spending on mobile advertising in the U.S. will reach $2.61 billion in 2012, before soaring to nearly $12 billion in 2016. Read Original Content

Some 43 percent of retailers said they will raise online marketing budgets – investing in either mobile, social or email marketing channels during the holiday season, according to a new study analyzing expectation of holiday advertising and sales. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly – Week of October 28, 2012

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.

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A new study from Juniper Research has found the telematics and consumer electronics sectors are rapidly becoming the two anchor industries for the M2M market. The report forecasts the market for M2M and embedded devices will reach 400 million by the end of 2017, up from a little over 110 million at present. Read Original Content

New York officials say a $37 million grant from the federal Department of Energy will help upgrade the state's electricity grid. The money will help fund a $75 million "smart grid" initiative to improve the efficiency of New York's electricity delivery system.  Read Original Content

According to Global Information Inc. the wireless industry could see a $1.2 trillion revenue opportunity out of the connected devices market by 2020. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Shipments of cellular M2M modules in Europe will grow from 76 million in 2012 to 104 million in 2013, according to a study by research firm Strategy Analytics. Read Original Content

ABI Research expects revenues from two platforms currently dominating the M2M market, Application Enablement Platforms and Connected Device Platforms to grow to $3.85 billion by 2017. Read Original Content

An M2M technology that tracks police speed boats could see more widespread deployment after trials on the River Thames during the London 2012 Olympics were reported a huge success. Read Original Content

Vodafone has contracted Netcomm Wireless to supply M2M cellular modems for its global M2M business. According to Netcomm: "Under the agreement, NetComm Wireless will supply M2M IP modems that have been custom designed to meet the global deployment requirements of Vodafone and its partners. Read Original Content


During a keynote at MobileCon in San Diego, Sanjay Poonen, president of technology and innovation products at SAP, highlighted his company's plans to use M2M and the cloud as opportunities for app development and new entrants in the mobile commerce space. Read Original Content

Despite a slowdown in the North American market, smart meter deployment will continue to climb steadily through the remainder of this decade, reaching 960 million by 2020, according to a report from Pike Research. Read Original Content

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Worldwide smart meter shipments totaled 18 million units in the second quarter of 2012, up by about 19 percent on a sequential basis, according to a new report by market research and consulting firm Pike Research. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, 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 SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.