Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

According to information gathered by Internet security service provider Zscaler, over 40 percent of mobile device users are using Android handsets, 37 percent are BlackBerry users and, iOS iPhones account for 22 percent. Read Original Content

Global advanced water meter shipments accounted for over $500 million in revenue in 2010, with over 70 percent of this in the North American market, according to IMS Research.  Advanced water meters (M2M enabled) can be read by technologies including handhelds, mobile and network technologies based on telephony platforms (wired and wireless) and radio frequency (RF).  Read Original Content

Flurry Analytics recently conducted a study on the amount of time users spent on mobile apps based on categories. Flurry found that the top two most used apps were games at 47 percent and social networking at 32 percent. News and entertainment were the third and fourth most used applications. Read Original Content

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Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

The Mobile Medical News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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London-based market research firm Datamonitor estimates the market for telehealth services in the U.S. and Europe will grow from $3 billion in 2009 to nearly $8 billion by 2012. Read Original Content

According to ABI Research by 2016 the mobile health app market will be worth $400 million. Read Original Content

The Asia Pacific region will generate more than $7 billion in revenues from mHealth services in 2017, according to a new study by the GSM Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

One out of four healthcare providers are now using tablets in their practice, with another 21 percent expecting to do so in the next 12 months, and more than half are using a smartphone at work, according to CompTIA. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest smartphone market in the third quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. Deliveries of smartphones to operators and retailers in China grew 58 percent in the third quarter from the previous quarter to 24 million units. That surpassed 23 million units delivered to the U.S. market. Read Original Content

China has begun to see a price drop in the mobile terminal market in the third quarter of 2011, especially for smartphones, according to statistics released by Analysys International.  Read Original Content

The sports and health mobile application market will grow to over $400 million in 2016, up from just $120 million in 2010 says ABI Research.  Read Original Content

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In comparison to the Swedish, Dutch or German markets, the United States underperforms in app downloads per user. Nevertheless, the U.S. is still the largest market in total app downloads, holding more than 50 percent of the total market share.  Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

According to Canaccord Genuity analysts T. Michael Walkley and Mattew Ramsay, Apple controls only four percent of the total phone market, but captures 52 percent of its profits. Read Original Content

In the IDTechEx research report "RFID for Animals, Food and Farming 2011-2021", IDTechEx suggests that by 2021 the market for livestock tracking via RFID will have increased from $1.17 billion in 2011 to $4.09 billion in 2021. Read Original Content

Asymco.com has published a collection of mobility graphs recently, emphasizing the surge in Android smartphone shipments since the second quarter of 2007. Read Original Content

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 14, 2011

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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According to NPD Group, 59 percent of all mobile phones sold during the third quarter of 2011 were smartphones, up from 46 percent in the same period last year. Read Original Content

According to research firm Gartner in the third quarter of 2011, Android phones accounted for 52.5 percent of all smartphones sold worldwide, up from 25.3 percent in the same quarter last year.  Read Original Content

Worldwide sales of mobile devices totaled 440.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011, up 5.6 percent from the same period last year, according to Gartner, Inc.  Read Original Content

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Android tops the charts in mobile malware, largely due to the failure of Google's Android Market to properly review apps before they hit the marketplace, says a new report from Juniper Networks.  Read Original Content

Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of November 14, 2011

The Mobile Medical News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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More than 50 percent of physicians use a smartphone for work purposes, according to a new study by IT industry association CompTIA. Read Original Content

Asia Pacific mobile health market will grow to almost $7 billion in 2017 at 70 pecent yearly. Growth of mobile health services in Asia Pacific is stimulating demand for connected devices and making the connected life a reality. Read Original Content

The Mayo Clinic and hospitals across the United States are getting creative with how they use mobile healthcare apps. Hospitals have found ways to survey patients, track pregnancies, record patient history and drive revenue using mobile apps. Read Original Content

The wireless monitoring device industry in the U.S. has doubled in the past four years to a present value of $7.1 billion. This number is expected to triple in the next four years, reaching $22.2 billion by 2015, according to Kalorama. Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 14, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Pew Research has found that about nine percent of all adult mobile phone users in the U.S. have downloaded an app during 2010 that “helped them track or manage their health.” In its most recent survey in August 2011 Pew found that about 11 percent of all adult cell phone users having downloaded an app that helps them manage their health, representing a two percent increase in that time period. Read Original Content

