Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article. I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.
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This “Internet of Things” or M2M network adds another dimension to the existing notions of networks. It envisages an anytime, anywhere, anyone, anything network bringing about a complete ubiquity to computing.
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Kevin's Mobility News Weekly - September 30, 2010
Kevin's 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 numbers and trends.
Kevin’s M2M News Weekly – September 29, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article. I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly - September 23, 2010
Kevin's 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 numbers and trends.
Kevin's M2M News Weekly - September 22, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article. I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.
Archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly are available at here.
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly.
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I have added a feature to my blog site that supports email subscriptions. You can now receive all blog articles directly via email. If you are interested, click here.
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Yesterday marked the official launch of the brand new "Global Smart Grid Federation," an international organization that seeks to promote best practices for smart grid and assist with the deployment of smart grid around the world.
http://www.telecomengine.com/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6578
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ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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Indianapolis based VoCare Inc. has raised $2.2 million from angel investors to launch a mobile device that connects doctors with patients and expects to reach $3.5 million in fundraising by the end of the year.
http://www.ibj.com/vocare-raises-22-million-for-telehealth-device/PARAMS/article/22235
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MathWorks rolled out a series of new capabilities and products to address the more complex simulation needs of engineers building embedded systems that incorporate wireless, sensor processing and streaming media capabilities.
http://www.designnews.com/article/510524-MathWorks_Advances_Signal_Processing_System_Design.php
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Garmin Ltd. will decide over the next couple of quarters the future of its struggling smartphone unit, and is ready to exit the business if it does not achieve success, a company executive said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6881WD20100909
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Healthmed Services, Ltd., an innovative software development company, announced the launch of a new software technology that has the capability of modernizing remote patient access through the use of handheld devices.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/630-billion-healthcare-expansion-propels-virtual-vantage-software-to-transform-healthcare-industry-2010-09-17?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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In a recent study of handset motion sensors by ARCchart, the research firm expects the market for accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers (compasses) and pressure sensors to exceed $1 billion by 2014.
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/06/17/handset-motion-sensor-market-top-1-billion-2014.htm
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The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. today announced its newest mobile computing solution for healthcare – the MC75A0-HC Enterprise Digital Assistant. The new MC75A0-HC provides healthcare organizations with a rugged and disinfectant ready mobility solution.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/motorola-advances-healthcare-mobility-with-new-enterprise-digital-assistant-102944209.html
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AT&T Mobility furthered its no contract offerings by unveiling a pay as you go mobile broadband plan and a trio of new laptop computers with embedded wireless modems.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100920/CARRIERS/100929997/att-mobility-unveils-no-contract-mobile-broadband-plans-new-laptops
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In the near future diabetes patients will be able to better manage their health through mobile phones and get better access to diagnosis and treatment of various ailments, experts said.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/health-care-to-get-boost-from-cellphone-technology-1.682135
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North Carolina Zoo researchers are using remote sensing and satellite tracking tools to bring endangered animals back from the brink.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/09/19/1704779/nc-zoo-works-without-borders.html
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The $90 million investment by Gary and Mary West in the West Wireless Healthcare Institute may seem enticing to someone with a startup mobile or wireless healthcare company, but don't get the wrong idea.
http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/west-wireless-cmo-were-not-giving-money-away/2010-09-14
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A new iPad app will listen to the ABC television series "My Generation" with you, and serve up content to augment the experience.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/09/16/my.generation.ipad.app/index.html?iphoneemail
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The new California Telehealth Network, a statewide, medical grade broadband system for improving health care access and emergency services, will receive a $9 million federal grant and additional $5 million in matching funds from some prominent California organizations.
http://www.govhealthit.com/newsitem.aspx?nid=74648
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Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones, declared “Nokia is back” at its Nokia World conference in London, and unveiled a new version of its Ovi Maps software.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/nokia/8002277/Nokia-World-Location-based-services-key-to-the-future-says-Nokia.html
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Medtronic has announced plans to launch a new patient management solution designed to make it easier for clinicians to monitor heart failure patients. The medical technology firm's CareLink Network for Heart Failure will be introduced in autumn 2010.
http://www.zenopa.com/news/800067537/Medtronic_launches_remote_monitoring_system_for_heart_failure
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Last month, Facebook announced its "Places" product, essentially a location based feature that allows users to share their locations among their network of friends.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=135830
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Archinoetics, which develops products primarily for the military, is releasing to the commercial market a software program called Physio-Lab, which collects and analyzes physiological data. The software, which costs between $2,200 and $4,500, can be used in research and pharmaceutical trials.
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/09/13/story6.html?b=1284350400%5E3928651
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Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed "MedWatcher," a new iPhone application that provides drug safety surveillance in real-time.
http://healthcareitnews.com/news/medwatcher-app-aims-boosting-adverse-events-reporting
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Pulse Energy, a premier provider of energy management solutions, has teamed up with Sierra Wireless to deliver cutting edge cellular deployments that enable customers to more efficiently monitor and manage energy usage.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/102029-pulse-energy-collaborates-with-sierra-wireless.htm
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PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute recently carried out a nationwide survey of 2,000 consumers and 1,000 physicians. The idea of remote healthcare was liked by 56 percent of the consumers.
http://healthcare.tmcnet.com/topics/healthcare/articles/100888-30-percent-americans-would-use-mobile-device-monitor.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly are available at here.
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly.
********
I have added a feature to my blog site that supports email subscriptions. You can now receive all blog articles directly via email. If you are interested, click here.
********
Yesterday marked the official launch of the brand new "Global Smart Grid Federation," an international organization that seeks to promote best practices for smart grid and assist with the deployment of smart grid around the world.
http://www.telecomengine.com/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6578
********
ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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Indianapolis based VoCare Inc. has raised $2.2 million from angel investors to launch a mobile device that connects doctors with patients and expects to reach $3.5 million in fundraising by the end of the year.
http://www.ibj.com/vocare-raises-22-million-for-telehealth-device/PARAMS/article/22235
********
MathWorks rolled out a series of new capabilities and products to address the more complex simulation needs of engineers building embedded systems that incorporate wireless, sensor processing and streaming media capabilities.
http://www.designnews.com/article/510524-MathWorks_Advances_Signal_Processing_System_Design.php
********
Garmin Ltd. will decide over the next couple of quarters the future of its struggling smartphone unit, and is ready to exit the business if it does not achieve success, a company executive said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6881WD20100909
********
Healthmed Services, Ltd., an innovative software development company, announced the launch of a new software technology that has the capability of modernizing remote patient access through the use of handheld devices.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/630-billion-healthcare-expansion-propels-virtual-vantage-software-to-transform-healthcare-industry-2010-09-17?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
In a recent study of handset motion sensors by ARCchart, the research firm expects the market for accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers (compasses) and pressure sensors to exceed $1 billion by 2014.
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/06/17/handset-motion-sensor-market-top-1-billion-2014.htm
********
The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. today announced its newest mobile computing solution for healthcare – the MC75A0-HC Enterprise Digital Assistant. The new MC75A0-HC provides healthcare organizations with a rugged and disinfectant ready mobility solution.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/motorola-advances-healthcare-mobility-with-new-enterprise-digital-assistant-102944209.html
********
AT&T Mobility furthered its no contract offerings by unveiling a pay as you go mobile broadband plan and a trio of new laptop computers with embedded wireless modems.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100920/CARRIERS/100929997/att-mobility-unveils-no-contract-mobile-broadband-plans-new-laptops
********
In the near future diabetes patients will be able to better manage their health through mobile phones and get better access to diagnosis and treatment of various ailments, experts said.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/health-care-to-get-boost-from-cellphone-technology-1.682135
********
North Carolina Zoo researchers are using remote sensing and satellite tracking tools to bring endangered animals back from the brink.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/09/19/1704779/nc-zoo-works-without-borders.html
********
The $90 million investment by Gary and Mary West in the West Wireless Healthcare Institute may seem enticing to someone with a startup mobile or wireless healthcare company, but don't get the wrong idea.
http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/west-wireless-cmo-were-not-giving-money-away/2010-09-14
********
A new iPad app will listen to the ABC television series "My Generation" with you, and serve up content to augment the experience.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/09/16/my.generation.ipad.app/index.html?iphoneemail
********
The new California Telehealth Network, a statewide, medical grade broadband system for improving health care access and emergency services, will receive a $9 million federal grant and additional $5 million in matching funds from some prominent California organizations.
http://www.govhealthit.com/newsitem.aspx?nid=74648
********
Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones, declared “Nokia is back” at its Nokia World conference in London, and unveiled a new version of its Ovi Maps software.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/nokia/8002277/Nokia-World-Location-based-services-key-to-the-future-says-Nokia.html
********
Medtronic has announced plans to launch a new patient management solution designed to make it easier for clinicians to monitor heart failure patients. The medical technology firm's CareLink Network for Heart Failure will be introduced in autumn 2010.
http://www.zenopa.com/news/800067537/Medtronic_launches_remote_monitoring_system_for_heart_failure
********
Last month, Facebook announced its "Places" product, essentially a location based feature that allows users to share their locations among their network of friends.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=135830
********
Archinoetics, which develops products primarily for the military, is releasing to the commercial market a software program called Physio-Lab, which collects and analyzes physiological data. The software, which costs between $2,200 and $4,500, can be used in research and pharmaceutical trials.
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/09/13/story6.html?b=1284350400%5E3928651
********
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed "MedWatcher," a new iPhone application that provides drug safety surveillance in real-time.
http://healthcareitnews.com/news/medwatcher-app-aims-boosting-adverse-events-reporting
********
Pulse Energy, a premier provider of energy management solutions, has teamed up with Sierra Wireless to deliver cutting edge cellular deployments that enable customers to more efficiently monitor and manage energy usage.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/102029-pulse-energy-collaborates-with-sierra-wireless.htm
********
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute recently carried out a nationwide survey of 2,000 consumers and 1,000 physicians. The idea of remote healthcare was liked by 56 percent of the consumers.
http://healthcare.tmcnet.com/topics/healthcare/articles/100888-30-percent-americans-would-use-mobile-device-monitor.htm
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly – September 21, 2010
Kevin's Mobile Retailing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile retail applications, mobile payments and mobile marketing applications that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.
Archived editions of Kevin's Mobile Retailing News Weekly are available at here.
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s M2M News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly.
********
I have added a feature to my blog site that supports email subscriptions. You can now receive all blog articles directly via email. If you are interested, click here.
********
Restaurants, retailers and other small businesses with storefronts are embracing location based social networks – think Foursquare or Facebook Inc.'s Places – to woo customers and keep them coming back.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597204575483832278936028.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Smartsoft Mobile empowers some of the world’s largest multi-national organizations to extend and improve business processes by providing mobile solutions to their employees and customers. Smartsoft has more than 700 experienced ERP/mobile consultants with over 5,000 man years of experience helping 400,000 plus mobile users achieve their business goals with powerful mobile B2B and B2C applications, designed and developed specifically for today’s popular consumer and industrial grade mobile devices. For more information please visit, http://www.smartsoftmobile.com/. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Smartsoft Mobile Solutions.
