Kevin's Mobile Retailing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile retail applications, mobile payments and mobile marketing applications that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.
Additional weekly newsletters on the subjects of enterprise mobility and M2M from Kevin Benedict can be found here http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
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This week credit card giant MasterCard launched a version of its MoneySend mobile app for BlackBerry. Similar to the iPhone version, MasterCard MoneySend for Blackberry can settle peer to peer balances by sending money to friends and family and purchasing goods from an informal vendor.
http://mobile.cnet.com/site?t=OFwKYRJPIl1Vm2aMwLYjDw&sid=cnet
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts is letting guests book their travels and make reservations across 1,000 of its properties via a BlackBerry application. Consumers can access their accounts, check reservations and get directions. The application is available in BlackBerry App World.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/starwood-hotels-resorts-accommodates-guest-via-mobile-booking-app/
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Toys “R” Us has announced a new iPhone application that integrates QR codes and content such as videos and rewards into a daily retail shopping experience to enhance its marketing and loyalty initiatives. The application is a consumer engagement tool that blends audio, visuals and rewards with traditional media platforms via mobile bar codes.
See more in this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTu57Sx5VnI&feature=player_embedded#at=13
Read more - http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/toys-r-us-unveils-multichannel-mobile-crm-tactics/
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AAA has announced an Android counterpart to its popular iPhone app, which displays businesses which feature discounts for AAA members based on location. There are more than 110,000 such locations in the US, and the application, along with your phone’s GPS, will let you know which ones are directly in your area.
http://www.talkandroid.com/13836-aaa-app-now-available-for-android/
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Consumer appetite and enterprise adoption is fuelling the growth in volume, availability and sophistication of mobile services. According to the Sybase 365 Global Consumer Acceptance and Usage Report 2010, 70 percent of consumers were interested in additional mobile services. Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, is now processing more than 1.5 billion messages per day.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sybase-365-achieves-new-milestone-delivering-one-trillion-mobile-messages-2010-09-08?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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eBay has invested over $600 million into mobile apps over the past two years, and users have gained expanded mobility functionality as a result, most notably the ability to process payments for auctions using mobile apps.
http://www.benzinga.com/news/10/09/463375/ebay-mobile-division-planning-major-overhaul-ebay
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According to the Adobe Scene7 Mobile Commerce Survey, 55 percent of respondents cited full screen image zoom and videos as indispensable mobile viewing features for driving conversion, and 96 percent of respondents asserted the most effective visual merchandising features were catalogs and brochures, alternative images, and zoom and pan. Only 18 percent of respondents said they use rich visual merchandising features for mobile commerce today. However, 81 percent cited plans to deploy these features, thus implying richer mobile experiences will be created and offered during the next 12 months.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/08/rich-media-way-mobile-commerce-survey-says
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According to Forrester, 47 percent of consumers expect to wait no more than two seconds for a Web page to load; 58 percent of mobile phone users expect websites to load as quickly on their mobile phone as on their PC according to Gomez research.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/compuware-gomez-presents-webinar-on-the-top-e-commerce-strategies-for-turning-web-traffic-into-sales-2010-09-08?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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eBay will launch a "motors app" later this year that will let people use a built-in barcode reader feature to scan the Vehicle Identification Number of a car and do a Carfax lookup. The app will also let users enter the make and model of their own car and then filter searches for compatible parts and accessories. eBay also wants to build more "augmented reality" features into eBay's mobile applications. One example could be where a seller could take a video of an antique chair. An eBay application would turn that video into a 3D image that a potential buyer could overlay on a photograph of their room, letting them see how it would look.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/204970/ebay_bringing_mobile_apps_into_the_future.html
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The mobile web (web 3.0) is projected to grow at an annualized 500 percent over the next three years. How can your business benefit from this spectacular growth?
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/02/why-is-it-valuable-to-have-a-mobile-enterprise-strategy/
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In a development with importance to e-commerce merchants and other marketers moving to mobile commerce, phones using Android accounted for one quarter of all North American mobile page views in August, up from 6.4 percent in August 2009, according to the latest numbers from Quantcast Corp. Google’s gain came mostly at the expense of iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone. That system lost 11.4 points of mobile Web share, to finish at 56 percent in August.
http://www.digitaltransactions.net/newsstory.cfm?newsid=2631
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AT&T appears to be in a position to offer the largest selection of Windows Phone 7 devices. We’ve heard rumors of HTC (T8788 or HD7?), Samsung (Cetus), and LG (C900 and GW910) devices headed to AT&T. Our count shows as many as four Windows Phone 7 devices hitting AT&T’s shelves this Fall. Unless something changes over the next two months, AT&T will be at the forefront of Windows Phone 7.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/07/windows-phone-7-what-are-the-carriers-going-to-do/
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You can read more about enterprise mobility at the blog site, http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
Mobile Expert Video Interview – Ed Krufka, http://www.youtube.com/sapmentors#p/u/10/NrF7LvLLlNE
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly - September 9, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5it_73CxzMozqkSOODLh2r7aCIlLwD9HVV8CO1
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LG Electronics announced yesterday its intent to launch a new line of dual-core smartphones, dubbed "Optimus," by year's end. The Tegra 2 incorporates two 1 GHz chips, which, according to LG, will mean "up to 2x faster web browsing and up to 5x faster gaming performance over single core processors running at 1 GHz."
http://www.dailytech.com/LG+Well+Have+DualCore+Smartphones+By+Years+End/article19568.htm
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Syclo announced today that it's rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo's mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/Syclo-Announces-New-Version-Of-Its-Agentry-0001
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Apple confirmed the launch of its new Apple TV device for later this month. The media player with HDMI and Wi-Fi will allow users to stream online movies and TV series as well as content from their PCs to an HD TV.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=754422
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Leapfactor, an SAP partner and start up, today announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back office custom applications for accounting and customer support.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183898/SAP_partner_launches_cloud_based_mobile_app_service
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Google's Android Market has the largest share of free applications. App store analytics firm Distimo reports that 60 percent of Android apps are free, an increase of three percent from May. Windows Marketplace for Mobile has the lowest percentage of free apps with just 22 percent, while 26 percent of apps in both Apple's App Store for the iPad and BlackBerry App World are free.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/distimo-60-android-apps-are-free/2010-09-01?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant jobsites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
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Consumers buying items via iPads spend an average of up to 20 percent more per purchase than other mobile shoppers.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/peter-session-1-2/
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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Google is hoping to debut an Internet based digital music service that would launch later this year in conjunction with version 3 of its popular Android operating system for smartphones, according to various media reports.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/google-negotiating-android-music-service/2010-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Total Twitter mobile users has jumped 62 percent since mid April, and, remarkably, 16 percent of all new users to Twitter start on mobile now.
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/evolving-ecosystem.html
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Sony Ericsson estimates that China will be its largest handset market in the next three to four years as it looks to increase its share of the country. The Japanese-Swedish joint venture said that smartphone use in China would reach 50 percent of all mobile phone users in the country by 2015.
http://www.mobiledia.com/news/73510.html
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The mobile applications market is estimated to be worth around $25 billion by 2015. However, the economic meltdown has caused some big names within the applications and telecoms industry to shutdown recently and the fears of the aftermath of a recession are still on the clouds.
http://bharatbookseo.blogsome.com/2010/09/03/the-mobile-applications-market/
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SAP AG aims to make China “a second home” as local companies seeking management tools and real time business intelligence will provide “limitless growth” for the software maker, co-Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-03/sap-sees-limitless-potential-in-chinese-market-co-ceo-mcdermott-says.html
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I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas! I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
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Samsung, the world’s second largest cell phone maker, has decided to use Google’s Android as a key software platform for its smartphones alongside its own new bada software.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6811FI20100902
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According to IDC's worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 317.5 million units worldwide in the quarter, up 15 percent year-over-year and eight percent sequentially, driven by seasonal strength.
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204812504575469674114253814.html?mod=googlenews_barrons
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Over the past year Apple has lost ground to Google, losing 11 percent of the mobile web consumption market, while Google picked up 17 percent more market share. iOS still maintains a significant lead with 56 percent of the market, more than twice that of Android, but current growth trends could cause problems for Apple in the near future.
http://www.worldtech24.com/phones/android-gaining-apple-ios-mobile-web-market-share
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Google Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, while BlackBerry and Apple will experience declines, according to a new research note from IDC.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-Windows-Phone-Will-Lead-Smartphone-Market-Surge-IDC-197754/
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Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of mobile peripheral device ICs with the TC358751XBG, which provides the interface between a mobile device's host processor and embedded displays as well as external equipment, such as a TV set or projector. The buffer content can be rendered simultaneously on two displays (typically with different content) and external equipment.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/new-mobile-dual-screen-display-ic-offers-1080p.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903617&vID=8
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Automotive service organization AAA is driving foot traffic to the locations of its retail partners via a loyalty focused Android application. The AAA Discounts application lets consumers know about nearby discounts available to members of its Show Your Card & Save loyalty program.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/aaa-targets-android-users-via-loyalty-program-app/
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Amazon Kindle get’s new firmware and shows up on BestBuy.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-Kindle-Gets-New-Firmware-Shows-up-on-BestBuy-155779.shtml
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A new survey has revealed that 65 percent of adults sleep with their cell phones on or next to their beds. This latest sampling from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows how cell phones continue to grow ever more vital in our livelihoods.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/two-thirds-of-adults-sleep-with-their-cell-phones-1189/
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Salesforce.com, a provider of software as a service to companies over the web, has introduced mobile application Chatter for social networking inside companies.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/index.html?sid=1835_Salesforce.com+introduces+Chatter+networking+solution
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Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
Compliance Functions for Mobile Applications
What Percent of the U.S. Workforce is Mobile?
NEW Recommended newsletter – Kevin’s Mobile Retail News Weekly
Recommended Webinar
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5it_73CxzMozqkSOODLh2r7aCIlLwD9HVV8CO1
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LG Electronics announced yesterday its intent to launch a new line of dual-core smartphones, dubbed "Optimus," by year's end. The Tegra 2 incorporates two 1 GHz chips, which, according to LG, will mean "up to 2x faster web browsing and up to 5x faster gaming performance over single core processors running at 1 GHz."
http://www.dailytech.com/LG+Well+Have+DualCore+Smartphones+By+Years+End/article19568.htm
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Syclo announced today that it's rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo's mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/Syclo-Announces-New-Version-Of-Its-Agentry-0001
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Apple confirmed the launch of its new Apple TV device for later this month. The media player with HDMI and Wi-Fi will allow users to stream online movies and TV series as well as content from their PCs to an HD TV.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=754422
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Leapfactor, an SAP partner and start up, today announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back office custom applications for accounting and customer support.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183898/SAP_partner_launches_cloud_based_mobile_app_service
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Google's Android Market has the largest share of free applications. App store analytics firm Distimo reports that 60 percent of Android apps are free, an increase of three percent from May. Windows Marketplace for Mobile has the lowest percentage of free apps with just 22 percent, while 26 percent of apps in both Apple's App Store for the iPad and BlackBerry App World are free.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/distimo-60-android-apps-are-free/2010-09-01?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant jobsites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
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Consumers buying items via iPads spend an average of up to 20 percent more per purchase than other mobile shoppers.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/peter-session-1-2/
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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Google is hoping to debut an Internet based digital music service that would launch later this year in conjunction with version 3 of its popular Android operating system for smartphones, according to various media reports.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/google-negotiating-android-music-service/2010-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Total Twitter mobile users has jumped 62 percent since mid April, and, remarkably, 16 percent of all new users to Twitter start on mobile now.
