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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Are you going to SAP’s TechEd Las Vegas in October? I will be teaching a session entitled The Future of Enterprise Mobility. For the current buzz on SCN (SAP Community Network), check out the SAP TechEd blog topic. Also, follow SAP TechEd on Twitter and Facebook!
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Palm’s CEO Jon Rubinstein affirmed that Web OS 2.0 will become available for download later this year.
http://www.softsailor.com/news/34126-jon-rubinstein-webos-2-0-to-be-released-for-download-by-end-of-2010-new-hardware-coming-too.html
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AT&T has been rumored to have put their name down for 8 million Windows Phone 7 devices.
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07/22/att-put-their-name-down-for-8-million-windows-phone-7-devices/
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO announced this week that they are seeing rapid growth in Kindle, Amazon web services, third-party sales and retail. He added, "In the last 12 months, customers around the world have ordered more than $1 billion of products from Amazon using a mobile device."
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/amazons-ceo-jeff-bezos-announces-1.html
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Ericsson reported second quarter sales of SEK 48 billion, down 8 percent from a year earlier. The market conditions were similar to the second half of 2009, with mixed operator investment behavior, Ericsson said.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=747228
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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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Verizon said it lost $198 million in the second quarter of 2010, compared to earnings of $1.48 billion a year ago. Revenue dipped to $26.8 billion, down from $26.9 billion a year ago. The telecom giant's Verizon Wireless unit increased total revenues 3.4 percent year over year, buoyed by 5.2 percent growth in service revenues and a 23.8 percent jump in data revenues.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/verizon-wireless-data-revenues-jump-23-8-percent-q2/2010-07-23?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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See a pothole that needs to be filled? There's an app for that. Wish the city would fix that traffic signal around the corner? There's an app for that, too -- if you're in Alpharetta, Georgia. The city has launched a new system for reporting minor hazards using a free application for smartphones.
http://www.ajc.com/news/north-fulton/fix-a-pothole-in-576562.html
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Adding digital mailroom solutions in the mailroom, and mobile enterprise applications for invoice approvals on the backend extends the invoice approval process two directions.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/extending-business-processes-two.html
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Nokia remains by far the world’s biggest producer of mobile phones but has struggled to come up with a product to compete with the Apple iPhone and other high end devices. Since Apple released the iPhone in June 2007, Nokia’s shares have fallen 66 percent, and 55.6 billion Euros have been wiped off its market capitalization.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aee7ffa8-95c2-11df-b5ad-00144feab49a.html
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Perhaps the biggest change in the SAP mobility space is the shift from talk of “point solutions” to the need for an Enterprise Mobility strategy that gives structure and central management of the surge in point solutions for different focused applications like field service or e-procurement.
http://www.feedingthesapecosystem.com/2010/07/what-sap-trends-should-it-services.html
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As the world celebrates this month’s signing up of the five billionth mobile phone subscriber, Africa is stepping forward to claim credit as one of the regions that have driven the phenomenal growth over the past decade. From only 16 million subscribers in 2000, the continent now boasts about half a billion subscribers, according to telecommunications firm Ericsson.
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Africa%20in%20the%20limelight%20as%20mobile%20phones%20promise%20more%20growth/-/2560/964426/-/xpqyps/-/
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Global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2010 grew 43 percent to 60 million units from 42 million a year ago, accounting for 19 percent of handset volumes, according to a study by Strategy Analytics.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=747305
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Android's share of the UK mobile market grew by more than 10 percent in a single quarter, International market research firm GfK's Retail and Technology division announced today. Smartphones reached nearly 67 percent penetration in the contract mobile device market in the second quarter, and by June had already grown to 73.5 percent.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Android-grew-350-in-UK-last-quarter-says-research/1280159596
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Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola, said Saturday morning that he was convinced that the vast majority of volume in mobile devices over the next five years would be with Android devices.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366966,00.asp
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Looking to the future, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg stated that the infrastructure industry will likely never see a return to the 20 percent to 30 percent yearly growth rates of the late 1990s, when equipment vendors installed hundreds of completely new networks worldwide.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/ericsson-ceo-future-revenue-growth-mobile-broadband/2010-07-23?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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ParkWhiz is a service that enables hundreds of independent parking owners to offer reserved, guaranteed parking spaces near top destinations like airports, stadiums, and theaters via a newly launched mobile HTML5 website. ParkWhiz partners with parking lot owners, which range from people who own a single space to large parking management companies, across the country to list their inventory on ParkWhiz.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=6833412
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The number of internet users in China increased to an estimated 420 million at the end of June 2010, according to industry association China Internet Network Information Center. The number of users was up by 9.4 percent compared to the start of the year. Of the total, 363.81 million (or 86.6 percent) used broadband fixed line access modes, while 276.78 million (65.9 percent) used mobile handsets.
http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=33805
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A new study finds that retailers and marketers are not taking full advantage of the opportunities that exist for integrating mobile and social. The eROI study surveyed 500 business to consumer and business-to-business companies. The majority cited lack of resources and education as the primary reasons why they are not putting more of a priority on mobile or social.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/mobile-still-not-a-priority-among-marketing-decision-makers-study/
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Britons are not getting the broadband services they are being sold, research by the regulator Ofcom suggests. Its analysis of broadband speeds in the UK shows that, for some services, 97 percent of consumers do not get the advertised speed. It also shows a growing gap between the claims ISPs make for broadband and the speed being delivered. To fix the problem, Ofcom is revamping the code of conduct for ISPs and asking for changes to how broadband is sold.
http://fluentnews.com/s/25576644
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Vodafone will look to entice handset vendors to preload 360 services on their devices. 360 services include mobile back-ups and other cloud services.
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/07/27/vodafone-reverses-360-strategy-cloud-devices.htm
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HP will make webOS, which it acquired with Palm, its primary software platform, and though it will still release a Windows 7 tablet, it does not plan to use WP7 or Android for smartphones or other mobile devices.
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/07/26/microsoft-backtracks-wp7-supporters.htm
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VGMarket and PlaySpan collaborated on the 2010 Digital Goods Report that reveals consumer behavior patterns. “The most surprising finding of the report is that 59 percent of respondents have purchased digital goods from third party sources,” Mr. Gluck said. The report also found that while males are the primary drivers of total digital goods sales, North American women 25 and older spend significantly more per person. When looking at the median spent on first party purchases within social network games, the average female spent $55 dollars, compared to only $30 for males.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/59pc-of-survey-respondents-have-bought-digital-goods-from-a-third-party/
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According to a recent study by the Aberdeen Group, organizations that adopt a scheduling solution see on average a 12 percent improvement in workforce utilization. While many field service organizations are slow to adopt a scheduling solution, those considered “Best-in-Class” are 50 percent more likely to adopt and implement resource planning tools that harmonize the execution capabilities of their scheduling applications.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/field-service-automation-rois-and.html
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Global Mobile Payments Users are set to exceed 1 billion by 2014 with over $1 trillion in Transactions taking place in that year, according to New M-Commerce Report by IE Market Research Corporation. “In 2010 alone, we are forecasting that mobile payment users will exceed 500 million. And this number is set to grow at a CAGR of 20.5 percent to reach over 1 billion users in 2014.”
http://pymnts.com/global-mobile-payments-users-to-exceed-one-billion-by-2014-with-over-1-trillion-in-transactions-taking-place-in-that-year-according-to-new-m-commerce-report-by-ie-market-research-corporation-20100720005580/?l&goback=%2Egde_71598_member_25483254
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Technology Business Research, Inc. believes that the addition of Sybase to the SAP business, and the subscription revenue from its mobility business, will increase growth even more rapidly for SAP and will ultimately change the cyclicality of the business going forward.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/216738-an-in-depth-look-at-sap-s-2q10-earnings-and-strategies
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I had the opportunity recently to video record an interview with Ed Krufka, EVP at Smartsoft Mobile about their company and strategies.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/mobile-expert-video-series-smartsoft.html
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According to research by comScore, the number of online retail mobile applications accessed by users has increased 91 percent in the last year. Additionally, mobile Web use for the same purpose has increased 47 percent.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/why-social-shopping-is-the-next-big-thing-for-mobile/
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Research In Motion’s future looks bleak. R.I.M., which makes the popular BlackBerry devices, has had a stronghold in sales to American companies, but that has been cracked open. Apple said last week that more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies were testing or deploying its iPhone. Meanwhile, phones using Google’s Android operating system appear to be making inroads, too. That spells trouble for R.I.M.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/business/26views.html?_r=1&src=busln
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Google has announced Google Maps for mobile 4.4. Google is introducing an even easier way to find places around you. With updated Place Pages, you should be able to find all you need to know about a place, whether you’re wandering into a new restaurant or deciding from your couch. In addition to photos and reviews, Place Pages now have a bunch of new details, such as prices, parking and menu links to inform your quest for the perfect steak.
http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http:/feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGoogleMobileBlog?source=ignitionfork
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In this article we take a more in-depth look at ROIs that can be achieved by mobilizing and automating field services. We start out by reviewing some of the ROI points we discussed in an earlier article and then adding to the list.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/29-areas-to-find-roi-by-mobilizing.html
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Two telecom operator backed software groups are merging to counter increasing competition from new rivals Google and Apple for mobile phone applications. Uniting the two groups -- smaller, more established JIL and wider application alliance WAC -- will let software developers reach a larger share of their telecom operator members' 3 billion customers with just one version of software.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66Q1N220100727
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With the increased prevalence of smartphones and other mobile devices within the enterprise, SAP sees developing for those platforms as key to its future growth. "In the past 18 months, what we've been noticing is that device specific experiences are the ones getting huge amounts of adoption," George Mathew, SAP's general vice president and general manager for Business Intelligence & In-Memory Analytics, said during a July 22 interview with eWEEK. SAP said its acquisition of mobile software company Sybase should boost its software and software related service revenue for 2010 between 9 percent and 11 percent.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/SAP-Revenues-Rise-On-Increased-Business-IT-Spending-809619/
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If your developers are inexperienced with mobile development, they probably have a few assumptions about how things should work, when in fact, their only assumption should be that those assumptions are wrong.
