Mobility News Weekly – Week of August 12, 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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Smartphone sales to end-users grew year-on-year by 42.7 percent in the second quarter to 153.7 million units, and accounted for 36.7 percent of total sales. Read Original Content

Gartner reports the mobile phone market saw weakened demand in the second quarter of 2012, as “the challenging economic environment and users postponing upgrades to take advantage of high-profile device launches and promotions available later in the year slowed demand across markets”.  Read Original Content

AnyPresence, a leading cloud-based mobile platform provider, has announced it has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding to further accelerate the company’s growth and customer success.  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.

Apple’s share of all tablet sales jumped 44 percent in the second quarter over the previous three-month stretch, said IHS iSuppli. Apple's iPad accounted for 70 percent of the 24.4 million tablets sold in the period ending June 30. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, within the last quarter, Android outsold iOS devices nearly three to one while capturing 64 percent of the worldwide market share. Samsung was the top dog accounting for 90 million handset sales.  Read Original Content

Apple's share of the smartphone market dominated at AT&T and Verizon, but Samsung's share was growing, records show. In the fourth quarter of 2011, Apple's share of the market had grown by 3 percent from the first quarter of 2010, while Samsung's had more than quadrupled to 12 percent during the same period.  Read Original Content

iMore, the first blog to publish reports that Apple plans to unveil its latest iteration of the smartphone on September 12, is now saying that pre-orders will begin that day and that the phone will be released nine days later, on September 21.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of August 5, 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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According to IDC, Android and iOS powered 85 percent of all smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2012, establishing a new combined high for the mobile operating systems from Google and Apple. Read Original Content

Ninety-three percent of airlines today have "mobile services for passengers" as a top investment priority over the next three years. Fifty-eight percent are investing in major programs, and 89 percent of airlines plan to sell tickets via mobile devices by 2015, a recent SITA report revealed.  Read Original Content

More than $1 billion was wiped out of HTC's market capitalization on Monday and Tuesday combined, after the Taiwanese smartphone maker warned of weaker third-quarter earnings and reported a 45 percent plunge in July revenue.  Read Original Content

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Collectively, Apple and Samsung companies watched their U.S. sales increase by 43 percent from the second quarter of 2011 to the same quarter of 2012, says NPD Group. Over the same time, combined sales for other companies, such as HTC, Motorola, and LG, fell by 16 percent.  Read Original Content

The global smartphone applications processor market showed a solid 55 percent year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2012, reaching $2.47 billion, according to Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

Sales of smartphones in the U.S. were up 9 percent last quarter due in large part to pre-paid phones. The NPD Group shared data showing that compared to the same quarter last year, pre-paid smartphone sales nearly doubled with growth of 91 percent.  Read Original Content

According to an IDC report, 5.4 million Windows Phone devices were sold in Q2 2012, which is 3.5 percent of the total smartphone market. Comparing this to Q2 2011, Windows Phone had a 115.3 percent growth.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of July 29, 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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Since 2010, the percentage of smartphone users in the U.S. making purchases on their mobile devices has risen to nearly 40 percent. ABI Research predicts that by 2015, $119 billion in goods and services will be purchased via mobile phones worldwide.  Read Original Content

A Strategy Analytics report indicates a decrease on smartphone shipment growth year-over-year with a 70.1 percent increase in 2011 and a 5.4 percent decrease for 2012.  The differences between global results and those in the U.S. only suggest the U.S. market might have reached its peak, while worldwide smartphones are enjoying better sales.  Read Original Content

With the market for smartphones forecast to reach $150 billion by 2014, emerging robotics company Quantum International Corp. is positioning itself to capitalize on the rise of the next big trend in mobile technology: smartphone-compatible robotics.  Read Original Content

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The U.S. smartphone market took a dip in the second quarter, with Android's market share dropping 4 points to 56 percent, according to Strategy Analytics.  Apple, however, saw a 10 percent increase from 23 percent in 2Q 2011 to 33 percent in the most recent quarter.  Read Original Content