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/evolving-ecosystem.html
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Sony Ericsson estimates that China will be its largest handset market in the next three to four years as it looks to increase its share of the country. The Japanese-Swedish joint venture said that smartphone use in China would reach 50 percent of all mobile phone users in the country by 2015.
http://www.mobiledia.com/news/73510.html
********
The mobile applications market is estimated to be worth around $25 billion by 2015. However, the economic meltdown has caused some big names within the applications and telecoms industry to shutdown recently and the fears of the aftermath of a recession are still on the clouds.
http://bharatbookseo.blogsome.com/2010/09/03/the-mobile-applications-market/
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SAP AG aims to make China “a second home” as local companies seeking management tools and real time business intelligence will provide “limitless growth” for the software maker, co-Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-03/sap-sees-limitless-potential-in-chinese-market-co-ceo-mcdermott-says.html
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I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas! I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
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Samsung, the world’s second largest cell phone maker, has decided to use Google’s Android as a key software platform for its smartphones alongside its own new bada software.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6811FI20100902
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According to IDC's worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 317.5 million units worldwide in the quarter, up 15 percent year-over-year and eight percent sequentially, driven by seasonal strength.
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204812504575469674114253814.html?mod=googlenews_barrons
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Over the past year Apple has lost ground to Google, losing 11 percent of the mobile web consumption market, while Google picked up 17 percent more market share. iOS still maintains a significant lead with 56 percent of the market, more than twice that of Android, but current growth trends could cause problems for Apple in the near future.
http://www.worldtech24.com/phones/android-gaining-apple-ios-mobile-web-market-share
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Google Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, while BlackBerry and Apple will experience declines, according to a new research note from IDC.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-Windows-Phone-Will-Lead-Smartphone-Market-Surge-IDC-197754/
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Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of mobile peripheral device ICs with the TC358751XBG, which provides the interface between a mobile device's host processor and embedded displays as well as external equipment, such as a TV set or projector. The buffer content can be rendered simultaneously on two displays (typically with different content) and external equipment.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/new-mobile-dual-screen-display-ic-offers-1080p.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903617&vID=8
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Automotive service organization AAA is driving foot traffic to the locations of its retail partners via a loyalty focused Android application. The AAA Discounts application lets consumers know about nearby discounts available to members of its Show Your Card & Save loyalty program.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/aaa-targets-android-users-via-loyalty-program-app/
********
Amazon Kindle get’s new firmware and shows up on BestBuy.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-Kindle-Gets-New-Firmware-Shows-up-on-BestBuy-155779.shtml
********
A new survey has revealed that 65 percent of adults sleep with their cell phones on or next to their beds. This latest sampling from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows how cell phones continue to grow ever more vital in our livelihoods.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/two-thirds-of-adults-sleep-with-their-cell-phones-1189/
********
Salesforce.com, a provider of software as a service to companies over the web, has introduced mobile application Chatter for social networking inside companies.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/index.html?sid=1835_Salesforce.com+introduces+Chatter+networking+solution
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Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
Compliance Functions for Mobile Applications
What Percent of the U.S. Workforce is Mobile?
NEW Recommended newsletter – Kevin’s Mobile Retail News Weekly
Recommended Webinar
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s M2M News Weekly – September 8, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly. This is an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. 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.
You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Follow Kevin on Twitter @krbenedict.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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There's no question that many wireless operators consider the next growth opportunity to rest with embedded wireless devices. Some operators estimate that by embedding wireless connectivity into all types of devices -- from netbooks to e-readers to GPS devices -- the wireless industry could reach a penetration rate in the range of 300 to 500 percent. Indeed, in a recent ABI Research study, the firm predicts manufacturers will ship 54 million mobile broadband enabled consumer electronics devices by 2014.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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A team of investigators in Spain is currently developing remote sensing technology that could keep a virtual eye on pollution levels being generated by traffic jams.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Remote-Sensing-Technology-Analyzes-Pollution-155428.shtml
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OEM and aftermarket consumer telematics systems continue to gain momentum in both developed and developing regions due to growing popular awareness of their many benefits related to safety, security, maintenance, convenience, infotainment, and cost savings. These benefits will drive growth from 37 million telematics users in 2010 to more than 211 million in 2015, well over a five fold increase.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/consumer-telematics-users-to-reach-211-million-by-2015-says-abi-research.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903452&vID=391
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Christiana Care launched its tele-ICU program five years ago to better monitor patients at Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital, but for the past 17 months it also has been working with rural and small hospitals in Maryland. Because the technology feeds real time patient data and live video from afar, the services of local intensivists can be used to monitor patients hundreds of miles away.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100905/HEALTH/9050373/Giving-patients-hands-on-care-from-afar
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St. Jude Medical has paid $60 million to acquire a 19 percent stake in CardioMEMS, a firm that's developed a wireless patient monitoring technology.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/09/06/daily1.html
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While media coverage is certainly not a new concept at the race, at the 2010 Tour de France, fans had access to more information about their favorite riders than they had in previous years thanks to M2M technology. Fans were able to get real time statistics on cyclists such as their location, distance traveled, even heart rate, via the Web.
http://connectedworldmag.com/latestNews.aspx?id=NEWS100901093605933
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Location based Web services like FourSquare, Gowalla or Facebook’s Places feature may be all the rage in the tech news, but by and large, Americans aren’t buying into it, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Location based Web services generally allow people to “check in” via their Mobile devices -- actually registering their physical location with the Web site -- with the goal of playing a game, receiving a coupon or discount, or connecting with friends who may be nearby.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/98453-location-based-mobile-services-more-hype-than-hot.htm
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Recently, Peter Hartwell an engineer from computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. told the audience at the firm's Executive Energy Conference in Dubai he believed intelligent sensor technology deployed on oil rigs and other drilling equipment could have prevented the disaster had they been installed, and that certainly in the future, such measures should be taken to avoid a repeat of the disaster.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100901/DEVICES/100909996/mobile-technology-seen-as-critical-in-disasters
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An ABI report indicates that renewed interest from mobile operators in the M2M space, coupled with the widespread deployment of 3G, has led it to predict the M2M market will be worth $3.8 billion by 2015.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m
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Juniper predicts that the number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will reach almost 412 million globally by 2014. The growth of these embedded devices will mainly come from an ever increasing number of utility meters, mobile connected buildings, consumer and commercial telematics and retail and banking connections.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=1795_M2M:+The+future+of+technology
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As part of its ongoing commitment to improve driver safety for its commercial auto customers, Travelers today announced a potential discount of up to 15 percent on certain auto liability insurance premiums for qualifying businesses that effectively use telematics technology to monitor their commercial fleets and driver behavior. Similar to GPS, vehicle telematics go beyond navigation and positioning by storing and sending data on how a vehicle is operated.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/53997120/Travelers-Embraces-Fleet-Vehicle-Telematics-to-Improve-Roadway-Safety
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Technologies such as wireless sensor networks, real time distributed sensor networks, and FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O hardware are relatively new to the wind industry. But the reconfigurable hardware is central to many network applications.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-nervous-system-for-renewable-energy-projects/
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In the years ahead, the National Football League looks set to dial up some new tech blitzes that will make the game fairer and safer. Among the technologies most likely to make it onto the field soon are wireless sensors in the ball and in players' gear.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/going-deep-the-future-of-technology-in-the-national-football-league-1171/
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Putting chips into devices other than computers and mobile phones - a market known as embedded processors - represents a $10 billion opportunity, according to Intel's Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini. The market for PC processors is $34.5 billion.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BUHI1F8BJF.DTL
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3M has agreed to acquire Tel Aviv based Attenti, a remote people-tracking technology provider for $230 million.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/48119/20100901/3m-attenti-cogent-google-facebook-location-based-services-geriatric-care-acquistion.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Follow Kevin on Twitter @krbenedict.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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There's no question that many wireless operators consider the next growth opportunity to rest with embedded wireless devices. Some operators estimate that by embedding wireless connectivity into all types of devices -- from netbooks to e-readers to GPS devices -- the wireless industry could reach a penetration rate in the range of 300 to 500 percent. Indeed, in a recent ABI Research study, the firm predicts manufacturers will ship 54 million mobile broadband enabled consumer electronics devices by 2014.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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A team of investigators in Spain is currently developing remote sensing technology that could keep a virtual eye on pollution levels being generated by traffic jams.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Remote-Sensing-Technology-Analyzes-Pollution-155428.shtml
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OEM and aftermarket consumer telematics systems continue to gain momentum in both developed and developing regions due to growing popular awareness of their many benefits related to safety, security, maintenance, convenience, infotainment, and cost savings. These benefits will drive growth from 37 million telematics users in 2010 to more than 211 million in 2015, well over a five fold increase.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/consumer-telematics-users-to-reach-211-million-by-2015-says-abi-research.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903452&vID=391
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Christiana Care launched its tele-ICU program five years ago to better monitor patients at Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital, but for the past 17 months it also has been working with rural and small hospitals in Maryland. Because the technology feeds real time patient data and live video from afar, the services of local intensivists can be used to monitor patients hundreds of miles away.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100905/HEALTH/9050373/Giving-patients-hands-on-care-from-afar
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St. Jude Medical has paid $60 million to acquire a 19 percent stake in CardioMEMS, a firm that's developed a wireless patient monitoring technology.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/09/06/daily1.html
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While media coverage is certainly not a new concept at the race, at the 2010 Tour de France, fans had access to more information about their favorite riders than they had in previous years thanks to M2M technology. Fans were able to get real time statistics on cyclists such as their location, distance traveled, even heart rate, via the Web.