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Macy’s has taken steps to improve customers’ shopping experience in store and on the go via enhanced mobile offerings. The company and its upscale sister store Bloomingdale’s have optimized their e-commerce sites, so when consumers enter it via their mobile device, they can view larger and clearer images.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/macy’s-aims-for-customer-satisfaction-via-new-mobile-technology-adoption/
********
Shopkick has made quite a name for itself in recent months. The location based iPhone app recognizes when users are near a retail store, and then offers rewards for coming closer to it and bigger rewards for stepping inside.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/09/mobile-app-rewards-shoppers-entering-store
********
The business model seems simple enough: Convince merchants to offer steep discounts in exchange for a guaranteed stampede of customers. That is the premise of the wildly successful social couponing Web site Groupon, which in less than two years has 18 million subscribers and spawned a host of imitators; but some businesses that advertise through the site are learning that there can be too much of a good thing.
http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/rss.jsp?rssid=601&item=+http%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fwp-syndication%2farticle%2f2010%2f09%2f17%2fAR2010091707048_mobile.xml+&cid=573&spf=1
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According to a new report from ABI Research, location based marketing will increase from only about $43 million this year to $1.8 billion by 2015 as part of overall mobile marketing budgets.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=135110
********
For all the hype and attention location based services are getting these days, only 1 in 25 Americans have ever tried one, and only 1 out of 100 use them weekly, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research.
http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/30/location-based-services-survey/
********
Consumers are flocking to smartphones and the apps that run on them as fervently as mobile technology investors had hoped; but so far, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android users have shown a preference for applications that extend well known Web properties, rather than apps that have appeared for mobile devices only.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/15/which-mobile-apps-are-poised-for-success/
********
The decision by the largest regional mall owner in the country to embrace a smartphone application marked a new stage in the rapidly unfolding evolution of mall marketing.
http://retailtrafficmag.com/management/marketing/owners_keep_pace_marketing_09072010/
********
By now consumers have become very accustomed to using their Smartphone as a personal global positioning system. It was not long ago that companies like TomTom and Garmin thrived selling GPS devices as a stand-alone tool. It is funny how fast technology caught up with these companies. Along came the huge growth in consumer grade Smartphones, such as the iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, and Windows devices. Consumers now had a GPS in their pocket that can give directions for driving, walking or even using public transit systems.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/21/mobile-geo-location-tools-for-applications-and-their-usage-in-retailing/
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From sticking to a budget to finding the best price on literally billions of items, these 20 mobile shopping apps for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry will save you both time and money. Whether you prefer to shop online or at a brick-and-mortar retail store, these apps maximize quality while minimizing cost.
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/my-money/2010/09/20/20-best-mobile-apps-for-saving-money
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Bharti Airtel has become the first telecom player to be issued a semi closed wallet licence by the Reserve Bank of India.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/rbi-allows-airtel-offer-limited-mobile-banking-147
********
Technological advances have made it easier for consumers to stay on top of their finances by enabling them to easily check how much money is in their bank accounts and manage their funds.
http://www.uknetguide.co.uk/Finance/Article/Keep_eye_on_current_account_with_mobile_phone_banking-105321.html
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Mobile technologies can evolve customer experiences with in store navigation, product searches, digital shopping lists, in store coupons, reviews and more.
http://mobile-barcode.tmcnet.com/topics/mobile-barcode-innovations/articles/102091-delivering-rewarding-retail-experiences.htm
********
Zappli Inc. announced the launch of myShopanion, a mobile social shopping solution, available as a free download at the iPhone App Store. myShopanion is a mobile shopping advisor that lets consumers access extensive information on millions of products, share shopping insights with friends, and buy at the best price.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-mobile-solution-turns-all-shopping-social-102831909.html
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PlacePop, a company that allows any company to create and maintain virtual loyalty cards, launched its iPhone app today. It also announced fresh funding of $1.4 million from a number of angel investors.
http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/30/placepop-launches-mobile-loyalty-programs/
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CardStar’s loyalty card smartphone app — also available on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices — has made that a scene from the past, though certainly not a simpler time. Consumers can manage their collection of retailer and brand discount cards through the app, which boasts 19 retail categories and 700 merchants.
http://www.adotas.com/2010/08/cardstar-brings-loyalty-programs-to-ipad/
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Best Buy Co., Inc., a leading retailer of consumer electronics, has announced it plans to bring a location based retail experiment, using the "shopkick" mobile application rewards system, to 257 U.S. stores by October 1. Best Buy will examine the ways in store shoppers value and redeem offers and rewards through their smartphones.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/best-buy-to-launch-location-based-retail-experiment-in-257-us-stores-2010-08-16?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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Another company has launched a location based mobile phone application that aims to encourage consumers to make repeat visits to bricks-and-mortar merchants.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/16/placepop-launches-geolocation-app-consumers
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Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
Mobile Retailing - Macy's and Bloomingdale's Mobile Applications Strategies
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Archived editions of Kevin's Mobile Retailing News Weekly are available at here.
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s M2M News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly.
********
I have added a feature to my blog site that supports email subscriptions. You can now receive all blog articles directly via email. If you are interested, click here.
********
Restaurants, retailers and other small businesses with storefronts are embracing location based social networks – think Foursquare or Facebook Inc.'s Places – to woo customers and keep them coming back.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597204575483832278936028.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
********
Smartsoft Mobile empowers some of the world’s largest multi-national organizations to extend and improve business processes by providing mobile solutions to their employees and customers. Smartsoft has more than 700 experienced ERP/mobile consultants with over 5,000 man years of experience helping 400,000 plus mobile users achieve their business goals with powerful mobile B2B and B2C applications, designed and developed specifically for today’s popular consumer and industrial grade mobile devices. For more information please visit, http://www.smartsoftmobile.com/. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Smartsoft Mobile Solutions.
********
Macy’s has taken steps to improve customers’ shopping experience in store and on the go via enhanced mobile offerings. The company and its upscale sister store Bloomingdale’s have optimized their e-commerce sites, so when consumers enter it via their mobile device, they can view larger and clearer images.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/macy’s-aims-for-customer-satisfaction-via-new-mobile-technology-adoption/
********
Shopkick has made quite a name for itself in recent months. The location based iPhone app recognizes when users are near a retail store, and then offers rewards for coming closer to it and bigger rewards for stepping inside.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/09/mobile-app-rewards-shoppers-entering-store
********
The business model seems simple enough: Convince merchants to offer steep discounts in exchange for a guaranteed stampede of customers. That is the premise of the wildly successful social couponing Web site Groupon, which in less than two years has 18 million subscribers and spawned a host of imitators; but some businesses that advertise through the site are learning that there can be too much of a good thing.
http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/rss.jsp?rssid=601&item=+http%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fwp-syndication%2farticle%2f2010%2f09%2f17%2fAR2010091707048_mobile.xml+&cid=573&spf=1
********
According to a new report from ABI Research, location based marketing will increase from only about $43 million this year to $1.8 billion by 2015 as part of overall mobile marketing budgets.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=135110
********
For all the hype and attention location based services are getting these days, only 1 in 25 Americans have ever tried one, and only 1 out of 100 use them weekly, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research.
http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/30/location-based-services-survey/
********
Consumers are flocking to smartphones and the apps that run on them as fervently as mobile technology investors had hoped; but so far, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android users have shown a preference for applications that extend well known Web properties, rather than apps that have appeared for mobile devices only.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/15/which-mobile-apps-are-poised-for-success/
********
The decision by the largest regional mall owner in the country to embrace a smartphone application marked a new stage in the rapidly unfolding evolution of mall marketing.
http://retailtrafficmag.com/management/marketing/owners_keep_pace_marketing_09072010/
********
By now consumers have become very accustomed to using their Smartphone as a personal global positioning system. It was not long ago that companies like TomTom and Garmin thrived selling GPS devices as a stand-alone tool. It is funny how fast technology caught up with these companies. Along came the huge growth in consumer grade Smartphones, such as the iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, and Windows devices. Consumers now had a GPS in their pocket that can give directions for driving, walking or even using public transit systems.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/21/mobile-geo-location-tools-for-applications-and-their-usage-in-retailing/
********
From sticking to a budget to finding the best price on literally billions of items, these 20 mobile shopping apps for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry will save you both time and money. Whether you prefer to shop online or at a brick-and-mortar retail store, these apps maximize quality while minimizing cost.
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/my-money/2010/09/20/20-best-mobile-apps-for-saving-money
********
Bharti Airtel has become the first telecom player to be issued a semi closed wallet licence by the Reserve Bank of India.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/rbi-allows-airtel-offer-limited-mobile-banking-147
********
Technological advances have made it easier for consumers to stay on top of their finances by enabling them to easily check how much money is in their bank accounts and manage their funds.
http://www.uknetguide.co.uk/Finance/Article/Keep_eye_on_current_account_with_mobile_phone_banking-105321.html
********
Mobile technologies can evolve customer experiences with in store navigation, product searches, digital shopping lists, in store coupons, reviews and more.
http://mobile-barcode.tmcnet.com/topics/mobile-barcode-innovations/articles/102091-delivering-rewarding-retail-experiences.htm
********
Zappli Inc. announced the launch of myShopanion, a mobile social shopping solution, available as a free download at the iPhone App Store. myShopanion is a mobile shopping advisor that lets consumers access extensive information on millions of products, share shopping insights with friends, and buy at the best price.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-mobile-solution-turns-all-shopping-social-102831909.html
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PlacePop, a company that allows any company to create and maintain virtual loyalty cards, launched its iPhone app today. It also announced fresh funding of $1.4 million from a number of angel investors.
http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/30/placepop-launches-mobile-loyalty-programs/
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CardStar’s loyalty card smartphone app — also available on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices — has made that a scene from the past, though certainly not a simpler time. Consumers can manage their collection of retailer and brand discount cards through the app, which boasts 19 retail categories and 700 merchants.
http://www.adotas.com/2010/08/cardstar-brings-loyalty-programs-to-ipad/
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Best Buy Co., Inc., a leading retailer of consumer electronics, has announced it plans to bring a location based retail experiment, using the "shopkick" mobile application rewards system, to 257 U.S. stores by October 1. Best Buy will examine the ways in store shoppers value and redeem offers and rewards through their smartphones.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/best-buy-to-launch-location-based-retail-experiment-in-257-us-stores-2010-08-16?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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Another company has launched a location based mobile phone application that aims to encourage consumers to make repeat visits to bricks-and-mortar merchants.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/16/placepop-launches-geolocation-app-consumers
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Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
Mobile Retailing - Macy's and Bloomingdale's Mobile Applications Strategies
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin's Mobility News Weekly - September 16, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
Archived editions of Kevin's Mobility News Weekly are available at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s M2M News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly.
********
I have added a feature to my blog site that supports email subscriptions. You can now receive all blog articles directly via email. If you are interested, click here.
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Market research firm IDC has increased its growth projections for this year's smartphone sales by 10 percent. The firm now expects smartphone sales to increase 55.4 percent compared to last year, to hit 269.6 million units.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/daily_news/article.php/410846/IDC-Global-Smartphone-Market-to-Grow-554-Percent-This-Year.htm
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ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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Startup Leapfactor Inc. is making a big enterprise push with a new cloud-based mobile application platform that it says can mobilize any business app or process for thousands of employees. In its bid to consumerize the enterprise, the SAP AG partner is looking to help the wireless operators take on corporate America.
http://making-money-investing.com/telecom-startup-sees-enterprise-apps-as-telco-opportunity.html
********
According to Gartner, Android will capture 17.7 percent of the smartphone market this year, slightly more than BlackBerry's 17.5 percent share. Symbian will remain on top with 40.1 percent this year, while Apple's iOS will come in fourth with 15.4 percent of the market in 2010.
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-will-blow-past-apple-and-rim-to-become-second-biggest-mobile-os-this-year-2010-9
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SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann tweeted recently that the enterprise software vendor has already rolled out iPads to 1,000 employees.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/sap-has-deployed-1000-ipads-to-its-employees/411?tag=zd-left
********
Apple announced recently that it has lifted restrictions on its third party developer guidelines that impacts Adobe’s Packager for iPhone, a feature in the Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool.