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. will square off in court Monday in a closely watched trial over control of the U.S. smartphone and computer tablet markets. Apple is demanding $2.5 billion in damages from the South Korean company.  Read Original Content

Fighting sluggish sales numbers and competing in a locally-dominated smartphone market, HTC has closed its South Korean offices.  Read Original Content

An IDC survey shows Samsung shipped 50.2 million smartphones globally in the April-June period, a sizzling 172.8 percent gain from a year earlier, while Apple sold 26 million iPhones, up 27.5 percent.  Read Original Content

2012 - Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey and Results

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Enterprise mobility is evolving so fast that I thought it prudent to conduct a mid-year enterprise mobility survey with 20 short questions and share that information with you.  For that purpose,  I would be most grateful if you would take a few minutes to answer these questions and share your insights.  I will compile the survey results into a report and share it FREE with all survey participants.

This report will help all of us understand how enterprise mobility is evolving so we can all make better, data driven decisions.

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of July 1, 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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Android-based devices represented 50.9 percent of all smartphones nationwide in May 2012, up from 50.8 percent in April but still down from a high of 51 percent in March, according to comScore.  Read Original Content

Net Applications issued a report Sunday that shows Apple's iOS dominating the mobile Web with a record 65.27 percent share, up 4.2 percent in June alone. Google's Android came in far behind at 19.73 percent.  Read Original Content

Apple's stores and facilities in Italy could be shut for 30 days because of a row about product warranties.  Italian authorities made the threat because it said Apple was not promoting a standard free two-year warranty.  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.

Facebook's iPhone app will be getting a much-needed improvement in speed, something users have been complaining about for awhile.  Read Original Content

Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. maintained the top spot in the U.S. mobile phone market, strengthening its supremacy as the world’s leading handset manufacturer, comScore showed Tuesday.  Read Original Content

According to a new forecast report from NPD DisplaySearch, laptops may be well on their way to extinction in just four years, being rapidly replaced by none other than the sleek and svelte tablet.  Read Original Content

In the next few weeks, some users of the latest version of Apple’s handset will get a marketing message offering as much as $300 to people who trade it for a Samsung device.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 24, 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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India has unveiled a new version of what it says is the "world's cheapest tablet computer" - the Aakash 2.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics Co. expects sales of its new Galaxy S III, launched at the end of last month as a main rival to Apple's iPhone, to top 10 million during July, making it South Korean group's fastest selling smartphone.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has announced its developed version for its next smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 8. WP8 will come with an alteration in the start screen, a new live tiles feature and offer to resize tiles.  Read Original Content

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Motorola Solutions just bought Psion Corporation for $200 million in cash to bolster its work with industrial companies. The deal will mostly focus on improving Motorola Solutions' toughened-up handhelds and in-car terminals.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics, already a world leader in TVs and smartphones, is taking the fight to Intel Corp for the number one slot in semiconductors, betting on strong growth in so-called logic chips that are the brains inside today’s fast-selling smart mobile devices.  Read Original Content

HTC has canceled the planned launch of its high-profile One series in Brazil, and is pulling out - completely - from that market.  Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of June 24, 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.

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The Yankee Group estimates that the worldwide transaction value of mobile payments will total nearly $1 trillion by 2014, up from $162 billion in 2010. But then why does it seem that the only people using it are customers purchasing their double-caffe skinny lattes at Starbucks? Read Original Content

Near field communications mobile payments will exceed $180 billion worldwide in 2017, according to a May 2012 report by Juniper Research. Read Original Content

Merchant Warehouse, a leader and innovator in payment solutions, announced a partnership with VeriFone Systems, Inc. as a preferred hardware provider for the Genius platform. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Mobile payments are popular among the Girl Scouts of America, allowing scouts with the know-how and resources to sell more cookies than their cash-only counterparts. Read Original Content

A recent study from Juniper Research forecasts that mobile contactless payment transactions are expected to reach nearly $50 billion worldwide in 2014 and NFC solutions will be launched in 20 countries within the next 18 months. Read Original Content