http://connectedworldmag.com/latestNews.aspx?id=NEWS100901093605933
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Location based Web services like FourSquare, Gowalla or Facebook’s Places feature may be all the rage in the tech news, but by and large, Americans aren’t buying into it, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Location based Web services generally allow people to “check in” via their Mobile devices -- actually registering their physical location with the Web site -- with the goal of playing a game, receiving a coupon or discount, or connecting with friends who may be nearby.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/98453-location-based-mobile-services-more-hype-than-hot.htm
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Recently, Peter Hartwell an engineer from computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. told the audience at the firm's Executive Energy Conference in Dubai he believed intelligent sensor technology deployed on oil rigs and other drilling equipment could have prevented the disaster had they been installed, and that certainly in the future, such measures should be taken to avoid a repeat of the disaster.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100901/DEVICES/100909996/mobile-technology-seen-as-critical-in-disasters
********
An ABI report indicates that renewed interest from mobile operators in the M2M space, coupled with the widespread deployment of 3G, has led it to predict the M2M market will be worth $3.8 billion by 2015.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m
********
Juniper predicts that the number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will reach almost 412 million globally by 2014. The growth of these embedded devices will mainly come from an ever increasing number of utility meters, mobile connected buildings, consumer and commercial telematics and retail and banking connections.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=1795_M2M:+The+future+of+technology
********
As part of its ongoing commitment to improve driver safety for its commercial auto customers, Travelers today announced a potential discount of up to 15 percent on certain auto liability insurance premiums for qualifying businesses that effectively use telematics technology to monitor their commercial fleets and driver behavior. Similar to GPS, vehicle telematics go beyond navigation and positioning by storing and sending data on how a vehicle is operated.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/53997120/Travelers-Embraces-Fleet-Vehicle-Telematics-to-Improve-Roadway-Safety
********
Technologies such as wireless sensor networks, real time distributed sensor networks, and FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O hardware are relatively new to the wind industry. But the reconfigurable hardware is central to many network applications.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-nervous-system-for-renewable-energy-projects/
********
In the years ahead, the National Football League looks set to dial up some new tech blitzes that will make the game fairer and safer. Among the technologies most likely to make it onto the field soon are wireless sensors in the ball and in players' gear.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/going-deep-the-future-of-technology-in-the-national-football-league-1171/
********
Putting chips into devices other than computers and mobile phones - a market known as embedded processors - represents a $10 billion opportunity, according to Intel's Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini. The market for PC processors is $34.5 billion.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BUHI1F8BJF.DTL
********
3M has agreed to acquire Tel Aviv based Attenti, a remote people-tracking technology provider for $230 million.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/48119/20100901/3m-attenti-cogent-google-facebook-location-based-services-geriatric-care-acquistion.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly – September 2, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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The worldwide smartphone applications market grew more than $2.2 billion within the first quarter, according to a study by research2guidance. In 2009 the applications market had posted revenue of $1.7 billion. Mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in only six months, compared to 3.1 billion in 2009.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753129
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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A new report from the Globe and Mail indicates that while Google’s rise in the smartphone world shook up the market, its Android operating system may have reached its peak.
http://www.visagemobile.com/news/news/understanding-mobility-management-news/5078/report-finds-growing-smartphone-options-for-businesses-may-lead-to-short-reign-for-android-devices-in-the-enterprise/
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Google unveiled a way for Web users in the U.S. to make calls through its Gmail email service, further pushing into the Internet-calling business and ratcheting up competition with similar services such as Skype.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451743621937792.html
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In May Dr. Neal Sikka began a six month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants at GWU Hospital could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images. "Mobile health" does not mean a clinic on wheels. It is an emerging field within telemedicine that comprises all aspects of care generated from or available on a portable mobile device such as a cellphone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083003939.html
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Apple's iPad will account for an overwhelming 74.1 percent of global tablet shipments this year, with the remaining 25.9 percent consisting of a mix of older PC-type tablet products and competitive slates, according to a study by iSuppli.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753118
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Motorola Inc. unveiled a new smartphone version of its handsets that feature a popular Chinese handwriting technology, in hopes that the company can make a comeback in China, where it was once the market leader.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704323704575461513047883520.html
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Sony Ericsson Chief Executive Bert Nordberg said Tuesday that he expects smartphone use in China to expand to half of all mobile phone users in the country within five years, as the company joins other global handset makers in shifting its focus to higher end devices.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704421104575463344074776632.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Samsung says they've sold one million T-Mobile Vibrants and AT&T Captivates in less than a month and a half in the US.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/29/samsung-galaxy-million/
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Microsoft will spend about $400 million to promote the launch of its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system according to Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg, adding his forecast doesn't include the millions the software giant has already committed to pay its handset manufacturer partners to offset non-recurring engineering costs.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/analyst-microsoft-will-spend-400m-market-windows-phone-7/2010-08-30
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Mobile content revenues in the U.S. will increase from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to over $3.53 billion in 2014, a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20 percent, according to a new forecast issued by digital intelligence firm eMarketer.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/emarketer-mobile-content-revenues-top-3-5-billion-2014/2010-08-31
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AT&T Mobility readjusted its schedule to begin offering services in a number of markets it had acquired from Verizon Wireless earlier this year. The carrier said it was moving up the launch dates in markets in South Dakota, North Dakota, Alabama, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado from the originally announced “mid-2011” to “the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011.”
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100902/CARRIERS/100909988/att-mobility-accelerates-alltel-market-transitions
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Syclo announced it is rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo’s mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/Agentry_Mobile_Platform/Enterprise_Mobility/prweb4460374.htm
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T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that the company has been awarded a three year blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under the terms of the agreement, the EPA and its 17,000 employees will have access to a full range of T-Mobile products and services.
http://www.bradenton.com/2010/08/31/2540816/t-mobile-usa-awarded-epa-mobility.html
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The middle-aged Internet (ARPANET first went live more than 40 years ago) could easily slide into complacency, but the National Science Foundation might be staving this off with four multimillion dollar grants that the agency has recently awarded. The Future Internet Architecture research projects are expected to re-think the network from the ground up, taking into account emerging security concerns, the demand for greater bandwidth and the growth of mobile devices.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=re-thinking-the-internet-with-secur-2010-08-31
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You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant job sites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
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I recently registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas. I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
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Nearly a year ago, on August 27, 2009, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called to order his first meeting as the head of the new five member panel. Inside the FCC's low slung but expansive meeting room in Southwest Washington, D.C., the commission voted to open a series of inquiries into the wireless industry.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/one-year-fcc-where-things-stand?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Companies could increase their annual revenue an average of $2.01 billion by improving employee productivity through making their data just 10 percent more usable and accessible.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/study-refutes-nick-carr-shows-data-it-do-matter/397
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Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others:
Education and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Apple Stores and Motorola No More
Systems Integrators and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Recommended Webinar:
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper:
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro Full
Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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The worldwide smartphone applications market grew more than $2.2 billion within the first quarter, according to a study by research2guidance. In 2009 the applications market had posted revenue of $1.7 billion. Mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in only six months, compared to 3.1 billion in 2009.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753129
********
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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
********
A new report from the Globe and Mail indicates that while Google’s rise in the smartphone world shook up the market, its Android operating system may have reached its peak.
http://www.visagemobile.com/news/news/understanding-mobility-management-news/5078/report-finds-growing-smartphone-options-for-businesses-may-lead-to-short-reign-for-android-devices-in-the-enterprise/
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Google unveiled a way for Web users in the U.S. to make calls through its Gmail email service, further pushing into the Internet-calling business and ratcheting up competition with similar services such as Skype.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451743621937792.html
********
In May Dr. Neal Sikka began a six month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants at GWU Hospital could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images. "Mobile health" does not mean a clinic on wheels. It is an emerging field within telemedicine that comprises all aspects of care generated from or available on a portable mobile device such as a cellphone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083003939.html
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Apple's iPad will account for an overwhelming 74.1 percent of global tablet shipments this year, with the remaining 25.9 percent consisting of a mix of older PC-type tablet products and competitive slates, according to a study by iSuppli.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753118
********
Motorola Inc. unveiled a new smartphone version of its handsets that feature a popular Chinese handwriting technology, in hopes that the company can make a comeback in China, where it was once the market leader.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704323704575461513047883520.html
********
Sony Ericsson Chief Executive Bert Nordberg said Tuesday that he expects smartphone use in China to expand to half of all mobile phone users in the country within five years, as the company joins other global handset makers in shifting its focus to higher end devices.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704421104575463344074776632.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
********
Samsung says they've sold one million T-Mobile Vibrants and AT&T Captivates in less than a month and a half in the US.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/29/samsung-galaxy-million/
********
Microsoft will spend about $400 million to promote the launch of its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system according to Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg, adding his forecast doesn't include the millions the software giant has already committed to pay its handset manufacturer partners to offset non-recurring engineering costs.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/analyst-microsoft-will-spend-400m-market-windows-phone-7/2010-08-30
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Mobile content revenues in the U.S. will increase from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to over $3.53 billion in 2014, a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20 percent, according to a new forecast issued by digital intelligence firm eMarketer.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/emarketer-mobile-content-revenues-top-3-5-billion-2014/2010-08-31
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AT&T Mobility readjusted its schedule to begin offering services in a number of markets it had acquired from Verizon Wireless earlier this year. The carrier said it was moving up the launch dates in markets in South Dakota, North Dakota, Alabama, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado from the originally announced “mid-2011” to “the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011.”
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100902/CARRIERS/100909988/att-mobility-accelerates-alltel-market-transitions
********
Syclo announced it is rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo’s mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/Agentry_Mobile_Platform/Enterprise_Mobility/prweb4460374.htm
********
T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that the company has been awarded a three year blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under the terms of the agreement, the EPA and its 17,000 employees will have access to a full range of T-Mobile products and services.
http://www.bradenton.com/2010/08/31/2540816/t-mobile-usa-awarded-epa-mobility.html
********
The middle-aged Internet (ARPANET first went live more than 40 years ago) could easily slide into complacency, but the National Science Foundation might be staving this off with four multimillion dollar grants that the agency has recently awarded. The Future Internet Architecture research projects are expected to re-think the network from the ground up, taking into account emerging security concerns, the demand for greater bandwidth and the growth of mobile devices.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=re-thinking-the-internet-with-secur-2010-08-31
********
You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant job sites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
********
I recently registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas. I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
********
Nearly a year ago, on August 27, 2009, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called to order his first meeting as the head of the new five member panel. Inside the FCC's low slung but expansive meeting room in Southwest Washington, D.C., the commission voted to open a series of inquiries into the wireless industry.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/one-year-fcc-where-things-stand?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
Companies could increase their annual revenue an average of $2.01 billion by improving employee productivity through making their data just 10 percent more usable and accessible.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/study-refutes-nick-carr-shows-data-it-do-matter/397
********
Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others:
Education and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Apple Stores and Motorola No More
Systems Integrators and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Recommended Webinar:
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper:
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
**************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro Full
Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s M2M News Weekly – September 1, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly. This is an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. 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.
You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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The auto industry is getting fired up about wireless technology in cars and trucks, but it's not just for connecting passengers' laptops or streaming Internet radio stations. At an assembly plant outside Toronto, Ford Motor Co. is using Wi-Fi transmitters to load customized phone and entertainment features into its Edge and Lincoln MKX crossovers as the vehicles chug down the production line.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704504204575445642013867472.html?mod=rss_Technology
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This week Audi has been demonstrating its Travolution technology on a fleet of test vehicles near its headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany. The Travolution package incorporates a number of different technologies, including vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and SmartACC. The vehicle-to-infrastructure component allows vehicles to communicate with traffic signals over a combination of WiFi and 3G mobile.
http://green.autoblog.com/2010/06/03/audi-demonstrating-travolution-vehicle-to-infrastructure-communi/
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a three year, $7.5 million grant to a Rutgers led research team to develop a future Internet design optimized for mobile networking and communication. The team of nine universities and several industrial partners has dubbed its project “MobilityFirst,” reflecting the Internet’s evolution away from traditional wired connections between desktop PCs and servers toward wireless data services on mobile platforms.