http://clicksoftware-mobilefever.blogspot.com/2010/07/mobile-enterprise-applications-don-try.html
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry
Analyst CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
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 – July 28, 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 check out Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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AT&T has announced new products aimed at the mobile enterprise and a new partnership in the M2M space. The new service will provide high level security for calls on AT&T's mobile network and is expected to be available later this quarter. It is targeted at government agencies, law enforcement organizations, financial services institutions and international businesses. It has also launched a new SMS service targeting the same sectors.
http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/article/at-and-t-launches-encrypted-voice-expands-m2m
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Consumer electronics companies expect their products to be always connected, and therefore are increasingly interested in M2M. This raises the possibility of major customer deals, some of which will be global in scale. "The launch of eReaders such as the Kindle has provided a new impetus for M2M," continued Kirchheimer. While not all operators see the value in such a deal, and believe a more telco-advantageous revenue model is needed, they recognize that it is a major opportunity in terms of numbers of connected devices.
http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/9885/return-m2m-opportunity-vigour
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Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc., the U.S.-based mobile technology arm of Telit Communications, announced today that the UC864-G module has earned certification on the AT&T wireless network. Featuring an ultra-compact size, the UC864-G is designed to enable the high-bandwidth cellular data transmissions that consumer and enterprise electronics developers require for more complex, connected 3G devices.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/telits-globally-compatible-3g-cellular-module-earns-certification-on-atts-nationwide-wireless-network-2010-07-27?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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Ericsson predicts that by 2020 there will be 50 billion M2M enabled devices. Those are large numbers, but it is easy to see the benefit of machines monitoring themselves and reporting mechanical problems, maintenance or replenishment needs.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/m2m-in-home-and-at-work.html
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Cellular M2M module shipments approached 28 million in 2009, and according to ABI Research they will quadruple to exceed 114 million in 2015. This is a market showing strong growth, but not all segments of it are benefitting equally.
http://newsblaze.com/story/2010072710343100001.bw/topstory.html
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In a Friday announcement, AT&T said it has certified more than 850 specialty consumer and M2M devices ranging from eReaders and netbooks to digital photo frames and home security monitoring devices.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226200190
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A new report from Menlo Park, California based Spyglass Consulting Group says that an astounding 94 percent of doctors are using smartphones to communicate, manage healthcare and personal workflows and access medical information--up from 59 percent in November 2006.
http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/report-94-percent-docs-have-smartphones-communication-gaps-persist/2010-07-27?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0uv8F6E5x
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Technology that aims to keep congestive heart failure patients out of the hospital is gaining traction. The idea is for heart patients to take readings like their weight, blood pressure and other key metrics using wireless and other technologies. The data are then transmitted to a case manager or medical care giver. That way health care providers can catch, and address, warning signs before the patient lands in the ER with shortness of breath or a heart attack.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704700404575391262635170370.html
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Five M2M and embedded mobile device projects have been selected to receive grants. Each project will receive $100,000 and will be supplemented with a total of over $1.7 million in matching funds.
http://www.cmio.net/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=23261&division=cmio
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New ideas for the iPhone include a stethoscope like attachment from Farmington, Minnesota based AUM Cardiovascular. The Vista Institute in Minneapolis is developing an iPhone program that will help restaurants monitor food safety, and Minneapolis based PedalBrain will sell a product for cyclists later this year that will collect performance data and make it available in real time on their iPhones.
http://www.startribune.com/business/96175069.html
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Mr. Hosken, Ericsson country manager, said that M2M communications will be a key component in the future growth of the mobile industry.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/07/25/4918810.htm
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Apple on Tuesday announced its newest input device - the Apple Magic Trackpad. The product is nearly identical to the trackpad embedded in Apple laptops, but this is an external, multi-touch surface that supports all the swiping and pinching gestures made popular by the iPhone.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367054,00.asp
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M2M telecoms specialist Telit Communications has agreed to a commercial partnership with France Telecom’s Orange Business Services unit, under which Telit will distribute Orange’s complete range of M2M solutions on the French market by adding them to its own modules.
http://www.marketstock.com.au/?p=4080
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M2M device shipment revenues are expected to grow at an annualized rate of 27 percent over the next 5 years, reaching $10.6 billion worldwide by 2011, according to figures just published by Harbor Research Inc.
http://lifestyletom.com/path/rao10925687669ros/roin59012340787
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2GIG Technologies announced today that it has entered into a direct partnership with T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s M2M division to provide the robust wireless infrastructure for its security suite of products.
http://lifestyletom.com/path/rao10925687250ros/roin59012422479
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Until recently M2M communications were delivered mainly by MVNOs, and only recently has this market segment caught the attention of Verizon, AT&T and others. Both Verizon and AT&T have strategic partnerships with companies who provide technology that enables M2M communication. Now, Verizon and AT&T are working through their relationships to deploy, install and collect bills for enterprise M2M.
http://www.ccpu.com/blog/2010/lte-wholesaling-and-impact-ecosystem/
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
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 check out Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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AT&T has announced new products aimed at the mobile enterprise and a new partnership in the M2M space. The new service will provide high level security for calls on AT&T's mobile network and is expected to be available later this quarter. It is targeted at government agencies, law enforcement organizations, financial services institutions and international businesses. It has also launched a new SMS service targeting the same sectors.
http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/article/at-and-t-launches-encrypted-voice-expands-m2m
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Consumer electronics companies expect their products to be always connected, and therefore are increasingly interested in M2M. This raises the possibility of major customer deals, some of which will be global in scale. "The launch of eReaders such as the Kindle has provided a new impetus for M2M," continued Kirchheimer. While not all operators see the value in such a deal, and believe a more telco-advantageous revenue model is needed, they recognize that it is a major opportunity in terms of numbers of connected devices.
http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/9885/return-m2m-opportunity-vigour
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Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc., the U.S.-based mobile technology arm of Telit Communications, announced today that the UC864-G module has earned certification on the AT&T wireless network. Featuring an ultra-compact size, the UC864-G is designed to enable the high-bandwidth cellular data transmissions that consumer and enterprise electronics developers require for more complex, connected 3G devices.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/telits-globally-compatible-3g-cellular-module-earns-certification-on-atts-nationwide-wireless-network-2010-07-27?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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Ericsson predicts that by 2020 there will be 50 billion M2M enabled devices. Those are large numbers, but it is easy to see the benefit of machines monitoring themselves and reporting mechanical problems, maintenance or replenishment needs.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/m2m-in-home-and-at-work.html
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Cellular M2M module shipments approached 28 million in 2009, and according to ABI Research they will quadruple to exceed 114 million in 2015. This is a market showing strong growth, but not all segments of it are benefitting equally.
http://newsblaze.com/story/2010072710343100001.bw/topstory.html
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In a Friday announcement, AT&T said it has certified more than 850 specialty consumer and M2M devices ranging from eReaders and netbooks to digital photo frames and home security monitoring devices.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226200190
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A new report from Menlo Park, California based Spyglass Consulting Group says that an astounding 94 percent of doctors are using smartphones to communicate, manage healthcare and personal workflows and access medical information--up from 59 percent in November 2006.
http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/report-94-percent-docs-have-smartphones-communication-gaps-persist/2010-07-27?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0uv8F6E5x
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Technology that aims to keep congestive heart failure patients out of the hospital is gaining traction. The idea is for heart patients to take readings like their weight, blood pressure and other key metrics using wireless and other technologies. The data are then transmitted to a case manager or medical care giver. That way health care providers can catch, and address, warning signs before the patient lands in the ER with shortness of breath or a heart attack.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704700404575391262635170370.html
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Five M2M and embedded mobile device projects have been selected to receive grants. Each project will receive $100,000 and will be supplemented with a total of over $1.7 million in matching funds.
http://www.cmio.net/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=23261&division=cmio
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New ideas for the iPhone include a stethoscope like attachment from Farmington, Minnesota based AUM Cardiovascular. The Vista Institute in Minneapolis is developing an iPhone program that will help restaurants monitor food safety, and Minneapolis based PedalBrain will sell a product for cyclists later this year that will collect performance data and make it available in real time on their iPhones.
http://www.startribune.com/business/96175069.html
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Mr. Hosken, Ericsson country manager, said that M2M communications will be a key component in the future growth of the mobile industry.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/07/25/4918810.htm
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Apple on Tuesday announced its newest input device - the Apple Magic Trackpad. The product is nearly identical to the trackpad embedded in Apple laptops, but this is an external, multi-touch surface that supports all the swiping and pinching gestures made popular by the iPhone.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367054,00.asp
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M2M telecoms specialist Telit Communications has agreed to a commercial partnership with France Telecom’s Orange Business Services unit, under which Telit will distribute Orange’s complete range of M2M solutions on the French market by adding them to its own modules.
http://www.marketstock.com.au/?p=4080
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M2M device shipment revenues are expected to grow at an annualized rate of 27 percent over the next 5 years, reaching $10.6 billion worldwide by 2011, according to figures just published by Harbor Research Inc.
http://lifestyletom.com/path/rao10925687669ros/roin59012340787
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2GIG Technologies announced today that it has entered into a direct partnership with T-Mobile USA, Inc.'s M2M division to provide the robust wireless infrastructure for its security suite of products.
http://lifestyletom.com/path/rao10925687250ros/roin59012422479
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Until recently M2M communications were delivered mainly by MVNOs, and only recently has this market segment caught the attention of Verizon, AT&T and others. Both Verizon and AT&T have strategic partnerships with companies who provide technology that enables M2M communication. Now, Verizon and AT&T are working through their relationships to deploy, install and collect bills for enterprise M2M.
