Kevin Benedict Interviews SAP's Vishy Gopalakrishnan at MWC2013

This is Part 3 of an interview I recorded with SAP's Vishy Gopalakrishnan at the Mobile World Congress 2013.  In this segment we discuss how to select the appropriate mobile platform and development environment for your project.  Grab some popcorn!

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

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 9, 2012

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Gartner predicts sales of 1.2 billion smartphones and tablets in 2013, a 50 percent increase over this year. Smart devices, including smartphones and tablets, will account for 70 percent of the total number of devices sold by the end of 2012.  Read Original Content

IDC projects sales of 717.5 million smartphones in 2012, or about twice as many as PCs, both portable and desktop. The gulf is expected to widen in 2016.  Read Original Content

The mobile chipset market is in a state of flux with a number of key vendors struggling, but analysts say the result of the turmoil will be more advanced high-end smartphones and cheaper low-end devices.  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.

IDC has released its latest prediction for the global mobile phone market, forecasting the industry will grow only 1.4 percent year over year in 2012, while smartphone shipments are expected to grow 45.1 percent from 2011.  Read Original Content

Canalys estimates just 25 developers accounted for half the application revenue in the United States in Apple’s App Store (iPhone only) and Google Play during the first 20 days of November 2012. Between them, they made $60 million (£37m) from paid-for downloads and in-app purchases over this period, the report said.  Read Original Content

Many of the most popular mobile applications for children are collecting personal information and sharing it with advertising agencies or other third parties without telling the users or their parents, according to a report issued Monday by the Federal Trade Commission.  Read Original Content

Digitimes Research said they expect Android to continue to dominate with 70 percent of the market and 600 million devices, iOS to remain stagnant at around 20 percent share, while the other 10 percent will be shared by the other, smaller platforms.  Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of December 9, 2012

According to FaveQuest CEO Allan Isfan, HTML5 didn’t revolutionize the mobile business as expected, but instead it “over promised and under delivered”.  Read Original Content

The QNX CAR HMI framework for the automotive environment features HTML5-based technology and a direct development path from mobile to automotive.  Read Original Content

According to a post on the Codiqa blog, HTML5 is a “revolution for the open web” and more companies and developers stand to gain through the greater adoption of HTML5 than with proprietary platforms such as iOS.  “Looking into the future, we strongly believe that HTML5 and open web technologies will increasingly become the standard for mobile and desktop development.”  Read Original Content

App47 announced it has added HTML5 support to its enterprise mobile application management platform, stating “more and more enterprise clients are choosing HTML5 over native when looking to get out the door faster and deliver mobile apps to employees in less time and for less money”.  Read Original Content

Firefox for Android has expanded its HTML5 video capabilities to include H.264 video playback.  Read Original Content

App Studio is a new cloud-based HTML5 solution from Quark that “turns print into interactive digital experiences”, offering developers the flexibility to use tools familiar to them to create app content for smartphones and tablets.  Read Original Content

Nokia’s new site was built with HTML5 as the company feels HTML5 is more accommodating, with the different components of the web page making it easier to add video, social media and other content.  Read Original Content

Andrew Gazdecki, founder and CEO of Bizness Apps, feels startups should develop both mobile apps and HTML5 mobile websites, and should consider developing for the mobile web first, rather than developing an app on each platform at the beginning.  Read Original Content

UK footwear company Schuh has launched a new mobile site completely built in HTML5.  Read Original Content

A chart featured in Ciklum’s blog shows over 80 percent of developers are not satisfied with HTML5 monetization and over 70 percent are dissatisfied with performance and fragmentation.  Read Original Content

Sesame Workshop’s Noah Broadwater points out that while enterprises don’t want to build the same thing over and over again, they don’t have much choice right now as HTML5 remains comparatively weak for rich interactivity, video and other features, and there is still no HTML5 standard.  Read Original Content

UpSync has added HTML5 support to its Intelligently Integrated Selling platform enabling administrators to upload HTML5 apps as well as other multimedia content audio, video and documents.  Read Original Content

Web jeweler Ice.com has launched an HTML5-based m-commerce site that resembles an app in appearance, navigation and functionality.  “An HTML5 mobile web site cannot do everything an app can, but Ice shows it can provide a convincing replication.”  Read Original Content

In the first in a series of HTML5 tutorials designed for developers, WP Engine co-founder Aaron Brazell covers “Working with HTML5 Forms”.  Read Original Content

Webinar distributor BrightTalk now features an HTML5 player, enabling mobile users to watch videos that weren’t previously accessible.  Read Original Content

ServiceMax, creator of cloud-based, mobile and social field service applications, has released the HTML5-based ServiceMax Winter ’13.  Read Original Content

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

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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

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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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

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 18, 2012

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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

SMAC News Weekly – Week of November 18, 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.