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/09/great-news-for-developers.html
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“As mobility continues to play a key role in enabling companies to achieve greater productivity worldwide, IDC expects the global mobile worker population to increase from 919.4 million in 2008 to more than 1.19 billion in 2013, representing nearly 35 percent of the worldwide workforce," said Sean Ryan, research analyst for IDC's Mobile Enterprise group.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=221309
********
The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. and Ericsson hope to advance Public Safety communications. Specifically, an LTE based solution for public safety mobile broadband that will interoperate with mission critical voice and data to unify the delivery of high performing voice and broadband multimedia applications.
http://www.telecomengine.com/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6562
********
I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas! I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
********
Google unveiled Instant, a new predictive search tool that dynamically displays results as the user types, promising the solution will expand from the desktop to mobile devices this fall.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/08/google-instant-mobile/
********
RIM recently stated that more than 30 million BlackBerry smartphone users across 65 countries have downloaded BlackBerry App World since the store first opened, with consumers averaging more than a million app downloads each day. The BlackBerry platform now represents 18.2 percent of the worldwide smartphone market according to data issued earlier this month by research firm Gartner, behind Symbian at 41.2 percent.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/blackberry-app-world-edges-past-10-000-applications/2010-09-09?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Google Inc's Android software will become the world's second most popular operating system for cell phones this year, leapfrogging rival offerings from Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion and Apple Inc, according to a new report.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE68745L20100910
********
Dell Inc. wants to put its new tablet into the lab coats of doctors, as it aims to broaden the appeal of the device beyond consumers and tie it more closely to the company's software.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE68E0PJ20100915
********
Before nearly 100 reporters and analysts at its San Francisco office today, Twitter unfurled a redesign, which includes multimedia links that can be viewed from within a Twitter account, rather than from a separate browser page.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/Tech/2031973/
********
Google has introduced a beta Walking Navigation service for users of Android phones as part of Google Maps for mobile 4.5.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/WAN_optimization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400096&cid=nl_IW_daily_2010-09-13_h
********
YouTube is conducting a limited test of a live video streaming platform. I wonder what this means for smartphone video cameras?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/traffic_management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400233&cid=nl_IW_daily_2010-09-14_h
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About 6.4 billion application downloads were made globally in 2009 alone from native and third party application stores, generating revenues of $4.5 billion in the same year.
http://www.live-pr.com/en/mobile-app-downloads-generated-4-5-billion-r1048562564.htm
********
Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
• Compliance Functions for Mobile Applications
• 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 1
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 2
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 3
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 4
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 5
• SAP Mentor Monday - Pre-Recorded SAP Enterprise Mobility Webinar
Recommended Whitepaper
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Archived editions of Kevin's Mobility News Weekly are available at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s M2M News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly.
********
I have added a feature to my blog site that supports email subscriptions. You can now receive all blog articles directly via email. If you are interested, click here.
********
Market research firm IDC has increased its growth projections for this year's smartphone sales by 10 percent. The firm now expects smartphone sales to increase 55.4 percent compared to last year, to hit 269.6 million units.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/daily_news/article.php/410846/IDC-Global-Smartphone-Market-to-Grow-554-Percent-This-Year.htm
********
ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
********
Startup Leapfactor Inc. is making a big enterprise push with a new cloud-based mobile application platform that it says can mobilize any business app or process for thousands of employees. In its bid to consumerize the enterprise, the SAP AG partner is looking to help the wireless operators take on corporate America.
http://making-money-investing.com/telecom-startup-sees-enterprise-apps-as-telco-opportunity.html
********
According to Gartner, Android will capture 17.7 percent of the smartphone market this year, slightly more than BlackBerry's 17.5 percent share. Symbian will remain on top with 40.1 percent this year, while Apple's iOS will come in fourth with 15.4 percent of the market in 2010.
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-will-blow-past-apple-and-rim-to-become-second-biggest-mobile-os-this-year-2010-9
********
SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann tweeted recently that the enterprise software vendor has already rolled out iPads to 1,000 employees.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/sap-has-deployed-1000-ipads-to-its-employees/411?tag=zd-left
********
Apple announced recently that it has lifted restrictions on its third party developer guidelines that impacts Adobe’s Packager for iPhone, a feature in the Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool.
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/09/great-news-for-developers.html
********
“As mobility continues to play a key role in enabling companies to achieve greater productivity worldwide, IDC expects the global mobile worker population to increase from 919.4 million in 2008 to more than 1.19 billion in 2013, representing nearly 35 percent of the worldwide workforce," said Sean Ryan, research analyst for IDC's Mobile Enterprise group.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=221309
********
The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. and Ericsson hope to advance Public Safety communications. Specifically, an LTE based solution for public safety mobile broadband that will interoperate with mission critical voice and data to unify the delivery of high performing voice and broadband multimedia applications.
http://www.telecomengine.com/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_6562
********
I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas! I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
********
Google unveiled Instant, a new predictive search tool that dynamically displays results as the user types, promising the solution will expand from the desktop to mobile devices this fall.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/08/google-instant-mobile/
********
RIM recently stated that more than 30 million BlackBerry smartphone users across 65 countries have downloaded BlackBerry App World since the store first opened, with consumers averaging more than a million app downloads each day. The BlackBerry platform now represents 18.2 percent of the worldwide smartphone market according to data issued earlier this month by research firm Gartner, behind Symbian at 41.2 percent.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/blackberry-app-world-edges-past-10-000-applications/2010-09-09?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
Google Inc's Android software will become the world's second most popular operating system for cell phones this year, leapfrogging rival offerings from Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion and Apple Inc, according to a new report.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE68745L20100910
********
Dell Inc. wants to put its new tablet into the lab coats of doctors, as it aims to broaden the appeal of the device beyond consumers and tie it more closely to the company's software.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE68E0PJ20100915
********
Before nearly 100 reporters and analysts at its San Francisco office today, Twitter unfurled a redesign, which includes multimedia links that can be viewed from within a Twitter account, rather than from a separate browser page.
http://iphone.usatoday.com/Tech/2031973/
********
Google has introduced a beta Walking Navigation service for users of Android phones as part of Google Maps for mobile 4.5.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/WAN_optimization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400096&cid=nl_IW_daily_2010-09-13_h
********
YouTube is conducting a limited test of a live video streaming platform. I wonder what this means for smartphone video cameras?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/traffic_management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400233&cid=nl_IW_daily_2010-09-14_h
********
About 6.4 billion application downloads were made globally in 2009 alone from native and third party application stores, generating revenues of $4.5 billion in the same year.
http://www.live-pr.com/en/mobile-app-downloads-generated-4-5-billion-r1048562564.htm
********
Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
• Compliance Functions for Mobile Applications
• 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 1
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 2
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 3
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 4
• My Advice to Mobile Applications Vendors, Part 5
• SAP Mentor Monday - Pre-Recorded SAP Enterprise Mobility Webinar
Recommended Whitepaper
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s M2M News Weekly – September 15, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly. This is an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile and wireless devices that I read each week. I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article. I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.
Archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly are available at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly.
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M2M connectivity specialist Wireless Logic will invest more than GBP 1 million upgrading its European Sim card management and monitoring system SIMPro over the next 18 months, Mobile News reported.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=754984
********
Whether you’re going for an urban hike or wandering from your hotel to find that restaurant you passed earlier, you won’t have to flag down a local if you’ve got Google Maps for mobile 4.5 on Android.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/walk-this-way.html
********
Juniper predicts that the number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will reach almost 412 million globally by 2014. The growth of these embedded devices will mainly come from an ever increasing number of utility meters, mobile connected buildings, consumer and commercial telematics and retail and banking connections.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=1795_M2M:+The+future+of+technology
********
A new generation of computing microprocessors, connected wirelessly to the Internet, soon will revolutionize everyday life, creating smarter, more efficient products. Homeowners will be able to cut their energy bills because an electronic device on their kitchen countertop will suggest the cheapest times to do the laundry.
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/09/12/20100912intel-atom-processor.html
********
Demand for wireless sensor networks is showing significant growth following a period in which adoption was impacted by the economic downturn. In 2009, 802.15.4 chipset shipments were down almost 30 percent compared with the previous year. However, according to the latest ABI research report on the WSN market, a strong uplift in shipments in 2010 will help drive growth from a little more than 10 million chipsets in 2009 to 645 million in 2015, a CAGR of 99.6 percent.
http://www.gsm-modem.de/M2M/m2m-news/wireless-sensor-network-ic-shipments-bounce-back-in-2010-645-million-forecast-for-2015/
********
Remote and mobile technology is making it possible to move healthcare delivery outside the traditional settings of physician offices and hospitals to wherever patients are. It's bringing back the concept of doctors making house calls.
http://topnews.net.nz/content/28166-almost-30-percent-americans-would-be-using-mobile-device-monitor-their-health
********
Archinoetics, which develops products primarily for the military, is releasing to the commercial market a software program called Physio-Lab, which collects and analyzes physiological data. The software, which costs between $2,200 and $4,500, can be used in research and pharmaceutical trials.
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/09/13/story6.html
********
L-3 Communication's Nova Engineering subsidiary has been awarded a $52.8 million contract for Tactical Remote M2M Sensor Systems. The award from the U.S. Department of Defense is for five years and is to support the U.S. Marine Corps' Tactical Remote Sensor Systems program.
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/09/01/Defense-orders-Nova-Engineering-sensors/UPI-22241283351306/
********
By the middle of last year eBay users could buy items directly from a mobile eBay site or applications like the one for the iPhone. By the end of 2009, customers had bought $600 million worth of products from their mobile phones.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/204970/ebay_bringing_mobile_apps_into_the_future.html
********
Intel, the world's biggest maker of semiconductors, expects demand for embedded microchips to accelerate as the company expands beyond its core business of computer chips, an executive told Reuters. Intel, which last week issued a sales warning on weaker than expected demand for PCs, has made two major acquisitions in the past two weeks as it eyes a future in which chips are increasingly needed to connect other devices.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/Intel-sees-faster-growth-in-embedded-chips/articleshow/6480292.cms
********
Sprint’s announcement with Grid Net gives it one of the first such cases in which a 4G network would be used to deliver an M2M application, which usually rely on narrowband 2G networks. Though automated meter reading requires little bandwidth, Grid Net’s software is designed to handle any number of more advanced tasks, from substation management to demand response applications, which make greater use of capacity.
http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2010/09/13/sprint-looks-for-new-business-in-smart-grid-wholesale-fmc/
********
Modernizing the U.S. electrical grid is a task that will most likely take decades to complete. At least we're getting started now, with more than two million smart meters installed nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
http://green.autoblog.com/2010/09/08/doe-two-million-smart-meters-now-installed-in-national-grid/
********
Reports indicate that venture capital investment in the mobile sector continues to rise, with an estimated $312 million being funneled into 37 companies and startups during the second quarter of this year alone.
http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/vcs-funnel-312m-into-37-mobile-companies-during-q2-2010-9388/
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly are available at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html
You can follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and read my blog, Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly.
********
M2M connectivity specialist Wireless Logic will invest more than GBP 1 million upgrading its European Sim card management and monitoring system SIMPro over the next 18 months, Mobile News reported.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=754984
********
Whether you’re going for an urban hike or wandering from your hotel to find that restaurant you passed earlier, you won’t have to flag down a local if you’ve got Google Maps for mobile 4.5 on Android.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/walk-this-way.html
********
Juniper predicts that the number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will reach almost 412 million globally by 2014. The growth of these embedded devices will mainly come from an ever increasing number of utility meters, mobile connected buildings, consumer and commercial telematics and retail and banking connections.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=1795_M2M:+The+future+of+technology
********
A new generation of computing microprocessors, connected wirelessly to the Internet, soon will revolutionize everyday life, creating smarter, more efficient products. Homeowners will be able to cut their energy bills because an electronic device on their kitchen countertop will suggest the cheapest times to do the laundry.
