Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

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

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Massachusetts General Hospital has developed the world's smallest cancer diagnostic system, leveraging a smartphone that has proven to be "game changing technology" for the detection and spot diagnosis of the disease. Read Original Content

Slightly more than half of adults with cell phones have smartphones, and a new report from Pew Internet indicates the mobile health market has increased: one in three cell phone users have used their phone to look for health information. Read Original Content

Three million people in England are set to get access to telehealth by 2017, under government plans to firmly push the NHS into the digital era and become a global leader in the field. Read Original Content

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

Recently Spyglass Consulting conducted in-depth interviews with more than 100 nurses to determine smartphone adoption and usage among the group. About 69 percent of the hospitals interviewed for the survey had nursing staff using smartphones on the job that the facility’s IT department were not willing to support on the hospital’s network. Read Original Content

A surgeon in Indiana performed the first operation in the state Tuesday with an iPod-based navigation system that allowed him to check his surgical incisions and decisions, doing more accurate and less invasive work. Read Original Content

A new charge-capture feature in ADP's AdvancedMD iPad app allows doctors' practices to streamline their workflow by tracking billing on a mobile device. Read Original Content

The 2nd Annual HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey, released this week, examines the trend towards the integration of mobile technology in the clinical setting.  Results indicated that 93 percent of physicians use some sort of mobile device daily, and 80 percent use the technology to directly influence and improve patient care. Read Original Content

According to market research firm GlobalData, the worldwide mobile health market will reach $11.8 billion by 2018, up from just $1.2 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

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

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Google's Android and Apple's iOS continued to pull away from the competition in October 2012, combining to control 87.9 percent of the U.S. smartphone market according to a new report issued by digital research firm comScore.  Read Original Content

The mobile phone market is a growth industry, but according to the latest IDC report growth for 2012 is predicted to be only 1.4 percent compared to last year. More than 1.7 billion mobile phones will ship this year with the number expected to reach 2.2 billion in 2016. Read Original Content

The bad blood between Apple and Samsung is turning into a classic tech battle.
That Apple fights on with Samsung, but settled with HTC makes sense. In stores Samsung is without a doubt the single biggest threat to Apple, according to Ben Wood, director of research at CCS Insight.  Read Original Content

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

According to Research and Markets, the global Smartphone industry is highly concentrated such that the combined revenue share of Apple and Samsung is expected to have reached around 60 percent and the combined profit share around 95 percent in 2012.  Read Original Content

Based on SMB Group market survey, smartphone use in the Philippines has grown tremendously by 316 percent in 2012 since it was introduced in the market just a few years back.  Read Original Content

Nokia’s flagship smartphone is a remarkable handset, which runs Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 8 software, has got to be the best $100 phone you can buy, with an excellent camera, a big, beautiful video screen, and snappy 4G LTE data downloads.  Read Original Content

HTC said it will not bring its mid-range Windows Phone 8S device to the U.S. market, and will instead put all of its marketing efforts behind the high-end Windows Phone 8X.  Read Original Content

Taiwan's HTC Corp. remains the fifth largest mobile phone maker in the United States but has lost market share to Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., according to data compiled recently by the research firm comScore.  Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of December 4, 2012

Max Katz of Tiggzi brings his perspective to the native vs. web apps topic, stating there are advantages to each, and hybrid apps offer many of the advantages of both approaches.  Read Original Content

NonStop Games' Henric Suuronen feels some of the recent criticisms of HTML5 were deserved and some were not, and states that despite its bad publicity, HTML5 is still a viable platform for games.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has been working with a number of companies to optimize select HTML5-based sites to function better on Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Phone 8.  Read Original Content

Men’s magazine GQ has given their British site a new look – the new gq-magazine.co.uk is built in HTML5 and includes new features and updated sections.  Read Original Content

In dotMobi’s “Ten Questions to Answer Before Developing Mobile Web Tactics”, marketing manager Martin Clancy addresses whether businesses should just concentrate on native apps by stating that a mobile app is not a full mobile strategy.  “Right now, the mobile web is the only way to reach your entire audience in one fell swoop and updating your site is seamless.”  Read Original Content

