Mobile Health News Weekly – March 5, 2012

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

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According to Pew Internet and American Life Project, 80 percent of adults gather health information online and 88 percent of American adults have a cell phone, and among the cell phone owners 53 percent own a smartphone. Read Original Content

The World Health Organization has calculated that mHealth adoption could reduce costs for elderly care by 25 percent, reduce maternal and perinatal mortality by 30 percent, and improve TB treatment compliance between 30 percent and 70 percent. Read Original Content

The significant adoption of smartphones among physicians has not only led to an explosion of medical apps aimed at healthcare providers, but it has also cultivated an emerging trend of health and wellness apps aimed at empowering patients. Check out these three new apps that empower patients. 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.

Clinical trials by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Flinders Medical Centre will assess the performance of the world-leading handheld ultrasound device engineered and manufactured by Adelaide company Signostics Limited. Read Original Content

According to a new study commissioned by Norway-based telecom company Telenor and produced by The Boston Consulting Group, there are currently about 500 mobile health projects underway across the globe. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: PSION's Gregg Anderson

As much as we like to talk about smartphones and tablets on this site, there remains a huge market for ruggedized and industrial grade mobile handheld computers.  Gregg Anderson, with PSION, shares some of the latest developments in this area in an interview that I recorded with him last week at the SAPinsider Mobile2012 conference.

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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.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of March 5, 2012

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

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Key mobile marketing stats and trends are included in comScore's annual mobile report, "2012 Mobile Future in Focus. According to the report, 48.1 percent of all U.S. mobile subscribers owned a smartphone as of December 2011, up 21.1 percentage points from 27.0 percent one year earlier. Read Original Content

Facebook has announced a new suite of advertising products intended to insert more ads into Facebook’s traditionally clean interface and to take more advantage of mobile ads, where the company has struggled. Read Original Content

According to a February 2012 YouGov survey, two-thirds of adults in the U.S. are fed up with receiving too many digital ads. As a result of this digital deluge, 20 percent of U.S. consumers say they will not patronize a business or purchase its products if their advertising becomes a nuisance. Read Original Content

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

Google's digital marketplace for mobile applications, music, movies and books is unifying under a new name in an effort to spruce up the shopping experience. The Android Market will be known as the Google Play Store. Google's eBookstore and recently launched music service will also be part of the Google Play Store. Read Original Content

New figures out from Jumptap indicate that in the month of January, Android and Apple combined made up 91 percent of all smartphone traffic in the U.S. mobile ad network, representing a new high for the two most-dominant mobile phone platforms. Read Original Content

Must Watch! Robotic Cheetah from DARPA - Think Real Mobility

If you thought being chased by the neighbor's dog was frightening, look at what the bad boys/girls at Boston Dynamics and DARPA have been up to in the lab!




Add some location based services, some machine-to-machine communications, a little augmented reality, weapons and access to big data for predictive hunting, and make it all controlled by a digital leash connected to your iPhone :-)

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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.

SAPinsider's Mobile Outlook 2012

I am happy to announce that SAPinsider's Mobile Outlook 2012 report is now available as a free download.  I was honored to be asked to work on this project as the mobility analyst, and we had over 602 survey respondents.  The results are revealing.  They are a view into the plans, strategies, challenges, and ambitions of many different organizations across many different industries — and how they are rapidly adopting mobile technologies and evolving their strategies to maximize their ROI.

 

This is one of over 30 charts in the report.  Download Here!