http://www.ccpu.com/blog/2010/lte-wholesaling-and-impact-ecosystem/
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
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 – July 22, 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 newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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The FCC will announce at its open meeting Thursday a plan to create a $400 million program that would bring broadband connections to rural healthcare providers. The proposal comes from the FCC’s national broadband plan, which recommends making high-speed Internet service an underlying platform for transferring information between health care providers, patients and hospitals.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/07/fcc_to_propose_400_million_rur.html
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Apple posted revenue of $15.7 billion dollars for its most recent quarter, beating Wall Street analysts’ estimates yet again. Earnings were up more than 77% from a year ago, to $3.25 billion, the company said.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/20/live-blogging-apples-earnings-call-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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ShopRite loyalists in the next few weeks will be able to update their loyalty cards with the grocery chain’s coupons right from their iPhone or Android-enabled phones. Digital coupons include those that are distributed electronically, including coupons printed, saved to a store loyalty card or redeemed on a mobile device. In 2009 digital coupons represented 10 percent of coupons redeemed, up from 1 percent in 2006.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/shoprite-to-integrate-mobile-coupons-into-in-store-shopping-experience/
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Domino’s Pizza claims that its mobile program via Foursquare has contributed to a 28.6 percent increase to the pizza chain’s online profit across Britain.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/domino%e2%80%99s-foursquare-program-contributes-to-29pc-increase-in-online-sales/
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Companies rarely understand the full extent of the changes mobile software solutions will bring to their organization. They appreciate the concept of having access to enterprise content in mobile environments and converting paper document processes to electronic, but they don't often see the complete vision for how enterprise mobility can re-engineer business processes until they have walked the path for a while.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/mobility-changes-enterprise-and.html
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Android Market now boasts about 92,000 applications, and is on pace to surpass the 100,000 benchmark by the end of this month. Android developers have already submitted over 10,720 new Market applications through the first 15 days of July, compared to 15,288 new Android apps in all of June.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-market-application-downloads-surpass-1-billion/2010-07-15?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0tmA1BJ7M
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In a survey of consumer mobile banking preferences released today, IDC Financial Insights found mobile banking usage has almost doubled since last year's survey, and the number of institutions offering the service has also increased.
http://www.banktech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702881
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“iPhone subscribers are way ahead of every other category of mobile phone users in terms of banking, mobile payments, coupons, and mobile shopping,” said Carl D. Howe, director of anywhere consumer research for the Yankee Group, Boston. “They are leading adopters of mobile commerce.”
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/41pc-of-iphone-users-interested-in-mobile-transactions-study/
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The Walt Disney Company announced its Toy Story 3 application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch exceeded 1.7 million downloads a month after its App Store debut.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/disneys-toy-story-3-iphone-app-tops-1-7m-downloads-first-month/2010-07-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Retailers are seeing a solid return on their mobile channel investments. Sixty-two percent say their mobile channel returns are either exceeding (17 percent) or meeting (45 percent) expectations.
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4329935
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Nokia just announced that net sales in the second quarter of 2010 topped 10 billion Euros across units, and that it has shipped more than 111 million mobile devices, up 8 percent from third quarter 2009. Net income, however, fell to 227 million Euros, down from 380 million Euros a year earlier. That’s a 40 percent drop in net profits. Nokia’s preliminary estimated mobile device market share was 33 percent in the second quarter 2010, down from an estimated 35 percent in the second quarter 2009.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/22/nokias-earnings-q2-2010/
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AT&T's net income rose to $4.02 billion in the second quarter, up from $3.2 billion a year ago. Consolidated revenues totaled $30.8 billion, up 0.6 percent over the year earlier quarter, heralding the operator's second consecutive quarter with a year over year revenue increase.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/t-mobile-data-revenues-grow-4-4-billion-q2/2010-07-22?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Socket Mobile, Inc. a provider of mobile productivity solutions, announced its new line of wireless barcode scanners designed specifically to work with the Apple iPad™, iPhone™ and iPod™ touch.
http://www.datacollectiononline.com/article.mvc/Socket-Mobile-Introduces-Line-Of-Low-Cost-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:28232&VNETCOOKIE=NO
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A new report by the independent telecoms analyst states that mobile application downloads generated by non-operator application stores will grow by a compound annual growth rate of around 41 percent globally over the next five years, with total downloads reaching almost 21.3 billion by 2015. That's up from 2.69 billion in 2009.
http://www.mobile88.com/news/read.asp?file=/2010/7/14/20100713213019&phone=mobile-app-growth
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On Linkedin there is a group called SAP Enterprise Mobility, http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro that focuses on issues related to SAP mobility.
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SAP has a dedicated website for SAP mobile technologies at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-mobile.
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I have recently started a second weekly newsletter to track the very interesting and emerging M2M and mobile embedded device market that you can read here: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
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
You can read archived newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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The FCC will announce at its open meeting Thursday a plan to create a $400 million program that would bring broadband connections to rural healthcare providers. The proposal comes from the FCC’s national broadband plan, which recommends making high-speed Internet service an underlying platform for transferring information between health care providers, patients and hospitals.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/07/fcc_to_propose_400_million_rur.html
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Apple posted revenue of $15.7 billion dollars for its most recent quarter, beating Wall Street analysts’ estimates yet again. Earnings were up more than 77% from a year ago, to $3.25 billion, the company said.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/20/live-blogging-apples-earnings-call-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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ShopRite loyalists in the next few weeks will be able to update their loyalty cards with the grocery chain’s coupons right from their iPhone or Android-enabled phones. Digital coupons include those that are distributed electronically, including coupons printed, saved to a store loyalty card or redeemed on a mobile device. In 2009 digital coupons represented 10 percent of coupons redeemed, up from 1 percent in 2006.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/shoprite-to-integrate-mobile-coupons-into-in-store-shopping-experience/
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Domino’s Pizza claims that its mobile program via Foursquare has contributed to a 28.6 percent increase to the pizza chain’s online profit across Britain.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/domino%e2%80%99s-foursquare-program-contributes-to-29pc-increase-in-online-sales/
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Companies rarely understand the full extent of the changes mobile software solutions will bring to their organization. They appreciate the concept of having access to enterprise content in mobile environments and converting paper document processes to electronic, but they don't often see the complete vision for how enterprise mobility can re-engineer business processes until they have walked the path for a while.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/mobility-changes-enterprise-and.html
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Android Market now boasts about 92,000 applications, and is on pace to surpass the 100,000 benchmark by the end of this month. Android developers have already submitted over 10,720 new Market applications through the first 15 days of July, compared to 15,288 new Android apps in all of June.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-market-application-downloads-surpass-1-billion/2010-07-15?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0tmA1BJ7M
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In a survey of consumer mobile banking preferences released today, IDC Financial Insights found mobile banking usage has almost doubled since last year's survey, and the number of institutions offering the service has also increased.
http://www.banktech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702881
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“iPhone subscribers are way ahead of every other category of mobile phone users in terms of banking, mobile payments, coupons, and mobile shopping,” said Carl D. Howe, director of anywhere consumer research for the Yankee Group, Boston. “They are leading adopters of mobile commerce.”
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/41pc-of-iphone-users-interested-in-mobile-transactions-study/
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The Walt Disney Company announced its Toy Story 3 application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch exceeded 1.7 million downloads a month after its App Store debut.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/disneys-toy-story-3-iphone-app-tops-1-7m-downloads-first-month/2010-07-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Retailers are seeing a solid return on their mobile channel investments. Sixty-two percent say their mobile channel returns are either exceeding (17 percent) or meeting (45 percent) expectations.
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4329935
********
Nokia just announced that net sales in the second quarter of 2010 topped 10 billion Euros across units, and that it has shipped more than 111 million mobile devices, up 8 percent from third quarter 2009. Net income, however, fell to 227 million Euros, down from 380 million Euros a year earlier. That’s a 40 percent drop in net profits. Nokia’s preliminary estimated mobile device market share was 33 percent in the second quarter 2010, down from an estimated 35 percent in the second quarter 2009.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/22/nokias-earnings-q2-2010/
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AT&T's net income rose to $4.02 billion in the second quarter, up from $3.2 billion a year ago. Consolidated revenues totaled $30.8 billion, up 0.6 percent over the year earlier quarter, heralding the operator's second consecutive quarter with a year over year revenue increase.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/t-mobile-data-revenues-grow-4-4-billion-q2/2010-07-22?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Socket Mobile, Inc. a provider of mobile productivity solutions, announced its new line of wireless barcode scanners designed specifically to work with the Apple iPad™, iPhone™ and iPod™ touch.
http://www.datacollectiononline.com/article.mvc/Socket-Mobile-Introduces-Line-Of-Low-Cost-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:28232&VNETCOOKIE=NO
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A new report by the independent telecoms analyst states that mobile application downloads generated by non-operator application stores will grow by a compound annual growth rate of around 41 percent globally over the next five years, with total downloads reaching almost 21.3 billion by 2015. That's up from 2.69 billion in 2009.
http://www.mobile88.com/news/read.asp?file=/2010/7/14/20100713213019&phone=mobile-app-growth
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On Linkedin there is a group called SAP Enterprise Mobility, http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro that focuses on issues related to SAP mobility.
********
SAP has a dedicated website for SAP mobile technologies at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-mobile.