With an estimated 60 percent of corporations implementing BYOD strategies, multiple types of mobile devices may be in use within one corporation. As it may be too expensive to build native apps for all devices, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile technologies enable developers to build mobile cloud apps once for use on many different devices.  Read Original Content

Knitd, an HTML5-based web app planned for launch in the U.K. in 2013, will offer readers the chance to buy individual articles via a micropayment system.  Read Original Content

Online music streaming service Grooveshark has launched a mobile website  coded in HTML5 that offers its music library online for free.  Read Original Content

Ben Savage, founder of Spaceport.io, explains why he feels HTML5 didn’t meet the high expectations set in 2011 in “Why HTML5 Provided More Tricks than Treats in 2012” featured in VentureBeat.  Read Original Content

California-based startup Famo.us has developed a new approach to developing HTML5 apps to work on varied devices including tablets, cars, televisions and smartphones.  Read Original Content and Read More Original Content

SMAC News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week.

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Each of us is impacted by SMAC.  We all use mobile devices and social networking solutions like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  We use search engines, maps and weather apps, all of which use analytics and are in the cloud.  SMAC is the combination of all of these trends coming together on mobile devices.  This convergence is impacting businesses in many different ways.  We will do our best to capture these by reporting on the SMAC trends, numbers and forecasts in this weekly newsletter.

According to the Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst at IDC, the IT industry as a whole is moving toward the mobile/social/cloud/big data world of the 3rd Platform much more quickly than many realize, from 2013 through 2020, these technologies will drive nearly 90 percent of all the growth in the IT market. Read Original Content

IBM recently announced it will establish a new analytics center in Columbus, Ohio, dedicated to advancing research, development, client services and skills training in the areas of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect.  To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

According to Gartner the big data analysis industry is worth $34 billion, a business that is expected to create 4.4 million information technology jobs by 2015, including 1.9 million jobs in the United States, according to IT consulting firm Gartner. Read Original Content

Commonwealth Bank will launch several updated and new banking services targeting mobile and social media users in 2013. The company will make available a banking service for Facebook and Kaching for Facebook, which will enable users with a new medium to pay and save. Read Original Content

Cloud computing, the third wave of IT, is one of the fastest-growing emerging industries in the world with ever-expanding uses for both governments and enterprises. According to the latest quarterly IT Spending Report from Gartner, the global public cloud service market, which exceeded $91 billion in 2011, is expected to increase by 19 percent to $109 billion by the end of 2012. Read Original Content

HP has announced details about its new StoreAll Storage, a highly scalable platform for unstructured data with converged object and file storage services for up to 16 petabytes of data with billions of objects and files in a single name space. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

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

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Beijing plans to invest $800 million in the Internet of Things industry by 2015. The Ministry of Information and Technology estimates China's Internet of Things market will hit $80.3 billion by 2015, then double to 166 billion by 2020. Read Original Content

The Vatican has decided to use an ID card with a micro-chip device embedded inside the card that is capable of being used as a tracking device. This card will be given to clergy and employees. Read Original Content

The European radio frequency identification market is set to explode, with forecasts suggesting it will be worth $3.2 billion in 2017, up from $289.6 million in 2011. Read Original Content

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

The number of M2M connections worldwide is expected to more than triple by 2016 compared to the figure in 2011, according to a new report from IMS Research, as carriers look to M2M for growth opportunities. Read Original Content

Global M2M revenues will soar from $200 million in 2011 to $1.2 trillion in 2022, according to new research from Machina Research. The revenue explosion will occur as the number of M2M connections rises from 2 billion at the end of 2011 to around 18 billion by the end of 2022. Read Original Content

Compass Intelligence, a global consulting and market analytics firm, released its latest forecast of the M2M market today. The cellular M2M market will reach 33.3 million connections in the U.S. in 2012 and grow to 114.7 million connections by 2016 with annual growth rate of over 36 percent. Read Original Content

Productivity gains resulting from the Internet of Things could add between $10 trillion and $15 trillion to global GDP over the next 20 years, according to a new study from General Electric. Read Original Content

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

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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There are many advantages of a mobile land surveyor system and smartphone technology along with web services and GIS enable easy mobile access to the information needed in the field.  Read Original Content

Businesses using the FiTS fashion item tracking system from TAGSYS RFID can see up to a 50 percent reduction in handling costs and more efficient utilization of space.  Read Original Content

The New Doha International Airport in Qatar will have a new high-tech RFID-based parking and car/bus terminal access control system planned for the second quarter of 2013.  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.

