Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.



According to Canaccord Genuity analysts T. Michael Walkley and Mattew Ramsay, Apple controls only four percent of the total phone market, but captures 52 percent of its profits. Read Original Content



In the IDTechEx research report "RFID for Animals, Food and Farming 2011-2021", IDTechEx suggests that by 2021 the market for livestock tracking via RFID will have increased from $1.17 billion in 2011 to $4.09 billion in 2021. Read Original Content



Asymco.com has published a collection of mobility graphs recently, emphasizing the surge in Android smartphone shipments since the second quarter of 2007. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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

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The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn broke the all time mobile ticket sales record.  Twenty-two percent of all tickets sold through Fandango.com were purchased with a mobile device. Read Original Content

A recent survey of shoppers by the National Retail Federation found that 50 percent of smartphone owners plan to use their device to research products or make a purchase this holiday. Read Original Content

Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. has expanded its mobile offerings for the holiday season, updating its iPhone and Android apps and adding technology from eBay Inc., Google Inc., Foursquare and shopkick. Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

Of the 502 U.S. credit card users Auriemma Consulting Group surveyed online in June, 37 percent said the most likely place they would expect to use mobile payments would be in person at a large retailer; 29 percent said they would use mobile payments at a large online retailer; and 29 percent said they would use mobile payments at a large restaurant. Read Original Content
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HTML5 Week - Thanksgiving Special


This week we are going to catch up on some of the recent news around HTML5.  Stay tuned all week for articles on HTML5.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Facebook launched a new “HTML5 Resource Center” to assist developers with building, testing, and distributing HTML5 apps.  The Resource Center is available to all HTML5 developers.  According to the Facebook Developers website, “Web technologies today enable you to build the kind of experience that until recently could only be built with proprietary technologies, like Flash and native mobile platforms.  With the latest improvements in HTML5 and HTML5-capable browsers ubiquitous on desktops, smartphones and tablets, you can now build similar experiences using web standards.

In years past, users primarily used their apps on desktop.  These days, users have multiple devices, and expect their experiences to be seamless and interchangeable across all their devices – desktop, mobile and tablets.  Web enables you to build a seamless experience.”

To learn more about the Facebook HTML5 Resource Center visit: https://developers.facebook.com/html5/

Facebook has also created an HTML5 blog, which can be found at: https://developers.facebook.com/html5/blog/

Amazon is adding HTML5 to its updated Kindle E-book format.  The new generation file format for Kindle books, KF8, will include new features and enhancements, including HTML5 support.  The new format will soon replace Mobi 7.  Amazon states in the announcement that the KF8 format “adds over 150 new formatting capabilities, including fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics, opening up more opportunities to create Kindle books that readers will love.”  

The Amazon announcement can be found at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000729511

Appcelerator will add HTML5 expertise with acquisition of Particle Code.  Appcelerator announced on October 25, 2011, that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Particle Code.  Appcelerator is an integrated mobile platform for rapidly developing native and mobile web applications using open web technologies.  According to the press release, “The acquisition enables Appcelerator to expand its platform used by over 1.6 million developers to become the first mobile platform to offer an integrated native, hybrid, and HTML5 web application solution.”

Press Release:  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/appcelerator-acquires-particle-code-to-become-the-leading-integrated-native-application-and-html5-mobile-web-platform-2011-10-24



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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Enterprise Mobility Workshop in Irvine, California - Next Week

Next week on Wednesday, November 30th from 4:35 PM to 8 PM, I will be presenting a workshop on Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Strategies at the beautiful Winery Restaurant in Tustin, California (right next to Irvine).  This will be held in an intimate setting with dinner, fine wine and good conversation (and an iPad 2 will be given away).  There are still 10 seats left for executives and IT decision makers that are interested in learning more about enterprise mobility and mobile strategies.  The event is sponsored by Preludesys.  This is a condensed version of the workshops that I presented in Tokyo and Singapore last week.

If you are an enterprise executive or IT decision maker interested in learning more about enterprise mobility, then please contact Vince Burns, Preludesys' VP of IT Business Solutions at (310) 766-3079 for reservations.

I will be providing an overview of enterprise mobility, my latest mobility research, mobile priorities, expected ROIs, and reviewing new enterprise mobility strategies.

If you are in Southern California, I would love to meet you!

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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

Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Medical  News Weekly
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Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Panasonic has officially announced its Toughpad lineup of rugged tablets.  The 10-inch A1 and 7-inch B1, are built for heavy-duty usage scenarios like military deployment, construction sites, and unruly kindergarten classrooms. Read Original Content

Mobile apps geared to enterprises will generate more than $150 billion globally for solution providers over next six years, according to Insight Research Corp. Read Original Content

Korean pharmaceutical companies are beginning to use RFID tracking technology to maintain more secure inventories and to prevent illegal production and sale of counterfeit and substandard drugs. Read Original Content

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

Xplore Technologies, a manufacturer of rugged tablet PCs, has recently received purchase orders from one of the world’s largest utility companies for the purchase of more than 4,000 of the Company’s newly launched iX104C5 rugged tablet PCs, representing over $14 million in aggregate sales orders. Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: K2 Partnering's Patrick Caroll

Patrick Caroll is an industry veteran and mobility expert that has spent time in his career at SAP, Vivido Labs and other large high tech product and services companies.  This last week he was my Asia travel partner, event manager and "minder" (A person assigned to guide or escort a visitor, or to provide protection to somebody, or to otherwise assist or take care of something. ~ Wikipedia). 

We conducted a series of workshops on enterprise mobility, and mobile strategies in Japan and in Singapore.  We met with folks from SAP, IBM, Danone, FujiFilm, Cognizant, Novartis, GAP Japan, Accenture, British Telecom, Spansion Appio Labs, NEC and many other companies.

Patrick does not normally wear the beginnings of a mustache, although with 6 or 7 months I am sure it would look good.  He is participating in the Movember campaign during the month of November to raise awareness and funds for male cancer initiatives such as prostate cancer.   

 In this video Patrick Caroll discusses these workshops and our experiences in Tokyo.






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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer


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Mobile Expert Video Series: K2 Partnering's Mark Stevenson

Mark Stevenson with K2 Partnering is a great sport and a pleasure to interview.  He first showed me around some of the best food stands in Singapore, and then was nice enough to allow me to interview him about his versatile Samsung Galaxy.





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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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M2M News Weekly - Week of November 14, 2011

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

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
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Asia-Pacific is forecast to become the largest market for M2M subscriptions in volume terms in 2013, and in 2016 is expected to account for 37 percent of the total market, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Read Original Content

Analysys Mason, a London-based market research company, expects the 100 million M2M devices currently installed worldwide to increase to 2.1 billion by 2020. The largest sectors will be utilities, automotive and transport, and security, with 1.3 billion, 446 million and 277 million respectively. Read Original Content

Sierra Wireless has released a new addition to its line of embedded wireless modules, launching the industry's smallest cellular solution for M2M communications. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

The volume of cellular M2M subscriptions is expected to increase almost fourfold between 2010 and 2016, from 72 million to 282 million. Read Original Content
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Mobile Video Expert Series: Jeff Wallace in Tokyo

I had the opportunity to sit down with Cognizant's AVP of Mobility, Jeff Wallace earlier this week in Tokyo and ask him about enterprise mobility and what he is seeing in the market.




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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Mobile Expert Video Series: Mikie Noma

This week I presented several enterprise mobility workshops in Tokyo.  In this interview I corner K2 Partnering's Mikie Noma, a participant in one of our Tokyo workshops, and ask him what he learned.





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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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