Mobile Expert Video Series: Dominick Ruggiero

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, I interview Sky Technologies/Kony Solution's Dominick Ruggiero about trends in enterprise mobility and how Sky Technologies has changed since Kony Solutions acquired them.  Enjoy!

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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.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly-Week of September 30, 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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Bank of America is testing a new mobile payment service that lets customers use their Apple or Google smartphones to scan pictures to pay for things. Read Original Content

According to a Gartner report the analyst firm expects mobile payment transaction volumes and values to grow 42 percent annually through 2016. By then they project that the market will be worth $617 billion with 448 million users. Read Original Content

Mobile will matter—even, or perhaps especially, in stores—this holiday season, Deloitte LLP says. Mobile-influenced retail store sales such as product research, price comparison or mobile app use will account for 5.1 percent of retail store sales over the holidays, Deloitte predicts. Read Original Content

Marketers allocated 16.3 percent of total search budgets to U.S. mobile search campaigns in Q3 2012, up from 14 percent in the year-ago quarter, according to a report released by IgnitionOne. 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.

Isis, which is a joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA, told CNET that it was delaying the start of its trials, which were scheduled to during September in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas. Read Original Content.

Worldwide mobile payments will soar from $66 billion last year to $172 billion this year and more than $600 billion by 2016, market-research firm Gartner predicts. Read Original Content.

China looks set to adopt the worldwide NFC standard for contactless payments, in a move that could be a boost to the usage of smartphones for making cashless transactions in stores nationwide. Read Original Content

According to a new Forrester Research report, mobile banking will reach 108 million users in the U.S. by 2017. That’s about 46 percent of all U.S. bank account holders. Read Original Content

Trends in Enterprise Mobility October 2012

I have had a hunch for a while that has been confirmed by a number of recent interviews with leading enterprise mobility vendors.  It seems that as enterprise mobility rises as a priority within companies, and becomes a CEO/CIO issue rather than a line of business issue, ERP and back office application considerations start to dominate the discussion and focus.

These boardroom level discussions change the buying process for enterprise mobility.  Mobile solutions used to be considered at the line of business level, where a small group of business process experts could select what they considered best of breed. Today, in many enterprises, mobility is too important to be just a line of business decision.  The stakeholder numbers have swelled and the length of selling cycles for enterprise mobility solutions has also lengthened as a result.

Standardization is starting to dominate large enterprise mobility discussions.  The standardization of mobile middleware, mobile app development tools, security and integration with ERPs and other back office apps.  This trend makes the choices that SAP made over the past few years look very smart, or I guess it could also be interpreted as a self-fulfilling prophecy.  SAP said these are the things that are most important, and after a couple of years beating that drum the market now agrees.

This week I am attending the Oracle Open World conference.  I will be very interested to learn how Oracle is treating enterprise mobility this year.  They have been too quiet.  Stay tuned as I report, blog and tweet from San Francisco this week at OOW.  It you aren't already following me on Twitter, I invite you to do so.  My Twitter handle is @krbenedict.

Convergence in the enterprise mobility industry is happening now.  I can see mobility vendors rethinking strategies and moving resources around to support these new trends.

On the topic of trends, my most recent analyst report titled Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey 2012 is now available free here http://kony.com/mid-year-enterprise-mobility-survey-2012-10.

I will be reviewing this report in a webinar on Thursday, October 4th at 1 PM ET.  I hope you can join me!  Register here!

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of September 23, 2012

Here are the comments, opinions and actions taken by both supporters and opponents of HTML5 that I have found this week.  It is never a dull discussion.