TeleNav has launched a voice navigation feature for its Scout GPS app for iOS devices.  Read Original Content

New York’s Nassau County has installed GPS systems in its Able-Ride buses, hoping to provide faster and more efficient trips for disabled bus riders.  Read Original Content

According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple is working on plans to improve its Maps app, including seeking advice from TomTom about improving the navigation and landmark data in the native iOS app.  Read Original Content

GPS vehicle tracking solution provider GPS Insight reported a 268 percent growth in revenue over the last four years, citing value delivered to customers and their need to save on fleet and labor costs as reasons for the growth.  Read Original Content

Winsyde provides a review of MobileDemand’s rugged xTablet T1200, stating “the
T1200 is a rugged tablet that is designed for work and for those who need to put their objectives first and integrate technology second”.  Read Original Content

ShopSavvy has launched a new iPad version of its free barcode scanning and comparison shopping software with the addition of features specifically for iPad users.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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According to a PWC report, spending on mobile advertising in New Zealand for the second quarter of 2012 was very low, only $930,000 compared to $30 million in Australia for the same period.  Read Original Content

With the adoption of rich media and smartphone penetration rates, “Super Wi-Fi” – TV white spaces - is likely to see the most success in Asia.  Read Original Content

A survey commissioned by the Mobile Marketing Association of Singapore found that 90 percent of Singapore residents own a smartphone, and 39 percent choose mobile devices over a PC or laptop.  Read Original Content

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

A recent report from Google reveals India ranks second in the world in accessing private details of its citizens.  Read Original Content

YuDian from voice technology firm iFlyTek is being called the Chinese version of Siri, and is available to anyone with an Internet-enabled mobile phone in China.  Read Original Content

Australia’s SmartTrans has finalized contracts with China Mobile and UnionPay in the last year, and currently provides the mobile software and website for China's State Lotteries.  Read Original Content

Due to demand from domestic companies wanting to venture overseas and multi-national companies wishing to expand, Singapore’s SingTel is planning to expand its network infrastructure in India and China over the next 12 months.  Read Original Content

The Marina Mandarin Singapore hotel has introduced “OneGuest Mobile Solutions” for its food and beverage outlet, integrating order taking, customer service management and real-time updates.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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

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Within the last three months, iPhone 5 sales boosted Apple to the number one spot in the U.S. market, with handsets running on Apple’s iOS operating system accounting for 48.1 percent of smartphone sales in the country, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.  Read Original Content

The Nokia Lumia 920 is starting to make some rumbles in the smartphone market, selling out on Amazon.com and seeing some wait times on AT&T for some versions. Read Original Content

According to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, Android has claimed a dominant lead in the Australian smartphone market with a market share of 62.2 percent, with the platform pulling ahead of Apple.  Read Original Content

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

According to new Market Data from ABI Research, by the end of this year revenues accumulated by the global mobile application market will pass the $30 billion milestone with that figure including money made from pay-per-downloads, in-app purchases, subscriptions and in-app advertisements. Read Original Content

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, finds that the Latin American mobile broadband market earned revenues of $6.74 billion in 2011 and estimates this to reach $34.41 billion in 2017, driven by increasing demand for mobility, penetration of smart devices, and convergent services and bundles.  Read Original Content

According to research firm comScore, Google Android and Apple iOS account for respective 53 percent and 34 percent shares of the smartphone subscriber market.  Read Original Content

According to IDC, the third quarter report has Sony standing in third position while last year for the same quarter Sony had the sixth position. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, Samsung sold the most smartphones during the third quarter, spearheaded by the Galaxy S3, which recently surpassed the 30 million units sold milestone. The company sold an accumulative of 55 million smartphone units, while Apple sold 23.6 million iPhones.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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