Morgan Stanley estimates that the smart grid market will grow 100 percent in the next five years and 400 percent over the next 20 years, making smart-grid technology a $100+ billion market by 2030. Read Original Content

Recent studies from Pike Research suggests that there will be a steady increase in the number of telematics units being applied to vehicles in the next few years. This is largely based on the significant effects that telematics units can have on company fuel expenses. Read Original Content

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Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of November 7, 2011

The Mobile Medical News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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By the summer of 2012 MobiHealthNews predicts that the number of iPhone apps for healthcare professionals will jump from almost 4,000 today to nearly 6,000 apps. Read Original Content

According to ongoing studies by Pew Research the number of smartphone users who have downloaded health related apps has increased only two percent since 2010. Read Original Content

This past week Apple published more than 240 apps to the health and medical categories of its AppStore. Read Original Content

According to a survey compiled at the UAE’s Mobile Show earlier this year, 93 percent of respondents believe the mobile health industry can improve the quality and availability of healthcare in the Middle East. Read Original Content

According to a mobile marketing research group, 500 million smartphone users will be using a health care application by 2015. Read Original Content

Technavio's analysts forecast the Global Mobile Health Applications market to grow at an annual rate of 24 percent over the period 2010 to 2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the worldwide growth of remote patient monitoring. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 7, 2011

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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Swedish telecom giant Ericsson believes that mobile data traffic will increase ten-fold by 2016.  Read Original Content

American Express Co., the biggest credit-card issuer by purchases, plans to invest $100 million in technology companies as it develops its digital-payments system, Serve. Read Original Content

According to a newly released Nielsen report on the U.S. smartphone market, Apple is still the top manufacturer with a 28 percent share.  As far as operating systems are concerned, Android is the leader with 43 percent of the smartphone market in third quarter 2011.  Read Original Content

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ComScore's September MobiLens survey of over 30,000 mobile phone users found that Android was being used on close to 45 percent of the 87.4 million smartphones in the United States, up from 40.2 percent in June.  Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 7, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Flurry Analytics conducted a study on the amount of usage spent on iOS and Android applications. Flurry found that the United States took 55 percent of global app sessions between the two operating systems, with 28 percent being taken by the remaining top 10 countries, and 17 percent controlled by the rest of the world. Read Original Content

Shortly after the first weekend selling iPhone 4S devices, Apple announced that the company had sold over 4 million units during that three day period. Apple again has set the record for fastest selling electronics device for an opening weekend. Read Original Content

A new report published by Machina Research forecasts the global smart meter growth through 2010-2020. North America is projected to lead the world in the number of connected meters and is on track to reach 1.6 billion smart meters by 2020. Currently the United States and Italy are the global leaders in installed smart meters. Read Original Content

Within the past year the world has experienced rapid growth in the number of mobile applications downloaded. China leads the world with an 870 percent increase in mobile apps since 2010, with Argentina taking second place. The United States does not make the top ten world rankings, however it does control the majority of app sessions. Read Original Content

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 31, 2011

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A UK man, born without his left forearm has become the first person to have a smartphone dock embedded in his prosthetic limb.  Read Original Content

VeriFone Systems Inc. acquired Global Bay Mobile Technologies, a mobile retail solutions provider that helps retailers use alternative payment devices -- such as iPads -- as payment vehicles.  Read Original Content

Nokia’s chief executive said this week that the company will re-enter the U.S. smartphone market in early 2012 with the introduction of devices running Microsoft’s Windows Phone for multiple U.S. carriers, according to media reports. Read Original Content

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RIM has fallen to $18.91, below the book value per share of $18.92 at the end of last quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Book value comprises a company’s assets including cash, inventories, real estate and intellectual property minus its liabilities. Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of October 31, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Analysys Mason forecasts 1.3 billion residential and commercial smart meter connections by 2020 with an annual growth rate of 56 percent over a ten year period. Read Original Content

