Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

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

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Syclo has announced that its Agentry Mobile Platform, SMART Work Manager and SMART Service Manager have been named as winners in the tenth annual Mobile Star Awards program.  Read Original Content

Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung has emerged as the most popular smartphone maker in the UK during 2011.  Read Original Content

The smartphone market in China seems to be ever expanding, and adding to the sea of handsets is the recently launched Dell Streak Pro. This mobile device has been built as a follow up to the Dell Streak 10 tablet that was released earlier this year in China.  Read Original Content

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

Samsung is continuing to dominate the overall Australia and New Zealand mobile phone market, with the South Korean giant pushing ahead of Apple for a third consecutive quarter, according to International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

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

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The Alaska State Medical Association is using smartphone apps to streamline healthcare throughout Alaska by allowing physicians and hospitals to share patient information, including images, through mobile devices. Read Original Content

American Medical ID has rolled out a commerce-enabled mobile site to let medical patients buy identification tags via their handsets. Read Original Content

This past week insurance company Aetna announced that it has purchased iTriage, the popular mobile health app that allows people to schedule doctor appointments, check symptoms and conduct medical shopping through smartphones. Read Original Content

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

A new smart phone application, built from the ground up by El Camino Hospital, aims to help locals make informed medical decisions for themselves and their families.
The free app, Family Medical Officer, allows users to access personal and family health records, find doctors by location, and check emergency room wait times at both El Camino campuses. Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

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

According to a Prosper Mobile Insights survey, 23.5 percent of smartphone and tablet owners say their device has been an integral part of their holiday shopping experience so far and they could not shop without it. Read Original Content

The cellular M2M embedded module market experienced a more difficult than expected year in 2010. Although total unit volumes continued to rise, reaching nearly 34 million units shipped in 2010, total industry revenue fell from roughly $996 million in 2009 to about $841 million in 2010, reversing the upward momentum in revenue seen in 2009 as the market rebounded from its 2008 lows. Read Original Content

The market for EPC RFID hardware exceeded $354 Million in 2010, an increase of more than 140 percent over 2009.  VDC anticipates that the market will continue to experience rapid growth in 2011, with global revenues growing more than 104 percent. Read Original Content


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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

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

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The new iPhone app, Tactical Nav, has been gaining popularity among military personnel allowing users to easily plot and map artillery fire throughout rugged terrain while using their smartphone. Read Original Content

The global enterprise mobility market in terms of revenue was estimated to be worth $5.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach $7.6 billion by 2016. The end-user devices segment accounted for the maximum share, with $3.0 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach $3.8 billion by 2016. Read Original Content

OnForce, a source for on-site tech talent, announced the availability of its Apple iPhone application for IT service corporations and field technicians. The app, available in the Apple App Store, offers efficiency and collaboration benefits throughout the lifecycle of every service event. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

According to IDTechEX, the Global market for RFID technology in 2010 was $5.63 billion, up from $5.03 billion in 2009. The primary drivers for future growth will be "modernizing" applications including asset management, cargo tracking and security, corporate employee identification I.D. cards, networks and facility access control, transport passes, as well as supply chain management. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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

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By 2020 the number of connected devices in the world is estimated by Machina Research to be 12 billion, up from one billion in 2010. In Australia Telstra is predicting the M2M market will be worth $1 billion annually in that country alone in 10 years. Read Original Content

RACO Wireless, an M2M partner for T-Mobile announced that the company is on pace to increase its year-over-year growth by 300 percent in 2011. Read Original Content

AT&T is launching a new business division in Atlanta called Digital Life Services, focusing on new opportunities like remote health care, energy management and home security. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

According to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, the age of wireless sensors and M2M technology has arrived. Verizon is increasingly getting involved with M2M projects that include home-energy management solutions and smart meters. Read Original Content

Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has granted a total of $30 million for 100 telemedicine projects in 34 states and one territory, according to a USDA news release. Read Original Content