Native apps tend to have a smoother look and feel, more polish, and are able to leverage elements of their native operating system to feel more deeply integrated into the device.  However, building for multiple platforms and devices is expensive while web apps, built in standards-based technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3, will work on devices across a range of sizes by being adaptive and responsive.  Read Original Content

Brendan Eich, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, admits that HTML5 still faces standardization issues, and by continuing to lead development of essential HTML5 standards, Mozilla will actually make developers' lives easier.  Read Original Content

The much-publicized quote from Mark Zuckerberg, stating that the biggest mistake Facebook made was betting too much on HTML5 doesn’t tell the entire story.  The full quote, on Facebook software engineer Tobie Langel’s blog is:  “When I’m introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”  Read Original Content

While stating that the company believes HTML5 has been “very over-hyped”, Intel software executive Renee James goes on to say that Intel is “committed to making sure HTML5 remains open, cross-platform, and has the right performance”.  Read Original Content

Adobe has made an effort to have its tools work on multiple platforms - PCs, tablets, and smartphones - using HTML5 and dynamic layout reformatting tailored to each device type.  The company is now promoting free “Create the Web” events to show off new tools and services for HTML5, CSS3, motion graphics, web development and more.  Read Original Content

appMobi has announced the launch privateStack, an HTML5-based, app development and cloud services platform that will enable businesses to develop their own cloud stack for mobile apps for business operations.  Read Original Content

Donald MacCormick in BI Dashboards provides a video of an HTML5 dashboard prototype in action.  Read Original Content

Facebook software engineer Tobie Langel outlines the HTML5 flaws that Facebook encountered including a lack of tooling in mobile browsers, scrolling performance problems, and technical problems such as stuttering and GPU buffer exhaustion.  Read OriginalContent

Xamarin CEO Nat Freidman believes the mobile industry is moving too fast for HTML5 and Web standards-based development to keep up, and he feels a lot more developers will start to build natively.  An IDC analyst states “We are now in a bit of a disillusionment phase for HTML5 as early adopters push the boundaries of the capabilities and sometimes fail”.  ReadOriginal Content

This article from HTML5 Goodies explores the changes with HTML5 Semantics – HTML5 tags that have been removed and new HTML5 elements.  Read Original Content

Jadu will offer its mobile app publishing platform Weejot.com free to every school, college and university in the U.K. to enable students to improve their programming skills using HTML5 and JavaScript.  Read Original Content

Serdar Yegulalp writes in Information Week’s Byte newsletter that although he “can’t stand” programming in HTML5, he sees it thriving in the long run, because it’s the most widely-recognized starting point. HTML5 “doesn't give the most powerful base to build on, but it provides the lowest barrier to entry, and one of the fastest ways to get something into people's hands”.  Read Original Content

A collection of 10 useful infographics about HTML5 is provided in this article by Jacob Gube in Six Revisions.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 23, 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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The number of mobile phones in use around the world in 2011 reached six billion while the number of mobile banking users worldwide reached 300 million with adoption of the service in developed countries growing significantly. Read Original Content

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Mobile Commerce Payment market in China will grow at an annual rate of 41.67 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing adoption of mobile devices. Read Original Content

InMobi, the largest independent mobile advertising network, announced it has experienced 437 percent growth in rich media ad impressions on its HTML5 ad authoring platform, Sprout, in the first eight months of 2012. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Sky Technologies.

Groupon, the online deals site, has introduced a new mobile payment system aimed to offer “the lowest rates in today’s marketplace” when consumers pay through its app on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Read Original Content

To stake its claim in the emerging technology of digital wallets, Discover has announced separate partnerships with Google and PayPal. Discover cardholders now can use Google Wallet for payments. PayPal plans to use Discover's extensive merchant network to make a big push into bricks-and-mortar stores. Read Original Content

Last year, Facebook beat Google in display ad revenue. In 2011, Google took home $1.67 billion in net revenue from U.S. display ads and grabbed 13.5 percent of the market. Facebook took home more with $1.73 billion in revenue for 14.1 percent share that year. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising costs are increasing on average by 20 percent as the marketplace matures, James Hilton, CEO of Saatchi Mobile has stated. Read Original Content

M-commerce revenues are expected to grow to $31 billion by 2016, according to Forrester Research. The number of mobile devices available for making purchases on the Web has drastically increased since the iPhone first made waves. Read Original Content

The Changing ROI of Enterprise Mobility

I remember just a few years ago companies would buy a ruggedized mobile handheld computer and then load just one software application on it.  The entire justification and projected ROI for purchasing the $3,000 ruggedized device was derived from just one app.