With interest growing in mobile banking, retail banks plan to invest more in mobile technologies, according to a new report by Forrester Research. The survey released June 20 showed retail banks plan to spend one-third of their total digital budget on their mobile channels this year. Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 24, 2012

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The PayPal South-East Asia and India Managing Director forecasts mobile commerce in Malaysia will reach RM3.43 billion in 2015, driven in part by higher penetration of smartphones and tablets.  Read Original Content

SAP India has opened a Mobile Solutions Center in Mumbai “to help customers experience SAP’s mobile innovations as well as understand how to integrate mobile solutions into their business strategy”.  Read Original Content

Due to the continuing surge in mobile devices, especially smartphones, mobile software engineering is one of the fastest growing areas in the Asian IT job market.  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.

YouTube has launched a new version for users in Indonesia, targeting advertisers as well as the local user community.  Read Original Content
Chinese mobile payment and value added solutions provider Trunkbow has announced the results of its annual shareholders’ meeting.  The official document is available at http://www.trunkbow.com/public/2012%20AGM%20Notice%20and%20Proxy%20Statement.pdf.  Read Original Content

SAP is exploring opportunities in India’s transportation and logistics sector, developing “solutions around ‘big data', mobility and analytics for shippers and third party logistics companies who ship automotive components and consumer packaged goods”.  Read Original Content

The main manufacturer of Apple’s products, Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., has announced that it will go into the retail business mostly using the Internet rather than retail stores.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of June 17, 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 report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers earlier this month suggests that emerging countries like India and China will be at the forefront of the mobile health technology breakthrough. Read Original Content

Last week the Federal Communications Commission moved forward with white spaces reform free of challenges from the microphone industry, they took on special access reform and held a meeting of experts to address the future of wireless mHealth innovation. Read Original Content

The Supreme Court could rule on the Affordable Care Act — the health-care law spearheaded by President Barack Obama — any day now. How will their decision effect the mHealth movement? Read Original Content

There are over 6 million pregnancies every year in the United States and for many, pregnancy is a difficult time both physically and mentally. Developers are taking note of this, and have started building apps to aid in the pregnancy process, help women understand their pregnancy, and even pick out a name. Read Original Content

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

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International — a health information technology and interoperability group — has released its "Mobile Access to Health Documents" implementation guide for public comment. Read Original Content

According to the report "Attack Surface: Healthcare and Public Health Sector," by the Department of Homeland Security, mobile devices face many security threats. Here are 10 tips for healthcare organizations to secure data on computers, laptops, mobile devices and flash drives in the face of the BYOD phenomenon. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 17, 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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Microsoft has unveiled Surface - its own-brand family of tablets. The touchscreen computers will be powered by its upcoming Windows 8 system and contain a choice of an Intel or ARM-based processor.  Read Original Content

Imagination Technologies, the British company behind the graphics for the iPad and iPhone, has posted a 53 percent rise in full-year profits.  Read Original Content

Apple’s iPad will grow its share of the booming tablet market over its Android-based rivals this year, thanks in large part to new features introduced with the iPad 3 and the company’s decision to reduce the prices further on the iPad 2, according to market research firm IDC.  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.

It is estimated that around 9.1 Million Canadians have migrated from feature phones to smartphones by the end of 2011, according to TechSci Research.  Read Original Content

Devices from Samsung and Apple captured 50 percent of the global smartphone market in the first quarter - and 90 percent of its profits, according to data from ABI Research.  Read Original Content

By 2017, smartphone accessories will grow to $38 billion in revenues, while feature phone accessory revenues will decline to $12 billion, according to ABI Research.  Read Original Content

Contract electronics maker Celestica Inc. will stop making products for its biggest customer, Research In Motion Ltd., by the end of the year as the BlackBerry maker seeks to cut costs by shrinking its global supply base.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 17, 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.