Mercy Health System in Philadelphia created a highly targeted app three months ago for its bariatrics program. The app allows users to upload a photo of themselves and change their body image with a stroke of a finger to view what they might look like after weight-loss surgery. Since the app went live it has been downloaded nearly 1,300 times and used by consumers nearly 4,000 times. Read Original Content

The American Telemedicine Association projects an exponential growth in the adoption of telemedicine and mHealth technologies as a record number of consumers are entering fee-capped managed care insurance plans. Currently 73 million Americans are being monitored using telehealth solutions. Read Original Content

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

Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
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Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Android Market, Facebook, as well as Google apps such as Search, Gmail and Google Maps, are roughly the top most popular smartphone applications for the Android platform, according to Nielsen.  Read Original Content

Already big in Japan, Panasonic has announced that it plans to take on the world’s smartphone manufacturers and make the leap into the European market.  Read Original Content

Apple is learning to compromise.  Facing challenges winning over customers for its iAd mobile advertising service, Apple is softening its approach as it loses ground to Google in the fast-growing mobile-ad market.  Read Original Content

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

Google has removed a slew of apps from the official Android Market after security researchers found that they contained hidden SMS-message-sending capabilities, allowing criminals to rack up profits at the expense of the smartphone user.  Read Original Content

Mobility and 4D Field Services

GPS Coordinates and Time

I have been researching and pondering the concept of the 4th dimension this week, and how it relates to enterprise mobility and field services. First I looked up the meaning of 3D or 3 dimensional.  Three dimensional is made up of length, width and height.  These are basically GPS coordinates.  With GPS coordinates you can find and identify a location on the earth or map.  If you have GPS coordinates for your mobile workforce or mobile resources you will know where they are located, right?  WRONG!!!  The only thing that you know is that at a specific time (when the GPS coordinates were captured), they were located at those locations.  Time is a very important component.  If your GPS coordinates were captured last week, they are not likely to be accurate today?

As I hinted above, the 4th dimension is time, and it is critical to managing real-time field services.  You must add time to length, width and height to make 4D.  When you have the added value of time, you can do many things.  For example:

1. Monitor travel times by capturing departure and arrival times.
2. Monitor work start and stop times at a particular location.
3. Monitor job status at a particular location.
4. Analyse the best schedules based on locations, travel times, job statuses etc.
5. Capture KPIs and analyze them.

4D field services is the goal to achieve service optimization.  However, it is only possible when your mobile workforce and PIVs (Performance Impact Variables) are connected and using mobile technologies.  I will write more about PIVs in my next article.

As many of you know my mantra is, "Mobile technologies without mobile strategies is wasted."  There are a lot of interesting things that can be done with mobile technologies to provide a company with competitive advantages if they have a good strategy.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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

The 2011 KPMG Mobile Payments Outlook, based on a survey of nearly 1,000 executives found that 83 percent of the respondents believe that mobile payments will be mainstream within four years (by 2015). A study by Gartner also ranked the top most trusted brands in mobile payments. Read Original Content

StumbleUpon, the discovery engine that enables its users to "Stumble" onto personalized web content, recently redesigned its website to facilitate mobile users. Mobile users have increased 800 percent in the past year and have become the company’s main focus. Read Original Content

According to Forrester, mobile commerce is expected to reach $31 billion by 2016. This represents a compounded annual growth rate of 39 percent from 2011 to 2016. Read Original Content

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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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

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The global enterprise mobility market is projected to experience rapid growth between 2011 and 2016 with the key drivers being the ever-increasing mobile subscriber base, advanced telecommunication infrastructure in terms of robustness, and the overall network coverage expansion. Read Original Content

Enterprise mobility provider iPass polled over 2,300 enterprise workers for its quarterly Mobile Workforce Report, and found that the iPhone now makes up 45 percent of phones used by mobile workers. This is up from 31 percent in 2010. Read Original Content

According to ABI Research, users of enterprise B2E and B2C smartphone and media tablet mobile applications are forecast to grow at an annual rate of nearly 90 percent, on track to exceed 830 million active users by 2016. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