********
I have recently started a second weekly newsletter to track the very interesting and emerging M2M and mobile embedded device market that you can read here: http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
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
Kevin’s Weekly M2M Newsletter – July 21, 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 check out Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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Trilliant, a California-based provider of smart grid solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations, and renewable resource integration, this morning announced that it has secured a whopping $106 million in funding from a global syndicate of industry and financial big-names: Investor Growth Capital, VantagePoint Venture Partners, ABB and GE. In August 2008 Trilliant raised $40 million from MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/smart-grid-company-trilliant-scores-106m-in-funding-next-up-an-ipo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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Enphase Energy's new Environ Smart Thermostat lets you control your home’s temperature and monitor your solar installations remotely. All of the data is transmitted to a website where you can analyze your energy consumption and, with the new thermostat, control your home’s temperature from afar.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/enphase-energy-remote-thermostat/
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T-Mobile USA is continuing its aggressive push in the increasingly important M2M services market by striking a partnership with asset protection provider IContain and Asset Protection Products LLC to help reduce operating costs in the $7 billion US rent-to-own sector.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=194363&f_src=lightreading_gnews
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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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Cinterion Wireless Modules, a leader in cellular M2M communication modules, and Airo Wireless, a maker of ruggedized cell phones, today announced their collaboration on the Airo A25 is, the first ever intrinsically safe, ruggedized cell phone certified for use in explosive, hazardous environments.
http://newsblaze.com/story/2010072005091700003.bw/topstory.html
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Elan Digital Systems UK believes that the next standard for M2M high speed data interface will be SDIO.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Elan-Digital-Launches-New-Dedicated-Custom-Design-Service-for-SD-SDIO-1293019.htm
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iSupplie has stated that embedded GPS technology won't just be limited to smartphones in the future. iSuppli says by 2014 there will be increased penetration in a variety of consumer and computer electronic devices. Examples of devices that will have embedded GPS in 2014 include 18 percent of all laptops and 42 percent of portable handheld video game players, the firm is estimating.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225900135
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While embedded and remote devices are not always highly visible because of their behind-the-scenes role, they are becoming pervasive. There will be more than 400 million embedded devices and M2M connections by 2014, when more of the world’s mobile data traffic will be transferred monthly on embedded computing systems than during all of 2008.
http://advice.cio.com/mark_gentile/11122/embed_management_capabilities_wherever_there_are_embedded_devices
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AT&T announced Wednesday it's signed an agreement to allow Petra Solar solar panels in New Jersey to communicate with the utility Public Service Electric and Gas over its wireless network. The AT&T agreement will allow the solar panels, which have their own smart-grid communication tools built in, to communicate with PSE&G's smart grid via the AT&T wireless network. The solar panels will even have their own pricing plan as part of the company's M2M service plan.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20011178-54.html
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US operator AT&T has announced new products aimed at the mobile enterprise, and a new partnership in the M2M space.
http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/article/at-and-t-launches-encrypted-voice-expands-m2m
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Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc., the U.S. based mobile technology arm of Telit Communications, announced today that its CC864-DUAL, a CDMA-1XRTT dual-band cellular M2M communications module, is now certified for use with Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless service provider in the United States. Telit customers can now leverage the CC864-DUAL to launch smart, embedded cellular products on Verizon Wireless' nationwide wireless network.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/telit-technology-certified-to-connect-smart-devices-over-the-verizon-wireless-network-2010-07-21?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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With mobile services still on a rapid upswing in markets such as India and China, the past week saw the global mobile subscriber base reaching a new high of 5 billion on Thursday July 8, 2010, estimates leading telecom vendor, Ericsson. In the days to come, mobile services are also expected to be converged with M2M, and this is estimated to be a key component in the future growth of mobile services.
http://www.telecomtiger.com/Wireless_fullstory.aspx?storyid=9617&flag=1&passfrom=topstory§ion=S216
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The Subscriber Identity Module – that standard little chip that houses all of a subscriber's information for GSM-based networks card is changing. Long Term Evolution technology is advancing the smart card, while the potential of M2M communications is evolving the size and form factors for SIMs.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100713/BSS_OSS/100719988/sim-card-evolves-with-lte-technology
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Rapidly falling chipset prices are making WiMax well suited for M2M communications, but expensive Long Term Evolution modules may be the only safe bet for the long haul, says Heavy Reading Mobile research analyst Tim Kridel.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=194172&f_src=lightreading_gnews
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What do Jeff Bezos and Lindsay Lohan have in common? They are two examples of how the definition of M2M communications has broadened over the past two years.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=194054
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry
Analyst CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
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 check out Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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Trilliant, a California-based provider of smart grid solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations, and renewable resource integration, this morning announced that it has secured a whopping $106 million in funding from a global syndicate of industry and financial big-names: Investor Growth Capital, VantagePoint Venture Partners, ABB and GE. In August 2008 Trilliant raised $40 million from MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/smart-grid-company-trilliant-scores-106m-in-funding-next-up-an-ipo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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Enphase Energy's new Environ Smart Thermostat lets you control your home’s temperature and monitor your solar installations remotely. All of the data is transmitted to a website where you can analyze your energy consumption and, with the new thermostat, control your home’s temperature from afar.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/enphase-energy-remote-thermostat/
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T-Mobile USA is continuing its aggressive push in the increasingly important M2M services market by striking a partnership with asset protection provider IContain and Asset Protection Products LLC to help reduce operating costs in the $7 billion US rent-to-own sector.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=194363&f_src=lightreading_gnews
********
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/
********
Cinterion Wireless Modules, a leader in cellular M2M communication modules, and Airo Wireless, a maker of ruggedized cell phones, today announced their collaboration on the Airo A25 is, the first ever intrinsically safe, ruggedized cell phone certified for use in explosive, hazardous environments.
http://newsblaze.com/story/2010072005091700003.bw/topstory.html
********
Elan Digital Systems UK believes that the next standard for M2M high speed data interface will be SDIO.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Elan-Digital-Launches-New-Dedicated-Custom-Design-Service-for-SD-SDIO-1293019.htm
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iSupplie has stated that embedded GPS technology won't just be limited to smartphones in the future. iSuppli says by 2014 there will be increased penetration in a variety of consumer and computer electronic devices. Examples of devices that will have embedded GPS in 2014 include 18 percent of all laptops and 42 percent of portable handheld video game players, the firm is estimating.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225900135
********
While embedded and remote devices are not always highly visible because of their behind-the-scenes role, they are becoming pervasive. There will be more than 400 million embedded devices and M2M connections by 2014, when more of the world’s mobile data traffic will be transferred monthly on embedded computing systems than during all of 2008.
http://advice.cio.com/mark_gentile/11122/embed_management_capabilities_wherever_there_are_embedded_devices
********
AT&T announced Wednesday it's signed an agreement to allow Petra Solar solar panels in New Jersey to communicate with the utility Public Service Electric and Gas over its wireless network. The AT&T agreement will allow the solar panels, which have their own smart-grid communication tools built in, to communicate with PSE&G's smart grid via the AT&T wireless network. The solar panels will even have their own pricing plan as part of the company's M2M service plan.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20011178-54.html
********
US operator AT&T has announced new products aimed at the mobile enterprise, and a new partnership in the M2M space.
http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/article/at-and-t-launches-encrypted-voice-expands-m2m
********
Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc., the U.S. based mobile technology arm of Telit Communications, announced today that its CC864-DUAL, a CDMA-1XRTT dual-band cellular M2M communications module, is now certified for use with Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless service provider in the United States. Telit customers can now leverage the CC864-DUAL to launch smart, embedded cellular products on Verizon Wireless' nationwide wireless network.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/telit-technology-certified-to-connect-smart-devices-over-the-verizon-wireless-network-2010-07-21?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
With mobile services still on a rapid upswing in markets such as India and China, the past week saw the global mobile subscriber base reaching a new high of 5 billion on Thursday July 8, 2010, estimates leading telecom vendor, Ericsson. In the days to come, mobile services are also expected to be converged with M2M, and this is estimated to be a key component in the future growth of mobile services.
http://www.telecomtiger.com/Wireless_fullstory.aspx?storyid=9617&flag=1&passfrom=topstory§ion=S216
********
The Subscriber Identity Module – that standard little chip that houses all of a subscriber's information for GSM-based networks card is changing. Long Term Evolution technology is advancing the smart card, while the potential of M2M communications is evolving the size and form factors for SIMs.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100713/BSS_OSS/100719988/sim-card-evolves-with-lte-technology
********
Rapidly falling chipset prices are making WiMax well suited for M2M communications, but expensive Long Term Evolution modules may be the only safe bet for the long haul, says Heavy Reading Mobile research analyst Tim Kridel.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=194172&f_src=lightreading_gnews
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What do Jeff Bezos and Lindsay Lohan have in common? They are two examples of how the definition of M2M communications has broadened over the past two years.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=194054
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry
Analyst CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
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 Mobility News Weekly – July 15, 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 newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
You may also find Kevin’s M2M News Weekly on the subjects of M2M (machine-to-machine) and the mobile embedded device market of interest here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
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Trimble announced recently it has partnered with Timmons Group to provide an integrated system for the field collection, management, and submittal of wetland delineation data. The solution combines handheld computers with the WetCollect wetland delineation software to comply with the reporting requirements of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The COE determines whether a wetland is a "water of the United States," which is regulated under the federal Clean Water Act. [Kevin’s comments – this is an example of a mobile application that fits a very small niche. It is likely these kinds of field data collection applications will always be custom development projects. As such, it is good to have an SDK for mobile applications. This application will most likely be developed for Windows Mobile OS.]
http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=070610a
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The iPhone 4 takes an average of 23 percent longer to charge while charging via USB than it does while charging via a standard electrical outlet.
http://iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=10516
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Foursquare has just over 1.9 million users. At its current pace, Foursquare will surpass 2 million users within a week. Currently Foursquare has about 5.6 million venues. One in three venues on Foursquare have been checked into only once or never.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/foursquare-gowalla-stats/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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New research released recently by Anoto found that 86 percent of businesses are still using paper-based forms in either their own business or in their clients' business, compared to 13.9 percent who say they are no longer using them at all. This research confirms the ongoing use of paper-based forms in business and highlights a clear need for solutions that can digitally capture handwritten data. [Kevin’s comments – this is a good example of why there is still a great market for mobile forms builders, see an example here, http://clicksoftware-mobilefever.blogspot.com/2010/06/create-clickmobile-form-in-5-minutes.html.]