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Facebook, the world's largest social network, says it is working on a location-based mobile-advertising product that will allow companies to target users with real-time data showing their whereabouts. Read Original Content

Mobile marketing delivers a higher return-on-investment than traditional marketing programs, according to new research findings from Luth Research, a research partner of the Mobile Marketing Association. Read Original Content

Mobile marketing and advertising solutions provider Velti has been named the winner of the 2012 Juniper Future Mobile Award in the mobile advertising category. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Escalating mobile device penetration and changing consumer lifestyle are driving mobile marketing in India. A new report from Netscribes entitled Mobile Marketing in India 2012 describes a market with strong growth potential.  Read Original Content

Like search and social before it, the rapid and widespread adoption of new technology -- in this case, mobile apps -- will increasingly pitch marketers in a heated battle for surface area in an entirely new theater of operation: the app stores. Read Original Content

Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of June 17, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M 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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Mojix has announced the availability of their new Mojix STAR 3000 RFID system, capable of locating passive RFID sensors in large areas with coverage in excess of 200,000 square feet.  Read Original Content

Tanning product company New Sunshine is using RFID technology to protect its products and consumers from illegal product diversion.  Read Original Content

Over 40 of Iowa’s 99 counties are incorporating a system at the polls to scan barcodes on driver’s licenses and voter registration cards to check in voters.  Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo.

DataDyne has developed a cloud-computing application, EpiSurveyor, which will utilize mobile devices to make real-time electronic data collection possible for nonprofit and government organizations.  Read Original Content

Vehicle mount mobile computers may be a solution to some of the challenges of warehouse operations.  They must be able to withstand extreme temperatures, have keypads that are accessible to drivers wearing heavy gloves, and come equipped with full screen displays that are visible in different lighting environments.  Read Original Content

An M2M solution from web-based telematics provider, Traffilog, will be installed in public service vehicles in the U.K. in time for the 2012 Olympic Games to ensure passenger comfort, safety and security.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 17, 2012

Welcome to the 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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About 700 of the 800 SAP customers in the Philippines are small to medium enterprises, and SAP is planning to introduce products and solutions for this market segment.  Read Original Content

In a decision that reflects the increasingly important role mobile operators play in the prepaid market in India, Prepaid International Forum India has extended its membership admission policy to include mobile operators.  Read Original Content

The transaction volume of mobile e-commerce in China in 2011 increased 609 percent over the previous year, and the mobile ecommerce market in China is expected to reach RMB 25.15 billion Yuan in 2012, with a mobile e-commerce user population of 146 million people.  Read Original Content

Bharti Airtel and Opera Software have finalized an agreement to allow Bharti subscribers to access a customized version of Opera’s software on their mobile devices.  Read Original Content

The Asia Pacific region, North America and Europe are the largest markets for enterprise mobility solutions, according to an infographic from (x)cube LABS.  Read Original Content

eBay India has announced the availability of a free interactive app, the eBay iPad App for India, allowing users to shop and log into their eBay India accounts.  Read Original Content

Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi is hoping to give Apple a run for its money with the goal of shipping more than 100 million smartphones annually for one model by 2016.
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Mobile Health News Weekly – June 10, 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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"The global market for mobile health products and services is expected to approach $23 billion by 2017, and much of the growth will not happen in the U.S. but rather in less-developed countries, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers," MobiHealthNews reports. Read Original Content

Developing nations are adopting mobile health technology at a faster pace than developed countries like the U.S., according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Healthcare Finance News reports. Read Original Content

According to the Worcester Telegram, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Memorial Medical Center have developed a prototype iPhone application that detects if the user has atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in the world and puts the patient at high risk for developing a stroke, typically from an embolic event. Read Original Content

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

A new report, entitled “The Role of mHealth in the Fight Against Tuberculosis,” details a variety of projects that have shown the effectiveness of using text messages and automatic call-backs on patients’ phones as means of communicating important notices that help sufferers adhere to medication regimens. Read Original Content

AirStrip Technologies is teaming up with Palomar Health to launch a vendor-neutral platform that would allow healthcare providers to access a wide range of patient information sources from smartphones and tablets. Read Original Content