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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.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of March 5, 2012

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

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Visa and Intel have announced a partnership that should make it easier for consumers to make mobile payments via phones and tablets powered by Intel chips. Users will be able to wave an Intel-powered smartphone equipped with NFC technology to make a payment quickly at retail points of sale. Read Original Content

Isis announced this week that Chase, Capital One and BarclayCard will enable their credit, debit and prepaid cards for the Isis Mobile Wallet that's expected to launch in mid-year. The three credit providers represent about 100 million cardholders. Read Original Content

Visa will soon offer a “one-stop” mobile payment solution. The  “Visa-certified” NFC-equipped device will be securely linked with a user’s bank account and be used to make mobile payments anywhere Visa’s payWave system is accepted. Read Original Content

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

According to a Fiserv Consumer Trends Survey, tablet banking is increasing, with 40 percent of respondent households expecting to own a tablet by mid-2012. Of those, 45 percent planned to use the tablet for banking. Also, 37 percent of households with one tablet planned to buy another tablet. Read Original Content

Google and others are promoting NFC technology, but PayPal's head of mobile, David Marcus, is skeptical: "For NFC to succeed you need consumers to have the handsets, and merchants to install the terminals. It will take time for NFC to get mass adoption. By the time NFC catches up, we'll be in a world that will move away from the point-of-sales terminal." Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Syclo's Bill Padula

Last week at SAPinsider's Mobile2012 conference I was able to record an interview with Syclo's Bill Padula.  In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, Bill shares what he is seeing as trends in the enterprise mobility market.

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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.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of March 5, 2012

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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Geneq Inc. has released the SXPad, a full-featured, rugged handheld computer for GPS/GIS data collection that is built for mobile GIS users in applications ranging from Federal/State/Local government, water/electric/gas utilities, and transportation to mining, agriculture, and forestry. Read Original Content

Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a global provider of mobile and cloud-enabled application and business integration platforms, announced its mobile offering has been successfully implemented by UK-based Cape to develop an integrated business solution that can run natively on any mobile device. Read Original Content

The BlackBerry PlayBook has joined Android and Apple tablets as mobile gateways to the enterprise thanks to the introduction of the PlayBook-compatible Webalo app. The Webalo app can run an unlimited number of secure, encrypted enterprise-to-mobile connections, allowing PlayBook users to access SAP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, in-house, and other applications directly from their tablet. 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/.

University of Georgia researchers have developed a new method for determining where emergency vehicle stations should be located. The results of their work could improve ambulance response time for the 200 million Americans who dial 911 each year, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Read Original Content

NXP Semiconductors, the co-inventor of NFC technology, has created a smart washing machine that's NFC and RFID-enabled. The device recognizes what fabrics you put in it and then chooses a washing program to suit. It can read RFID-tagged buttons on each item in the washing pile, which tell the machine the exact fabric properties. Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of March 4, 2012

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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Satyam Computer Services has partnered with Japan’s SBI Holdings to launch a fund for investing in information and communications technology companies on a global basis.  The CEO of Satyam states “With sharp focus on the future trends, we intend to go full throttle on investing in emerging spaces such as mobility, social networking, security solutions and cloud. Read Original Content

The Symantec 2012 State of Mobility Survey indicates 71 percent of enterprises are discussing the deployment of custom mobile applications and one-third are in the process or have already implemented custom enterprise mobile applications.  The survey was conducted in 43 from August – November of 2011. Read Original Content

A new mobile payment service through HDFC Bank has been launched in India.  The new service, Movida India Pvt., Ltd., is a joint venture between Visa and Monitise, and will allow mobile and online payment services via basic prepaid mobile phones. Read Original Content

Chinese Internet company Tencent is moving away from personal computers and focusing on mobile devices.  The online advertising market in China grew more than 40 percent in 2011. Read Original Content

India’s online insurance giant PolicyBazaar.com has announced a new mobile website to service a mobile customer base that has doubled in the last six months.  The company’s CMO states “With increasing mobile penetration in the country, mobiles are becoming the tool for accessing Internet.” Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: TPC's Tony Smith

I had the pleasure of attending a session this week led by The Principal Consulting firm's Tony Smith at the SAPinsider Mobile2012 conference.  They now have experience working on over 25 SUP (Sybase Unwired Platform) implementations.  In this Mobile Expert Video Series segment, I corner Tony and ask him some additional questions about their experiences.

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

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

Read The M2M News Monthly

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.