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/09/12/20100912intel-atom-processor.html
********
Demand for wireless sensor networks is showing significant growth following a period in which adoption was impacted by the economic downturn. In 2009, 802.15.4 chipset shipments were down almost 30 percent compared with the previous year. However, according to the latest ABI research report on the WSN market, a strong uplift in shipments in 2010 will help drive growth from a little more than 10 million chipsets in 2009 to 645 million in 2015, a CAGR of 99.6 percent.
http://www.gsm-modem.de/M2M/m2m-news/wireless-sensor-network-ic-shipments-bounce-back-in-2010-645-million-forecast-for-2015/
********
Remote and mobile technology is making it possible to move healthcare delivery outside the traditional settings of physician offices and hospitals to wherever patients are. It's bringing back the concept of doctors making house calls.
http://topnews.net.nz/content/28166-almost-30-percent-americans-would-be-using-mobile-device-monitor-their-health
********
Archinoetics, which develops products primarily for the military, is releasing to the commercial market a software program called Physio-Lab, which collects and analyzes physiological data. The software, which costs between $2,200 and $4,500, can be used in research and pharmaceutical trials.
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/09/13/story6.html
********
L-3 Communication's Nova Engineering subsidiary has been awarded a $52.8 million contract for Tactical Remote M2M Sensor Systems. The award from the U.S. Department of Defense is for five years and is to support the U.S. Marine Corps' Tactical Remote Sensor Systems program.
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/09/01/Defense-orders-Nova-Engineering-sensors/UPI-22241283351306/
********
By the middle of last year eBay users could buy items directly from a mobile eBay site or applications like the one for the iPhone. By the end of 2009, customers had bought $600 million worth of products from their mobile phones.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/204970/ebay_bringing_mobile_apps_into_the_future.html
********
Intel, the world's biggest maker of semiconductors, expects demand for embedded microchips to accelerate as the company expands beyond its core business of computer chips, an executive told Reuters. Intel, which last week issued a sales warning on weaker than expected demand for PCs, has made two major acquisitions in the past two weeks as it eyes a future in which chips are increasingly needed to connect other devices.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/Intel-sees-faster-growth-in-embedded-chips/articleshow/6480292.cms
********
Sprint’s announcement with Grid Net gives it one of the first such cases in which a 4G network would be used to deliver an M2M application, which usually rely on narrowband 2G networks. Though automated meter reading requires little bandwidth, Grid Net’s software is designed to handle any number of more advanced tasks, from substation management to demand response applications, which make greater use of capacity.
http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2010/09/13/sprint-looks-for-new-business-in-smart-grid-wholesale-fmc/
********
Modernizing the U.S. electrical grid is a task that will most likely take decades to complete. At least we're getting started now, with more than two million smart meters installed nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
http://green.autoblog.com/2010/09/08/doe-two-million-smart-meters-now-installed-in-national-grid/
********
Reports indicate that venture capital investment in the mobile sector continues to rise, with an estimated $312 million being funneled into 37 companies and startups during the second quarter of this year alone.
http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/vcs-funnel-312m-into-37-mobile-companies-during-q2-2010-9388/
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Kevin’s Mobile Retailing Weekly – September 14, 2010
Kevin's Mobile Retailing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile retailing applications, mobile payments and mobile marketing applications that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.
Additional weekly newsletters on the subjects of enterprise mobility and M2M from Kevin Benedict can be found here http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
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ABN AMRO, ING, KPN, Rabobank, T-Mobile and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to jointly introduce point of sale mobile payments in the Netherlands.
http://www.nfcnews.com/2010/09/10/banks-telecoms-unite-to-bring-contactless-m-payment-to-the-netherlands
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Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and the iPhone’s iOS may be the lead operating systems battling it out for smartphone supremacy, but when it comes to getting users around the world to click on ads, good old flip phones and Nokia’s Symbian OS powered phones beat them hands down.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/mobile-ads/
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PayPal has been partnering up with companies like Google for mobile payments, and it is expecting to see some huge business before the year’s end. More specifically, PayPal expects to see approximately $500 million in mobile payments before 2011.
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/09/paypal-expects-to-close-2010-with-500-million-in-mobile-payments/
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Smartsoft Mobile empowers some of the world’s largest multi-national organizations to extend and improve business processes by providing mobile solutions to their employees and customers. Smartsoft has more than 700 experienced ERP/mobile consultants with over 5,000 man years of experience helping 400,000 plus mobile users achieve their business goals with powerful mobile B2B and B2C applications, designed and developed specifically for today’s popular consumer and industrial grade mobile devices. For more information please visit, http://www.smartsoftmobile.com/. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Smartsoft Mobile Solutions.
********
Consumers in the Netherlands will be using smartphones as mobile wallets within two years as result of a joint venture between top banks and mobile operators.
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=458487
********
MasterCard Worldwide today announced an agreement with Borderlinx, the international industry leader in global cross border e-commerce shopping, in order to offer MasterCard customer financial institutions and their cardholders around the world improved access to the global e-commerce marketplace and facilitate the flow of electronic commerce.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mastercard-and-borderlinx-collaborate-to-enhance-e-commerce-experience-around-the-world-2010-08-30?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
About 29 percent of consumers said they planned to use their phones to power through their back to school shopping lists, according to a survey this summer by consulting firm Deloitte.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/28/AR2010082800191.html
********
Google and Apple are both making moves to ensure smooth financial transactions on their mobile platforms.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Apple-Joust-for-Mobile-Payments-Via-Android-iPhone-507837/
********
Mobile Commerce is just beginning to demonstrate how tricky it can get. Barnes & Noble announced new versions of its free e-reader app for the iPhone and iPad. The app has most of the features of Barnes & Noble’s Nook tablet e-reader. One feature is notably absent: the Nook’s ability to let users read anything in Barnes & Noble’s electronic inventory when the device is inside one of the book chain’s 723 stores.
http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/e-commerce/is-barnes-nobles-fear-of-ipad-competition-stunting-its-m-commerce-effort/
********
Mobile commerce can mean many things to many different people, thus creating confusion within an organization. In the first installment of a series on m-commerce, we provide a definition, and discuss must have functionality within m-commerce.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/10/m-commerce-a-definition/
********
Intuit and mophie have teamed on a credit card swiping iPhone accessory called Complete Credit Card Solution that will allow any approved iPhone owner to walk out of an Apple store in as little as 15 minutes with the ability to accept credit card payments.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/intuit-squares-off-in-mobile-credit-with-a-little-help-from-apple/
********
Online grocer Peapod LLC has introduced PeapodMobile, a mobile app that enables shoppers to shop for groceries and complete purchases wherever they may be.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/13/mobile-grocery-cart
********
Starting in September, Bank of America customers will be eligible for a test program allowing them to pay for store purchases using their smartphones. The country's largest consumer bank is partnering with Visa to run the pilot in the New York area, marking the biggest step the two companies have taken so far to create a "digital wallet" with a range of financial capabilities.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226900097
********
VeriFone Systems Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired Way Systems Inc., expanding the company's presence on cell phones and other mobile gadgets.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HV5JPG0.htm
********
According to Juniper Research, the value of digital and physical goods that people buy through their mobile phones will more than double to $200 billion globally by 2012. Separately, Gartner has projected the number of mobile payment users worldwide will reach 108.6 million this year -- a 54.5 percent increase from the 70 million in 2009.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=134484
********
Starbucks was an early player in mobile payments, and has repeatedly made counterintuitive moves. By developing an app for Research In Motion Ltd.'s devices at a time when most banks are focused on Apple Inc.'s iPhone or phones that use Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Starbucks appears to be acknowledging that people who might want to use their phones for purchases often carry company issued BlackBerrys.
http://www.americanbanker.com/bulletins/-1025192-1.html
********
Everyone needs an iPhone app it seems, even e-commerce sites, but most shopping sites don’t want to bother with creating their own custom mobile app. Now we are starting to see white-label mobile e-commerce apps. Magento Commerce , which raised $22 million in March for its open-source e-commerce platform, is getting into the mobile game with white-label apps for existing customers who use its e-commerce backend.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/08/magento-mobile/
********
MasterCard plans to buy European payment provider DataCash for $520 million. The move is just the latest indication of how hot the e-commerce space has become.
http://web-self-service.tmcnet.com/topics/mobile-answers/articles/95903-mastercard-opens-its-digital-wallet-with-520m-datacash.htm
********
For most retailers, the fourth quarter is relied upon to generate a substantial portion of the company’s yearly revenue. The mobile commerce market is currently $2.5B with a projected four times annual growth rate for 2013. Businesses have made mobility a top priority for growth and view m-commerce as a new retail channel.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/10/fourth-quarter-2010-trends-in-mobile-retailing/
********
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report predicting that the value of mobile payment transactions in the US will reach $56 billion in 2015.
http://www.nfcnews.com/2010/08/30/report-us-mobile-payments-market-to-reach-56-billion-in-2015
********
In a survey of 1,000 professionals around the world released by Netsize (a subsidiary of smart card maker Gemalto), 94 percent said they were "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to purchase goods totaling up to $31.50 using their mobile phones.
http://www.banktech.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227200033&cid=RSSfeed_BankTech_News
********
New technologies will pit payment giants Visa and MasterCard against wireless carriers and start-ups in a race to create a platform that allows consumers to purchase goods, distribute money and manage accounts using only their smartphones. The stakes transcend the technology and strike at the heart of who will retain market dominance over $6.70 trillion in payment transactions.
http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=4704
********
WorldMate released its mobile personal travel service app on the Android platform. The free WorldMate for Android app offers itinerary management, hotel bookings, alerts for flights and meetings, Google Maps, currency conversion and 5-day weather forecasts.
http://www.tnooz.com/2010/09/14/mobile/worldmate-puts-its-mobile-travel-assistant-app-on-android/
********
Leading online travel company Yatra.com and Sony Ericsson came together to launch a new mobile phone application - 'Travel Buddy' - which will allow Sony Ericsson Xperia users to book tickets anytime, anywhere.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Yatra-com--Sony-Ericsson-launch---Travel-Buddy--/679044
********
You can read more about enterprise mobility at the blog site,
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
Mobile Expert Interview – Dan Homrich, Part 1
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/09/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Interview – Dan Homrich, Part 2
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/09/mobile-expert-interview-series_10.html
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Additional weekly newsletters on the subjects of enterprise mobility and M2M from Kevin Benedict can be found here http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
********
ABN AMRO, ING, KPN, Rabobank, T-Mobile and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to jointly introduce point of sale mobile payments in the Netherlands.
http://www.nfcnews.com/2010/09/10/banks-telecoms-unite-to-bring-contactless-m-payment-to-the-netherlands
********
Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and the iPhone’s iOS may be the lead operating systems battling it out for smartphone supremacy, but when it comes to getting users around the world to click on ads, good old flip phones and Nokia’s Symbian OS powered phones beat them hands down.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/mobile-ads/
********
PayPal has been partnering up with companies like Google for mobile payments, and it is expecting to see some huge business before the year’s end. More specifically, PayPal expects to see approximately $500 million in mobile payments before 2011.
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/09/paypal-expects-to-close-2010-with-500-million-in-mobile-payments/
********
Smartsoft Mobile empowers some of the world’s largest multi-national organizations to extend and improve business processes by providing mobile solutions to their employees and customers. Smartsoft has more than 700 experienced ERP/mobile consultants with over 5,000 man years of experience helping 400,000 plus mobile users achieve their business goals with powerful mobile B2B and B2C applications, designed and developed specifically for today’s popular consumer and industrial grade mobile devices. For more information please visit, http://www.smartsoftmobile.com/. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Smartsoft Mobile Solutions.