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/08/national-science-fou-20100827
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Although they won’t attain field readiness in time to help workers trapped by the mine collapse in Chile, a number of new technologies will enter service in the next few years that could drastically increase mine collapse survival rates. These technologies differ in their use, but all use advanced sensors to help miners locate fallen colleagues, alert rescue teams and flee to safety.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38884331/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
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The convergence of personal health records and mobile communication devices may provide the mechanism to engage consumers to use technology to enhance self-care, taking cost out of the health care system, according to a new Deloitte Issue Brief released today by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
ttp://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=253126&Itemid=59
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An ABI report indicates renewed interest from mobile operators in the M2M space, coupled with the widespread deployment of 3G, led it to predict the M2M market will be worth $3.8 billion by 2015.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/ereaders-tablets-are-early-winners-embedded-device-category/2010-08-26
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The love affair between people and their mobile phones will grow even stronger once those devices go beyond communications and entertainment and into actual control of entire home and office environments.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/topics/machine-to-machine/m2m-smartphones-smarter-083010/
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Intel's $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon's wireless chipset unit is now official and may boost Intel's prospects in wireless a great deal, especially in smartphones and embedded wireless products.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/intel-goes-all-wireless-infineon-deal-will-bet-pay/2010-08-30
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Eurotech, a supplier of embedded technologies has announced the Eurotech TurboXb computer on module has been deployed in GE Healthcare's EView ventilator data capture device.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ge-healthcare-deploys-eurotech-turboxb-computer-on-module-in-medical-data-capture-device-accessory-101865608.html
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Telefonica will launch a new business area in September as the company looks to beef up its data technology services and expand revenue. The Madrid based telecommunications company said that besides the video content delivery network the company will expand in the segments of eHealth, applications, security and financial services, cloud computing and M2M Internet communications.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100831-703849.html
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Mobile payment is slowly gaining traction in China, with systems already in place in top-tier cities for subways, supermarkets, convenience stories, cafes, and fast food chains. China's mobile payment market size is estimated at USD 417 million in 2010, up 45 percent from 2009. Users are expected to nearly double to 150 million. These numbers mostly reflect niche forms of mobile payment, from IC embedded traffic cards to online payments made from a handset.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/08/31/4983086.htm
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The number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will ramp up to nearly 412 million globally by 2014, according to analyst firm Juniper Research. But the main market drivers won't be the oft-hyped e-readers or netbooks. Rather, they will be several enterprise verticals led by healthcare monitoring, a small market today, but one poised to achieve significant revenues.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/mobile-apps/news/m2m-connected-devices-grows-0122/
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Wireless operators have decided to stake their claim in the mobile telematics market. The market is growing rapidly, as module prices fall and the cost and time of developing and integrating new M2M solutions drops. The industry is no longer dominated by a few verticals, such as security and fleet tracking. Broad new fields such as telemedicine, home automation, agriculture — even the insurance industry — are investing in M2M.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/connectedplanet/news/operators_piece_together/
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The world of M2M communications is no longer just about vehicle tracking applications, Kore Telematics is fond of saying. But according to its own numbers, 70.7 percent of the M2M device connections Kore manages still connect GPS devices in vehicles and other assets.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/topics/machine-to-machine/kore-m2m-connections-071510/
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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The auto industry is getting fired up about wireless technology in cars and trucks, but it's not just for connecting passengers' laptops or streaming Internet radio stations. At an assembly plant outside Toronto, Ford Motor Co. is using Wi-Fi transmitters to load customized phone and entertainment features into its Edge and Lincoln MKX crossovers as the vehicles chug down the production line.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704504204575445642013867472.html?mod=rss_Technology
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This week Audi has been demonstrating its Travolution technology on a fleet of test vehicles near its headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany. The Travolution package incorporates a number of different technologies, including vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and SmartACC. The vehicle-to-infrastructure component allows vehicles to communicate with traffic signals over a combination of WiFi and 3G mobile.
http://green.autoblog.com/2010/06/03/audi-demonstrating-travolution-vehicle-to-infrastructure-communi/
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a three year, $7.5 million grant to a Rutgers led research team to develop a future Internet design optimized for mobile networking and communication. The team of nine universities and several industrial partners has dubbed its project “MobilityFirst,” reflecting the Internet’s evolution away from traditional wired connections between desktop PCs and servers toward wireless data services on mobile platforms.
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/08/national-science-fou-20100827
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Although they won’t attain field readiness in time to help workers trapped by the mine collapse in Chile, a number of new technologies will enter service in the next few years that could drastically increase mine collapse survival rates. These technologies differ in their use, but all use advanced sensors to help miners locate fallen colleagues, alert rescue teams and flee to safety.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38884331/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
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The convergence of personal health records and mobile communication devices may provide the mechanism to engage consumers to use technology to enhance self-care, taking cost out of the health care system, according to a new Deloitte Issue Brief released today by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
ttp://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=253126&Itemid=59
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An ABI report indicates renewed interest from mobile operators in the M2M space, coupled with the widespread deployment of 3G, led it to predict the M2M market will be worth $3.8 billion by 2015.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/ereaders-tablets-are-early-winners-embedded-device-category/2010-08-26
********
The love affair between people and their mobile phones will grow even stronger once those devices go beyond communications and entertainment and into actual control of entire home and office environments.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/topics/machine-to-machine/m2m-smartphones-smarter-083010/
********
Intel's $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon's wireless chipset unit is now official and may boost Intel's prospects in wireless a great deal, especially in smartphones and embedded wireless products.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/intel-goes-all-wireless-infineon-deal-will-bet-pay/2010-08-30
********
Eurotech, a supplier of embedded technologies has announced the Eurotech TurboXb computer on module has been deployed in GE Healthcare's EView ventilator data capture device.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ge-healthcare-deploys-eurotech-turboxb-computer-on-module-in-medical-data-capture-device-accessory-101865608.html
********
Telefonica will launch a new business area in September as the company looks to beef up its data technology services and expand revenue. The Madrid based telecommunications company said that besides the video content delivery network the company will expand in the segments of eHealth, applications, security and financial services, cloud computing and M2M Internet communications.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100831-703849.html
********
Mobile payment is slowly gaining traction in China, with systems already in place in top-tier cities for subways, supermarkets, convenience stories, cafes, and fast food chains. China's mobile payment market size is estimated at USD 417 million in 2010, up 45 percent from 2009. Users are expected to nearly double to 150 million. These numbers mostly reflect niche forms of mobile payment, from IC embedded traffic cards to online payments made from a handset.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/08/31/4983086.htm
********
The number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will ramp up to nearly 412 million globally by 2014, according to analyst firm Juniper Research. But the main market drivers won't be the oft-hyped e-readers or netbooks. Rather, they will be several enterprise verticals led by healthcare monitoring, a small market today, but one poised to achieve significant revenues.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/mobile-apps/news/m2m-connected-devices-grows-0122/
********
Wireless operators have decided to stake their claim in the mobile telematics market. The market is growing rapidly, as module prices fall and the cost and time of developing and integrating new M2M solutions drops. The industry is no longer dominated by a few verticals, such as security and fleet tracking. Broad new fields such as telemedicine, home automation, agriculture — even the insurance industry — are investing in M2M.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/connectedplanet/news/operators_piece_together/
********
The world of M2M communications is no longer just about vehicle tracking applications, Kore Telematics is fond of saying. But according to its own numbers, 70.7 percent of the M2M device connections Kore manages still connect GPS devices in vehicles and other assets.
http://connectedplanetonline.com/topics/machine-to-machine/kore-m2m-connections-071510/
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin's Mobility News Weekly - August 26, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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Garmin is recalling 1.25 million GPS devices, most of which were sold in America, because their batteries could overheat and cause fires, the company said Thursday. The affected units contain batteries made by a third-party supplier, and almost 800,000 were sold in America.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/26/technology/garmin_recall/index.htm?hpt=T2
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The news of Intel acquiring McAfee for nearly $8 billion caught the tech world off guard and perplexed analysts at face value. The fact is that it doesn't make much sense based on the Intel and McAfee of today, but as the dust settles the deal makes more sense when viewed as a visionary shift with an eye on where technology is headed--everywhere. The challenge for the future of Intel is that the relevance of the PC is waning in an increasingly mobile world.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/203764/intelmcafee_deal_secure_mobility_by_design.html?tk=hp_new
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I was fortunate to have attended last week's SAP Sybase Executive Briefing in Boston. Also attending were SAP Mentors, Jon Reed and Susan Keohan, "the workflow goddess." There was a lot covered, but in this report I am going to focus on what I learned about enterprise mobility there.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/report-on-sap-sybase-executive-briefing.html
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Target Corp., best known for its "cheap chic" clothing and furnishings, is adding a series of new services aimed at bolstering its electronics departments. Target announced this morning that it is launching Target Mobile.
http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/08/23/daily19.html#ixzz0xdhDzbAQ
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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The independent survey, which examined consumer preferences and attitudes surrounding mobile shopping, found that 15 percent of consumers have used their mobile devices to make purchases. “The key finding is that 15 percent of all mobile phone users—not just smartphone users—made a purchase from their mobile phone,” said Adam Forrest, product marketing manager at Demandware, Woburn, MA. “The age demographic with the highest usage was 25-34 with 21 percent of them making a purchase from their mobile phone.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/15pc-of-consumers-have-made-purchase-with-mobile-device-study/
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Tuesday morning Sprint Nextel's Virgin Mobile division unveiled its newest offering: a $40 monthly flat rate for unlimited mobile broadband use. The plan immediately will replace the company's current $20, $40 and $60 plans; current users of those plans will be able to use up their existing data or time, whichever comes first.
http://www.crn.com/news/networking/226900152/for-virgin-mobile-true-mobility-means-no-contracts.htm;jsessionid=AHfkKEJJLS7Qt7j74Bw+Cg**.ecappj02
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I have been invited to join popular mobility blogger Gil Bouhnick, the Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, to speak at an upcoming webinar entitled, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid when Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution. I don't know where that title came from, as I have made at least a hundred costly mistakes all by myself. I invite you to join us on August 31st.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-happens-when-you-schedule-2.html
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New data from Ground Truth reveals that mobile romance is heating up as temperatures climb in the summer months. According to the mobile media measurement firm, the number of visitors to mobile dating sites increased by 92 percent from the first week in June to the last week in July.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/press-releases/romancing-phone-mobile-dating-climbs-summer-heats#ixzz0xdhtdtN7
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Mobile devices from tablets to notebooks to mobile phones are invading the enterprise. Here's a look at some of the trends that are shaping today's mobile enterprise.