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/New-Research-Finds-86-Of-Companies-Still-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:28009
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According to ABI Research's Cellular Modem Product Tracking Database, more than 50 percent of the modem models now available in the market utilize the ubiquitous USB interface. USB modems have become the most popular products – so popular that ABI Research forecasts shipments of nearly 81 million this year.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/More-Than-80-Million-USB-Wireless-Modems-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:28009
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Cardiologist Eric Topol sets aside his fresh garden salad and holds up an iPhone with a palpable sense of glee. “All I have to do is touch the screen and I can call up a patient’s vital signs, in real time,” said Topol, a renowned researcher at the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla. “See, there’s the heartbeat, pulse.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/27/topol-profile-6-28/
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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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Banks need to reinforce security for their mobile payment services, according to an Ovum research report. The report urges banks to understand the vulnerabilities in mobile payments at every level of its infrastructure.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/mobile-banking-growth-requires-defense-in-depth-security-study/
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MasterCard has introduced an iPhone application, The MarketPlace. The application gives MasterCard users mobile access to weekday deals. The application is a personalized shopping platform with customized deals and offers from select merchants.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/mastercard-extends-mobile-platform-to-revolutionize-mcommerce/
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According to Comscore by the end of April 234 million Americans aged 13 and over were mobile phone subscribers. So, based on Pew's estimate, nearly 89 million people in the U.S. have used the mobile internet in the past year -- close to one third of the total current U.S. population.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/08/mobile.internet.access.pew/index.html
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Spending on mobile display ads in the United States, estimated at just under $313 million today, will almost quadruple to exceed $1.2 billion in 2015, says ABI Research. The survey also finds that 28 percent of mobile subscribers are accessing the mobile Internet daily, and smartphone penetration in the US currently stands at about 20 percent.
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/07/08/115843.html
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Mobile merchants that do not have a swipe available and have to run the card manually experience interchange rates of 2.4 percent or 2.5 percent compared with the typical card-present rate of 1.59 percent.
http://www.americanbanker.com/news/considering-mobile-payments-1021381-1.html
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According to Generator Research, the worldwide mobile payments market is expected to grow from $68 billion in 2009 to more than $600 billion by 2014, a compound annual growth rate of more than 50 percent over the next five years.
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/press-release/t_new-mobile-applications-from-at-amp-t-enable-small-businesses-to-tap-the-68-billion-mobile-payments-1025876.html
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YouTube consumption on mobile devices increased 160 percent in 2009 over the previous year, with mobile video playbacks now topping 100 million per day.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/youtube-revamps-mobile-site-daily-views-top-100-million/2010-07-08?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0t6jPGgIa
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Fifty-nine percent of American adults now go online wirelessly using a laptop or cell phone, an increase over the 51 percent of Americans who did so at a similar point in 2009.
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx?r=1
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Twitter now averages more than 800 million search queries per day, translating to over 24 billion per month--far behind Google (88 billion searches per month) but far ahead of Yahoo (9.4 billion) and Microsoft's Bing (4.1 billion).
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/twitter-exceeds-800-million-search-queries-day/2010-07-08?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0t6hePFck
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The market for mobile health technology will reach an estimated $4.6 billion by 2014, according to a report by CSMG. mHealth is already a $1.5 billion market and it is expected to grow over the next five years at a 25 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate). If certain broad healthcare reforms are instituted, such as pay-for-performance, adoption could accelerate.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/new-report-offers-insight-fragmented-mhealth-market
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The U.S. market for wireless home-based health care applications will grow from $304 million this year to $4.4 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Parks Associates, a Dallas-based research firm. That translates to estimated annual growth rates of 96 percent in 2010, 126 percent in 2011, 95 percent in 2012 and 68 percent in 2013. One factor fueling the increases is the economic stimulus law's health information technology provisions, which will open new opportunities for wireless vendors, according to the report.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/home_health-38778-1.html
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In the year 2000, about 720 million people had mobile subscriptions, less than the amount of users China alone has today. Mobile broadband subscriptions are growing at a similar pace and are expected to amount to more than 3.4 billion by 2015 (from 360 million in 2009).
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=744707
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While Foursquare is just shy of 2 million users, other services like MyTown have quickly surpassed that number. Same with Google Latitude, which is at 3 million. And you can put Loopt on that list as well, as today they’ve hit 4 million total users.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/09/loopt-4-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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Research In Motion unveiled BlackBerry Protect, extending some enterprise capabilities (the ability to lock down or find a lost device, and to backup, restore and wipe its data). Protect addresses one of the most common security concerns: the lost or misplaced device.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702859&subSection=All+Stories
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry operating system remains the dominant smartphone platform in the U.S., representing 41.7 percent of the market, its market share dropped 0.4 percent during the period as Google's Android increased 4.0 percent to 13.0 percent. Android was the sole platform to grow its market share during the period: Apple's iPhone slipped 1.0 percent to 24.4 percent, Palm's webOS fell 0.6 percent to 4.8 percent and Microsoft's Windows Mobile dropped 1.9 percent to 13.2 percent.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/iphone-blackberry-slip-android-market-share-surges/2010-07-09
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It's official. Consumer Reports' engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception.
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/07/apple-iphone-4-antenna-issue-iphone4-problems-dropped-calls-lab-test-confirmed-problem-issues-signal-strength-att-network-gsm.html
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised within months a number of Windows-based tablets would be hitting the market, and that the company is urgently working to bring its Windows 7 smartphone OS to market.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16520/ballmer_promises_windows_tablets_are_coming
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Facebook plans to migrate away from standalone mobile applications in favor of embracing a platform strategy enabling developers to leverage its position at the top of the social networking food chain. "Where we're going from here is a platform strategy. We're going away from a one-off app strategy." Facebook's conventional web platform supports more than 550,000 third-party applications and a million developer partners. Roughly 150 million users worldwide now access Facebook through their mobile devices.
http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/07/13/facebook-mobile-platform/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter-publisher-main&utm_campaign=twitter
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Interesting mobile application strategies for fast food restaurants - On a weekly basis, McDonald’s sends program members a mobile email, with a list of coupons and promotions available that week. Customers then have two choices. One is to use their mobile browser to open mobile coupons, which are shown to McDonald’s cashiers—an alpha-numeric promotional code is clearly visible. The other option, if customers have already downloaded the McDonald’s mobile application, which 8 million consumers have already done, is to download the coupons to their contactless mobile wallet.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/a-merchant%e2%80%99s-argument-for-mobile-contactless-technology-celent/
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The following links are interviews that I have conducted over the past few months with enterprise mobility experts and CEOs.
Mobile Expert Interview Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Video Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly archives can be found at:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the Linkedin Group SAP Enterprise Mobility, 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
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analsyt, 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 newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
You may also find Kevin’s M2M News Weekly on the subjects of M2M (machine-to-machine) and the mobile embedded device market of interest here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
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Trimble announced recently it has partnered with Timmons Group to provide an integrated system for the field collection, management, and submittal of wetland delineation data. The solution combines handheld computers with the WetCollect wetland delineation software to comply with the reporting requirements of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The COE determines whether a wetland is a "water of the United States," which is regulated under the federal Clean Water Act. [Kevin’s comments – this is an example of a mobile application that fits a very small niche. It is likely these kinds of field data collection applications will always be custom development projects. As such, it is good to have an SDK for mobile applications. This application will most likely be developed for Windows Mobile OS.]
http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=070610a
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The iPhone 4 takes an average of 23 percent longer to charge while charging via USB than it does while charging via a standard electrical outlet.
http://iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=10516
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Foursquare has just over 1.9 million users. At its current pace, Foursquare will surpass 2 million users within a week. Currently Foursquare has about 5.6 million venues. One in three venues on Foursquare have been checked into only once or never.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/foursquare-gowalla-stats/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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New research released recently by Anoto found that 86 percent of businesses are still using paper-based forms in either their own business or in their clients' business, compared to 13.9 percent who say they are no longer using them at all. This research confirms the ongoing use of paper-based forms in business and highlights a clear need for solutions that can digitally capture handwritten data. [Kevin’s comments – this is a good example of why there is still a great market for mobile forms builders, see an example here, http://clicksoftware-mobilefever.blogspot.com/2010/06/create-clickmobile-form-in-5-minutes.html.]
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/New-Research-Finds-86-Of-Companies-Still-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:28009
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According to ABI Research's Cellular Modem Product Tracking Database, more than 50 percent of the modem models now available in the market utilize the ubiquitous USB interface. USB modems have become the most popular products – so popular that ABI Research forecasts shipments of nearly 81 million this year.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/More-Than-80-Million-USB-Wireless-Modems-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:28009
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Cardiologist Eric Topol sets aside his fresh garden salad and holds up an iPhone with a palpable sense of glee. “All I have to do is touch the screen and I can call up a patient’s vital signs, in real time,” said Topol, a renowned researcher at the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla. “See, there’s the heartbeat, pulse.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/27/topol-profile-6-28/
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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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Banks need to reinforce security for their mobile payment services, according to an Ovum research report. The report urges banks to understand the vulnerabilities in mobile payments at every level of its infrastructure.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/mobile-banking-growth-requires-defense-in-depth-security-study/
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MasterCard has introduced an iPhone application, The MarketPlace. The application gives MasterCard users mobile access to weekday deals. The application is a personalized shopping platform with customized deals and offers from select merchants.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/mastercard-extends-mobile-platform-to-revolutionize-mcommerce/
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According to Comscore by the end of April 234 million Americans aged 13 and over were mobile phone subscribers. So, based on Pew's estimate, nearly 89 million people in the U.S. have used the mobile internet in the past year -- close to one third of the total current U.S. population.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/08/mobile.internet.access.pew/index.html
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Spending on mobile display ads in the United States, estimated at just under $313 million today, will almost quadruple to exceed $1.2 billion in 2015, says ABI Research. The survey also finds that 28 percent of mobile subscribers are accessing the mobile Internet daily, and smartphone penetration in the US currently stands at about 20 percent.