********
Consumers in the Netherlands will be using smartphones as mobile wallets within two years as result of a joint venture between top banks and mobile operators.
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=458487
********
MasterCard Worldwide today announced an agreement with Borderlinx, the international industry leader in global cross border e-commerce shopping, in order to offer MasterCard customer financial institutions and their cardholders around the world improved access to the global e-commerce marketplace and facilitate the flow of electronic commerce.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mastercard-and-borderlinx-collaborate-to-enhance-e-commerce-experience-around-the-world-2010-08-30?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
About 29 percent of consumers said they planned to use their phones to power through their back to school shopping lists, according to a survey this summer by consulting firm Deloitte.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/28/AR2010082800191.html
********
Google and Apple are both making moves to ensure smooth financial transactions on their mobile platforms.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Apple-Joust-for-Mobile-Payments-Via-Android-iPhone-507837/
********
Mobile Commerce is just beginning to demonstrate how tricky it can get. Barnes & Noble announced new versions of its free e-reader app for the iPhone and iPad. The app has most of the features of Barnes & Noble’s Nook tablet e-reader. One feature is notably absent: the Nook’s ability to let users read anything in Barnes & Noble’s electronic inventory when the device is inside one of the book chain’s 723 stores.
http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/e-commerce/is-barnes-nobles-fear-of-ipad-competition-stunting-its-m-commerce-effort/
********
Mobile commerce can mean many things to many different people, thus creating confusion within an organization. In the first installment of a series on m-commerce, we provide a definition, and discuss must have functionality within m-commerce.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/10/m-commerce-a-definition/
********
Intuit and mophie have teamed on a credit card swiping iPhone accessory called Complete Credit Card Solution that will allow any approved iPhone owner to walk out of an Apple store in as little as 15 minutes with the ability to accept credit card payments.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/intuit-squares-off-in-mobile-credit-with-a-little-help-from-apple/
********
Online grocer Peapod LLC has introduced PeapodMobile, a mobile app that enables shoppers to shop for groceries and complete purchases wherever they may be.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/13/mobile-grocery-cart
********
Starting in September, Bank of America customers will be eligible for a test program allowing them to pay for store purchases using their smartphones. The country's largest consumer bank is partnering with Visa to run the pilot in the New York area, marking the biggest step the two companies have taken so far to create a "digital wallet" with a range of financial capabilities.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226900097
********
VeriFone Systems Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired Way Systems Inc., expanding the company's presence on cell phones and other mobile gadgets.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HV5JPG0.htm
********
According to Juniper Research, the value of digital and physical goods that people buy through their mobile phones will more than double to $200 billion globally by 2012. Separately, Gartner has projected the number of mobile payment users worldwide will reach 108.6 million this year -- a 54.5 percent increase from the 70 million in 2009.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=134484
********
Starbucks was an early player in mobile payments, and has repeatedly made counterintuitive moves. By developing an app for Research In Motion Ltd.'s devices at a time when most banks are focused on Apple Inc.'s iPhone or phones that use Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Starbucks appears to be acknowledging that people who might want to use their phones for purchases often carry company issued BlackBerrys.
http://www.americanbanker.com/bulletins/-1025192-1.html
********
Everyone needs an iPhone app it seems, even e-commerce sites, but most shopping sites don’t want to bother with creating their own custom mobile app. Now we are starting to see white-label mobile e-commerce apps. Magento Commerce , which raised $22 million in March for its open-source e-commerce platform, is getting into the mobile game with white-label apps for existing customers who use its e-commerce backend.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/08/magento-mobile/
********
MasterCard plans to buy European payment provider DataCash for $520 million. The move is just the latest indication of how hot the e-commerce space has become.
http://web-self-service.tmcnet.com/topics/mobile-answers/articles/95903-mastercard-opens-its-digital-wallet-with-520m-datacash.htm
********
For most retailers, the fourth quarter is relied upon to generate a substantial portion of the company’s yearly revenue. The mobile commerce market is currently $2.5B with a projected four times annual growth rate for 2013. Businesses have made mobility a top priority for growth and view m-commerce as a new retail channel.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/10/fourth-quarter-2010-trends-in-mobile-retailing/
********
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report predicting that the value of mobile payment transactions in the US will reach $56 billion in 2015.
http://www.nfcnews.com/2010/08/30/report-us-mobile-payments-market-to-reach-56-billion-in-2015
********
In a survey of 1,000 professionals around the world released by Netsize (a subsidiary of smart card maker Gemalto), 94 percent said they were "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to purchase goods totaling up to $31.50 using their mobile phones.
http://www.banktech.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227200033&cid=RSSfeed_BankTech_News
********
New technologies will pit payment giants Visa and MasterCard against wireless carriers and start-ups in a race to create a platform that allows consumers to purchase goods, distribute money and manage accounts using only their smartphones. The stakes transcend the technology and strike at the heart of who will retain market dominance over $6.70 trillion in payment transactions.
http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=4704
********
WorldMate released its mobile personal travel service app on the Android platform. The free WorldMate for Android app offers itinerary management, hotel bookings, alerts for flights and meetings, Google Maps, currency conversion and 5-day weather forecasts.
http://www.tnooz.com/2010/09/14/mobile/worldmate-puts-its-mobile-travel-assistant-app-on-android/
********
Leading online travel company Yatra.com and Sony Ericsson came together to launch a new mobile phone application - 'Travel Buddy' - which will allow Sony Ericsson Xperia users to book tickets anytime, anywhere.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Yatra-com--Sony-Ericsson-launch---Travel-Buddy--/679044
********
You can read more about enterprise mobility at the blog site,
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
Mobile Expert Interview – Dan Homrich, Part 1
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/09/mobile-expert-interview-series.html
Mobile Expert Interview – Dan Homrich, Part 2
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/09/mobile-expert-interview-series_10.html
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s Mobile Retailing News Weekly – September 10, 2010
Kevin's Mobile Retailing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile retail applications, mobile payments and mobile marketing applications that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.
Additional weekly newsletters on the subjects of enterprise mobility and M2M from Kevin Benedict can be found here http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
********
This week credit card giant MasterCard launched a version of its MoneySend mobile app for BlackBerry. Similar to the iPhone version, MasterCard MoneySend for Blackberry can settle peer to peer balances by sending money to friends and family and purchasing goods from an informal vendor.
http://mobile.cnet.com/site?t=OFwKYRJPIl1Vm2aMwLYjDw&sid=cnet
********
Starwood Hotels & Resorts is letting guests book their travels and make reservations across 1,000 of its properties via a BlackBerry application. Consumers can access their accounts, check reservations and get directions. The application is available in BlackBerry App World.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/starwood-hotels-resorts-accommodates-guest-via-mobile-booking-app/
********
Smartsoft Mobile empowers some of the world’s largest multi-national organizations to extend and improve business processes by providing mobile solutions to their employees and customers. Smartsoft has more than 700 experienced ERP/mobile consultants with over 5,000 man years of experience helping 400,000 plus mobile users achieve their business goals with powerful mobile B2B and B2C applications, designed and developed specifically for today’s popular consumer and industrial grade mobile devices. For more information please visit, http://www.smartsoftmobile.com/. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Smartsoft Mobile Solutions.
********
Toys “R” Us has announced a new iPhone application that integrates QR codes and content such as videos and rewards into a daily retail shopping experience to enhance its marketing and loyalty initiatives. The application is a consumer engagement tool that blends audio, visuals and rewards with traditional media platforms via mobile bar codes.
See more in this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTu57Sx5VnI&feature=player_embedded#at=13
Read more - http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/toys-r-us-unveils-multichannel-mobile-crm-tactics/
********
AAA has announced an Android counterpart to its popular iPhone app, which displays businesses which feature discounts for AAA members based on location. There are more than 110,000 such locations in the US, and the application, along with your phone’s GPS, will let you know which ones are directly in your area.
http://www.talkandroid.com/13836-aaa-app-now-available-for-android/
********
Consumer appetite and enterprise adoption is fuelling the growth in volume, availability and sophistication of mobile services. According to the Sybase 365 Global Consumer Acceptance and Usage Report 2010, 70 percent of consumers were interested in additional mobile services. Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, is now processing more than 1.5 billion messages per day.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sybase-365-achieves-new-milestone-delivering-one-trillion-mobile-messages-2010-09-08?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
eBay has invested over $600 million into mobile apps over the past two years, and users have gained expanded mobility functionality as a result, most notably the ability to process payments for auctions using mobile apps.
http://www.benzinga.com/news/10/09/463375/ebay-mobile-division-planning-major-overhaul-ebay
********
According to the Adobe Scene7 Mobile Commerce Survey, 55 percent of respondents cited full screen image zoom and videos as indispensable mobile viewing features for driving conversion, and 96 percent of respondents asserted the most effective visual merchandising features were catalogs and brochures, alternative images, and zoom and pan. Only 18 percent of respondents said they use rich visual merchandising features for mobile commerce today. However, 81 percent cited plans to deploy these features, thus implying richer mobile experiences will be created and offered during the next 12 months.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/08/rich-media-way-mobile-commerce-survey-says
********
According to Forrester, 47 percent of consumers expect to wait no more than two seconds for a Web page to load; 58 percent of mobile phone users expect websites to load as quickly on their mobile phone as on their PC according to Gomez research.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/compuware-gomez-presents-webinar-on-the-top-e-commerce-strategies-for-turning-web-traffic-into-sales-2010-09-08?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
eBay will launch a "motors app" later this year that will let people use a built-in barcode reader feature to scan the Vehicle Identification Number of a car and do a Carfax lookup. The app will also let users enter the make and model of their own car and then filter searches for compatible parts and accessories. eBay also wants to build more "augmented reality" features into eBay's mobile applications. One example could be where a seller could take a video of an antique chair. An eBay application would turn that video into a 3D image that a potential buyer could overlay on a photograph of their room, letting them see how it would look.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/204970/ebay_bringing_mobile_apps_into_the_future.html
********
The mobile web (web 3.0) is projected to grow at an annualized 500 percent over the next three years. How can your business benefit from this spectacular growth?
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/02/why-is-it-valuable-to-have-a-mobile-enterprise-strategy/
********
In a development with importance to e-commerce merchants and other marketers moving to mobile commerce, phones using Android accounted for one quarter of all North American mobile page views in August, up from 6.4 percent in August 2009, according to the latest numbers from Quantcast Corp. Google’s gain came mostly at the expense of iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone. That system lost 11.4 points of mobile Web share, to finish at 56 percent in August.
http://www.digitaltransactions.net/newsstory.cfm?newsid=2631
********
AT&T appears to be in a position to offer the largest selection of Windows Phone 7 devices. We’ve heard rumors of HTC (T8788 or HD7?), Samsung (Cetus), and LG (C900 and GW910) devices headed to AT&T. Our count shows as many as four Windows Phone 7 devices hitting AT&T’s shelves this Fall. Unless something changes over the next two months, AT&T will be at the forefront of Windows Phone 7.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/07/windows-phone-7-what-are-the-carriers-going-to-do/
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You can read more about enterprise mobility at the blog site, http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
Mobile Expert Video Interview – Ed Krufka, http://www.youtube.com/sapmentors#p/u/10/NrF7LvLLlNE
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
Additional weekly newsletters on the subjects of enterprise mobility and M2M from Kevin Benedict can be found here http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
********
This week credit card giant MasterCard launched a version of its MoneySend mobile app for BlackBerry. Similar to the iPhone version, MasterCard MoneySend for Blackberry can settle peer to peer balances by sending money to friends and family and purchasing goods from an informal vendor.
http://mobile.cnet.com/site?t=OFwKYRJPIl1Vm2aMwLYjDw&sid=cnet
********
Starwood Hotels & Resorts is letting guests book their travels and make reservations across 1,000 of its properties via a BlackBerry application. Consumers can access their accounts, check reservations and get directions. The application is available in BlackBerry App World.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/starwood-hotels-resorts-accommodates-guest-via-mobile-booking-app/
********
Smartsoft Mobile empowers some of the world’s largest multi-national organizations to extend and improve business processes by providing mobile solutions to their employees and customers. Smartsoft has more than 700 experienced ERP/mobile consultants with over 5,000 man years of experience helping 400,000 plus mobile users achieve their business goals with powerful mobile B2B and B2C applications, designed and developed specifically for today’s popular consumer and industrial grade mobile devices. For more information please visit, http://www.smartsoftmobile.com/. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Smartsoft Mobile Solutions.
