Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

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ABI Research recently released a report which predicts that the sports and health mobile app market is on pace to hit $400 million in revenues by 2016. Read Original Content

In a bid to accommodate the aging population and the increasingly hectic lifestyles of their patients, physicians are embracing a broad spectrum of Web-based software solutions that are bringing healthcare services into the home. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Juniper Research, the number of downloads for health-related apps in 2012 will total 44 million by the end of next year. The research firm also predicts that the number of health app downloads will jump to 142 million by 2016. Read Original Content

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

The wireless monitoring device industry in the U.S. has doubled in the past four years to a current value of $7.1 billion. It is expected to triple in the next four years, reaching $22.2 billion by 2015, according to a report by Kalorama. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

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Google said its Android Market has accrued over 10 billion application downloads since its launch in October 2008. Apple has notched close to 20 billion downloads to its App Store.  Read Original Content

Verizon has decided to block its customers from installing Google's new, high-profile Wallet application on the carrier's smartphones.  Read Original Content

Originally Windows Phones were expected to launch in China sometime in 2011.  But as the final month of 2011 slides by, Microsoft has officially punted that launch until 2012.  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/.

Sales of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp dropped 30 percent in November from a month before as the world's No.4 smartphone brand struggled to compete against bigger rivals Apple and Samsung Electronics.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

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

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Mobile Media Buying Platform adsmobi released a new whitepaper about U.S. Mobile Advertising trends. The total mobile advertising spend in the U.S. will jump from $1.34 billion to $2.01 billion in 2012. Read Original Content

AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong said he’s aiming to get at least 10 percent of revenue from mobile advertising in the next year and a half, up from a “tiny” portion now. Read Original Content

Mobile marketing is poised for dramatic growth in 2012, according to a survey of 501 marketing and advertising executives by AT&T, which predicts that much of the growth will be driven by smartphone applications and mobile bar codes. 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/

Pandora, the leading online radio station, is experiencing sharp growth through mobile advertising. Mobile users now account for 70 percent of Pandora’s business. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 5, 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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Mobile commerce in the United States is expected to grow 91 percent to $6.1 billion compared to the value of the market throughout 2010. Read Original Content

Facebook is acquiring the team behind social networking service Gowalla as it continues to build out its location-based services and enter the mobile commerce market. Read Original Content

According to WSL/Strategic Retail shopping via smartphones is growing significantly. Currently half of smartphone owners are making purchases through their devices and mobile retail apps are one of the most popular apps being downloaded. 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/

Poland will soon be able to use NFC-enabled smartphones to pay for goods and services. Total value of transactions made via mobile phones in Central and Eastern Europe amounted to around €290 million in 2010. That is expected to grow to €22.7 billion by 2017, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 5, 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.

The above graphic illustrates the regions within China that are experiencing significant growth in the M2M market. China's Internet-of-things industry reached $193.3 billion in 2010. Read Original Content

As computers and mobile devices continue to play an ever increasingly role in the lives of consumers, this holiday season has been projected to lead with the highest grossing revenues in online shopping ever recorded.  This graph compares the level of growth in online shopping interest between the week before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving week for 2010 and 2011, looking a sample covering hundreds of millions of ad impressions. Read Original Content

Online radio company Pandora has experienced significant growth in the past two years. This sharp increase in revenue can be explained by mobile advertising on Pandora’s mobile app. 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.

HTML5 News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

UK Security firm Sophos made its security predictions for 2012.  They identified new networking and web technologies, including HTML5, as major security risks for the coming year.

HTML5 removes the need for most add-ons and plug-ins because similar capabilities are built in.  However, this also means that HTML5 can become a big target for cybercrime because data is stored within the browser itself.
  James Lyne, a senior technologist at Sophos, states in a December 5, 2011 InfoWorld article (http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/html5-create-new-challenges-security-pros-in-2012-180827) “Traditionally the browser has been a gateway for cyber criminals to get access to your PC, now they're going to be trying to attack the browser itself to steal its data.”