Times have changed!  Now you can purchase a $299 smartphone and load dozens of apps on it.  Let's think about this for a minute.  What if you had the following mobile apps on your smartphone:

• CRM
• Mobile BI
• Work Order Management
• Scheduling
• Enterprise Asset Management
• Enterprise Content Management
• Time Sheets
• HR
• Turn-by-Turn Navigation
• Knowledge Management
• Collaboration (Yammer, Jive, Chatter, etc)
• Product Catalogs, and Marketing Information
• Sales Orders and Credit Card Processing
• Etc

How would you write an ROI justification?  It is not an efficiency and productivity story alone, rather it is a whole new way of conducting business isn't it?  The ROI is on the business model, not just individual apps and devices.

The debate in boardrooms today should be on the merits of the new "mobile" business model, not only on the ROI of each individual app alone.  The ROI must also consider the opportunity costs of not doing it.  What if your competitors are embracing the new "mobile" business models and you are not.  There is an economic cost to that decision, or lack of a decision as well.

Where does your company stand?  Less than half of enterprises surveyed in the past few months have an enterprise-wide mobility strategy.  If a company is going to embrace mobility, and it has the potential of revolutionizing their business model, then I believe companies should be placing a higher priority on this effort.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 16, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Worldwide mobile payments transactions are expected to reach $171.5 billion this year, up from $105.9 billion in 2011, research firm Gartner Inc. said in May. Read Original Content

According to eMarketer, Twitter will tally $129.7 million in U.S. mobile advertising revenue in 2012, compared with $72.7 million for Facebook. Read Original Content

Smartphone users worldwide will download more than 45 billion apps this year, nearly twice the number of apps that were downloaded in 2011, according to new data from the research group Gartner, in a clear sign of just how quickly the demand for apps is growing. Read Original Content

By the end of 2013, roughly 43 percent of bank customers are expected to be using a smartphone for banking on the go, according to The Federal Reserve. 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.

Chicago mobile ad spending in the financial and insurance category is expected to grow from $4.4 million in 2011 to $27 million in 2016. Read Original Content

Charles Schwab has announced mobile deposit capabilities for iPad users, enabling Schwab brokerage and Schwab Bank clients to deposit checks remotely by taking a picture of a check with an iPad camera. Read Original Content

Despite worries about Facebook’s ability to make money from mobile devices, new research predicts the social network's U.S. mobile-advertising revenue will quintuple next year, catapulting it into the top ranks of the mobile-ad business, behind market leader Google Inc. Read Original Content

Pakistan’s number of mobile banking accounts has reached 1.45 million, experiencing a growth of 37 percent during the quarter ending June 30,2012, a state bank official has said. Read Original Content

Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP in ANZ

I am honored to have been invited to speak at a series of 4 one-day conferences in Australia and New Zealand in November, 2012.  The conference series is entitled, Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP and consists of 17 international and local mobile experts sharing their insights.  It looks like a great program!

Topics include:

• Developing Your Enterprise Mobility Strategy (ME)
• Getting Mobile Solution Design Right
• Security Management, Governance and Compliance
• Communication Infrastructure and Device Management
• Understanding the SAP Roadmap and Products
• Developing the Business Case for Mobility
• Succeeding with Change Management
• Support and Administration of Mobility Projects
• Reporting, Analytics and Mobile BI
• Technical Connectivity and Continuity

Australia is such a beautiful and interesting place to visit.  I have had the privilege of visiting and speaking in Australia many times and have developed great friendships and worked on some very interesting mobility projects there.  It is always an interesting day when your routine includes avoiding 15 foot deadly snakes while on the job - see this photo sent from a friend who works for a utility company in Australia.