********
Toys “R” Us has announced a new iPhone application that integrates QR codes and content such as videos and rewards into a daily retail shopping experience to enhance its marketing and loyalty initiatives. The application is a consumer engagement tool that blends audio, visuals and rewards with traditional media platforms via mobile bar codes.
See more in this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTu57Sx5VnI&feature=player_embedded#at=13
Read more - http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/toys-r-us-unveils-multichannel-mobile-crm-tactics/
********
AAA has announced an Android counterpart to its popular iPhone app, which displays businesses which feature discounts for AAA members based on location. There are more than 110,000 such locations in the US, and the application, along with your phone’s GPS, will let you know which ones are directly in your area.
http://www.talkandroid.com/13836-aaa-app-now-available-for-android/
********
Consumer appetite and enterprise adoption is fuelling the growth in volume, availability and sophistication of mobile services. According to the Sybase 365 Global Consumer Acceptance and Usage Report 2010, 70 percent of consumers were interested in additional mobile services. Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, is now processing more than 1.5 billion messages per day.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sybase-365-achieves-new-milestone-delivering-one-trillion-mobile-messages-2010-09-08?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
eBay has invested over $600 million into mobile apps over the past two years, and users have gained expanded mobility functionality as a result, most notably the ability to process payments for auctions using mobile apps.
http://www.benzinga.com/news/10/09/463375/ebay-mobile-division-planning-major-overhaul-ebay
********
According to the Adobe Scene7 Mobile Commerce Survey, 55 percent of respondents cited full screen image zoom and videos as indispensable mobile viewing features for driving conversion, and 96 percent of respondents asserted the most effective visual merchandising features were catalogs and brochures, alternative images, and zoom and pan. Only 18 percent of respondents said they use rich visual merchandising features for mobile commerce today. However, 81 percent cited plans to deploy these features, thus implying richer mobile experiences will be created and offered during the next 12 months.
http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/09/08/rich-media-way-mobile-commerce-survey-says
********
According to Forrester, 47 percent of consumers expect to wait no more than two seconds for a Web page to load; 58 percent of mobile phone users expect websites to load as quickly on their mobile phone as on their PC according to Gomez research.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/compuware-gomez-presents-webinar-on-the-top-e-commerce-strategies-for-turning-web-traffic-into-sales-2010-09-08?reflink=MW_news_stmp
********
eBay will launch a "motors app" later this year that will let people use a built-in barcode reader feature to scan the Vehicle Identification Number of a car and do a Carfax lookup. The app will also let users enter the make and model of their own car and then filter searches for compatible parts and accessories. eBay also wants to build more "augmented reality" features into eBay's mobile applications. One example could be where a seller could take a video of an antique chair. An eBay application would turn that video into a 3D image that a potential buyer could overlay on a photograph of their room, letting them see how it would look.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/204970/ebay_bringing_mobile_apps_into_the_future.html
********
The mobile web (web 3.0) is projected to grow at an annualized 500 percent over the next three years. How can your business benefit from this spectacular growth?
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/02/why-is-it-valuable-to-have-a-mobile-enterprise-strategy/
********
In a development with importance to e-commerce merchants and other marketers moving to mobile commerce, phones using Android accounted for one quarter of all North American mobile page views in August, up from 6.4 percent in August 2009, according to the latest numbers from Quantcast Corp. Google’s gain came mostly at the expense of iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone. That system lost 11.4 points of mobile Web share, to finish at 56 percent in August.
http://www.digitaltransactions.net/newsstory.cfm?newsid=2631
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AT&T appears to be in a position to offer the largest selection of Windows Phone 7 devices. We’ve heard rumors of HTC (T8788 or HD7?), Samsung (Cetus), and LG (C900 and GW910) devices headed to AT&T. Our count shows as many as four Windows Phone 7 devices hitting AT&T’s shelves this Fall. Unless something changes over the next two months, AT&T will be at the forefront of Windows Phone 7.
http://smartsoftmobile.com/wordpress/2010/09/07/windows-phone-7-what-are-the-carriers-going-to-do/
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You can read more about enterprise mobility at the blog site, http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/.
Mobile Expert Video Interview – Ed Krufka, http://www.youtube.com/sapmentors#p/u/10/NrF7LvLLlNE
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly - September 9, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5it_73CxzMozqkSOODLh2r7aCIlLwD9HVV8CO1
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LG Electronics announced yesterday its intent to launch a new line of dual-core smartphones, dubbed "Optimus," by year's end. The Tegra 2 incorporates two 1 GHz chips, which, according to LG, will mean "up to 2x faster web browsing and up to 5x faster gaming performance over single core processors running at 1 GHz."
http://www.dailytech.com/LG+Well+Have+DualCore+Smartphones+By+Years+End/article19568.htm
********
Syclo announced today that it's rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo's mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/Syclo-Announces-New-Version-Of-Its-Agentry-0001
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Apple confirmed the launch of its new Apple TV device for later this month. The media player with HDMI and Wi-Fi will allow users to stream online movies and TV series as well as content from their PCs to an HD TV.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=754422
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Leapfactor, an SAP partner and start up, today announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back office custom applications for accounting and customer support.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183898/SAP_partner_launches_cloud_based_mobile_app_service
********
Google's Android Market has the largest share of free applications. App store analytics firm Distimo reports that 60 percent of Android apps are free, an increase of three percent from May. Windows Marketplace for Mobile has the lowest percentage of free apps with just 22 percent, while 26 percent of apps in both Apple's App Store for the iPad and BlackBerry App World are free.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/distimo-60-android-apps-are-free/2010-09-01?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant jobsites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
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Consumers buying items via iPads spend an average of up to 20 percent more per purchase than other mobile shoppers.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/peter-session-1-2/
********
ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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Google is hoping to debut an Internet based digital music service that would launch later this year in conjunction with version 3 of its popular Android operating system for smartphones, according to various media reports.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/google-negotiating-android-music-service/2010-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Total Twitter mobile users has jumped 62 percent since mid April, and, remarkably, 16 percent of all new users to Twitter start on mobile now.
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/evolving-ecosystem.html
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Sony Ericsson estimates that China will be its largest handset market in the next three to four years as it looks to increase its share of the country. The Japanese-Swedish joint venture said that smartphone use in China would reach 50 percent of all mobile phone users in the country by 2015.
http://www.mobiledia.com/news/73510.html
********
The mobile applications market is estimated to be worth around $25 billion by 2015. However, the economic meltdown has caused some big names within the applications and telecoms industry to shutdown recently and the fears of the aftermath of a recession are still on the clouds.
http://bharatbookseo.blogsome.com/2010/09/03/the-mobile-applications-market/
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SAP AG aims to make China “a second home” as local companies seeking management tools and real time business intelligence will provide “limitless growth” for the software maker, co-Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-03/sap-sees-limitless-potential-in-chinese-market-co-ceo-mcdermott-says.html
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I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas! I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
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Samsung, the world’s second largest cell phone maker, has decided to use Google’s Android as a key software platform for its smartphones alongside its own new bada software.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6811FI20100902
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According to IDC's worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 317.5 million units worldwide in the quarter, up 15 percent year-over-year and eight percent sequentially, driven by seasonal strength.
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204812504575469674114253814.html?mod=googlenews_barrons
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Over the past year Apple has lost ground to Google, losing 11 percent of the mobile web consumption market, while Google picked up 17 percent more market share. iOS still maintains a significant lead with 56 percent of the market, more than twice that of Android, but current growth trends could cause problems for Apple in the near future.
http://www.worldtech24.com/phones/android-gaining-apple-ios-mobile-web-market-share
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Google Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, while BlackBerry and Apple will experience declines, according to a new research note from IDC.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-Windows-Phone-Will-Lead-Smartphone-Market-Surge-IDC-197754/
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Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of mobile peripheral device ICs with the TC358751XBG, which provides the interface between a mobile device's host processor and embedded displays as well as external equipment, such as a TV set or projector. The buffer content can be rendered simultaneously on two displays (typically with different content) and external equipment.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/new-mobile-dual-screen-display-ic-offers-1080p.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903617&vID=8
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Automotive service organization AAA is driving foot traffic to the locations of its retail partners via a loyalty focused Android application. The AAA Discounts application lets consumers know about nearby discounts available to members of its Show Your Card & Save loyalty program.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/aaa-targets-android-users-via-loyalty-program-app/
********
Amazon Kindle get’s new firmware and shows up on BestBuy.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-Kindle-Gets-New-Firmware-Shows-up-on-BestBuy-155779.shtml
********
A new survey has revealed that 65 percent of adults sleep with their cell phones on or next to their beds. This latest sampling from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows how cell phones continue to grow ever more vital in our livelihoods.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/two-thirds-of-adults-sleep-with-their-cell-phones-1189/
********
Salesforce.com, a provider of software as a service to companies over the web, has introduced mobile application Chatter for social networking inside companies.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/index.html?sid=1835_Salesforce.com+introduces+Chatter+networking+solution
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Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
Compliance Functions for Mobile Applications
What Percent of the U.S. Workforce is Mobile?
NEW Recommended newsletter – Kevin’s Mobile Retail News Weekly
Recommended Webinar
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
********
India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5it_73CxzMozqkSOODLh2r7aCIlLwD9HVV8CO1
********
LG Electronics announced yesterday its intent to launch a new line of dual-core smartphones, dubbed "Optimus," by year's end. The Tegra 2 incorporates two 1 GHz chips, which, according to LG, will mean "up to 2x faster web browsing and up to 5x faster gaming performance over single core processors running at 1 GHz."
http://www.dailytech.com/LG+Well+Have+DualCore+Smartphones+By+Years+End/article19568.htm
********
Syclo announced today that it's rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo's mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.fieldtechnologiesonline.com/article.mvc/Syclo-Announces-New-Version-Of-Its-Agentry-0001
********
Apple confirmed the launch of its new Apple TV device for later this month. The media player with HDMI and Wi-Fi will allow users to stream online movies and TV series as well as content from their PCs to an HD TV.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=754422
********
Leapfactor, an SAP partner and start up, today announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back office custom applications for accounting and customer support.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183898/SAP_partner_launches_cloud_based_mobile_app_service
********
Google's Android Market has the largest share of free applications. App store analytics firm Distimo reports that 60 percent of Android apps are free, an increase of three percent from May. Windows Marketplace for Mobile has the lowest percentage of free apps with just 22 percent, while 26 percent of apps in both Apple's App Store for the iPad and BlackBerry App World are free.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/distimo-60-android-apps-are-free/2010-09-01?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant jobsites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
********
Consumers buying items via iPads spend an average of up to 20 percent more per purchase than other mobile shoppers.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/peter-session-1-2/
********
ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
********
Google is hoping to debut an Internet based digital music service that would launch later this year in conjunction with version 3 of its popular Android operating system for smartphones, according to various media reports.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/google-negotiating-android-music-service/2010-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
Total Twitter mobile users has jumped 62 percent since mid April, and, remarkably, 16 percent of all new users to Twitter start on mobile now.