Darren Herman recently conducted a study on the amount of digital market share controlled by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and AOL.  The study concludes that these five companies take 64 percent of market revenues. Read Original Content

According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung-made Android devices have outpaced Apple devices.  In the third quarter of 2011, Samsung shipped 28 million units while Apple only sold 17 million iPhones. Read Original Content

A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that over the next five years digital spending — defined as spending on broadband and mobile access, wired and mobile advertising, video on demand, digital music, online movie rentals, video games and newspaper and magazine advertising — will climb from below 20 percent of all entertainment and media spending in the U.S. to over 26 percent.  Globally, the firm expects digital spending to hit 33 percent of all spending on media and entertainment by 2014. Read Original Content

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M2M News Weekly - Week of October 24, 2011

Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.

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A recently published study from Berg Insight predicts that the global use of smart electricity meters will grow at a rate of nearly 27 percent over the next five years, reaching 602.7 million units by 2016.  North America and Europe will experience a 50 percent increase in their smart meter market.  Read Original Content

According to a study by GTM the increase in smart meter installations will drive $8.2 billion in utility enterprise spending in the U.S. between now and 2015.  Read Original Content

NRG Expert’s new Utility Metering Deployment and Smart Grid Report shows the overall market size for new utility meters growing with a CAGR of 8 percent between 2010 and 2014.  Read Original Content

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China plans to invest $90 billion in smart grid technologies before 2020, the Center for American Progress reports.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 25, 2011

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The Springfield Police Department has become the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to adopt the new smartphone application MyPD, which lets users send the department e-mails, report violations and check the latest news from their Android or Apple mobile device.  Read Original Content

Android served up more ad impressions overall in the third quarter than rival iOS, at 56 percent, Millennial Media reported.  For its part, ABI Media noted that in the second quarter, Android overtook iOS to become the market share leader in mobile application downloads.  Read Original Content

In 2011 the Japanese smartphone market is likely to surge about 35 percent to 1.19 trillion yen, and is expected to continue to see double-digit growth, or 18 percent, next year, becoming a leading force in hardware sales, said Hideo Wada, an analyst at IDC Japan.  Read Original Content

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Mobile phone giant Nokia has unveiled two new smartphones as it seeks to boost its flagging fortunes in the booming market.  The Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 - Nokia's first handsets using the Windows Phone operating system - are the company's attempt to gain traction in the smartphone market.  Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of October 24, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Pike Research published a report focused on global smart meter growth earlier this year.  According to the report nearly every region will experience significant smart meter growth between 2011 and 2018, growing at an annual rate of 40 percent.  Read Original Content

Forrester Research conducted a study on the future market for tablet devices, comparing them to the future market of laptop and desktop sales.  Their research concludes that desktop sales will continue to decline while overall tablet sales will begin to control a larger share of the computer sales market.  Read Original Content

An article published by Fierce Wireless highlights the emerging market for wearable medical devices that connect patients to hospitals using M2M solutions.  The number of shipments is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years.  Professional on-site healthcare and sports and fitness divisions are expected to order 200 million devices during 2014.  Read Original Content

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 17, 2011

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Despite a recession and competition from foreign smartphone manufacturers and developers, the U.S. has become the leader in the smartphone market, Mary Meeker announced at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.  Read Original Content

Samsung has taken the lead in Ireland's mobile phone market for the first time.  According to figures from GFK Retail and Technology, the manufacturer's handsets accounted for 37.3 percent of Ireland’s mobile market in September.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics has unveiled its Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system.  The new unit is seen as the Samsung-Google partnership's answer to Apple's iPhone 4S, which in less than a week on the market has already sold more than 4 million units.  Read Original Content

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By 2015 companies will generate 50 percent of Web sales via their social presence and mobile applications, according to Gartner, Inc.  Vendors in the e-commerce market will begin to offer new context-aware, mobile-based application capabilities that can be accessed via a browser or installed as an application on a phone.  Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of October 17, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Earlier in 2011 Forrester Research published a report forecasting the total value of smartphone and tablet apps for the next five years.  In the report Forrester projects that tablet apps will rise from $300 million in 2010 to $8.1 billion in 2015, with apps for smartphones rising from $1.9 billion in 2010 to $29.4 billion in 2015.  Read Original Content