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/iPhone-to-Windows-Phone-7-Top-Enterprise-Mobility-Trends-876783/
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This week I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas. I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device. MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility, and hosting two SAP Enterprise Mobility sessions in the Expert Lounge. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
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China’s Union Mobile Pay is reporting an M-Commerce sales volume equivalent to $4.4 billion U.S. (30 billion yuan, which is about 3.1 billion euros), according to a report Tuesday from PaymentsSource. That service also reported 140 million registered users, as of the end of last year.
http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/e-commerce/more-m-commerce-proof-from-china-4-4-billion-in-mobile-revenue-last-year/#ixzz0xktFnZIU
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The worldwide mobile payments market--including purchases of digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC transactions--will grow from $170 billion in 2010 to almost $630 billion in 2014 according to a new forecast issued by Juniper Research.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/juniper-forecasts-mobile-payments-reach-630b-2014/2010-05-04
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I worked on a mobility project a few years ago with a very large construction and engineering firm that did contract work for water and electrical utilities in the UK. They came to me with a need to survey and inspect council houses.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/saving-billions-with-help-of-enterprise.html
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Bank of America Corp plans to begin a test program next month that lets customers use smartphones to pay for purchases in stores. The program, set to run from September through the end of the year in the New York area, is the biggest step yet by the biggest U.S. consumer bank toward creating a "digital wallet" with a host of financial capabilities built into the latest, most sophisticated mobile phones.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCAN1927163120100819?rpc=44
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High end retailer Barneys New York went for speed and simplicity when it launched its mobile commerce site in October.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/08/26/when-it-comes-m-commerce-test-and-test-again-retailer-says
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Two-thirds of service providers surveyed intend to use WiMAX for mobility-based services by 2012. This indicates a richer service environment for WiMAX in the future, but at the same time, the survey showed that key challenges remain; specifically, the limited range of WiMAX-enabled mobile devices and the difficulty of building low-ARPU pricing models for developing countries.
http://www.infonetics.com/pr/2010/WiMAX-Services-Strategies-Service-Provider-Survey-Highlights.asp
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In the UK the water utilities and the government wanted to find ways of reducing water consumption so they could delay or avoid building new water reservoirs. You can image how difficult and costly it is to build new water reservoirs in populated areas! The company that was awarded the inspection work contacted me to help them mobilize this system. Here is a high level view on how I remember the process worked.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/saving-billions-with-help-of-enterprise_26.html
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A new survey of hundreds of wireless industry executives from around the world found strong support for a switch from flat-rate mobile data plans to usage-based models. The survey found that 48 percent of executives surveyed predicted that carriers will focus on developing new mobile data pricing models over the next three years. Additionally, the survey showed that 55 percent of those surveyed agreed usage-based models are coming to mature markets, and 47 percent said flat-rate data plans are crimping their ability to increase revenue.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/08/25/end_of_fixed_price_data_plans_may_be_near/
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Last week, in a blog article, I discussed the challenges of preparing to consult with a company and advise them on issues related to enterprise mobility. I shared that it is helpful to send questions in advance so you know what kind of environment you are walking into. Since that article I have thought of a few more questions which I have listed here.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-on-how-you-advise-enterprise-on.html
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SAP and Sybase Press Release on Enterprise Mobility Roadmap – August 19, 2010: The companies will integrate the SAP NetWeaver® Mobile component and SAP® BusinessObjects™ Mobile software with Sybase Unwired Platform to deliver a single mobile development and deployment platform with integrated analytics.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/sap-and-sybase-press-release-on.html
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I have been thinking a lot lately about how management, and the art of managing, needs to evolve with the advancement and progress in mobile technology. It is not just mobile devices that change, but a whole list of new capabilities that are now available to a manager. I wonder how many managers have adapted their management styles and practices, and re-engineered their business processes to take advantage of these mobile features and capabilities?
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/sap-enterprise-mobility-and-management.html
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Networked Field Services whitepaper - This paper explores the convergence of several different technologies including: mobility, GPS, business intelligence and M2M (machine to machine) technologies with evolving field services management strategies. This convergence has resulted in a new “Networked Field Service” model that has been developed by leading military strategists. Governments have made huge investments over the past few years in Network-Centric Warfare strategies and mobile data collection technologies that are relevant to field services organizations.
http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
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High end retailer Barneys New York went for speed and simplicity when it launched its mobile commerce site in October.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/08/26/when-it-comes-m-commerce-test-and-test-again-retailer-says
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Read the latest Mobile Expert Interviews at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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Garmin is recalling 1.25 million GPS devices, most of which were sold in America, because their batteries could overheat and cause fires, the company said Thursday. The affected units contain batteries made by a third-party supplier, and almost 800,000 were sold in America.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/26/technology/garmin_recall/index.htm?hpt=T2
********
The news of Intel acquiring McAfee for nearly $8 billion caught the tech world off guard and perplexed analysts at face value. The fact is that it doesn't make much sense based on the Intel and McAfee of today, but as the dust settles the deal makes more sense when viewed as a visionary shift with an eye on where technology is headed--everywhere. The challenge for the future of Intel is that the relevance of the PC is waning in an increasingly mobile world.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/203764/intelmcafee_deal_secure_mobility_by_design.html?tk=hp_new
********
I was fortunate to have attended last week's SAP Sybase Executive Briefing in Boston. Also attending were SAP Mentors, Jon Reed and Susan Keohan, "the workflow goddess." There was a lot covered, but in this report I am going to focus on what I learned about enterprise mobility there.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/report-on-sap-sybase-executive-briefing.html
********
Target Corp., best known for its "cheap chic" clothing and furnishings, is adding a series of new services aimed at bolstering its electronics departments. Target announced this morning that it is launching Target Mobile.
http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/08/23/daily19.html#ixzz0xdhDzbAQ
********
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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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The independent survey, which examined consumer preferences and attitudes surrounding mobile shopping, found that 15 percent of consumers have used their mobile devices to make purchases. “The key finding is that 15 percent of all mobile phone users—not just smartphone users—made a purchase from their mobile phone,” said Adam Forrest, product marketing manager at Demandware, Woburn, MA. “The age demographic with the highest usage was 25-34 with 21 percent of them making a purchase from their mobile phone.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/15pc-of-consumers-have-made-purchase-with-mobile-device-study/
********
Tuesday morning Sprint Nextel's Virgin Mobile division unveiled its newest offering: a $40 monthly flat rate for unlimited mobile broadband use. The plan immediately will replace the company's current $20, $40 and $60 plans; current users of those plans will be able to use up their existing data or time, whichever comes first.
http://www.crn.com/news/networking/226900152/for-virgin-mobile-true-mobility-means-no-contracts.htm;jsessionid=AHfkKEJJLS7Qt7j74Bw+Cg**.ecappj02
********
I have been invited to join popular mobility blogger Gil Bouhnick, the Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, to speak at an upcoming webinar entitled, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid when Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution. I don't know where that title came from, as I have made at least a hundred costly mistakes all by myself. I invite you to join us on August 31st.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-happens-when-you-schedule-2.html
********
New data from Ground Truth reveals that mobile romance is heating up as temperatures climb in the summer months. According to the mobile media measurement firm, the number of visitors to mobile dating sites increased by 92 percent from the first week in June to the last week in July.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/press-releases/romancing-phone-mobile-dating-climbs-summer-heats#ixzz0xdhtdtN7
********
Mobile devices from tablets to notebooks to mobile phones are invading the enterprise. Here's a look at some of the trends that are shaping today's mobile enterprise.
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/iPhone-to-Windows-Phone-7-Top-Enterprise-Mobility-Trends-876783/
********
This week I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas. I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device. MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility, and hosting two SAP Enterprise Mobility sessions in the Expert Lounge. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
********
China’s Union Mobile Pay is reporting an M-Commerce sales volume equivalent to $4.4 billion U.S. (30 billion yuan, which is about 3.1 billion euros), according to a report Tuesday from PaymentsSource. That service also reported 140 million registered users, as of the end of last year.
http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/e-commerce/more-m-commerce-proof-from-china-4-4-billion-in-mobile-revenue-last-year/#ixzz0xktFnZIU
********
The worldwide mobile payments market--including purchases of digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC transactions--will grow from $170 billion in 2010 to almost $630 billion in 2014 according to a new forecast issued by Juniper Research.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/juniper-forecasts-mobile-payments-reach-630b-2014/2010-05-04
********
I worked on a mobility project a few years ago with a very large construction and engineering firm that did contract work for water and electrical utilities in the UK. They came to me with a need to survey and inspect council houses.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/saving-billions-with-help-of-enterprise.html
********
Bank of America Corp plans to begin a test program next month that lets customers use smartphones to pay for purchases in stores. The program, set to run from September through the end of the year in the New York area, is the biggest step yet by the biggest U.S. consumer bank toward creating a "digital wallet" with a host of financial capabilities built into the latest, most sophisticated mobile phones.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCAN1927163120100819?rpc=44
********
High end retailer Barneys New York went for speed and simplicity when it launched its mobile commerce site in October.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/08/26/when-it-comes-m-commerce-test-and-test-again-retailer-says
********
Two-thirds of service providers surveyed intend to use WiMAX for mobility-based services by 2012. This indicates a richer service environment for WiMAX in the future, but at the same time, the survey showed that key challenges remain; specifically, the limited range of WiMAX-enabled mobile devices and the difficulty of building low-ARPU pricing models for developing countries.
http://www.infonetics.com/pr/2010/WiMAX-Services-Strategies-Service-Provider-Survey-Highlights.asp
********
In the UK the water utilities and the government wanted to find ways of reducing water consumption so they could delay or avoid building new water reservoirs. You can image how difficult and costly it is to build new water reservoirs in populated areas! The company that was awarded the inspection work contacted me to help them mobilize this system. Here is a high level view on how I remember the process worked.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/saving-billions-with-help-of-enterprise_26.html
********
A new survey of hundreds of wireless industry executives from around the world found strong support for a switch from flat-rate mobile data plans to usage-based models. The survey found that 48 percent of executives surveyed predicted that carriers will focus on developing new mobile data pricing models over the next three years. Additionally, the survey showed that 55 percent of those surveyed agreed usage-based models are coming to mature markets, and 47 percent said flat-rate data plans are crimping their ability to increase revenue.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/08/25/end_of_fixed_price_data_plans_may_be_near/
********
Last week, in a blog article, I discussed the challenges of preparing to consult with a company and advise them on issues related to enterprise mobility. I shared that it is helpful to send questions in advance so you know what kind of environment you are walking into. Since that article I have thought of a few more questions which I have listed here.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-on-how-you-advise-enterprise-on.html
********
SAP and Sybase Press Release on Enterprise Mobility Roadmap – August 19, 2010: The companies will integrate the SAP NetWeaver® Mobile component and SAP® BusinessObjects™ Mobile software with Sybase Unwired Platform to deliver a single mobile development and deployment platform with integrated analytics.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/sap-and-sybase-press-release-on.html
********
I have been thinking a lot lately about how management, and the art of managing, needs to evolve with the advancement and progress in mobile technology. It is not just mobile devices that change, but a whole list of new capabilities that are now available to a manager. I wonder how many managers have adapted their management styles and practices, and re-engineered their business processes to take advantage of these mobile features and capabilities?
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/sap-enterprise-mobility-and-management.html
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Networked Field Services whitepaper - This paper explores the convergence of several different technologies including: mobility, GPS, business intelligence and M2M (machine to machine) technologies with evolving field services management strategies. This convergence has resulted in a new “Networked Field Service” model that has been developed by leading military strategists. Governments have made huge investments over the past few years in Network-Centric Warfare strategies and mobile data collection technologies that are relevant to field services organizations.
http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
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High end retailer Barneys New York went for speed and simplicity when it launched its mobile commerce site in October.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/08/26/when-it-comes-m-commerce-test-and-test-again-retailer-says
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Read the latest Mobile Expert Interviews at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s M2M News Weekly – August 25, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly. This is an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. 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.