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A new Pew Research report found that 31 percent of cellphone users had used their device to access health information. That was nearly double the 17 percent who said they did so two years ago. Read Original Content

A new report from Juniper is the latest in a flurry of forecasts about the role smart wearable devices, or wearables will play in the mobile technology market over the next few years. Juniper says wearables will be a $1.5 billion market by 2014, up from just $800 million this year. Read Original Content

A new survey on Mobile Health from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds 19 percent of smartphone users have at least one health app downloaded onto their device. Read Original Content

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

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

Nearly 247 million mobile phone users around the world are expected to download a health app in 2012, according to Research2Guidance, a global market research firm. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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

U.S. social media ad revenues are expected to reach $9.2 billion in 2016, up from $4.6 billion in 2012, representing a compound annual growth rate of 19.2 percent, according to the fall update of the BIA/Kelsey’s U.S. Local Media Forecast. Read Original Content

Mobile payment volume through PayPal on Black Friday increased 193 percent compared to last year’s Black Friday, and customers shopping through the site increased 173 percent, according to research by the National Retail Federation. Read Original Content

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

Deloitte predicts the UK will see a 17 percent hike in online retail sales this year, with £330 million of transactions made through smartphones and £500 million through tablet computers. Read Original Content

IAB/PricewaterhouseCoopers latest report reveals that growth in mobile advertising continues to skyrocket as it increased 190 percent YOY and 25 percent on the prior period to $22 million. Read Original Content

Research firm, ABI Research, predicted earlier this year that an estimated 80 million NFC-enabled smartphones would be shipped this year. Read Original Content

IBM recently reported that total online sales saw a surge of 20.7 percent in spending from last year. eBay-owned PayPal is reporting that Black Friday global mobile payments volume was up 193 percent from last year. Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of November 25, 2012

In this update on "What's New in HTML5" the debate around the merits of HTML5 continues as Brightcove's CEO Jeremy Allaire says Mark Zuckerberg was "dead wrong" about HTML5.

Now for the news...

Nokia’s new free cloud-based map service, HERE, will be available on multiple operating systems, including an HTML5 version for Apple’s iOS.  Read Original Content

Mobile social gaming platform GREE is expanding its compatibility with HTML5 and will roll out the enhanced HTML5 functionality worldwide in open beta this month.  Read Original Content

Caplin Systems has launched a Web-trading tool, Caplin Trader 3, built entirely in HTML5 to provide support for all platforms from one codebase.  Read Original Content

The New York Times has redesigned its crosswords page with a new HTML5 version to enable game play within the browser, allowing players to access puzzles without leaving the NYTimes.com website.  Read Original Content

BoosterMedia provides an infographic detailing the world of HTML5 mobile gaming in this article featured in me mobile entertainment.  Read Original Content

Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire believes hybrid apps are essential to getting the technical economy highly productive, and states Mark Zuckerberg was “dead wrong” and it was “shameful for him to throw HTML5 under the bus because Facebook had an outdated and poorly written hybrid app”.  Read Original Content

Mobile and digital consultant Michael Nuciforo compares the native vs. HTML5 debate to choosing whether to purchase a Ferrari or a Toyota in this article in Finextra.  Read Original Content

Computer maker Dell has created tablet-optimized catalogs and smartphone mobile commerce sites for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  The digital catalogs are HTML5-based so consumers can view them on any mobile browser.  Read Original Content

LongTail Video has released a major update to its video player with enhanced HTML5 support leveraging many of the recent advancements in HTML5 browsers, including the HTML5 Fullscreen API.  Read Original Content

Tylted has launched GameDrop Network, a mobile advertising platform that integrates Tylted’s HTML5-based ad server with an app publisher’s existing ad server.  Read Original Content

ViewTube is a userscript compatible with various web browsers that replaces Adobe Flash Player with an HTML5 video player on popular websites, giving users the opportunity to try out HTML5 video.  Read Original Content

HTML5 Web-publishing platform Wix has formed a partnership with e-commerce website solution Shopify to enable Wix’s users to integrate Shopify into their HTML5 websites.  Read Original Content

Gaming site JackpotCity Casino has added two new HTML5 mobile casino games.  Read Original Content