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/evolving-ecosystem.html
********
Sony Ericsson estimates that China will be its largest handset market in the next three to four years as it looks to increase its share of the country. The Japanese-Swedish joint venture said that smartphone use in China would reach 50 percent of all mobile phone users in the country by 2015.
http://www.mobiledia.com/news/73510.html
********
The mobile applications market is estimated to be worth around $25 billion by 2015. However, the economic meltdown has caused some big names within the applications and telecoms industry to shutdown recently and the fears of the aftermath of a recession are still on the clouds.
http://bharatbookseo.blogsome.com/2010/09/03/the-mobile-applications-market/
********
SAP AG aims to make China “a second home” as local companies seeking management tools and real time business intelligence will provide “limitless growth” for the software maker, co-Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-03/sap-sees-limitless-potential-in-chinese-market-co-ceo-mcdermott-says.html
********
I registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas! I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
********
Samsung, the world’s second largest cell phone maker, has decided to use Google’s Android as a key software platform for its smartphones alongside its own new bada software.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6811FI20100902
********
According to IDC's worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 317.5 million units worldwide in the quarter, up 15 percent year-over-year and eight percent sequentially, driven by seasonal strength.
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204812504575469674114253814.html?mod=googlenews_barrons
********
Over the past year Apple has lost ground to Google, losing 11 percent of the mobile web consumption market, while Google picked up 17 percent more market share. iOS still maintains a significant lead with 56 percent of the market, more than twice that of Android, but current growth trends could cause problems for Apple in the near future.
http://www.worldtech24.com/phones/android-gaining-apple-ios-mobile-web-market-share
********
Google Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, while BlackBerry and Apple will experience declines, according to a new research note from IDC.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-Windows-Phone-Will-Lead-Smartphone-Market-Surge-IDC-197754/
********
Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its family of mobile peripheral device ICs with the TC358751XBG, which provides the interface between a mobile device's host processor and embedded displays as well as external equipment, such as a TV set or projector. The buffer content can be rendered simultaneously on two displays (typically with different content) and external equipment.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/new-mobile-dual-screen-display-ic-offers-1080p.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903617&vID=8
********
Automotive service organization AAA is driving foot traffic to the locations of its retail partners via a loyalty focused Android application. The AAA Discounts application lets consumers know about nearby discounts available to members of its Show Your Card & Save loyalty program.
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/aaa-targets-android-users-via-loyalty-program-app/
********
Amazon Kindle get’s new firmware and shows up on BestBuy.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-Kindle-Gets-New-Firmware-Shows-up-on-BestBuy-155779.shtml
********
A new survey has revealed that 65 percent of adults sleep with their cell phones on or next to their beds. This latest sampling from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows how cell phones continue to grow ever more vital in our livelihoods.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/two-thirds-of-adults-sleep-with-their-cell-phones-1189/
********
Salesforce.com, a provider of software as a service to companies over the web, has introduced mobile application Chatter for social networking inside companies.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/index.html?sid=1835_Salesforce.com+introduces+Chatter+networking+solution
********
Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others
Compliance Functions for Mobile Applications
What Percent of the U.S. Workforce is Mobile?
NEW Recommended newsletter – Kevin’s Mobile Retail News Weekly
Recommended Webinar
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
***************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410
twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s M2M News Weekly – September 8, 2010
Welcome to Kevin's M2M News Weekly. This is an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article. I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.
You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Follow Kevin on Twitter @krbenedict.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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There's no question that many wireless operators consider the next growth opportunity to rest with embedded wireless devices. Some operators estimate that by embedding wireless connectivity into all types of devices -- from netbooks to e-readers to GPS devices -- the wireless industry could reach a penetration rate in the range of 300 to 500 percent. Indeed, in a recent ABI Research study, the firm predicts manufacturers will ship 54 million mobile broadband enabled consumer electronics devices by 2014.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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A team of investigators in Spain is currently developing remote sensing technology that could keep a virtual eye on pollution levels being generated by traffic jams.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Remote-Sensing-Technology-Analyzes-Pollution-155428.shtml
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OEM and aftermarket consumer telematics systems continue to gain momentum in both developed and developing regions due to growing popular awareness of their many benefits related to safety, security, maintenance, convenience, infotainment, and cost savings. These benefits will drive growth from 37 million telematics users in 2010 to more than 211 million in 2015, well over a five fold increase.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/consumer-telematics-users-to-reach-211-million-by-2015-says-abi-research.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903452&vID=391
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Christiana Care launched its tele-ICU program five years ago to better monitor patients at Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital, but for the past 17 months it also has been working with rural and small hospitals in Maryland. Because the technology feeds real time patient data and live video from afar, the services of local intensivists can be used to monitor patients hundreds of miles away.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100905/HEALTH/9050373/Giving-patients-hands-on-care-from-afar
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St. Jude Medical has paid $60 million to acquire a 19 percent stake in CardioMEMS, a firm that's developed a wireless patient monitoring technology.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/09/06/daily1.html
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While media coverage is certainly not a new concept at the race, at the 2010 Tour de France, fans had access to more information about their favorite riders than they had in previous years thanks to M2M technology. Fans were able to get real time statistics on cyclists such as their location, distance traveled, even heart rate, via the Web.
http://connectedworldmag.com/latestNews.aspx?id=NEWS100901093605933
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Location based Web services like FourSquare, Gowalla or Facebook’s Places feature may be all the rage in the tech news, but by and large, Americans aren’t buying into it, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Location based Web services generally allow people to “check in” via their Mobile devices -- actually registering their physical location with the Web site -- with the goal of playing a game, receiving a coupon or discount, or connecting with friends who may be nearby.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/98453-location-based-mobile-services-more-hype-than-hot.htm
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Recently, Peter Hartwell an engineer from computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. told the audience at the firm's Executive Energy Conference in Dubai he believed intelligent sensor technology deployed on oil rigs and other drilling equipment could have prevented the disaster had they been installed, and that certainly in the future, such measures should be taken to avoid a repeat of the disaster.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100901/DEVICES/100909996/mobile-technology-seen-as-critical-in-disasters
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An ABI report indicates that renewed interest from mobile operators in the M2M space, coupled with the widespread deployment of 3G, has led it to predict the M2M market will be worth $3.8 billion by 2015.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m
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Juniper predicts that the number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will reach almost 412 million globally by 2014. The growth of these embedded devices will mainly come from an ever increasing number of utility meters, mobile connected buildings, consumer and commercial telematics and retail and banking connections.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=1795_M2M:+The+future+of+technology
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As part of its ongoing commitment to improve driver safety for its commercial auto customers, Travelers today announced a potential discount of up to 15 percent on certain auto liability insurance premiums for qualifying businesses that effectively use telematics technology to monitor their commercial fleets and driver behavior. Similar to GPS, vehicle telematics go beyond navigation and positioning by storing and sending data on how a vehicle is operated.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/53997120/Travelers-Embraces-Fleet-Vehicle-Telematics-to-Improve-Roadway-Safety
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Technologies such as wireless sensor networks, real time distributed sensor networks, and FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O hardware are relatively new to the wind industry. But the reconfigurable hardware is central to many network applications.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-nervous-system-for-renewable-energy-projects/
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In the years ahead, the National Football League looks set to dial up some new tech blitzes that will make the game fairer and safer. Among the technologies most likely to make it onto the field soon are wireless sensors in the ball and in players' gear.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/going-deep-the-future-of-technology-in-the-national-football-league-1171/
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Putting chips into devices other than computers and mobile phones - a market known as embedded processors - represents a $10 billion opportunity, according to Intel's Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini. The market for PC processors is $34.5 billion.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BUHI1F8BJF.DTL
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3M has agreed to acquire Tel Aviv based Attenti, a remote people-tracking technology provider for $230 million.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/48119/20100901/3m-attenti-cogent-google-facebook-location-based-services-geriatric-care-acquistion.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
You can read archived editions of Kevin's M2M News Weekly at http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/m2m.html.
Follow Kevin on Twitter @krbenedict.
Also available are Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly and Kevin’s Enterprise Mobility Blog.
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There's no question that many wireless operators consider the next growth opportunity to rest with embedded wireless devices. Some operators estimate that by embedding wireless connectivity into all types of devices -- from netbooks to e-readers to GPS devices -- the wireless industry could reach a penetration rate in the range of 300 to 500 percent. Indeed, in a recent ABI Research study, the firm predicts manufacturers will ship 54 million mobile broadband enabled consumer electronics devices by 2014.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
********
A team of investigators in Spain is currently developing remote sensing technology that could keep a virtual eye on pollution levels being generated by traffic jams.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Remote-Sensing-Technology-Analyzes-Pollution-155428.shtml
********
OEM and aftermarket consumer telematics systems continue to gain momentum in both developed and developing regions due to growing popular awareness of their many benefits related to safety, security, maintenance, convenience, infotainment, and cost savings. These benefits will drive growth from 37 million telematics users in 2010 to more than 211 million in 2015, well over a five fold increase.
http://www.eetimes.de/en/consumer-telematics-users-to-reach-211-million-by-2015-says-abi-research.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222903452&vID=391
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Christiana Care launched its tele-ICU program five years ago to better monitor patients at Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital, but for the past 17 months it also has been working with rural and small hospitals in Maryland. Because the technology feeds real time patient data and live video from afar, the services of local intensivists can be used to monitor patients hundreds of miles away.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100905/HEALTH/9050373/Giving-patients-hands-on-care-from-afar
********
St. Jude Medical has paid $60 million to acquire a 19 percent stake in CardioMEMS, a firm that's developed a wireless patient monitoring technology.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/09/06/daily1.html
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While media coverage is certainly not a new concept at the race, at the 2010 Tour de France, fans had access to more information about their favorite riders than they had in previous years thanks to M2M technology. Fans were able to get real time statistics on cyclists such as their location, distance traveled, even heart rate, via the Web.
http://connectedworldmag.com/latestNews.aspx?id=NEWS100901093605933
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Location based Web services like FourSquare, Gowalla or Facebook’s Places feature may be all the rage in the tech news, but by and large, Americans aren’t buying into it, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Location based Web services generally allow people to “check in” via their Mobile devices -- actually registering their physical location with the Web site -- with the goal of playing a game, receiving a coupon or discount, or connecting with friends who may be nearby.
http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/98453-location-based-mobile-services-more-hype-than-hot.htm
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Recently, Peter Hartwell an engineer from computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. told the audience at the firm's Executive Energy Conference in Dubai he believed intelligent sensor technology deployed on oil rigs and other drilling equipment could have prevented the disaster had they been installed, and that certainly in the future, such measures should be taken to avoid a repeat of the disaster.
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100901/DEVICES/100909996/mobile-technology-seen-as-critical-in-disasters
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An ABI report indicates that renewed interest from mobile operators in the M2M space, coupled with the widespread deployment of 3G, has led it to predict the M2M market will be worth $3.8 billion by 2015.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/slideshow/what-devices-are-early-winners-embedded-and-m2m
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Juniper predicts that the number of mobile connected M2M and embedded devices will reach almost 412 million globally by 2014. The growth of these embedded devices will mainly come from an ever increasing number of utility meters, mobile connected buildings, consumer and commercial telematics and retail and banking connections.