A March 2011 article compared the number of available apps offered by mobile operating systems.  While Android devices are currently the most popular devices in the United States, iPhone still controls the largest number of available apps.  Read Original Content

According to ExactTarget, the most continuously used daily activity for smartphone users is text messaging (38%), phone calls (31%), emails (29%), and Internet and Facebook (20%).  Read Original Content

The Office for National Statistics in the U.K. has released information gathered from mobile device owners accessing the Internet through their smartphones.  The report is organized by age group, and illustrates that over 70% of smartphone owners access the web via their mobile device, with older age groups using mobile Internet less frequently.  Read Original Content

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

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The introduction of the iPhone 4S marks the debut of Apple’s newest mobile operating system, iOS 5.  The new OS is not only loaded with some important improvements — from how notifications about missed calls and other messages are displayed to how your device connects to your computer — it also introduces an innovative, voice-activated “intelligent assistant” named Siri.  This is arguably one of the most meaningful updates to the iPhone we’ve ever seen.  Read Original Content

Microsoft Corp is gearing up to grab a share of the highly competitive smartphone operating system market with its partner in the sector, HTC Corp, launching two new phones that run its latest Windows Phone platform.  The two HTC phones — the Titan and the Radar — are scheduled to hit the shelves at the end of this month.  Read Original Content

The Chinese company Huawei recently outlined its strategy for entering the U.S. mobile market.  Huawei’s goal is to offer more affordable Android smartphones, a growing category for both pre-paid carriers and the Big Four (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile).  Read Original Content

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Eight months and several hurdles after receiving 510(k) clearance, mobile-health company Mobisante says its smartphone ultrasound device is officially on the market. Read Original Content

Recent problems with the BlackBerry smartphone system appear have to spread to the United States.  The latest development follows two days of sporadic blackouts across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  BlackBerry's owner, RIM, blamed the latest outages on a backlog of emails to Europe from Asia and the Americas.  Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Asymco produced a chart earlier in 2011 illustrating the total units sold by each generation of Apple’s iPhone.  The iPhone 4s is expected to sell more units than all previous models combined.  Read Original Content

Juniper Research reports that a number of mobile services are set to grow significantly through 2012.  This includes over $100 billion in mobile ticket transactions through 2012 and remote mobile payments of digital goods will surge to $2.5 billion by 2014.  Read Original Content

In August Pyramid Research ran a report on the number of NFC-enabled handsets projected to be sold through 2015.  Pyramid expects 17.5 million enabled handsets will be sold in 2011 and forecasts roughly 350 million by 2015.  Read Original Content

A March 2011 article by Juniper Research forecasts the mobile ticketing market to triple during the next four years, reaching 750 million people.  This is up from the 250 million individuals who currently purchase tickets through handsets. The Far East and China region contain the majority of m-ticket users and expects to grow steadily in upcoming years.  Read Original Content 

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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Steve Jobs: You Will Be Missed.  Read Kevin’s Tribute.

The world expected iPhone 5, but Apple chose to give something less.  From a purely logistical perspective -- and for maximizing margins -- iPhone 4S is sheer brilliance.  Read Original Content

What if they’d just called it the iPhone 5?  The new iPhone is loaded with cool new features that the market was anticipating, with one exception:  it’s not called the iPhone 5; it’s called the iPhone 4S.  Read Original Content

GIA has announced the release of a comprehensive global report on the Smartphone Apps market.  The world smartphone apps market is forecast to reach $101.2 billion by the year 2017.  Read Original Content

Nokia plans to unveil its Windows phones this quarter, increasing the potential for a big holiday race among competing smartphone makers.  Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, will announce more details about the launch at the company's annual trade show in London, on October 26, but hinted a phone would roll out by year's end.  Read Original Content

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Many bloggers might have been disappointed that the new iPhone 4S doesn't include 4G wireless data or a display larger than 3.5 inches, but analysts believe Apple will increase its U.S. smartphone share with its recent iPhone introductions.   According to Nielsen, Apple is tops in the smartphone market share at 28 percent.  Read Original Content