You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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According to a recent IE Market Research forecast, the worldwide market for GPS powered navigation and location-based services will grow from $1.6 billion in 2009 to $13.4 billion in 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate of 51.3 percent.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/slideshow/5-ipad-navigation-apps-offer-new-directions-location-based-services
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The seemingly recession proof smartphone is suffering from a side effect of the rough economy: Manufacturers simply can't build enough of the gadgets because chip makers that rolled back production last year now are scrambling to play catch up.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100821/BIZ/8210302/-1/rss05
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M2M devices and applications are an area of wireless data usage with a projected compound annual growth rate of over 25 percent per year through 2014 and a projected need for up to 50 billion M2M devices by 2025.
http://networking.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1182351
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You may have heard one of the absolute brightest spots in the tech space is the M2M market where analysts believe sales will total $18 billion in the next five years as device totals surge from 75 million to over 225 million.
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/m2m/m2m-market-to-grow-to-18b-in-5-years.html
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The number of devices connected to the internet is expected to break through the five billion mark this month, according to web market research firm IMS Research. Numbers could be as high as 22 billion by 2020.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/626209/web-connected-devices-to-reach-22-billion-by-2020
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Over the last few years, the key focus of M2M applications has shifted from tactical, local deployments – where M2M began – to increasingly strategic, national and international deployments. As a result, the demand for cost effective national and international network coverage has increased dramatically.
http://www.telecomengine.com/NewsGlobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6545
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Many technologies today focus on providing high speed connections for multimedia, information and entertainment applications. However, at the opposite end of the spectrum, there is a growing need for new breeds of smart devices based on wireless sensors that have a very different set of core requirements.
http://www.ferret.com.au/c/Clarke-Severn-Electronics/Wavenis-Wireless-Technology-for-M2M-Applications-available-from-Clarke-Severn-Electronics-n894840
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The ABI study "Cellular Machine-to-Machine Markets" discusses the market trends and analyzes cellular M2M vendor strategic responses for the period 2003-2009. According to the study, the M2M communication market has had fluctuating fortunes. While 2007 was a “good year”, 2008 was witness to a drastic decline in shipment volumes and revenues. However, as 3G gained more significance, the market seems to have picked up and it is estimated to be worth $3.8 billion in 2015.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/95825-3g-leading-growth-m2m-market-abi-research.htm
********
Cleveland's city council has equipped residential recycling bins with RFID tags. Passing garbage trucks count the bins, and any residents whose bin isn't left on the curb for a few weeks will be visited by the "rubbish inspector." After a bit of digging (literally), if it turns out that resident has been discarding recyclables, they face a $100 fine.
http://www.telecomengine.com/NewsGlobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6544
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According to the 2010 "Green Quadrant" report published by Verdantix, an independent analyst firm that provides commercial analysis of climate change, sustainability and energy issues, Orange "stands out as the telecoms operator that has been most successful in creating, marketing and delivering telecoms solutions which offer sustainability benefits to business customers." Orange already led the market in the 2009 issue of the Verdantix report.
http://www.telecomengine.com/article.asp?Id=AR_6515
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Someday, all cars may be smart and connected. But today, it’s noteworthy indeed that ITU’s Fully Networked Car, and ng Connect’s LTE Connected Car are on display at two different major European tradeshows: the Geneva Auto Show and CeBIT.
http://blog.m2mzone.com/m2m/2010/03/lte-connected-car-project-can-it-bridge-concept-with-reality.html
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ORBCOMM Inc., a global satellite data communications company focusing on two-way M2M communications announced that Caterpillar Inc. has renewed its agreement with ORBCOMM for satellite communication services for their heavy equipment telematics solution. Caterpillar will benefit from their expanded services in countries like South Africa, Ghana, and Papua New Guinea.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/orbcomm-extends-telematics-services-to-caterpillar-inc-2010-08-24?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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Vodafone decided a while ago that M2M represented a strong opportunity for the Group, and subsequently appointed Erik Brenneis to the role of heading up a group M2M Line of Business unit, with overall responsibility for driving Vodafone’s growth in the M2M market. Mr. Brenneis was formerly Chief Sales Officer at M2M market leader Cinterion Wireless Modules and therefore has a strong background in M2M. Since then, they have been recruiting M2M specialists to strengthen this new group unit and aims to have 110 full time staff by the last quarter of this year. This will include regional heads for the Americas, AsiaPacific, and North, Central and South Europe, to be located in-region. To take one example, the plan calls for a new US team with an initial staff of 6, even though Vodafone has no direct presence in that market. Nevertheless, it does have a 45 percent stake in its affiliate, Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile operator in the US, now focusing on M2M following the establishment of nPhase as its M2M joint venture with Qualcomm.
http://www.telecomengine.com/NewsGlobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6545
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
*************************************************
You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
********
According to a recent IE Market Research forecast, the worldwide market for GPS powered navigation and location-based services will grow from $1.6 billion in 2009 to $13.4 billion in 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate of 51.3 percent.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/slideshow/5-ipad-navigation-apps-offer-new-directions-location-based-services
********
The seemingly recession proof smartphone is suffering from a side effect of the rough economy: Manufacturers simply can't build enough of the gadgets because chip makers that rolled back production last year now are scrambling to play catch up.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100821/BIZ/8210302/-1/rss05
********
M2M devices and applications are an area of wireless data usage with a projected compound annual growth rate of over 25 percent per year through 2014 and a projected need for up to 50 billion M2M devices by 2025.
http://networking.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1182351
********
You may have heard one of the absolute brightest spots in the tech space is the M2M market where analysts believe sales will total $18 billion in the next five years as device totals surge from 75 million to over 225 million.
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/m2m/m2m-market-to-grow-to-18b-in-5-years.html
********
The number of devices connected to the internet is expected to break through the five billion mark this month, according to web market research firm IMS Research. Numbers could be as high as 22 billion by 2020.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/626209/web-connected-devices-to-reach-22-billion-by-2020
********
Over the last few years, the key focus of M2M applications has shifted from tactical, local deployments – where M2M began – to increasingly strategic, national and international deployments. As a result, the demand for cost effective national and international network coverage has increased dramatically.
http://www.telecomengine.com/NewsGlobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6545
********
Many technologies today focus on providing high speed connections for multimedia, information and entertainment applications. However, at the opposite end of the spectrum, there is a growing need for new breeds of smart devices based on wireless sensors that have a very different set of core requirements.
http://www.ferret.com.au/c/Clarke-Severn-Electronics/Wavenis-Wireless-Technology-for-M2M-Applications-available-from-Clarke-Severn-Electronics-n894840
********
The ABI study "Cellular Machine-to-Machine Markets" discusses the market trends and analyzes cellular M2M vendor strategic responses for the period 2003-2009. According to the study, the M2M communication market has had fluctuating fortunes. While 2007 was a “good year”, 2008 was witness to a drastic decline in shipment volumes and revenues. However, as 3G gained more significance, the market seems to have picked up and it is estimated to be worth $3.8 billion in 2015.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/95825-3g-leading-growth-m2m-market-abi-research.htm
********
Cleveland's city council has equipped residential recycling bins with RFID tags. Passing garbage trucks count the bins, and any residents whose bin isn't left on the curb for a few weeks will be visited by the "rubbish inspector." After a bit of digging (literally), if it turns out that resident has been discarding recyclables, they face a $100 fine.
http://www.telecomengine.com/NewsGlobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6544
********
According to the 2010 "Green Quadrant" report published by Verdantix, an independent analyst firm that provides commercial analysis of climate change, sustainability and energy issues, Orange "stands out as the telecoms operator that has been most successful in creating, marketing and delivering telecoms solutions which offer sustainability benefits to business customers." Orange already led the market in the 2009 issue of the Verdantix report.
http://www.telecomengine.com/article.asp?Id=AR_6515
********
Someday, all cars may be smart and connected. But today, it’s noteworthy indeed that ITU’s Fully Networked Car, and ng Connect’s LTE Connected Car are on display at two different major European tradeshows: the Geneva Auto Show and CeBIT.
http://blog.m2mzone.com/m2m/2010/03/lte-connected-car-project-can-it-bridge-concept-with-reality.html
********
ORBCOMM Inc., a global satellite data communications company focusing on two-way M2M communications announced that Caterpillar Inc. has renewed its agreement with ORBCOMM for satellite communication services for their heavy equipment telematics solution. Caterpillar will benefit from their expanded services in countries like South Africa, Ghana, and Papua New Guinea.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/orbcomm-extends-telematics-services-to-caterpillar-inc-2010-08-24?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
Vodafone decided a while ago that M2M represented a strong opportunity for the Group, and subsequently appointed Erik Brenneis to the role of heading up a group M2M Line of Business unit, with overall responsibility for driving Vodafone’s growth in the M2M market. Mr. Brenneis was formerly Chief Sales Officer at M2M market leader Cinterion Wireless Modules and therefore has a strong background in M2M. Since then, they have been recruiting M2M specialists to strengthen this new group unit and aims to have 110 full time staff by the last quarter of this year. This will include regional heads for the Americas, AsiaPacific, and North, Central and South Europe, to be located in-region. To take one example, the plan calls for a new US team with an initial staff of 6, even though Vodafone has no direct presence in that market. Nevertheless, it does have a 45 percent stake in its affiliate, Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile operator in the US, now focusing on M2M following the establishment of nPhase as its M2M joint venture with Qualcomm.
http://www.telecomengine.com/NewsGlobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6545
*************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin's Mobility News Weekly - August 19, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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Mobile devices are overtaking PCs. In a nutshell, what we are seeing in smartphones is bigger than anything that has come before it. Much bigger than the PC. And it is coming so fast that we don't realize what's happening.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/11/the-great-game-mobile-devices-overtaking-pcs/?hpt=Sbin
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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Spain added 269,371 mobile lines in June, bringing the total number to 52.83 million, up by 2.2 percent over the same month of 2009, according to the monthly report by Spanish regulator CMT.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/08/12/4953024.htm
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I was asked the other day to put together a list of questions to send to a management team in advance of my visit. They had asked me to help them develop an enterprise mobility strategy. This was an interesting task. I had little knowledge of the scope of their ambitions, so I approached this challenge by creating a list of open ended questions that were designed to uncover their interests and their range of possible needs. How would you prepare to discuss an infinite number of different mobility scenarios, business processes, IT infrastructures, ERPs and a plethora of mobile devices.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-do-you-advise-enterprise-on.html
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The latest quarterly update to ABI Research's enterprise mobility regional market data sets shows that healthcare, retail and manufacturing, three sectors each with a double digit share, will command over 36 percent of all mobile business customer data revenues worldwide over the next five years.