Apex Studio has released the new generation of HTML5 Movie Maker for Windows, enabling users to convert multiple formats video files to HTML5 video to play on browsers and mobile devices.  Read Original Content

Magic Software’s David Akka believes the hype around HTML5 continues to gather momentum, but won’t be ready as a reliable development tool for the enterprise for another 2-4 years.  Read Original Content

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M2M News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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Compass Intelligence, a global consulting and market analytics firm, released its latest forecast of the M2M market today. The cellular M2M market will reach 33.3 million connections in the U.S. in 2012 and grow to 114.7 million connections by 2016 with an annual growth rate of over 36 percent. Read Original Content

Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas last month instituted a policy that requires students to wear ID cards implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip. Sophomore Andrea Hernandez refused to wear the device and was suspended. Read Original Content

Shipments of satellite-based communications nodes used for smart grid applications are forecast to more than quadruple between now and 2020, according to a new study from Pike Research. The market-research company expects node shipments to rise from about 11,500 in 2012 to nearly 48,000 by 2020. Read Original Content

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

ProximaRF, a subsidiary of Tranzbyte Corporation, is working on the development of an RFID reader that could successfully track shipments of legally grown and distributed marijuana from the time the product is harvested to the time it is delivered to retailers. Read Original Content

U.K. mobile operator Three is rolling out a cloud-based M2M platform. The new platform reduces set-up time and costs for mobile virtual network operators and gives them control of their connections, such as activating and deactivating their connections, tracking data usage, setting alerts and applying data limits. Read Original Content

Last year there were roughly 110 million cellular-connected M2M connections in the world. ABI Research, a New York-based follower of technology trends, thinks we’ll see more than 365 million by 2016. Read Original Content

SMAC News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week.

Each of us is impacted by SMAC.  We all use mobile devices and social networking solutions like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  We use search engines, maps and weather apps, all of which use analytics and are in the cloud.  SMAC is the combination of all of these trends coming together on mobile devices.  This convergence is impacting businesses in many different ways.  We will do our best to capture these by reporting on the SMAC trends, numbers and forecasts in this weekly newsletter.

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If 2012 was the year of big data hype, interest and pilot projects, 2013 will bring production deployments, early returns on investment and a bit of disruption. By 2014, big data projects and systems are likely to be commonplace. Read Original Content

Accenture Federal Services has received a $3 million, one-year contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help the Office of Health Affairs enhance its bio surveillance capabilities using social media analytics. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect.  To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

According to a new whitepaper by GFT and IESE, “The Impact of Social Media on the Financial Services Sector,” social networking is playing an increasingly important role in our buying decisions. Forty-seven percent of Americans, for example, claim Facebook has the greatest impact on their purchasing. Read Original Content

Customer data analysis and social media will play a major role in delivering banking services and maintaining customer loyalty in the coming days, according to Ajai Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director of Corporation Bank. Read Original Content

The ability to interrogate so-called “big data” from traditional structured sources and unstructured sources such as video and social media is one of the key customer-facing technology priorities for European bankers in 2013, says a survey by the European Financial Management Association. Read Original Content

SumAll has raised $6 million in a Series A for its data connection service that analyzes and visualizes information from Instagram, Google Analytics and a broad range of other services. The investment round was led by Battery Ventures with the participation of Wellington Partners. Read Original Content

Nielsen has acquired SocialGuide, a leading provider of social TV measurement, analytics and audience engagement solutions. Nielsen says it wants to develop and deliver comprehensive media measurement solutions and expand its social media research and analytics capabilities. Read Original Content

Cisco Systems has announced a deal to buy San Francisco-based Meraki, a player in cloud networking, for $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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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Survey technology firm Terrametrix is utilizing mobile mapping system StreetMapper to perform detailed surveys of 7,250 bridges throughout the state of California.  Read Original Content

In 2011, 21 million consumers used smartphones to scan a QR barcode, and the number is forecast to increase to 26 million.  Read Original Content

City officials in Hattiesburg, Mississippi used National GIS Day to explain to residents how GIS technology provides access to statistical and physical data to city planners to aid in planning for proposed bike lanes, transit routes and street improvements.  Read Original Content