Mobile applications for field services in Australia are often used in remote locations in the outback where service technicians work at night, around the large mines, and have to travel great distances in isolated and rough environments.  These mobile apps often have a special focus on safety for the service technician.  I have seen apps that report missing service technicians if they don't report in on schedule, etc.

One service technician told me he runs into very dangerous snakes all the time.  He worked for a large equipment rental company that supplies mines.  It seems some of the equipment makes perfect homes for dangerous snakes.  Wow!  I just try not to slip in the shower in the morning.

The New Zealand conference will be a real bonus, as I have not had the opportunity to spend time there, although I have worked on several mobility projects with New Zealand companies.   Here are the dates of the conferences in mm/dd/yyyy format:

• Auckland, NZ on 11/01/2012
• Brisbane, AU 11/05/2012
• Sydney, AU 11/07/2012
• Melbourne, AU 11/09/2012

I look forward to meeting up with all my friends and making new friends on this trip!

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles. These are my personal opinions only and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Udi Keidar

Have you ever wondered about the role cloud computing plays in enterprise mobility and field services?  In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, which I recorded yesterday in San Diego, CA., Udi Keidar, VP of Cloud Services with SAP Partner ClickSoftware explains the world as he sees it.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of September 9, 2012

The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
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IT research firm Gartner predicts revenue from mobile advertising will reach $20.6 billion worldwide by 2016. That’s a 522 percent increase from the total revenue brought in just last year. Read Original Content

According to eMarketer, Twitter’s mobile advertising revenue will be greater than that of Facebook’s by the end of this year. eMarketer estimates mobile ad revenue for Twitter will reach $129.7 million this year. Read Original Content

According to a study commissioned by Mobile Marketing Association, the optimal level of spend on mobile advertising for U.S. marketers should be, on average, seven percent. The findings represent a leap from the less than one percent currently being allocated today. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Sky Technologies.

According to researcher eMarketer, Facebook's mobile-ad sales in 2012 will end up around $72.7 million, less than a 3 percent market share for domestic mobile ads. Read Original Content

With over 160 million Americans on Facebook and 53 percent of mobile phone owners having smartphones today, mobile digital campaigning is changing the way political strategists are engaging audiences and investing advertising dollars. The 2012 elections are expected to experience the largest amount of mobile ad spend for political exposure so far. Read Original Content

Research firm EMarketer projects that Facebook’s mobile advertising revenue in the United States will quintuple next year. EMarketer expects Facebook to grab nearly 10 percent of that market by 2014. Read Original Content

Despite uncertain outlooks in both the Eurozone and the U.S. economy, GroupM projects media advertising spending in China will increase by 13.4 percent compared to 2011 to reach RMB 394 billion. Read Original Content

Marin Software’s report, The State of Mobile Search Advertising, indicates consumers are much more engaged with search ads on smartphones and tablets, with click through rates that are respectively 24 percent and 39 percent higher than on desktops. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 9, 2012

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

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Sales figures for online shopping conducted through mobile devices are predicted to reach $730 billion within the next five years, according to Juniper Research. Read Original Content

According to research by comScore, Tablet owners are more engaged in e-commerce than smartphone owners with 39 percent of tablet owners making purchases via tablets in the last month compared to 18 percent of smartphone users. Read Original Content

Orange has announced that customers with Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone will now be able to make contactless payments. Orange customers will be able to make use of the NFC capabilities of the mobile device using the company’s Quick Tap service, which was launched through a partnership with Barclaycard last year. 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, www.dsionline.com.