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2010/07/08/115843.html
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Mobile merchants that do not have a swipe available and have to run the card manually experience interchange rates of 2.4 percent or 2.5 percent compared with the typical card-present rate of 1.59 percent.
http://www.americanbanker.com/news/considering-mobile-payments-1021381-1.html
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According to Generator Research, the worldwide mobile payments market is expected to grow from $68 billion in 2009 to more than $600 billion by 2014, a compound annual growth rate of more than 50 percent over the next five years.
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/press-release/t_new-mobile-applications-from-at-amp-t-enable-small-businesses-to-tap-the-68-billion-mobile-payments-1025876.html
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YouTube consumption on mobile devices increased 160 percent in 2009 over the previous year, with mobile video playbacks now topping 100 million per day.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/youtube-revamps-mobile-site-daily-views-top-100-million/2010-07-08?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0t6jPGgIa
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Fifty-nine percent of American adults now go online wirelessly using a laptop or cell phone, an increase over the 51 percent of Americans who did so at a similar point in 2009.
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx?r=1
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Twitter now averages more than 800 million search queries per day, translating to over 24 billion per month--far behind Google (88 billion searches per month) but far ahead of Yahoo (9.4 billion) and Microsoft's Bing (4.1 billion).
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/twitter-exceeds-800-million-search-queries-day/2010-07-08?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0t6hePFck
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The market for mobile health technology will reach an estimated $4.6 billion by 2014, according to a report by CSMG. mHealth is already a $1.5 billion market and it is expected to grow over the next five years at a 25 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate). If certain broad healthcare reforms are instituted, such as pay-for-performance, adoption could accelerate.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/new-report-offers-insight-fragmented-mhealth-market
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The U.S. market for wireless home-based health care applications will grow from $304 million this year to $4.4 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Parks Associates, a Dallas-based research firm. That translates to estimated annual growth rates of 96 percent in 2010, 126 percent in 2011, 95 percent in 2012 and 68 percent in 2013. One factor fueling the increases is the economic stimulus law's health information technology provisions, which will open new opportunities for wireless vendors, according to the report.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/home_health-38778-1.html
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In the year 2000, about 720 million people had mobile subscriptions, less than the amount of users China alone has today. Mobile broadband subscriptions are growing at a similar pace and are expected to amount to more than 3.4 billion by 2015 (from 360 million in 2009).
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=744707
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While Foursquare is just shy of 2 million users, other services like MyTown have quickly surpassed that number. Same with Google Latitude, which is at 3 million. And you can put Loopt on that list as well, as today they’ve hit 4 million total users.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/09/loopt-4-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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Research In Motion unveiled BlackBerry Protect, extending some enterprise capabilities (the ability to lock down or find a lost device, and to backup, restore and wipe its data). Protect addresses one of the most common security concerns: the lost or misplaced device.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702859&subSection=All+Stories
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry operating system remains the dominant smartphone platform in the U.S., representing 41.7 percent of the market, its market share dropped 0.4 percent during the period as Google's Android increased 4.0 percent to 13.0 percent. Android was the sole platform to grow its market share during the period: Apple's iPhone slipped 1.0 percent to 24.4 percent, Palm's webOS fell 0.6 percent to 4.8 percent and Microsoft's Windows Mobile dropped 1.9 percent to 13.2 percent.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/iphone-blackberry-slip-android-market-share-surges/2010-07-09
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It's official. Consumer Reports' engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception.
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/07/apple-iphone-4-antenna-issue-iphone4-problems-dropped-calls-lab-test-confirmed-problem-issues-signal-strength-att-network-gsm.html
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised within months a number of Windows-based tablets would be hitting the market, and that the company is urgently working to bring its Windows 7 smartphone OS to market.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16520/ballmer_promises_windows_tablets_are_coming
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Facebook plans to migrate away from standalone mobile applications in favor of embracing a platform strategy enabling developers to leverage its position at the top of the social networking food chain. "Where we're going from here is a platform strategy. We're going away from a one-off app strategy." Facebook's conventional web platform supports more than 550,000 third-party applications and a million developer partners. Roughly 150 million users worldwide now access Facebook through their mobile devices.
http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/07/13/facebook-mobile-platform/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter-publisher-main&utm_campaign=twitter
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Interesting mobile application strategies for fast food restaurants - On a weekly basis, McDonald’s sends program members a mobile email, with a list of coupons and promotions available that week. Customers then have two choices. One is to use their mobile browser to open mobile coupons, which are shown to McDonald’s cashiers—an alpha-numeric promotional code is clearly visible. The other option, if customers have already downloaded the McDonald’s mobile application, which 8 million consumers have already done, is to download the coupons to their contactless mobile wallet.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/a-merchant%e2%80%99s-argument-for-mobile-contactless-technology-celent/
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The following links are interviews that I have conducted over the past few months with enterprise mobility experts and CEOs.
Mobile Expert Interview Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Video Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly archives can be found at:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the Linkedin Group SAP Enterprise Mobility, 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
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analsyt, 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 - July 8, 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 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 enterprise mobility.
You can read archived newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html
You may also find Kevin’s M2M News Weekly on the subjects of M2M (machine-to-machine) and the mobile embedded device market of interest.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html
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Microsoft discontinued its Kin cell phone effort just weeks after launching a pair of Kin-branded gadgets with Verizon Wireless. "We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship Kin in Europe this fall as planned," Microsoft said in a press statement quoted by a number of media outlets. "Additionally, we are integrating our Kin team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from Kin into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current Kin phones."
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/microsoft-quits-kin-focuses-windows-phone-7/2010-06-30
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently stated that the computing giant approves 95 percent of App Store submissions within seven days.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/mozilla-submits-cloud-based-firefox-home-app-iphone/2010-07-01
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Motorola will be split up the first quarter of 2011. One unit will be named to Motorola Solutions and will be headed by the other co-CEO, Greg Brown. His company will specialize in Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Network units, which includes wireless LAN gear, public safety communications equipment, and service-provider networks. This will effectively serve as Motorola's enterprise division, which requires a lot more integration work in a different way than its home division does, one of Motorola's claimed reasons for the split.
http://www.techeye.net/mobile/motorola-reveals-details-of-company-split#ixzz0sr0TyTBi
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57% of applications on the Android Market are free applications, far more than what the other stores average. Most of them clearly circle around 25% free vs 75% paid, according to Distimo’s research findings. In fact, the only other app store with a share of free apps larger than one third is Palm’s App Catalog.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/05/distimo-june-2010/
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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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In the first quarter of 2009 more than a third of smartphone subscribers used less than 1 MB of data per month. This number has dropped to a quarter in the first quarter of 2010 as the number of applications and the utility of smart devices has increased substantially. That means about 20 million current smartphone users are hardly using data.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/entner-quantifying-mobile-data-tsunami-and-its-implications/2010-06-29?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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With Google's Android Market now offering about 65,000 applications, far behind the more than 225,000 iPhone and iPod touch apps in Apple's App Store, the company plans to fuel developer interest in the platform by introducing new in-app revenue opportunities like sales of subscriptions and virtual goods.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/technology/companies/05iht-android05.html?_r=3&scp=2&sq=google&st=cse
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I recently wrote an article for The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, The Next Step in Business Process Optimization: Mobility. In this article I describe the enormous amount of work that has gone into designing and automating business processes and ERPs like SAP. The conclusion of the article is that as sophisticated as ERPs are today, there remains significant feature gaps, especially in extending business processes out to the mobile workforce.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/completing-field-force-automation.html
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RIM's BlackBerry devices control 35 percent of the U.S. market, compared with 28 percent for the iPhone and 9 percent for Android, according to the Nielsen Co., a research firm. But the numbers belie a significant shift as RIM's market share — which five years ago was more than 50 percent — erodes in the face of increased competition.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/blackberry_still_leads_in_smart_phone_market_97824479.html
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Google will introduce Android in Indian and China. It will introduce various programs to enable developers of India and China to make money by developing applications for Android.
http://www.southasiablog.com/2010/07/google-is-looking-forward-to-popularize.html
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Remember the stylus? The handy little hard plastic faux pen used to write on the screen of PDAs, handheld computers and smartphones. They remain important to many field service processes today.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/stylus-proof-of-delivery-and-windows.html
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has posted financial numbers of US $741.392 million for June 2010, up 66.68% from a year earlier. HTC is the largest producer of Android phones globally, and these results speak loudly to the success of the platform in the smartphone space. HTC is the producer of many of the top Android phones — the EVO 4G, Droid Incredible and the Nexus One to name a few.
http://jkontherun.com/2010/07/06/htc-posts-66-revenue-increase-in-june/
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Wireless broadband connections using LTE and HSPA+ technology accounted for 17 percent of all broadband connections in Europe at the end of 2009, and 7.1 percent in the United States and Canada, according to Berg Insight, a mobile telecommunications research firm in Gothenburg, Sweden.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/technology/07nokia.html?_r=2&ref=global?dbk
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LG Electronics is following its larger South Korean rival Samsung into the Android tablet market and said it plans to release the device in the fourth quarter.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20009674-1.html
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Seventy-Four days after the iPhone was introduced at $600 a pop, one million have been sold. The Droid, at $200 has sold 1.05 million. The Nexus One has sold an estimated 135,000 units. By any measure, that's a total sales flop. Even worse: The sales rate is declining. In the first month, Nexus One sold 80,000 units. That's means that only 55,000 additional units have sold since.
http://gizmodo.com/5494406/the-nexus-one-is-a-total-sales-flop
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Garmin has been trying to establish a foothold in the smartphone market. However, the location services company has had difficulty addressing threats by free navigation services like those provided by Google and others. Garmin's latest navigation based mobile phone is reported to be seeing sluggish sales, with an estimated 20,000 units sold since the handset went on sale in the USA just under a month ago.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/44112.php
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The largest U.S. airline carriers, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, plan to expand their mobile workforce equipped with handheld devices that agents use to check flights and issue bag tags and boarding passes. They'll soon be able to sell passengers items or get them to pay for oversize bags that shouldn't have cleared security.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/News/1855239/
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Gartner's new and complete 2010 Gartner Field Service Management Magic Quadrant report can be found, compliments of ClickSoftware, at the following URL – http://www.clicksoftware.com/Gartner.