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As the standalone GPS market wanes, device makers are working with auto manufacturers to provide in-car navigation features as an alternative.  Read Original Content

Information Mediary Corp. is developing an NFC version of its drug-tracking products to enable customers to use NFC-enabled phones to track medication usage in clinical trials.  Read Original Content

Government agencies are finding many ways to utilize QR codes, including incorporating the codes on business cards, using the codes to provide information about park services, sports leagues, trails, and historic markers, and even using QR codes to enable citizens to make tax payments.  Read Original Content

Geospatial firm NAG has developed a new software platform which will be used on the International Space Station in January 2013.  The software will enhance the observation and collection of high-resolution imagery of the Earth for research and education.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 92 percent of South Australian children aged 5-14 access the Internet, up from 65 percent in 2006, and 31 percent now have mobile phones. Read Original Content

Japan Display Incorporated has unveiled three new prototype displays, combining mobile display technologies from Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi.  Read Original Content

China Unicom’s chairman states the iPhone 5 is currently being tested by authorities, and the company will begin selling the device once it has been approved.  Read Original Content

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Investors have indicated one of the biggest challenges in dealing with North Korea is the lack of cell phones. There are currently an estimated one million 3G cell phones in the country.  Read Original Content

India’s handygo Technologies has launched Gadget Guide, a mobile based service for Airtel mobile customers featuring gadget updates and reviews.   Read Original Content

China’s Singles Day Shopping Festival brought $800 million in eight hours to Chinese online store TMall.com.  Read Original Content

According to South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, Samsung has increased the price of its mobile processors for Apple’s iOS devices by 20 percent.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 18, 2012

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

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736,247 apps are currently live, but since Apple launched its App Store in 2008, 1 million apps have been approved and made available for download, according to a report by the Next Web, which cites information from Appsfire, an app discovery and promotion platform.  Read Original Content

The smartphone market, it seems, is now moving to gender with women in particular being the target of the new smartphones. Oppo, the Chinese company prepping to introduce a 1080p 5 incher called Find 5, has introduced a new smartphone that targets the ladies dubbed Ulike 2.  Read Original Content

Cell phone thieves accustomed to turning big profits on stolen devices may soon find themselves out of business as a new national system comes on line to render any phone reported stolen permanently inoperable.  Read Original Content

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

Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to grow by 30.2 percent to 865 million units next year, accounting for about 43.9 percent of total cellphone shipments, according to Digitimes.  Read Original Content

Gartner Inc. reported this month that Nokia slipped from number three in smartphone sales in the second quarter to number seven in the third. RIM another phone maker that has had its share of troubles in the last several quarters -- replaced Nokia at number three, with HTC not far behind.  Read Original Content

In an interview with German news site, Financial Times Deutschland, Sony Mobile's sales chief, Dennis van Schie, said the company is preparing a new flagship model, which it will unveil at CES 2013 in January.  Read Original Content

This is the first holiday season in which the iPad faces competitors that have built up a solid footing in the market. Amazon and Google introduced tablets just in time for the shopping rush. As a result many consumers and analysts say the new market of keyboardless computers is quickly becoming as confusing as that of the old-school PC.  Read Original Content

SAP has announced strong support for the Windows 8 platform, including six upcoming mobile apps that focus on business training, recruiting and sales.  Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of November 18, 2012

A lot of evolution has happened thus far in 2012 with HTML5.  The best use cases for HTML5 are being discovered, while the areas that are weak are now better understood.  I expect additional development and increasing use of HTML5 in 2013. 

I believe in HTML5.  IT organizations have as their number one priority, solving business needs, followed by managing TCO (total cost of ownership).  HTML5 fulfills both of these needs.  If a mobile worker needs order and inventory information while on the road, they don't need every bell and whistle possible in native code.  If HTML5 can efficiently enable many of these small mobile apps that provide real productivity to be developed and deployed quickly at low costs, then IT organizations should be embracing it.  If you have time later, find a use case for native, but don't delay productivity gains in order to justify developing in native.