Care transitions technology provider Axial Exchange has acquired mRemedy, a mobile health app company formed by the Mayo Clinic and DoApp in late 2009. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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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Mobile phone giants Vodafone and 02-owner Telefonica, have announced plans to create one shared grid in the UK. The move is designed to improve existing coverage and to speed up the roll-out of superfast 4G services.  Read Original Content

Apple has sought to disrupt the U.S. launch of Samsung Electronic's flagship smartphone by asking a court to ban the product from sale temporarily. Apple claimed the Galaxy S3 infringed at least two of its patents based on its analysis of a model bought in the UK. Read Original Content

Shares of HTC opened 7 percent limit down after the smartphone maker cut its second-quarter revenue target by 13.3 percent and posted a 26 percent decline in May sales from a year earlier.  Read Original Content

Google has demonstrated new mapping technologies in an effort to reassert its position as a market leader. While it boasts one billion users, Google Maps has recently seen defections by some key developers and partners.  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.

Facebook has launched an app center to help its members explore software available on the social network. The service will be available on desktop computers as well as on Android and iOS system-based phones and tablets running Facebook's own app.  Read Original Content

In just the two years since the release of Apple's iPad, the U.S. tablet market has reached a "critical mass," with nearly one in four smartphone owners also using a tablet in the three-month period ending in April, according to data released by researcher ComScore.  Read Original Content

A recent report from Ericsson says that by 2017, around 85 percent of the world will be connecting to the Internet through their mobiles and in high-speed.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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.

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Consumers are spending 10 percent of their media attention on mobile devices while the medium only commands a mere 1 percent of total ad-spend. Comparatively, print medium attracts only about 7 percent of media-time, but still captures an astonishing 25 percent of the total U.S. ad-spend, with print receiving 25-times more ad money than mobile. Read Original Content

In a joint study, the IAB Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence and IAB Europe, the industry bodies, and IHS Screen Digest, the research firm, reported that mobile ad spend will hit $5.3 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will roll out a mobile phone payment system for commuter rail passes and tickets in the fall, and sign-ups are now under way for riders who want to get involved with the first trial runs of the new technology. Read Original Content

The Louisiana Sheriff’s office is streamlining its traffic citation process with the Apple iPad Socket Mobile Barcode Scanner, and Zerion Software's iFormBuilder Data Collection Platform.  The SAAS Mobile Ticketing/Citation system will save time, reduce data entry errors and improve efficiency for law enforcement. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

FunMobility Inc. has announced the commercial availability of the AppWidget Mobile Engagement Platform, an integrated SaaS mobile marketing suite designed to boost user engagement and enable true mobile relationship management. Read Original Content

Although IDC has forecasted that the skyrocketing growth in mobile marketing may slow to a more modest rate when compared to the tremendous explosion it has seen over the last couple of years, Windows Phone 7 will be surging ahead to level its playing field with iOS and Android, and will be working with Nokia in order to try to achieve this goal. Read Original Content

eMarketer estimates more than 880 million consumers in China—nearly two-thirds of the country’s population—will own at least one mobile phone by the end of this year.
But marketers in China are not flocking to mobile as an advertising medium. The country’s advertisers now spend less than 1.5 percent of total ad spending ends up in mobile. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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.

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It is estimated by 2016, application-to-person messaging – messages between a user and an automated application – will transform industries such as financial services, advertising, marketing, business administration, ticketing, television voting, bill payments and more. Read Original Content

The new Quarterly Benchmarking Index from IMRG and Capgemini has revealed that transactions completed on smartphones and tablets skyrocketed by an astonishing 2,000 percent in two years and accounted for 8.2 percent of total online shopping during the first three months of this year. Read Original Content

A new mobile payment network is leveling the paying field.  Called LevelUp, the network generates unique QR codes on consumer smartphones that can be read by merchant devices.  Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

My Mobile Payments Ltd, has launched a new mobile wallet service in India that can be used by customers of any mobile operator or bank (you don't need be with any bank at all), the service called 'Money on Mobile' or MoM, can be used by mobile subscribers to make bill payments, purchase goods and services without the need of cash, check or credit/debit card. Read Original Content