http://www.embeddedinternetdesign.com/226700253?cid=RSSfeed_embeddedinternetdesign_adlRSS
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Google's Android platform now represents 17.2 percent of the global smartphone market, overtaking Apple's iOS as the world's third most popular smartphone OS and edging past Research In Motion's BlackBerry to emerge as the top selling OS in the U.S., according to new data published by research firm Gartner.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-overtakes-blackberry-top-selling-u-s-smartphone-os/2010-08-12?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
I have been invited to join popular mobility blogger Gil Bouhnick, the Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, to speak at an upcoming webinar entitled, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid when Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution. I don't know where that title came from, as I have made at least a hundred costly mistakes all by myself.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-happens-when-you-schedule-2.html
********
A friend of mine here in Boise, Jon Young developed a very interesting mobile application on Android. The application is a great example of the concept of extending business processes. The application works much like the popular RedLaser iPhone application in that it can scan an ISBN barcode on a book cover and then automatically look it up.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/extending-mobile-business-processes-in.html
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India's telecoms ministry has suggested a formula by which security agencies can get access to corporate email on Research In Motion's Blackberry devices, the Economic Times reported.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11433558
********
The mobile commerce market is worth $2.5 billion today, and will grow four times that amount in the next couple of years, according to a panelist at the eTail 2010 Social Media & Mobile Commerce Summit.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/mobile-commerce-market-worth-25b-and-growing-panelist/
********
KeyBank is keeping on-the-go customers updated on their accounts via a new SMS mobile banking service.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/keybank-offers-mobile-banking-service-via-sms/
********
Mobile operators' 3G networks carry 72 percent of video content viewed by Android smartphone users in the U.S. according to new data issued by mobile video ad network Rhythm NewMedia. By comparison, iPhone users rely on 3G for 56 percent of their mobile video consumption.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/study-3g-networks-carry-72-android-mobile-video-traffic/2010-08-17
********
I have been pondering various enterprise mobility strategies this week. I asked myself the question, "Is it better to be an enterprise mobility generalist or a business process expert that mobilizes their solutions?" What do you think?
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you.html
********
The success of the iPhone and Google's Android platform spotlights the real "killer app" in the smartphone market: having apps. That's a reality likely to haunt Research In Motion as it tries to generate buyers and buzz for its new BlackBerry Torch, which hits stores next week. At Apple, there are about 250,000 apps for that. At BlackBerry's App World, there are just 8,000.
http://pyxismobile.com/News/NewsItem.aspx?id=298
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As Nokia seeks to turn around its smartphone lineup to try to compete with the BlackBerry and with Apple’s iPhone, the company is also trying to shore up its bulk cell phone business, which accounts for 84 percent of the 432 million devices Nokia sold last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16iht-NOKIA16.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&src=busln&adxnnlx=1282172401-RkLT58YNWx3Aj4OmI/FB6Q
********
Another analyst is reporting Android sales are on fire. Shipments of Android phones will grow by 561 percent in 2010 and take nearly 25 percent of the smartphone market. Additionally, Apple iPhone shipments will overtake RIM smartphones later this year, according to Digitimes Research.
http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-android-control-smartphone-market/55278
********
• Read the latest Mobile Expert Interviews at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
********
Mobile devices are overtaking PCs. In a nutshell, what we are seeing in smartphones is bigger than anything that has come before it. Much bigger than the PC. And it is coming so fast that we don't realize what's happening.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/11/the-great-game-mobile-devices-overtaking-pcs/?hpt=Sbin
********
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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
********
Spain added 269,371 mobile lines in June, bringing the total number to 52.83 million, up by 2.2 percent over the same month of 2009, according to the monthly report by Spanish regulator CMT.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/08/12/4953024.htm
********
I was asked the other day to put together a list of questions to send to a management team in advance of my visit. They had asked me to help them develop an enterprise mobility strategy. This was an interesting task. I had little knowledge of the scope of their ambitions, so I approached this challenge by creating a list of open ended questions that were designed to uncover their interests and their range of possible needs. How would you prepare to discuss an infinite number of different mobility scenarios, business processes, IT infrastructures, ERPs and a plethora of mobile devices.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-do-you-advise-enterprise-on.html
********
The latest quarterly update to ABI Research's enterprise mobility regional market data sets shows that healthcare, retail and manufacturing, three sectors each with a double digit share, will command over 36 percent of all mobile business customer data revenues worldwide over the next five years.
http://www.embeddedinternetdesign.com/226700253?cid=RSSfeed_embeddedinternetdesign_adlRSS
********
Google's Android platform now represents 17.2 percent of the global smartphone market, overtaking Apple's iOS as the world's third most popular smartphone OS and edging past Research In Motion's BlackBerry to emerge as the top selling OS in the U.S., according to new data published by research firm Gartner.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-overtakes-blackberry-top-selling-u-s-smartphone-os/2010-08-12?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
I have been invited to join popular mobility blogger Gil Bouhnick, the Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, to speak at an upcoming webinar entitled, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid when Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution. I don't know where that title came from, as I have made at least a hundred costly mistakes all by myself.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-happens-when-you-schedule-2.html
********
A friend of mine here in Boise, Jon Young developed a very interesting mobile application on Android. The application is a great example of the concept of extending business processes. The application works much like the popular RedLaser iPhone application in that it can scan an ISBN barcode on a book cover and then automatically look it up.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/extending-mobile-business-processes-in.html
********
India's telecoms ministry has suggested a formula by which security agencies can get access to corporate email on Research In Motion's Blackberry devices, the Economic Times reported.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11433558
********
The mobile commerce market is worth $2.5 billion today, and will grow four times that amount in the next couple of years, according to a panelist at the eTail 2010 Social Media & Mobile Commerce Summit.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/mobile-commerce-market-worth-25b-and-growing-panelist/
********
KeyBank is keeping on-the-go customers updated on their accounts via a new SMS mobile banking service.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/keybank-offers-mobile-banking-service-via-sms/
********
Mobile operators' 3G networks carry 72 percent of video content viewed by Android smartphone users in the U.S. according to new data issued by mobile video ad network Rhythm NewMedia. By comparison, iPhone users rely on 3G for 56 percent of their mobile video consumption.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/study-3g-networks-carry-72-android-mobile-video-traffic/2010-08-17
********
I have been pondering various enterprise mobility strategies this week. I asked myself the question, "Is it better to be an enterprise mobility generalist or a business process expert that mobilizes their solutions?" What do you think?
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you.html
********
The success of the iPhone and Google's Android platform spotlights the real "killer app" in the smartphone market: having apps. That's a reality likely to haunt Research In Motion as it tries to generate buyers and buzz for its new BlackBerry Torch, which hits stores next week. At Apple, there are about 250,000 apps for that. At BlackBerry's App World, there are just 8,000.
http://pyxismobile.com/News/NewsItem.aspx?id=298
********
As Nokia seeks to turn around its smartphone lineup to try to compete with the BlackBerry and with Apple’s iPhone, the company is also trying to shore up its bulk cell phone business, which accounts for 84 percent of the 432 million devices Nokia sold last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16iht-NOKIA16.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&src=busln&adxnnlx=1282172401-RkLT58YNWx3Aj4OmI/FB6Q
********
Another analyst is reporting Android sales are on fire. Shipments of Android phones will grow by 561 percent in 2010 and take nearly 25 percent of the smartphone market. Additionally, Apple iPhone shipments will overtake RIM smartphones later this year, according to Digitimes Research.
http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-android-control-smartphone-market/55278
********
• Read the latest Mobile Expert Interviews at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Kevin’s M2M News Weekly – August 18, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly. This is an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. 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.
You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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Within the past 18 months Numerex has quietly positioned their business for strong growth in revenues and profits. Financially they are strong and getting stronger. Long term debt has been reduced to zero, cash is growing and stands at $7.5 million or about 50 cents per share, and non-GAAP net income (before legal expenses) was $1.8 million or about 12 cents per share.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/219979-numerex-s-ideal-business-model
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IMS Research has shared some findings indicating that the number of Internet connected devices is expected to pass the 5 billion milestone this month. Furthermore, the organization forecasts 22 billion connected devices by 2020.
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/08/16/market-research-firm-says-internet-connected-devices-will-surpass-5-billion-this-
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Some figures are already projecting that the market for M2M technology could boost U.S. wireless penetration from the current 90 percent to a staggering 500 percent over the next few years, with M2M connections far outpacing handset buyers in a huge growth spurt for the telecom industry.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100812/INFRASTRUCTURE/100819978/m2m-to-stimulate-stagnating-cellular-penetration-potential
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The M2M sector in Spain went up by 20.9 percent over the same period last year, to over 1.94 million lines. The growth of the M2M sector brings the total number of mobile lines to over 54.77 million.
http://4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com/news/2010/08/12/4953024.htm
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The emerging cellular M2M market has developed some sophisticated models on how to bill for mobile network use. As the consumer wireless industry looks beyond hard caps and unlimited data plans, can it emulate the business models of its M2M counterpart?
http://connectedplanetonline.com/4gparadox/feature/4g-paradox-does-m2m-hold-pricing-lessons-0816/index1.html
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Safefreight Technology, the official mobile security supplier for the IZOD IndyCar Series is partnering with KORE Telematic, to monitor the location and security status of each Indy car transport trailer and logistics support vehicle. Detailed information such as multi-zone temperature monitoring, door openings and aggressive driver acceleration, braking or turning can be transmitted by Smartfleet through the KORE network.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/95264-smartfleet-safefreights-easy-to-use-gps-fleet-tracking.htm
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Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, today announced that they have entered into an agreement with Sprint to extend an M2M product line to a variety of businesses.
http://www.ttkn.com/technology/laird-technologies-partners-with-sprint-to-extend-m2m-product-line-to-a-variety-of-businesses-3405.html
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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Within the past 18 months Numerex has quietly positioned their business for strong growth in revenues and profits. Financially they are strong and getting stronger. Long term debt has been reduced to zero, cash is growing and stands at $7.5 million or about 50 cents per share, and non-GAAP net income (before legal expenses) was $1.8 million or about 12 cents per share.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/219979-numerex-s-ideal-business-model
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IMS Research has shared some findings indicating that the number of Internet connected devices is expected to pass the 5 billion milestone this month. Furthermore, the organization forecasts 22 billion connected devices by 2020.