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Last week Foursquare raked in $20 million in venture funding. The ultra popular Foursquare, which offers a free application that lets people flag where they are, whizzed past the 1 million member mark in April and just passed 1.8 million.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/Tech/1853481/
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The following links are interviews that I have conducted over the past few months with enterprise mobility experts and CEOs.
Mobile Expert Interview Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Video Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly archives can be found at:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the Linkedin Group SAP Enterprise Mobility, http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro.
http://www.clicksoftware.com/e86e075b-4fca-44c9-bfeb-4efcc978f416/knowledge-center-white-papers-delivery.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
http://www.netcentric-strategies.com/
www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbenedict
http://twitter.com/krbenedict
***Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant and Web 2.0 marketing expert. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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You can read archived newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html
You may also find Kevin’s M2M News Weekly on the subjects of M2M (machine-to-machine) and the mobile embedded device market of interest.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html
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Microsoft discontinued its Kin cell phone effort just weeks after launching a pair of Kin-branded gadgets with Verizon Wireless. "We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship Kin in Europe this fall as planned," Microsoft said in a press statement quoted by a number of media outlets. "Additionally, we are integrating our Kin team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from Kin into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current Kin phones."
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/microsoft-quits-kin-focuses-windows-phone-7/2010-06-30
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently stated that the computing giant approves 95 percent of App Store submissions within seven days.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/mozilla-submits-cloud-based-firefox-home-app-iphone/2010-07-01
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Motorola will be split up the first quarter of 2011. One unit will be named to Motorola Solutions and will be headed by the other co-CEO, Greg Brown. His company will specialize in Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Network units, which includes wireless LAN gear, public safety communications equipment, and service-provider networks. This will effectively serve as Motorola's enterprise division, which requires a lot more integration work in a different way than its home division does, one of Motorola's claimed reasons for the split.
http://www.techeye.net/mobile/motorola-reveals-details-of-company-split#ixzz0sr0TyTBi
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57% of applications on the Android Market are free applications, far more than what the other stores average. Most of them clearly circle around 25% free vs 75% paid, according to Distimo’s research findings. In fact, the only other app store with a share of free apps larger than one third is Palm’s App Catalog.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/05/distimo-june-2010/
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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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In the first quarter of 2009 more than a third of smartphone subscribers used less than 1 MB of data per month. This number has dropped to a quarter in the first quarter of 2010 as the number of applications and the utility of smart devices has increased substantially. That means about 20 million current smartphone users are hardly using data.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/entner-quantifying-mobile-data-tsunami-and-its-implications/2010-06-29?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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With Google's Android Market now offering about 65,000 applications, far behind the more than 225,000 iPhone and iPod touch apps in Apple's App Store, the company plans to fuel developer interest in the platform by introducing new in-app revenue opportunities like sales of subscriptions and virtual goods.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/technology/companies/05iht-android05.html?_r=3&scp=2&sq=google&st=cse
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I recently wrote an article for The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, The Next Step in Business Process Optimization: Mobility. In this article I describe the enormous amount of work that has gone into designing and automating business processes and ERPs like SAP. The conclusion of the article is that as sophisticated as ERPs are today, there remains significant feature gaps, especially in extending business processes out to the mobile workforce.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/completing-field-force-automation.html
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RIM's BlackBerry devices control 35 percent of the U.S. market, compared with 28 percent for the iPhone and 9 percent for Android, according to the Nielsen Co., a research firm. But the numbers belie a significant shift as RIM's market share — which five years ago was more than 50 percent — erodes in the face of increased competition.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/blackberry_still_leads_in_smart_phone_market_97824479.html
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Google will introduce Android in Indian and China. It will introduce various programs to enable developers of India and China to make money by developing applications for Android.
http://www.southasiablog.com/2010/07/google-is-looking-forward-to-popularize.html
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Remember the stylus? The handy little hard plastic faux pen used to write on the screen of PDAs, handheld computers and smartphones. They remain important to many field service processes today.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/07/stylus-proof-of-delivery-and-windows.html
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has posted financial numbers of US $741.392 million for June 2010, up 66.68% from a year earlier. HTC is the largest producer of Android phones globally, and these results speak loudly to the success of the platform in the smartphone space. HTC is the producer of many of the top Android phones — the EVO 4G, Droid Incredible and the Nexus One to name a few.
http://jkontherun.com/2010/07/06/htc-posts-66-revenue-increase-in-june/
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Wireless broadband connections using LTE and HSPA+ technology accounted for 17 percent of all broadband connections in Europe at the end of 2009, and 7.1 percent in the United States and Canada, according to Berg Insight, a mobile telecommunications research firm in Gothenburg, Sweden.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/technology/07nokia.html?_r=2&ref=global?dbk
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LG Electronics is following its larger South Korean rival Samsung into the Android tablet market and said it plans to release the device in the fourth quarter.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20009674-1.html
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Seventy-Four days after the iPhone was introduced at $600 a pop, one million have been sold. The Droid, at $200 has sold 1.05 million. The Nexus One has sold an estimated 135,000 units. By any measure, that's a total sales flop. Even worse: The sales rate is declining. In the first month, Nexus One sold 80,000 units. That's means that only 55,000 additional units have sold since.
http://gizmodo.com/5494406/the-nexus-one-is-a-total-sales-flop
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Garmin has been trying to establish a foothold in the smartphone market. However, the location services company has had difficulty addressing threats by free navigation services like those provided by Google and others. Garmin's latest navigation based mobile phone is reported to be seeing sluggish sales, with an estimated 20,000 units sold since the handset went on sale in the USA just under a month ago.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/44112.php
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The largest U.S. airline carriers, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, plan to expand their mobile workforce equipped with handheld devices that agents use to check flights and issue bag tags and boarding passes. They'll soon be able to sell passengers items or get them to pay for oversize bags that shouldn't have cleared security.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/News/1855239/
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Gartner's new and complete 2010 Gartner Field Service Management Magic Quadrant report can be found, compliments of ClickSoftware, at the following URL – http://www.clicksoftware.com/Gartner.
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Last week Foursquare raked in $20 million in venture funding. The ultra popular Foursquare, which offers a free application that lets people flag where they are, whizzed past the 1 million member mark in April and just passed 1.8 million.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/Tech/1853481/
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The following links are interviews that I have conducted over the past few months with enterprise mobility experts and CEOs.
Mobile Expert Interview Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Video Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly archives can be found at:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the Linkedin Group SAP Enterprise Mobility, http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro.
http://www.clicksoftware.com/e86e075b-4fca-44c9-bfeb-4efcc978f416/knowledge-center-white-papers-delivery.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
http://www.netcentric-strategies.com/
www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbenedict
http://twitter.com/krbenedict
***Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant and Web 2.0 marketing expert. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin's Mobility News Weekly - July 1, 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 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 enterprise mobility.
You can read archived newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html
Also you may find Kevin’s M2M News Weekly on the subjects of M2M (machine-to-machine) and the mobile embedded device market of interest.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html
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One hundred and fifty million is the number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. What Microsoft really means is while their rivals are getting all the hype in the press, and people keep blogging about them “dying”, they are selling 7 copies of their OS every second.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/26/microsoft-numbers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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According to VDC Research's latest report, the market for mobility solutions for national government applications (in military and national/federal programs) is expected to rebound modestly through 2010, despite the growing pressures from budget cuts and restraints.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/Market-For-Mobility-Solutions-For-National-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:27924&VNETCOOKIE=NO
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Twitter COO Dick Costolo said they are currently at 190 million users, who are collectively posting some 65 million tweets per day. And last April, Twitter’s lead engineer for its International team, Matt Sanford, said over 60% of registered Twitter accounts were already coming from outside U.S. borders.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/twitter-international-growth/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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iPhone App Store economics analysis - in the calendar year 2008 the total downloads were 600 million and revenues of $172 million. In calendar year 2009 the total downloads were 2.4 billion and total revenues of $686 million. In calendar year 2010 so far (half year) we've seen 2 billion downloads and $542 million in revenues.
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-analysis-of-iphone-economics-its-bad-news-and-then-it-gets-worse.html
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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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Apple said it sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s in the first three days of its launch.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apple-blows-past-record-sells-1-7-million-iphone-4s-debut/2010-06-28?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Analyst Avi Greengart recently stated, “The scale of the content ecosystem Apple has created, coupled with the functionality, style and buzz of the iPhone, has sparked a virtuous cycle for application developers, customers and, ultimately, Apple.” Just witness the 1.7 million iPhone 4s Apple sold at launch.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/android-iphone-and-coming-smartphone-shakeout/2010-06-25?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0sGVlhj4H
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Speculation on a Verizon iPhone has been rampant in the tech blogosphere. If the reports are true (about a January date for Verizon selling the iPhone), then it will give Verizon a boost in its smartphone competition, UBS analyst John Hodulik says. Verizon customers, who numbered 92.8 million at the end of the first quarter, may buy 3 million iPhones a quarter, he says.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/News/1835712/full/
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Cisco announced that in 2011 it will launch an Android-based tablet, named the Cius, aimed squarely at the business market.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/cisco-announces-the-cius-the-blackberry-of-tablets/
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Gil Bouhnick, Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, updates us all on the new Windows Phone 7 and Windows Embedded Handheld operating systems.
http://clicksoftware-mobilefever.blogspot.com/2010/06/microsoft-announces-windows-embedded.html
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60% of iPads are used by business professionals for both work and home use. Thus, Cius could easily eat up iPad market share. With the Cius sporting the front-facing camera, which the iPad doesn't, the Cius could easily crack into that 60% market share due to the telepresence / HD video capabilities. Add in the growing popularity of the Android community and apps, and Cisco could have a winner on its hands.