Facebook is now accepting mobile payments in France, covering services like virtual gifts and game credits for its HTML5-based content, which can now be billed directly to a user’s mobile bill rather than via premium SMS or credit cards. Read Original Content

Cisco is working with AT&T to move into the data analytics game with a new platform that focuses on analyzing location-based information stemming from mobile devices in public hotspots such as retail stores, hotels and hospitals. Read Original Content

A bank in South Africa announced this summer that its mobile banking customers are now able to conduct transactions and monitor their accounts through Facebook. This type of cross-pollination between banks and social media does not yet exist in the United States, but it could be coming. 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.

Digital startup Science has publicly launched HelloInsights, a premium platform for Pinterest influencer analytics. It aims to help brands optimize their social media campaigns by providing tools for measuring company growth on Pinterest. Read Original Content

Dell is expanding its data center capabilities, buying Gale Technologies for its infrastructure automation software. Gale Technologies will give Dell greater automation software capabilities for cloud-focused, converged IT infrastructure environments. Read Original Content

SAP expects cloud solutions to bring in revenue of 1.6 billion euros in 2017. In the second quarter of this year, the revenue from cloud was 69 million euros. Annualized, that's about 276 million euros. Read Original Content

Compass Labs announced the launch of CLIQ Social Intelligence, a software solution that provides marketers and advertisers with access to an unprecedented level of data and analytics around a brand’s social presence and performance on Facebook and Twitter. Read Original Content

The vast majority of wealth managers and private banks are dealing quite “clumsily” with social media according to a recent study of 50 leading private banks and wealth management firms by Swiss consulting firm Assetinum. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

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Apple and Taiwanese phonemaker HTC have settled all their outstanding disputes over patents, ending a fight that began in March 2010.  The two firms also signed a 10-year license agreement that will extend to current and future patents held by one another.  Read Original Content

Nokia accounted for 7.2 million, or 4.3 percent, of the 169.2 million smartphones sold worldwide in the latest quarter, taking the company down from third place in the prior three-month period, research firm Gartner Inc. said.  Read Original Content

The HTC Droid DNA smartphone sports a large 5-inch Super LCD 3-HD display that is sharper in resolution than the iPhone 5’s screen. The Droid DNA runs on a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon single-core processor, LTE capability, wireless charging, and 8-megapixel rear-facing and front-facing cameras.  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 mobile phone sales are at 428 million units out of which 39.6 percent were smartphones, representing a 46.9 percent increase from the same period of last year, according to a new report from Gartner.  Read Original Content

Verizon Wireless is teaming with Amazon to introduce a preloaded Android home screen application offering subscribers direct access to the online retailer's complete catalog of digital and physical products, including its Amazon Appstore for Android.  Read Original Content

In the coming weeks Nokia will release a maps app called Here in Apple’s App Store. It will be a free download for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners. Nokia will also release a toolkit for programmers to make Nokia-powered mapping apps for Android phones.  Read Original Content

BlackBerry 10 is finally making its debut in January after a lengthy delay, but it may be too little, too late for troubled Research in Motion Ltd.  Read Original Content

Frost & Sullivan indicates the Australian market has grown 29 percent this year outperforming online general advertising - online banner, sponsorships, integrated site content, advertorials, EDM, online directories and online classifieds advertising.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

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Mobile application revenues will increase from less than $1 billion in 2009 to more than $35 billion in 2017, according to a new forecast issued by research firm Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

In a recent report Morgan Stanley forecast worldwide smartphone shipments will reach 226.3 million units in the fourth quarter, a rise of 26 percent from the third quarter.   Read Original Content

Gartner predicts that with tablet shipments to businesses tripling by 2016, Microsoft is set to own 39 percent of the market.  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.