The percentage of online sales via mobile devices could reach 20 percent by this Christmas, figures released today revealed. Site visits via mobile devices are set to reach 30 percent, according to the latest results from IMRG. Read Original Content

Contactless payment in taxis is on the rise and on track to replace cash transactions, according to Cabcharge. The taxi payment company has reached the two million contactless payment mark through its in-taxi terminals, and will be looking to enable NFC payment options very soon. Read Original Content

PayPal is rolling out a mobile payments application optimized for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. The app joins PayPal's existing mobile services for Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Read Original Content

PayPal is teaming with credit card company Discover Financial Services to expand use of the eBay subsidiary’s nascent mobile payments service from a few thousand merchant locations to potentially seven million by the middle of next year. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of September 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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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Harmonic Group is in negotiations with a South African private hospital regarding the use of its RFID technology to track and secure newborns. Newborns will be secured using an RFID ankle bracelet, ensuring only authorized personnel are allowed to access to the nursery. Read Original Content

A poll of 600 baby boomers found that, although only 24 percent own smartphones, 60 percent say they would download a health and wellness app if their doctor advised them to, while only 5 percent would on the advice of friends and 18 percent on the advice of family. Read Original Content

A U.S. company has started testing a new online system that allows healthcare professionals to prescribe mobile health apps to their patients. Mobile health application store Happtique says it hopes its mRx form will lead to improvements in patient engagement and adherence. 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.

About 80 percent of doctors and healthcare payers in China say widespread adoption of mobile healthcare is “inevitable,” according to a survey by PwC. Read Original Content

Researchers in Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Ireland, Sweden and Belgium have joined in a 42 month, $5.2 million effort to develop a wearable monitoring system that automatically delivers medications and provides cues to help Parkinson’s patients. Read Original Content

A medical smartphone devised by an Israeli company will enable patients to consolidate ongoing medical tests and diagnostics in one place, and will also provide them the freedom of travel and ease of use lost with conventional medical monitoring. Read Original Content

A new smartphone application called ICE allows first responders to quickly review pertinent medical history on the scene and with the push of a button send the information to participating hospital emergency rooms. Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

According to figures released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau Australia total online advertising increased 21 percent year on year to reach $3.136 billion over the 12 months to the end of June, while mobile ad spend reached $47.5 million, a 212 percent increase. Read Original Content

A study by research firm Yankee Group says global mobile ad revenue will soar by three and a half times, to roughly $10 billion to $11 billion, by 2016. High-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India will lead the surge. Read Original Content

According to Luth Research, companies of all sizes are now discovering mobile marketing is a vital element of their complete programs and are bringing greater returns on investment than their traditional methods. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. For more information, visit www.skytechnologies.com

Pandora advertising sales made up $89.3 million of the company’s $101.3 million during its second quarter. Mobile advertising revenue, considered to be a major driver of Pandora’s future growing, rose 86 percent from the year-ago period, to $59.3 million in the quarter. Read Original Content

Thanks to the growth of smartphones and tablets, entertainment consumption on mobile devices has grown 82 percent from 2010 to 2011. According to Millennial Media and comScore, this growth outpaced the 55 percent increase in overall smartphone ownership within the same period. Read Original Content

In 2011, U.S. mobile commerce sales surged 91.4 percent. By 2015, analysts estimate total mCommerce sales will reach $31 billion, a 363 percent increase from 2011. Read Original Content

Mobile Advertising is expected to jump six-fold from $3.3 billion last year to $20.6 billion in 2015, according to Gartner. The proliferation of smartphones, with Internet browsing and a multitude of applications have created fertile ground for mobile media to spawn. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

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

Walmart is currently testing a new program called "Scan and Go." The new system would allow shoppers to scan their own purchases with their mobile phones, and then pay at self-service kiosks. Read Original Content

MasterCard has provided a boost to the mobile shopping sector by announcing an exclusive five-year partnership with communications company Everything Everywhere to develop mobile and digital payment solutions.

 Read Original Content

Shopping is the third most popular activity conducted on smartphones and most mobile shoppers use their phone for shopping on at least a weekly basis, a study has found. 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.

Earlier this year Gartner Inc., stated the Asia-Pacific will be the largest market for mobile banking in terms of the sheer number of users between 2011 and 2016. Read Original Content

Global mobile payment transactions will pass $171.5 billion this year, according to a new report from Gartner. This is an increase of 62 percent from 2011's $105.9 billion. Read Original Content