India’s rapidly growing enterprise mobility market which encompasses hardware, network and data, applications and associated services currently stands at $244 million, has been growing exponentially over the last three years and is expected to reach $1 billion by 2015, according to Zinnov Management Consulting. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

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Smartphones are expected to account for 90.8 percent of all handsets sold in the UK by 2016, driving demand for mobile data, according to a new study from Pyramid Research. Mobile penetration in the UK is expected to reach 152.8 percent or 98 million subscriptions by 2016, driven by the growth in data card usage and M2M service adoption. Read Original Content

CEO of Telifonica, Gilli Coston believes the M2M market in the United Kingdom will grow at 25 percent per year through 2020. Read Original Content

Power and engineering firm Siemens will buy smart meter software company eMeter as they both continue to work in smart meter projects globally. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

Within the first month of implementing Networkfleet, a fleet management solution, Campbell Oil Company saved $1800 and also reduced speeding, increased on-time deliveries, and streamlined fuel tax reporting. Read Original Content

Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

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ABI Research recently released a report which predicts that the sports and health mobile app market is on pace to hit $400 million in revenues by 2016. Read Original Content

In a bid to accommodate the aging population and the increasingly hectic lifestyles of their patients, physicians are embracing a broad spectrum of Web-based software solutions that are bringing healthcare services into the home. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Juniper Research, the number of downloads for health-related apps in 2012 will total 44 million by the end of next year. The research firm also predicts that the number of health app downloads will jump to 142 million by 2016. Read Original Content

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

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

Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly

Also read M2M News Weekly

Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly

Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly

Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly

Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Google said its Android Market has accrued over 10 billion application downloads since its launch in October 2008. Apple has notched close to 20 billion downloads to its App Store.  Read Original Content

Verizon has decided to block its customers from installing Google's new, high-profile Wallet application on the carrier's smartphones.  Read Original Content

Originally Windows Phones were expected to launch in China sometime in 2011.  But as the final month of 2011 slides by, Microsoft has officially punted that launch until 2012.  Read Original Content

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

Sales of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp dropped 30 percent in November from a month before as the world's No.4 smartphone brand struggled to compete against bigger rivals Apple and Samsung Electronics.  Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

The above graphic illustrates the regions within China that are experiencing significant growth in the M2M market. China's Internet-of-things industry reached $193.3 billion in 2010. Read Original Content

As computers and mobile devices continue to play an ever increasingly role in the lives of consumers, this holiday season has been projected to lead with the highest grossing revenues in online shopping ever recorded.  This graph compares the level of growth in online shopping interest between the week before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving week for 2010 and 2011, looking a sample covering hundreds of millions of ad impressions. Read Original Content

Online radio company Pandora has experienced significant growth in the past two years. This sharp increase in revenue can be explained by mobile advertising on Pandora’s mobile app. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

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Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
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The U.S. Census bureau is working with Agilex to create mobile apps for iPads and other tablets for its 2020 census workers as they collect data throughout the country. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, Apple’s iPad will soon experience strong growth in the enterprise mobility applications market as tablet sales are also expected to surge in the next few years. Read Original Content

RFID tracking devices are now being used to track the temperatures of frozen meat shipments. This solution is aimed at maintaining healthy temperatures to prevent dangerous food from being purchased. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

FieldOne Systems, a provider of software solutions for field service businesses, has released a new iPhone app for the FieldOne Mobile series allowing field workers to accomplish more work. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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

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Smarter Car and LightSquared are creating an in-vehicle solution that enables dealers and drivers to leverage critical data including location sharing, vehicle maintenance diagnostics and in-car applications via smartphones, tablets or PCs. Read Original Content

According to Nerac, a research and advisory firm, market for remote monitoring of medical patients is forecast to reach $5.1 billion by 2013, up from $3.6 billion in 2007. Read Original Content

Machina Research expects the automotive M2M sector to generate 157 billion euros in revenue in 2020, up from 10 billion euros in 2010. The biggest revenue generating segments will be security and tracking, emergency assistance, navigation and insurance. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

Population increases in Australia and a rapid growth of M2M links using mobile networks are among the factors that will see the total number of mobile subscriptions rocket up to 35 million by 2015. Read Original Content

Velocity in Field Services

Velocity - the speed and
direction of an object.