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/cisco/cisco-cius-hd-android-tablet.asp
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Want to locate the nearest U.S. embassy, send an e-greeting or retrieve federal disaster information on your iPhone, BlackBerry or Android mobile device? The White House has published a list of 111 mobile applications sponsored by government agencies.
http://fcw.com/blogs/gov-2/2010/06/usagov-publishes-government-mobile-apps-list.aspx
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Gartner's new and complete 2010 Gartner Field Service Management Magic Quadrant report can be found, compliments of ClickSoftware, at the following URL – http://www.clicksoftware.com/Gartner.
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The Western European mobile phone market grew 8.1% year on year to 42.7 million units in 1Q10, according to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker. Shipments of smartphones surged in the quarter to 12 million units, 57% higher than in last year's first quarter, to represent 28% of total shipments. Traditional mobile phones (TMPs) declined 4% year on year to 30.7 million units, showing the continuous trend toward smartphones.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/44052.php?source=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cellular-news%2FLmiX+%28cellular-news%29
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A new report from ABI Research indicates that by the end of 2010, there will be 5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide. By the end of first quarter there were around 4.8 billion connections worldwide. Much of this growth will come from developing markets in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/abi-5-billion-mobile-subscribers-end-year/2010-06-30
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Following last week's release of the new iPhone 4, Apple quietly added a new section to its App Store virtual storefront reserved exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch applications powered by the new iOS 4 operating system. As of 5 a.m. ET Tuesday, there are 48 applications featured under the heading Awesome iOS 4 Apps, including social networking services Twitter and Loopt, navigation solution TomTom USA and music app Pandora Radio.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/apple-adds-ios-4-application-section-app-store/2010-06-28
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90 percent of developers say they are very interested in creating applications for the iPhone, 84 percent express comparable enthusiasm for the iPad and 81 percent are casting their lot with Android. What is surprising is just how little interest developers express for rival smartphone platforms like BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, webOS and MeeGo.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/iphone-still-dominates-developer-focus-android-gaining-fast/2010-06-28
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The following three articles that I wrote this week discuss what I learned about mobility at Sapphire 2010 and what I think it means to enterprise mobility vendors and SAP customers.
What I Learned About Mobility at Sapphire, Part 1
What I Learned About Mobility at Sapphire, Part 2
What I Learned About Mobility at Sapphire, Part 3
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To attract programmers to its Android operating system, Google may offer tools that help them sell subscriptions, virtual goods, and other items from within applications on mobile phones, Andy Rubin, vice-president of engineering at Google, says in an interview.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc20100629_585738.htm
********
The following links are interviews that I have conducted over the past few months with enterprise mobility experts and CEOs.
Mobile Expert Interview Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Video Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly archives can be found at:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the Linkedin Group SAP Enterprise Mobility, http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro.
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
http://www.netcentric-strategies.com/
www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbenedict
http://twitter.com/krbenedict
***Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant and Web 2.0 marketing expert. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
You can read archived newsletters here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html
Also you may find Kevin’s M2M News Weekly on the subjects of M2M (machine-to-machine) and the mobile embedded device market of interest.
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html
********
One hundred and fifty million is the number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. What Microsoft really means is while their rivals are getting all the hype in the press, and people keep blogging about them “dying”, they are selling 7 copies of their OS every second.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/26/microsoft-numbers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
********
According to VDC Research's latest report, the market for mobility solutions for national government applications (in military and national/federal programs) is expected to rebound modestly through 2010, despite the growing pressures from budget cuts and restraints.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/Market-For-Mobility-Solutions-For-National-0001?user=2373698&source=nl:27924&VNETCOOKIE=NO
********
Twitter COO Dick Costolo said they are currently at 190 million users, who are collectively posting some 65 million tweets per day. And last April, Twitter’s lead engineer for its International team, Matt Sanford, said over 60% of registered Twitter accounts were already coming from outside U.S. borders.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/twitter-international-growth/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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iPhone App Store economics analysis - in the calendar year 2008 the total downloads were 600 million and revenues of $172 million. In calendar year 2009 the total downloads were 2.4 billion and total revenues of $686 million. In calendar year 2010 so far (half year) we've seen 2 billion downloads and $542 million in revenues.
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-analysis-of-iphone-economics-its-bad-news-and-then-it-gets-worse.html
********
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/
********
Apple said it sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s in the first three days of its launch.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/apple-blows-past-record-sells-1-7-million-iphone-4s-debut/2010-06-28?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
Analyst Avi Greengart recently stated, “The scale of the content ecosystem Apple has created, coupled with the functionality, style and buzz of the iPhone, has sparked a virtuous cycle for application developers, customers and, ultimately, Apple.” Just witness the 1.7 million iPhone 4s Apple sold at launch.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/android-iphone-and-coming-smartphone-shakeout/2010-06-25?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0sGVlhj4H
********
Speculation on a Verizon iPhone has been rampant in the tech blogosphere. If the reports are true (about a January date for Verizon selling the iPhone), then it will give Verizon a boost in its smartphone competition, UBS analyst John Hodulik says. Verizon customers, who numbered 92.8 million at the end of the first quarter, may buy 3 million iPhones a quarter, he says.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/News/1835712/full/
********
Cisco announced that in 2011 it will launch an Android-based tablet, named the Cius, aimed squarely at the business market.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/cisco-announces-the-cius-the-blackberry-of-tablets/
********
Gil Bouhnick, Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware, updates us all on the new Windows Phone 7 and Windows Embedded Handheld operating systems.
http://clicksoftware-mobilefever.blogspot.com/2010/06/microsoft-announces-windows-embedded.html
********
60% of iPads are used by business professionals for both work and home use. Thus, Cius could easily eat up iPad market share. With the Cius sporting the front-facing camera, which the iPad doesn't, the Cius could easily crack into that 60% market share due to the telepresence / HD video capabilities. Add in the growing popularity of the Android community and apps, and Cisco could have a winner on its hands.
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/cisco/cisco-cius-hd-android-tablet.asp
********
Want to locate the nearest U.S. embassy, send an e-greeting or retrieve federal disaster information on your iPhone, BlackBerry or Android mobile device? The White House has published a list of 111 mobile applications sponsored by government agencies.
http://fcw.com/blogs/gov-2/2010/06/usagov-publishes-government-mobile-apps-list.aspx
********
Gartner's new and complete 2010 Gartner Field Service Management Magic Quadrant report can be found, compliments of ClickSoftware, at the following URL – http://www.clicksoftware.com/Gartner.
********
The Western European mobile phone market grew 8.1% year on year to 42.7 million units in 1Q10, according to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker. Shipments of smartphones surged in the quarter to 12 million units, 57% higher than in last year's first quarter, to represent 28% of total shipments. Traditional mobile phones (TMPs) declined 4% year on year to 30.7 million units, showing the continuous trend toward smartphones.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/44052.php?source=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cellular-news%2FLmiX+%28cellular-news%29
********
A new report from ABI Research indicates that by the end of 2010, there will be 5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide. By the end of first quarter there were around 4.8 billion connections worldwide. Much of this growth will come from developing markets in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/abi-5-billion-mobile-subscribers-end-year/2010-06-30
********
Following last week's release of the new iPhone 4, Apple quietly added a new section to its App Store virtual storefront reserved exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch applications powered by the new iOS 4 operating system. As of 5 a.m. ET Tuesday, there are 48 applications featured under the heading Awesome iOS 4 Apps, including social networking services Twitter and Loopt, navigation solution TomTom USA and music app Pandora Radio.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/apple-adds-ios-4-application-section-app-store/2010-06-28
********
90 percent of developers say they are very interested in creating applications for the iPhone, 84 percent express comparable enthusiasm for the iPad and 81 percent are casting their lot with Android. What is surprising is just how little interest developers express for rival smartphone platforms like BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, webOS and MeeGo.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/iphone-still-dominates-developer-focus-android-gaining-fast/2010-06-28
********
The following three articles that I wrote this week discuss what I learned about mobility at Sapphire 2010 and what I think it means to enterprise mobility vendors and SAP customers.
What I Learned About Mobility at Sapphire, Part 1
What I Learned About Mobility at Sapphire, Part 2
What I Learned About Mobility at Sapphire, Part 3
********
To attract programmers to its Android operating system, Google may offer tools that help them sell subscriptions, virtual goods, and other items from within applications on mobile phones, Andy Rubin, vice-president of engineering at Google, says in an interview.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc20100629_585738.htm
********
The following links are interviews that I have conducted over the past few months with enterprise mobility experts and CEOs.
Mobile Expert Interview Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Video Series:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/mobile-expert-video-series.html
Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly archives can be found at:
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
I would invite those interested in enterprise mobility to join the Linkedin Group SAP Enterprise Mobility, http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro.
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
CEO/Principal Consultant, Netcentric Strategies LLC
http://www.netcentric-strategies.com/
www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbenedict
http://twitter.com/krbenedict
***Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant and Web 2.0 marketing expert. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
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