More than half of U.S. mobile device users now own a smartphone, according to the latest comScore MobiLens data.  Read Original Content

The biggest piece of the mobile operating system market-share pie belongs to Google's Android, which was running on 75 percent of smartphones in the third quarter, says IDC. Apple's iOS system, used in iPhones, was second with a market share of 15 percent.  Read Original Content

A recent Ernst & Young survey shows nearly half of global companies interviewed on the issue of global mobility assignments intend to increase the number of staff sent to growth markets, such as Africa and China, over the next year.  Read Original Content

IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa region will grow 1.4 percent during 2013 to reach $1.154tn, according to a report by Gartner. Analysts believe the increase in investment will mainly be driven by investment in mobile devices and software.  Read Original Content

Verizon announced on Monday it is discontinuing its Verizon Apps program on Android and BlackBerry smartphones. By March 2013 Verizon will shut down its app store on Android devices and uninstall any apps already on users devices.  Read Original Content

Juniper Networks analyzed over 1.7 million apps on the Google Play market from March 2011 to September 2012. Juniper found most app users are being tracked and put at risk for exposure.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of October 28, 2012

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Apple could double the number of iPads it has sold to date in 2013 alone, with close to 200 million iPhones sold in the same upcoming 12 month period, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley.  Read Original Content

Global mobile phone vendors shipped a total of 445.7 million units in the third quarter of 2012, compared to 434.1 million units in the third quarter of 2011, according to latest statistics from International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content

Japan's Panasonic has said it will end its brief return to the European smartphone market, pulling out less than a year after launching its first handset outside of Japan since 2005.  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.

Microsoft has unveiled its two official Windows smartphones from Nokia and HTC, plus a third from Samsung at its Windows Phone 8 launch event. It also unveiled a host of never-before-seen features that it hopes will pull people away from their iPhones and Android devices and towards Microsoft.  Read Original Content

Last week ZTE told analysts after it reported weak third-quarter earnings that it expects to sell 25 million smartphones in 2012, 10 million fewer than it had initially forecast. ZTE sold around 15 million smartphones in 2011.  Read Original Content

According to the India Mobile Handsets Market Review report released by research firm CyberMedia Research, the smartphone market has grown to 5.50 million units in the first half of 2012.  Read Original Content

ERICSSON, the Swedish telecoms company, is calling on software developers living in sub-Saharan Africa to write applications targeting urban areas in Africa.  Read Original Content

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that while she does not expect her company to release a smartphone until 2014 at the earliest, HP will be a major force in the tablet and mobile PC markets.  Read Original Content

According to a report from Korea Investment & Securities, Samsung is expected to sell 284 million units globally, giving the company a 37 percent share of the worldwide smartphone market in 2013, over Apple's 20.4 percent to 157 million units.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of October 21, 2012

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Scientists tested 13,500 Android apps and found almost 8 percent failed to protect bank account and social media logins.  Read Original Content

Gartner believes mobile device manufacturers, led by Apple and devices running Google’s Android operating system, will increasingly fight for market share in 2013, while Microsoft’s Windows 8 devices placed a distant third.  Read Original Content

According to a new PriceGrabber survey, 31 percent of consumers already have shopping-related apps on their smartphone, and 82 percent of those consumers plan to use those apps to help save money when purchasing holidays gifts.  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.

A Dell executive at the Mobile Shopping Fall Summit has revealed that the company will launch an application for Windows 8 tablets this week, showing how important it is for marketers to have a presence on every platform.  Read Original Content

South Korean consumer electronics maker LG Electronics Inc. reported a third straight quarterly profit on Wednesday as sales of smartphones designed for faster wireless networks helped end losses at its mobile phone business.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics has announced its plan to push smartphone penetration in Africa and to further expand its share of the smart phone/devices market across Africa as this is in line with its strategy to bridge the continent’s digital divide.  Read Original Content

The revenues from mobile application testing tools will exceed $200 million in 2012, finds a new study from ABI Research.  Read Original Content

Apple has finally officially unveiled its iPad Mini and it is, indeed, extremely light. The iPad Mini sports a 7.9-inch screen and it feels as airy as the iPhone 5, though maybe a tad wide for some jacket pockets.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 30, 2012

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Eighty percent of respondents to a Havas Digital study in India said a mobile or smartphone was their primary device while 13 percent stated that a laptop or desktop was their primary device and 7 percent mentioned the tablet. According to the study, the average connected Indian consumes nine hours of media daily with mobile representing 44 percent of it.  Read Original Content