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=1795_M2M:+The+future+of+technology
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As part of its ongoing commitment to improve driver safety for its commercial auto customers, Travelers today announced a potential discount of up to 15 percent on certain auto liability insurance premiums for qualifying businesses that effectively use telematics technology to monitor their commercial fleets and driver behavior. Similar to GPS, vehicle telematics go beyond navigation and positioning by storing and sending data on how a vehicle is operated.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/53997120/Travelers-Embraces-Fleet-Vehicle-Telematics-to-Improve-Roadway-Safety
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Technologies such as wireless sensor networks, real time distributed sensor networks, and FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O hardware are relatively new to the wind industry. But the reconfigurable hardware is central to many network applications.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-nervous-system-for-renewable-energy-projects/
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In the years ahead, the National Football League looks set to dial up some new tech blitzes that will make the game fairer and safer. Among the technologies most likely to make it onto the field soon are wireless sensors in the ball and in players' gear.
http://www.technewsdaily.com/going-deep-the-future-of-technology-in-the-national-football-league-1171/
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Putting chips into devices other than computers and mobile phones - a market known as embedded processors - represents a $10 billion opportunity, according to Intel's Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini. The market for PC processors is $34.5 billion.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BUHI1F8BJF.DTL
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3M has agreed to acquire Tel Aviv based Attenti, a remote people-tracking technology provider for $230 million.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/48119/20100901/3m-attenti-cogent-google-facebook-location-based-services-geriatric-care-acquistion.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict
Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin’s Mobility News Weekly – September 2, 2010
Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter that is 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 numbers and trends.
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
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The worldwide smartphone applications market grew more than $2.2 billion within the first quarter, according to a study by research2guidance. In 2009 the applications market had posted revenue of $1.7 billion. Mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in only six months, compared to 3.1 billion in 2009.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753129
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ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
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A new report from the Globe and Mail indicates that while Google’s rise in the smartphone world shook up the market, its Android operating system may have reached its peak.
http://www.visagemobile.com/news/news/understanding-mobility-management-news/5078/report-finds-growing-smartphone-options-for-businesses-may-lead-to-short-reign-for-android-devices-in-the-enterprise/
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Google unveiled a way for Web users in the U.S. to make calls through its Gmail email service, further pushing into the Internet-calling business and ratcheting up competition with similar services such as Skype.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451743621937792.html
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In May Dr. Neal Sikka began a six month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants at GWU Hospital could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images. "Mobile health" does not mean a clinic on wheels. It is an emerging field within telemedicine that comprises all aspects of care generated from or available on a portable mobile device such as a cellphone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083003939.html
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Apple's iPad will account for an overwhelming 74.1 percent of global tablet shipments this year, with the remaining 25.9 percent consisting of a mix of older PC-type tablet products and competitive slates, according to a study by iSuppli.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753118
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Motorola Inc. unveiled a new smartphone version of its handsets that feature a popular Chinese handwriting technology, in hopes that the company can make a comeback in China, where it was once the market leader.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704323704575461513047883520.html
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Sony Ericsson Chief Executive Bert Nordberg said Tuesday that he expects smartphone use in China to expand to half of all mobile phone users in the country within five years, as the company joins other global handset makers in shifting its focus to higher end devices.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704421104575463344074776632.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Samsung says they've sold one million T-Mobile Vibrants and AT&T Captivates in less than a month and a half in the US.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/29/samsung-galaxy-million/
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Microsoft will spend about $400 million to promote the launch of its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system according to Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg, adding his forecast doesn't include the millions the software giant has already committed to pay its handset manufacturer partners to offset non-recurring engineering costs.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/analyst-microsoft-will-spend-400m-market-windows-phone-7/2010-08-30
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Mobile content revenues in the U.S. will increase from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to over $3.53 billion in 2014, a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20 percent, according to a new forecast issued by digital intelligence firm eMarketer.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/emarketer-mobile-content-revenues-top-3-5-billion-2014/2010-08-31
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AT&T Mobility readjusted its schedule to begin offering services in a number of markets it had acquired from Verizon Wireless earlier this year. The carrier said it was moving up the launch dates in markets in South Dakota, North Dakota, Alabama, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado from the originally announced “mid-2011” to “the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011.”
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100902/CARRIERS/100909988/att-mobility-accelerates-alltel-market-transitions
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Syclo announced it is rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo’s mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/Agentry_Mobile_Platform/Enterprise_Mobility/prweb4460374.htm
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T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that the company has been awarded a three year blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under the terms of the agreement, the EPA and its 17,000 employees will have access to a full range of T-Mobile products and services.
http://www.bradenton.com/2010/08/31/2540816/t-mobile-usa-awarded-epa-mobility.html
********
The middle-aged Internet (ARPANET first went live more than 40 years ago) could easily slide into complacency, but the National Science Foundation might be staving this off with four multimillion dollar grants that the agency has recently awarded. The Future Internet Architecture research projects are expected to re-think the network from the ground up, taking into account emerging security concerns, the demand for greater bandwidth and the growth of mobile devices.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=re-thinking-the-internet-with-secur-2010-08-31
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You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant job sites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
********
I recently registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas. I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
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Nearly a year ago, on August 27, 2009, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called to order his first meeting as the head of the new five member panel. Inside the FCC's low slung but expansive meeting room in Southwest Washington, D.C., the commission voted to open a series of inquiries into the wireless industry.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/one-year-fcc-where-things-stand?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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Companies could increase their annual revenue an average of $2.01 billion by improving employee productivity through making their data just 10 percent more usable and accessible.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/study-refutes-nick-carr-shows-data-it-do-matter/397
********
Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others:
Education and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Apple Stores and Motorola No More
Systems Integrators and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Recommended Webinar:
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper:
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
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Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro Full
Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
***************************************************
You can read archived versions of the newsletter here - http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/p/kevins-mobility-news-weekly.html.
********
The worldwide smartphone applications market grew more than $2.2 billion within the first quarter, according to a study by research2guidance. In 2009 the applications market had posted revenue of $1.7 billion. Mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in only six months, compared to 3.1 billion in 2009.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753129
********
ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.
********
A new report from the Globe and Mail indicates that while Google’s rise in the smartphone world shook up the market, its Android operating system may have reached its peak.
http://www.visagemobile.com/news/news/understanding-mobility-management-news/5078/report-finds-growing-smartphone-options-for-businesses-may-lead-to-short-reign-for-android-devices-in-the-enterprise/
********
Google unveiled a way for Web users in the U.S. to make calls through its Gmail email service, further pushing into the Internet-calling business and ratcheting up competition with similar services such as Skype.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451743621937792.html
********
In May Dr. Neal Sikka began a six month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants at GWU Hospital could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images. "Mobile health" does not mean a clinic on wheels. It is an emerging field within telemedicine that comprises all aspects of care generated from or available on a portable mobile device such as a cellphone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083003939.html
********
Apple's iPad will account for an overwhelming 74.1 percent of global tablet shipments this year, with the remaining 25.9 percent consisting of a mix of older PC-type tablet products and competitive slates, according to a study by iSuppli.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=753118
********
Motorola Inc. unveiled a new smartphone version of its handsets that feature a popular Chinese handwriting technology, in hopes that the company can make a comeback in China, where it was once the market leader.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704323704575461513047883520.html
********
Sony Ericsson Chief Executive Bert Nordberg said Tuesday that he expects smartphone use in China to expand to half of all mobile phone users in the country within five years, as the company joins other global handset makers in shifting its focus to higher end devices.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704421104575463344074776632.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
********
Samsung says they've sold one million T-Mobile Vibrants and AT&T Captivates in less than a month and a half in the US.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/29/samsung-galaxy-million/
********
Microsoft will spend about $400 million to promote the launch of its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system according to Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg, adding his forecast doesn't include the millions the software giant has already committed to pay its handset manufacturer partners to offset non-recurring engineering costs.
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/analyst-microsoft-will-spend-400m-market-windows-phone-7/2010-08-30
********
Mobile content revenues in the U.S. will increase from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to over $3.53 billion in 2014, a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20 percent, according to a new forecast issued by digital intelligence firm eMarketer.
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/emarketer-mobile-content-revenues-top-3-5-billion-2014/2010-08-31
********
AT&T Mobility readjusted its schedule to begin offering services in a number of markets it had acquired from Verizon Wireless earlier this year. The carrier said it was moving up the launch dates in markets in South Dakota, North Dakota, Alabama, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado from the originally announced “mid-2011” to “the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011.”
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20100902/CARRIERS/100909988/att-mobility-accelerates-alltel-market-transitions
********
Syclo announced it is rolling out major enhancements to its Agentry mobile enterprise application platform. Agentry is the backbone of Syclo’s mobile solution framework as it provides both the tooling and infrastructure that enterprises need to develop, test, deploy and manage high availability mobile applications.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/Agentry_Mobile_Platform/Enterprise_Mobility/prweb4460374.htm
********
T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that the company has been awarded a three year blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under the terms of the agreement, the EPA and its 17,000 employees will have access to a full range of T-Mobile products and services.
http://www.bradenton.com/2010/08/31/2540816/t-mobile-usa-awarded-epa-mobility.html
********
The middle-aged Internet (ARPANET first went live more than 40 years ago) could easily slide into complacency, but the National Science Foundation might be staving this off with four multimillion dollar grants that the agency has recently awarded. The Future Internet Architecture research projects are expected to re-think the network from the ground up, taking into account emerging security concerns, the demand for greater bandwidth and the growth of mobile devices.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=re-thinking-the-internet-with-secur-2010-08-31
********
You are tasked with managing a team you cannot see. You are accountable for the safety of your employees in locations you have never been. Your success is based upon your team’s ability to overcome all kinds of technical challenges in remote and distant job sites. You are responsible for your team following company standards, processes and industry best practices without any supervision. You must expertly balance their schedules, qualifications and workloads to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability from a distance.
http://theemf.org/2010/09/01/managing-the-mobile-workforce/
********
I recently registered for SAP's TechEd 2010 Las Vegas. I am excited about it this year - the year of mobility! SAP's 2010 focus is - on premise, on demand and on device - MOBILE device that is. I will be teaching a session on The Future of Enterprise Mobility. I have seen the conference agenda and it is packed full of sessions on mobility. I hope to see all of you there!
http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-benedict-on-teched-2010-in-las.html
********
Nearly a year ago, on August 27, 2009, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called to order his first meeting as the head of the new five member panel. Inside the FCC's low slung but expansive meeting room in Southwest Washington, D.C., the commission voted to open a series of inquiries into the wireless industry.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/one-year-fcc-where-things-stand?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
********
Companies could increase their annual revenue an average of $2.01 billion by improving employee productivity through making their data just 10 percent more usable and accessible.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/study-refutes-nick-carr-shows-data-it-do-matter/397
********
Recent articles from Kevin Benedict’s blog Enterprise Mobility Strategies for SAP and Others:
Education and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Apple Stores and Motorola No More
Systems Integrators and SAP Enterprise Mobility
Recommended Webinar:
I participated in the webinar, 10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Implementing a Mobility Solution this week. It can be viewed here, http://www.clicksoftware.com/96ec7ed7-023c-4260-a063-a7d5c320dd23/knowledge-center-on-demand-webinars-registration.htm?mgs1=06a52axCfU.
Recommended Whitepaper:
Networked Field Services - http://www.clicksoftware.com/1c7060c0-1296-4c54-90d6-8f83c5c5ecf0/knowledge-center-white-papers-registration.htm
**************************************************
Kevin Benedict, SAP Mentor, SAP Top Contributor, Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst
Phone +1 208-991-4410 twitter @krbenedict Join SAP Enterprise Mobility on
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2823585&trk=anet_ug_grppro Full
Disclosure: I am an independent mobility consultant, mobility analyst, writer and Web 2.0 marketing professional. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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