Velocity is usually a physics term, but it can also relate to enterprise mobility and field services in particular.  The term velocity is often used to describe the speed and direction of an object.   In my workshops, I use it in the context of enterprise mobility and field services to describe the ability to quickly bring all required resources (personnel, skill sets, equipment, parts, customers, schedules, etc.) to the point of need (i.e. job site) at the right time in order to optimize production and efficiencies.

How do you increase velocity?  It requires real time data exchanges between your mobile workforce, mobile assets, mobile inventories, mobile equipment, customers etc.  You need to understand the locations, status, availability and arrival and departure time of all required components.

Real-time mobile data exchanges
with PSION's EP10

From a mobile data perspective you need to have real-time mobile data exchanges that include the ability to send and receive the right data, with the right people, at the right time, in the right amounts, on the right devices.

Velocity, in the context of enterprise mobility, is a purposeful strategy.  It requires IT infrastructure that is designed to avoid latency in real-time data exchanges.  It requires a unified view of the "real-time" status of all relevant players and objects necessary to optimize the delivery of services in the field.

My mantra is, "Mobile technologies without mobile strategies is wasted."

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

According to Nielsen, Apple has retained its place as the largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. in the third quarter with a nearly 30 percent share, while the overall market continues to shift toward smart devices, reports Fortune. Read Original Content

China has leapfrogged the U.S. to become the world’s largest smartphone market by volume, according to third quarter figures released by Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android's security features, making them more vulnerable to attack.  Read Original Content

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

In the third quarter of the year, both Windows Mobile and Windows Phone combined held 6.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market. That's down 33 percent from the 9 percent of the U.S. market Windows Mobile/Windows Phone held in the previous quarter.  Read Original Content

The majority of UK consumers (59 percent) now own a smartphone, 18 percent own a tablet device, and as many as 67 percent have used an app, and 73 percent have accessed a website using these mobile devices in the last twelve months, research from an EPiServer study has found.  Read Original Content

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Mobile application downloads in the U.S. increased from 3.8 million in September 2011 to a record 4.91 million in October, a 29 percent month-over-month leap, according to mobile app user acquisition platform Fiksu's latest App Store Competitive Index.  Read Original Content

Research In Motion has released BlackBerry Mobile Fusion – the Company’s next-generation enterprise mobility solution and RIM’s entry into the multi-platform Mobile Device Management marketplace.  Read Original Content

Last month, Apple managed to achieve an impressive 42.8 percent of all UK smartphone sales.  Even though it was introduced during the middle of the month, there is no doubt that Apple's flagship iPhone 4S was responsible for this result.  Read Original Content

According to figures released by VisionMobile, a market analysis and strategy firm, smartphone adoption has reached over 27 percent around the world.  Read Original Content

Research In Motion is introducing a software tool giving corporate customers the option of linking employees' personal iPhones to the BlackBerry network without compromising security.  Read Original Content

According to ABI research, 2016 is the year health and fitness apps will cross the $400 million mark. ABI has further predicted that 1 billion health related apps will have been downloaded by 2016. Read Original Content

HTC hopes to re-spark consumer interest with its new line of smartphones in early 2012, despite the company’s poor performance in the global smartphone market this year, reports Reuters.  Read Original Content

A new study finds that iPhone owners are the most loyal smartphone users, and cites customers' personal investments in Apple's ecosystem as driving an over 80 percent retention rate for the device.  Read Original Content

Lenovo has unveiled three new tablets and a smartphone for the Chinese market and also will launch a smart TV product in the first quarter of next year.  Read Original Content

AT&T has withdrawn its application to buy T-Mobile from the Federal Communications Commission after the FCC dealt a blow to its plans by announcing that it will hold a court hearing to examine the proposed merger.  Read Original Content

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