According to Pew Research two percent of Americans own a tablet of some kind. How many of those run Android? A little less than half, 48 percent. One year ago that number was less than 20 percent. Read Original Content

A recent comScore study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.7 percent market share. Google Android led with 52.6 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple accounted for 34.3 percent.  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 a report from Tradedoubler, 38 percent of people who research a product on their mobile phone will then go into a shop to buy it. Forty-seven percent go on to complete their purchase on a PC, 25 percent on their mobile and 7 percent on a tablet.  Read Original Content

Edinburgh-based Sofant Technologies has unveiled revolutionary miniature antenna technology that is predicted to transform the performance of smartphones and tablet PCs, making poor reception, dropped calls and short battery life things of the past.  Read Original Content

HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster quad-core processor, twice the integrated storage capacity, a bigger battery and LTE in the U.S. The new model is called the HTC One X+.  Read Original Content

Google said users have downloaded mobile apps from the Google Play store more than 25 billion times since it was launched in 2008. The search and Internet advertising giant also said that the number of apps available on Google Play has reached 675,000.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has received a rare bit of good news concerning its Windows Phone operating system, as Kantar Worldpanel Comtech claims the firm is now challenging Research in Motion for third place in the European smartphone market.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 23, 2012

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SAP AG has readied a new mobile-first program, the SAP Mobility Design Center. It is purpose-built to help customers tackle mobility in the workplace by designing applications that are custom-tailored to the need of mobile workers.  Read Original Content

ABI Research indicates the global market for mobile application security will be worth $398 million by the end of 2012. This includes revenues for paid apps, partnerships with manufacturers and operators, white label deals, and dataset sales.  Read Original Content

The BYOD trend is prompting the merger of two previously distinct markets – mobile device management and mobile application management software – into one $444.6 million mobile enterprise management software market.  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.

Lenovo Group, set to overtake Hewlett Packard as the biggest PC maker this year, now has its sights on the smartphone and tablet markets, as it takes on Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in China.  Read Original Content

Shares of Blackberry maker RIM closed up +0.30 or +4.68 percent to $6.60 per share on Tuesday, after the company announced RIM had added two million new subscribers and introduced its new BB10 operating system to be released in early 2013.  Read Original Content

Between Q1 2011 and Q2 2012 ABI Research found that unique malware variants grew by 2,180 percent reaching 17,439.  Read Original Content

Google has made no move to provide Google Maps for the iPhone 5 after Apple dropped the application in favor of a homegrown but controversial alternative, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said.  Read Original Content

Research In Motion plans to release its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone lineup on six continents in the first quarter, seeking to capitalize on the company’s lingering strength in overseas markets.  Read Original Content

Driven by the strong growth from emerging markets, smartphone shipments are expected to hit 1.7 billion in 2017, predicts a recent report by Ovum Ltd..  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 16, 2012

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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said more than 1.3 million Android devices are now activated each day. Schmidt said tablets account for 70,000 of those 1.3 million daily activations, a mere 5.38 percent of the total. Read Original Content

Apple sold 17 million iPads between April and June. That’s more iPads than any PC manufacturer sold of their entire PC line. The iPad had a 62 percent share of the tablet market a year ago. Today it has a 68 percent share. Read Original Content

Market research firm IHS iSuppli estimates that by 2013, cumulative shipments of Android smartphones will exceed 1 billion units. Handsets shipping with Google’s mobile operating system are expected to reach 451 million units in 2013 and approach 3 billion cumulative units in 2016.  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.

Smartphone users worldwide will download more than 45 billion apps this year, nearly twice the number of apps downloaded in 2011, according to new data from Gartner.  Read Original Content

AnyPresence has announced it was named a CRN 2012 Emerging Vendor. The company was recognized as one of the key players that are significantly impacting the cloud computing industry.  Read Original Content

In a sign that consumers worldwide are increasingly turning to tablet devices for their computing needs, high-profile analyst firm IDC has raised its forecast for tablet shipments this year by 9 percent, estimating that 117.1 million units will be shipped.  Read Original Content

Facebook rose to its highest price in seven weeks after saying it is testing a service to place advertisements on mobile applications other than its own. Facebook shares advanced 6.5 percent to $23.29 at the close in New York, the highest since July 27.  Read Original Content