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/08/16/market-research-firm-says-internet-connected-devices-will-surpass-5-billion-this-
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Some figures are already projecting that the market for M2M technology could boost U.S. wireless penetration from the current 90 percent to a staggering 500 percent over the next few years, with M2M connections far outpacing handset buyers in a huge growth spurt for the telecom industry.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100812/INFRASTRUCTURE/100819978/m2m-to-stimulate-stagnating-cellular-penetration-potential
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The M2M sector in Spain went up by 20.9 percent over the same period last year, to over 1.94 million lines. The growth of the M2M sector brings the total number of mobile lines to over 54.77 million.
http://4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com/news/2010/08/12/4953024.htm
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The emerging cellular M2M market has developed some sophisticated models on how to bill for mobile network use. As the consumer wireless industry looks beyond hard caps and unlimited data plans, can it emulate the business models of its M2M counterpart?
http://connectedplanetonline.com/4gparadox/feature/4g-paradox-does-m2m-hold-pricing-lessons-0816/index1.html
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Safefreight Technology, the official mobile security supplier for the IZOD IndyCar Series is partnering with KORE Telematic, to monitor the location and security status of each Indy car transport trailer and logistics support vehicle. Detailed information such as multi-zone temperature monitoring, door openings and aggressive driver acceleration, braking or turning can be transmitted by Smartfleet through the KORE network.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/95264-smartfleet-safefreights-easy-to-use-gps-fleet-tracking.htm
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Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, today announced that they have entered into an agreement with Sprint to extend an M2M product line to a variety of businesses.
http://www.ttkn.com/technology/laird-technologies-partners-with-sprint-to-extend-m2m-product-line-to-a-variety-of-businesses-3405.html
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly – August 12, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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T-Mobile USA announced another quarter of customer defections, saying its total customers served declined by 93,000 in the second quarter compared with 77,000 net customer losses in the first quarter of this year. Its positive spin is that customers using 3G-capable smartphones continued to increase significantly in the second quarter, driving data ARPU (average revenue per user) to account for 25 percent of the company's total ARPU.
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/t-mobile-loses-more-subscribers-2q-data-revenues-bright-spot/2010-08-05?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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As of July 2010 the App Store offers over 225,000 applications optimized for Apple's iOS platform, including 11,000 expressly optimized for the computing giant's iPad tablet. App Store downloads now top 5 billion--free applications represent 81 percent of iOS downloads according to data released in late June by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who adds iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users presently download over 16.6 million apps each day.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/app-store-adds-try-you-buy-section/2010-08-06?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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The US is projected to add more mobile subscriptions (about 80 million) than any other developed nation with mobile revenue surpassing all fixed line services by end of 2015, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.
http://telecoms.cbronline.com/news/us-mobile-revenue-to-exceed-all-fixed-line-services-by-2015-pyramid_040810
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SAP AG has announced the completion of its acquisition of Sybase, a partner and a market leader in managing, analyzing, and mobilizing business information. Through this transaction, SAP intends to accelerate the reach of SAP solutions across mobile platforms and drive forward the realization of SAP's in-memory computing vision.
http://www.sys-con.com/node/1489651
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A new Nielsen survey shows that only 42 percent of BlackBerry owners want their next phone to be a BlackBerry, while 89 percent of iPhone owners and 71 percent of Android owners plan to stick with those platforms.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704017904575409331541948418.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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I have been invited to join popular mobility blogger Gil Bouhnick, the Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, to speak at an upcoming webinar entitled, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid when Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution. I don't know where that title came from, as I have made at least a hundred costly mistakes all by myself.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-happens-when-you-schedule-2.html
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Android devices accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone sales during the first half of 2010 according to data issued this week by The Nielsen Company, four percentage points higher than the iPhone--Android now makes up 13 percent of the U.S. smartphone market as a whole, trailing Research In Motion's BlackBerry (35 percent), iPhone (28 percent) and Microsoft's Windows Mobile (15 percent, down from 27 percent only a year ago).
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-wins-battle-iphone-still-winning-war/2010-08-05
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Vendors of smartphones shipped a total of 63 million units in the second quarter of 2010, compared to 41.9 million units in the same period a year ago. For H1, vendors shipped a total of 118.3 million units, up 54 percent from the 76.8 million units shipped during the first half of 2009.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=750019
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AT&T Inc. said Friday it doesn't expect to suffer a "material negative impact" from the end of its exclusive arrangements to carry handsets, including its lucrative deal for Apple’s iPhone.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413672727878934.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews
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Evidence continues to mount to support expectations that Apple's iPhone 4 will finally launch on Verizon this coming January.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/08/09/iphone.verizon.wired/index.html?hpt=T2
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Revenues from mobile data in the United States jumped six percent in the second quarter from the previous quarter and climbed 22 percent from the year ago period, according to fresh data from Chetan Sharma Consulting. In the second quarter alone, revenues for mobile data eclipsed $13.2 billion.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100810/CONTENT_MOBILE_MARKETING/100819994/us-consumers-double-their-mobile-data-traffic-consumption-in-six
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I have found that in some industries and markets, mobile applications for smartphones or rugged handheld computers just won't cut it, at least on their own. In heavy construction, utilities, environmental services, disaster relief, inspection and assessment and on blueprint and map intensive jobs, handheld mobile devices simply have screens that are too small to be effective.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/mobile-companion-applications.html
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Research in Motion has agreed to install a server in Saudi Arabia that will allow that country’s authorities to monitor data on BlackBerry devices.
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/rim-reaches-saudi-deal-over-blackberry-ban-8882
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Sybase, Inc., an SAP company and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced that partners around the world are successfully launching innovative mobile applications on the Sybase Unwired Platform, the industry’s leading mobile enterprise application platform.
http://www.sunherald.com/2010/08/09/2391759_sybase-and-sap-partners-launch.html
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Samsung Electronics’ share of the global smartphone market is small but growing, says a report from a U.S. based research firm.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2924392
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Nokia maintained its lead in the smartphone market, shipping 24 million units in the second quarter. Despite its failure to launch a successful smartphone in recent years, Nokia controlled 38.1 percent of the smartphone market, IDC said.
http://iblogauto.com/2010/08/10/nokia-rim-control-smartphone-market-despite-dip-idc/
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Global market for enterprise mobility is projected to exceed US $168.8 billion by the year 2015. Growing acceptance from large as well as small and medium businesses, and introduction of sophisticated mobile devices and novel mobility solutions are likely to fuel market growth in the next few years.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/enterprise/mobility/prweb4370204.htm
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• Read the latest Mobile Expert Interviews at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
• Watch the latest Video Comments from Kevin Benedict on enterprise mobility and M2M subjects at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-video-comments.html
• Watch the latest Mobile Expert Videos at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
• I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the SAP Enterprise Mobility group at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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http://www.clicksoftware.com/e86e075b-4fca-44c9-bfeb-4efcc978f416/knowledge-center-white-papers-delivery.htm
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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T-Mobile USA announced another quarter of customer defections, saying its total customers served declined by 93,000 in the second quarter compared with 77,000 net customer losses in the first quarter of this year. Its positive spin is that customers using 3G-capable smartphones continued to increase significantly in the second quarter, driving data ARPU (average revenue per user) to account for 25 percent of the company's total ARPU.
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/t-mobile-loses-more-subscribers-2q-data-revenues-bright-spot/2010-08-05?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
As of July 2010 the App Store offers over 225,000 applications optimized for Apple's iOS platform, including 11,000 expressly optimized for the computing giant's iPad tablet. App Store downloads now top 5 billion--free applications represent 81 percent of iOS downloads according to data released in late June by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who adds iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users presently download over 16.6 million apps each day.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/app-store-adds-try-you-buy-section/2010-08-06?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
********
The US is projected to add more mobile subscriptions (about 80 million) than any other developed nation with mobile revenue surpassing all fixed line services by end of 2015, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.
http://telecoms.cbronline.com/news/us-mobile-revenue-to-exceed-all-fixed-line-services-by-2015-pyramid_040810
********
SAP AG has announced the completion of its acquisition of Sybase, a partner and a market leader in managing, analyzing, and mobilizing business information. Through this transaction, SAP intends to accelerate the reach of SAP solutions across mobile platforms and drive forward the realization of SAP's in-memory computing vision.
http://www.sys-con.com/node/1489651
********
A new Nielsen survey shows that only 42 percent of BlackBerry owners want their next phone to be a BlackBerry, while 89 percent of iPhone owners and 71 percent of Android owners plan to stick with those platforms.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704017904575409331541948418.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
********
I have been invited to join popular mobility blogger Gil Bouhnick, the Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, to speak at an upcoming webinar entitled, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid when Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution. I don't know where that title came from, as I have made at least a hundred costly mistakes all by myself.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-happens-when-you-schedule-2.html
********
Android devices accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone sales during the first half of 2010 according to data issued this week by The Nielsen Company, four percentage points higher than the iPhone--Android now makes up 13 percent of the U.S. smartphone market as a whole, trailing Research In Motion's BlackBerry (35 percent), iPhone (28 percent) and Microsoft's Windows Mobile (15 percent, down from 27 percent only a year ago).
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-wins-battle-iphone-still-winning-war/2010-08-05
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Vendors of smartphones shipped a total of 63 million units in the second quarter of 2010, compared to 41.9 million units in the same period a year ago. For H1, vendors shipped a total of 118.3 million units, up 54 percent from the 76.8 million units shipped during the first half of 2009.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=750019
********
AT&T Inc. said Friday it doesn't expect to suffer a "material negative impact" from the end of its exclusive arrangements to carry handsets, including its lucrative deal for Apple’s iPhone.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413672727878934.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews
********
Evidence continues to mount to support expectations that Apple's iPhone 4 will finally launch on Verizon this coming January.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/08/09/iphone.verizon.wired/index.html?hpt=T2
********
Revenues from mobile data in the United States jumped six percent in the second quarter from the previous quarter and climbed 22 percent from the year ago period, according to fresh data from Chetan Sharma Consulting. In the second quarter alone, revenues for mobile data eclipsed $13.2 billion.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100810/CONTENT_MOBILE_MARKETING/100819994/us-consumers-double-their-mobile-data-traffic-consumption-in-six
********
I have found that in some industries and markets, mobile applications for smartphones or rugged handheld computers just won't cut it, at least on their own. In heavy construction, utilities, environmental services, disaster relief, inspection and assessment and on blueprint and map intensive jobs, handheld mobile devices simply have screens that are too small to be effective.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/mobile-companion-applications.html
********
Research in Motion has agreed to install a server in Saudi Arabia that will allow that country’s authorities to monitor data on BlackBerry devices.
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/rim-reaches-saudi-deal-over-blackberry-ban-8882
********
Sybase, Inc., an SAP company and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced that partners around the world are successfully launching innovative mobile applications on the Sybase Unwired Platform, the industry’s leading mobile enterprise application platform.
http://www.sunherald.com/2010/08/09/2391759_sybase-and-sap-partners-launch.html
********
Samsung Electronics’ share of the global smartphone market is small but growing, says a report from a U.S. based research firm.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2924392
********
Nokia maintained its lead in the smartphone market, shipping 24 million units in the second quarter. Despite its failure to launch a successful smartphone in recent years, Nokia controlled 38.1 percent of the smartphone market, IDC said.
http://iblogauto.com/2010/08/10/nokia-rim-control-smartphone-market-despite-dip-idc/
********
Global market for enterprise mobility is projected to exceed US $168.8 billion by the year 2015. Growing acceptance from large as well as small and medium businesses, and introduction of sophisticated mobile devices and novel mobility solutions are likely to fuel market growth in the next few years.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/enterprise/mobility/prweb4370204.htm
********
• Read the latest Mobile Expert Interviews at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
• Watch the latest Video Comments from Kevin Benedict on enterprise mobility and M2M subjects at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-video-comments.html
• Watch the latest Mobile Expert Videos at: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
• I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the SAP Enterprise Mobility group at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
http://www.clicksoftware.com/e86e075b-4fca-44c9-bfeb-4efcc978f416/knowledge-center-white-papers-delivery.htm
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