From the Wall Street Journal Tech blog, December 2, 2011 (http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/12/02/mobile-new-browsers-key-targets-for-cybercrooks/?mod=google_news_blog), “New Web and networking technologies will force us to learn some lessons: HTML5, the language to which modern websites are migrating, represents a substantial improvement for developers, but has introduced new vulnerabilities. Older browsers were seen as the route through which attacks could be launched. New HTML5-compliant browsers represent a new target for criminals as they have the potential to store far more information.”

SplendidCRM Software, Inc., provider of customer relationship management solutions, now offers an HTML5 offline client in all editions of its software.  Paul Rony, President of SplendidCRM Software, states "Our new HTML5 Offline Client makes SplendidCRM available on touch devices while in airplanes or at client sites without an available network."
Press Release: http://www.splendidcrm.com/Company/PressReleases/December162011/tabid/147/Default.aspx

Opera announced a new version 11.60 of their browser that includes HTML5 parsing this week.  One of the new features highlighted is the inclusion of a new HTML5 parsing algorithm which “helps unify code discrepancies among browsers."  Press Release:  http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2011/12/06/ 
For more information, and to download the new version:  http://www.opera.com/browser/new/

From the Read Write Web article “Top 6 Trends in HTML5 in 2011”, December 6, 2011
(http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_6_trends_in_html5_in_2011.php),  
“HTML5 is fundamentally changing the way developers approach the Web. Whether it is for desktop browsers or mobile, the language and standards of the future are not some distant point on the horizon. It is right now.”

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

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Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Field Services Velocity

I have had the opportunity to lead enterprise mobility workshops and to learn about field services and enterprise mobility from many different people, in many different countries over the past 2 months.  In this Video Comments I share some of the things I have learned recently.

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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 December 5, 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.

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The U.S. Census bureau is working with Agilex to create mobile apps for iPads and other tablets for its 2020 census workers as they collect data throughout the country. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, Apple’s iPad will soon experience strong growth in the enterprise mobility applications market as tablet sales are also expected to surge in the next few years. Read Original Content

RFID tracking devices are now being used to track the temperatures of frozen meat shipments. This solution is aimed at maintaining healthy temperatures to prevent dangerous food from being purchased. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

FieldOne Systems, a provider of software solutions for field service businesses, has released a new iPhone app for the FieldOne Mobile series allowing field workers to accomplish more work. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly - Week of November 28, 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.

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Smarter Car and LightSquared are creating an in-vehicle solution that enables dealers and drivers to leverage critical data including location sharing, vehicle maintenance diagnostics and in-car applications via smartphones, tablets or PCs. Read Original Content

According to Nerac, a research and advisory firm, market for remote monitoring of medical patients is forecast to reach $5.1 billion by 2013, up from $3.6 billion in 2007. Read Original Content

Machina Research expects the automotive M2M sector to generate 157 billion euros in revenue in 2020, up from 10 billion euros in 2010. The biggest revenue generating segments will be security and tracking, emergency assistance, navigation and insurance. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

Population increases in Australia and a rapid growth of M2M links using mobile networks are among the factors that will see the total number of mobile subscriptions rocket up to 35 million by 2015. Read Original Content

Velocity in Field Services

Velocity - the speed and
direction of an object.

Velocity is usually a physics term, but it can also relate to enterprise mobility and field services in particular.  The term velocity is often used to describe the speed and direction of an object.   In my workshops, I use it in the context of enterprise mobility and field services to describe the ability to quickly bring all required resources (personnel, skill sets, equipment, parts, customers, schedules, etc.) to the point of need (i.e. job site) at the right time in order to optimize production and efficiencies.

How do you increase velocity?  It requires real time data exchanges between your mobile workforce, mobile assets, mobile inventories, mobile equipment, customers etc.  You need to understand the locations, status, availability and arrival and departure time of all required components.

Real-time mobile data exchanges
with PSION's EP10

From a mobile data perspective you need to have real-time mobile data exchanges that include the ability to send and receive the right data, with the right people, at the right time, in the right amounts, on the right devices.

Velocity, in the context of enterprise mobility, is a purposeful strategy.  It requires IT infrastructure that is designed to avoid latency in real-time data exchanges.  It requires a unified view of the "real-time" status of all relevant players and objects necessary to optimize the delivery of services in the field.

My mantra is, "Mobile technologies without mobile strategies is wasted."

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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.