Sprint is working on a mobile-payment service that could take on Google Wallet and countless other competitors in the marketplace, according to a new report from Android Central. Read Original Content

Mobile banking is growing all the time. Not only can you organize your money on your mobile with online and SMS banking, some customers can also use their devices to make payments using NFC. And now, NCR Corporation has announced they will allow their customers to use their mobiles to withdraw money from their account at an ATM. Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 10, 2012

Welcome to the 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 Gartner, the two biggest regions for mobile payments are Asia Pacific and Africa. Gartner predicts they will account for 60 percent of mobile payments in 2016, with Asia Pacific in the lead.  Read Original Content

The Mobile Asia Expo will be held June 20 to 22, 2012, in Shanghai. The Expo is being organized by the GSMA and the Shanghai International Technology Exchange Center.  Read Original Content

Payments processing technology firm i2c, Inc. and Shanghai-based prepaid service provider KargoCard have formed a partnership to deliver prepaid and mobile payment solutions to merchants in China.  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.

American Apparel has launched its first mobile e-commerce store in Japan, stating that Japan is the most important region to focus on mobile marketing.  Read Original Content

The Internet and Mobile Association of India reports that India’s online travel market has doubled over the last 12 months, with online rail tickets jumping from 2.2 million to 5.6 million, and online air tickets increasing from 1 million to 1.9 million.  Read Original Content

Mobile payments have been mainstream in Asia for almost ten years, with Japan in the lead with 47 million Japanese citizens adopting tap-and-go phones.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 3, 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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The number of devices connected to mobile phone networks will overtake the number of people on Earth within five years, according to Ericsson. There will be 9 billion mobile subscriptions by 2017 while the U.S. census bureau predicts the global population will have reached 7.4 billion in five years.  Read Original Content

The sale of mobile processors is forecast to increase at combined annual growth rate of 22 percent reaching 1.9 billion units per year by 2016, according to new research by NPD In-Stat.  Read Original Content

By 2017, 85 percent of the world’s population will have access to 3G wireless coverage, according to a new report by Ericsson, with half the global population living in areas with 4G networks.  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.

Google is escalating its rivalry with Microsoft with the purchase of Quickoffice, the maker of a widely used mobile application for working on documents created in Microsoft’s programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.  Read Original Content

Nokia has today taken another step towards connecting the next billion consumers by unveiling the Asha Touch family of mobile devices. The three new phone models - the Nokia Asha 305, Nokia Asha 306 and Nokia Asha 311 - further expand the successful Asha family, first introduced in October 2011.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 3, 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.

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According to a Mobile Mix report by mobile advertising and data platform provider Millennial Media, in Q1 2012, 73 percent of mobile impressions served by Millennial Media were delivered on smartphones, trailed by non-phone connected devices at 20 percent and feature phones at 7 percent. Read Original Content

BluFi Lending, a direct lender, recently unveiled its BluFi Mobile Connect, a mobile marketing and communications platform that enables home buyers to access property information instantly via their mobile device or smartphone. Read Original Content

MoneyRates.com, a personal finance site owned by QuinStreet, Inc., has earned the Best Financial Services Mobile Website award in the Web Marketing Association's 2012 MobileWebAwards. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Viacom has tapped the Weather Channel's Pete Chelala and its own Deborah Schlessinger-Brett (formerly director of new business for Nickeolodeon) to run its newly created mobile ad sales team for music and entertainment. Read Original Content

Flurry, the leading app advertising and measurement platform, has announced its mobile app user acquisition network, Flurry AppCircle, set new traffic records during May 2012. The network generated 670 million sessions for iOS and Android apps using its paid service. Read Original Content

Mobile is killing the display ad, just as the Internet killed the newspaper ad. In the past two and a half years, global mobile traffic has jumped from 1 percent to 10 percent of total Internet traffic, according to the latest excellent slideshow from Mary Meeker. Read Original Content