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The Wikimedia Foundation is deploying an HTML5-based video player that will make it easier to add video clips to the millions of articles on the Wikipedia site.  Read Original Content

Researchers at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology report online tracking technology is evolving as tracking techniques like Flash cookies are being replaced by HTML5.  The use of Flash cookies dropped 15 percent from May to October 2012 and HTML5 local storage use increased by 12 percent.  Read Original Content

Google has launched a new experimental and interactive web app, JAM with Chrome, built with HTML5, CSS3 and the Go programming language. Read Original Content

Sencha has released version 2.1 of the Sencha Touch JavaScript library for mobile devices, designed to help developers create HTML5 apps for mobile platforms including iOS, Android and BlackBerry.  Read Original Content

The BlackBerry 10 browser has passed Ring 1 of the Ringmark benchmark standard for HTML5 app compatibility.  Read Original Content

Amit Gupta of JoomlaIntegration believes HTML5 apps for Smartphones “have a better user interface, utilities for events and other effective features”.  Mobile shopping from applications using HTML5 is formulated with the Database, Canvas and GeoLocation API’s.  Read Original Content

Developer David Walsh describes and demonstrates “Camera and Video Control with HTML5”.  Read Original Content

An executive at European news outlet FinancialTimes.com recently stated the decision to focus on HTML5 rather than native apps resulted in increased mobile usage and revenues for the company.  “The reports of the death of HTML5 are greatly exaggerated.”  Read Original Content

Microsoft’s new SDK for IE10 enables developers without advanced expertise in CSS and HTML5 to “create site features such as multiple columns, positioned floats and device adaptations” and features an HTML5 application cache that makes website files available offline.  Read Original Content

Maltese furniture house Fino has redesigned its website using HTML5 technologies and is now easily viewed on desktops and mobile devices.  Read Original Content

LinkedIn has replaced the HTML5-powered search function on its iPad app with native code, and the company reports it saw a 20 percent increase in searches as a result of the change.  Read Original Content

Mozilla has released Popcorn Maker 1.0, a free online video editor built entirely in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.  Read Original Content

LG Electronics announced it has added HTML5 support for its Pro:Centric IPTV platform for the hospitality industry.  Read Original Content

FTAdviser has launched a new mobile web app built using HTML5 technology “to provide an effective, interactive user interface without the need to download through an online store”.  Read Original Content

Jaspersoft has replaced the Flash-based visualization engine with HTML5 in the new release of its business intelligence suite.  Read Original Content

Tom’s Guide provides a list of “20 HTML5 Games to Pass the Time”.  Read Original Content

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 18, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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New research from Juniper shows more than 500 million people will use mobile coupons next year, a 30 percent rise on 2012, with the growth powered by further integration into social networks. Read Original Content

A recent IDC report estimates total mobile device spending, driven largely by m-commerce, will exceed $1 trillion by 2017. Read Original Content

The Australian arm of mobile network operator Vodafone has released details of its forthcoming SmartPass NFC mobile wallet, which could launch "as early as next year" after testing takes place over the next few months. Read Original Content

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

Twenty-eight percent of those who own a smartphone or tablet plan to shop from their mobile devices on Thursday, according to a Harris Interactive survey of more than 2,000 adults on behalf of Digitas. That’s nearly twice the percentage that said they would shop from a mobile device on Thanksgiving in a similar survey conducted last year. Read Original Content

Mobile is expected to make a huge impact on retail this holiday season, with almost 70 percent of smartphone owners expected to use their device to shop. Read Original Content

According to an eConsultancy report, search engine marketing in North America is expected to be worth $23 billion by the end of 2012 with a large portion coming from mobile traffic; projections show an additional $4 billion in growth throughout 2013, which brings the industry to an estimated worth of $27 billion. Read Original Content

Mobile devices captured nearly 20 percent of all online shopping in Q3 2012, which bodes incredibly well for online retailers heading into the holiday season. Read Original Content

According to a market research report published by MarketsandMarkets the total NFC applications market is expected to reach $10 billion by 2016 at an annual rate of 38 percent from 2011 to 2016. Read Original Content

According to a study by Harris Interactive 27 percent of tablet and smartphone-owning consumers plan to use them for their holiday shopping this year. Read Original Content