Google’s Motorola Mobility and chip maker Intel has unveiled the Razr i smartphone. It is very similar to the Razr M, unveiled earlier this month for U.S. consumers, but operates with Intel’s Medfield smartphone processor running at 2 Gigahertz instead of the Qualcomm chip that powers the Razr M.  Read Original Content

Almost every week, African software developers introduce new applications to the market. Two IT students in Uganda have developed an application that shows motorists the cheapest gas stations in the capital city, Kampala.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Moshe BenBassat (Mobile AI and Context Aware Apps)

Did you have a chance to watch Dr. Moshe BenBassat's video last week where he discussed his background working with NASA, ballistic missile defense, the Army and Air Force logistics, and how he uses that experience today to develop mobile applications?  It was very interesting!

In this video, which can be considered a Part 2 to last week's, he discusses the use of artificial intelligence, contextual aware and predictive applications for the services industry.  Again, a very intriguing notion.

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

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 9, 2012

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A recent study by Prosper Mobile Insights found that over 51 percent of smartphone owners confess to reading their emails more frequently on a handheld device rather than a desktop. Some 45 percent of those polled said they had web access on their smartphone.  Read Original Content

A new report from Chitika is pointing to a powerful degree of dominance by Apple in the mobile web space. According to the latest data revealed on Thursday, Apple devices are responsible for more than half of all mobile web traffic in the U.S. and Canada today.  Read Original Content

Of the 45.6 billion mobile applications people will download this year, nearly 90 percent will be freebies, according to new research from Gartner.  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

Microsoft on Tuesday opened its Windows Store to developers around the world, meaning they'll now be able to write and submit their wares to the online application market.  Read Original Content

According to an HeBS Digital Industry Pulse Poll performed last month, hoteliers are more interested in mobile website development than any other aspect of mobile marketing, including mobile app development, mobile banner advertising and other initiatives. Read Original Content

Intel has unveiled a power-sipping design called Haswell that is aimed at making the company's chips more effective in portable computing devices.  Read Original Content

Apple faces a dramatically different U.S. smartphone market for the iPhone 5, than it did when it launched the first iPhone in 2007. Today, roughly half of mobile users currently own a smartphone. Thus, while the iPhone 5 may be a "gigantic success around the world," it may be less than gigantic in the U.S., says Stephen Baker, director of industry analysis for The NPD Group.  Read Original Content

According to Nielsen, young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 make up 74 percent of the smartphone market. Yet, through interviews of some 20,000 mobile users in July, the group found that teenagers between 13 and 17 are becoming smartphone owners at a much quicker rate than young adults.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of August 19, 2012

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Orlando, Florida based Kony Solutions has bought Sky Technologies, a mobility solutions provider specializing in SAP implementations based in Melbourne, Australia.  Read Original Content

Nokia Oyj, burning cash as it struggles to revive its smartphone business, is winning time for the recovery effort by gaining more customers for another product, basic mobile phones it sells for $39. Read Original Content

Verizon Wireless will carry Windows Phone 8 devices this year, in a major break from the carrier's overall coolness towards all things Microsoft. This could well be the jumpstart that Microsoft's struggling smartphone operating system needs.  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.

According to industry supply chain sources, after HTC’s One series failed to impress the market, they decided on significant price reductions across the whole model range. These include the models already on the market, as well as the upcoming new Android and Windows Phone 8 smartphones.  Read Original Content

According to a new smartphone market monitoring report from Horizon Research, the smartphone market will grow 20 percent in the next 12 months.  More than 55 percent adults will have smartphones by mid next year. Read Original Content

Looking at Japanese smartphone ownership in the three months ending June, ComScore found that Android took home the lion's share with a 64 percent share, up almost two points from the prior three months. Apple's iOS grabbed a 32 percent share.  Read Original Content

Taiwan's HTC has invested $35.4 million in a U.S. based provider of mobile enterprise apps, signaling the smartphone vendor is trying to fill a market space once occupied by Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices, according to analysts.  Read Original Content

LG Electronics said that it would expand the global launch of its flagship smartphone Optimus Vu in a bid to widen its presence in other nations. The company said that it would roll out the gadget in Europe next month and then launch it in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Asia and Latin America.  Read Original Content