Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of June 3, 2012

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

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The British Post Office, a company that can trace its roots back to 1660, is leaping with both feet into the 21st century and the NFC payments game. The post office is rolling out NFC-compatible payment systems to each of its branches across the country starting this week. Read Original Content

In the United States, nearly half of the nation (48 percent) is interested in a mobile wallet, based on a representative sample of 605 consumers conducted by Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group, a financial services industry consulting firm. Read Original Content

D TECH, a manufacturer of automated data entry, mobile payment, point of sale, and secure payment devices, has introduced a new line of Bluetooth devices which support magnetic stripe and barcode reading technologies. 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

Marvell has announced a new 802.11ac-enabled chip that includes NFC and Bluetooth, all in one. The Avastar 88W8897 is geared at mobile devices and aims to compete with Broadcom's own chipsets, which are already being sold inside "5G Wi-Fi" routers. Read Original Content

Security Service Federal Credit Union has formed a partnership with Tyfone Inc. to introduce a host of mobile financial services to its members. Security Service customers will be able to check their balances, review account history, transfer funds, lookup branch and ATM locations, set up customizable alerts and pay bills. Read Original Content

M2M, Enterprise Mobility and Healthcare

SAP and Mobile Healthcare Suite

I noted a new mobile priority for SAP a few weeks back in The Netherlands where I was attending a presentation at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange.  For the first time, that I have seen, SAP listed a Mobile Healthcare Suite as a mobile app priority.  I found this very interesting and agree that this should be a high priority.  I view healthcare as one of the industries that can be transformed the most by mobile solutions and M2M/mobile patient monitoring.

In an article titled X-rays and iPads: the network healthcare evolution, the author Sean Gallagher identifies a number of areas where mobility and M2M (machine to machine) will work together to revolutionize healthcare:

• Monitoring patients’ health more proactively with networked devices, ranging from wirelessly networked medicine bottle lids to worn or embedded sensors that report back on vital signs.
• Coordinating care with the help of analytic tools in the cloud and a wealth of individual and collective patient data.
• Connecting physicians directly with patients over PCs or mobile devices for between-appointment follow-ups.

In another article titled, Health-Monitoring Devices Market Outpaces Telehealth the author Anthony Vecchione identifies some additional trends:

• Medical devices purchased by consumers used to self-monitor health conditions will account for more than 80% of wireless devices in 2016, according to a study conducted by IMS Research.
• The proportion of wireless devices used in managed telehealth programs is predicted to increase from 5% in 2011 to 20% in 2016, according to the study.

Edna Boone in an article titled, Five Ways Mobile Tech Can Improve Your Health listed some additional statistics about enterprise mobility and healthcare that you may find interesting:

• By the end of 2012 mHealth apps will have been downloaded 44 million times. By 2016, that number is expected to increase to 142 million downloads.
• By this summer, 13,000 consumer health apps will be available for download on the iPhone. About half of those (6,000) are for medical professionals.
• More than 80% of physicians own a mobile device, compared to 50% of the general U.S. population.
• About 30% of physicians are using smartphones and tablets to treat patients.

The healthcare field in many ways has been a backward industry that relies on masses of paper.  Today this is now changing with electronic health records and paperless office initiatives, and with advances in M2M and mobile technologies this will only accelerate the transformation in the healthcare industry.

SAP has been showing up at the major M2M events this year (this is new), and even announced the kick-off of an M2M initiative.  SAP partners like ILS Technology are also accelerating their M2M activities and focus on SAP ERP users these days.  I look forward to watching this trend unfold.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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 Expert Video Series: IDC Research's Nicholas McQuire

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, I got the opportunity to interview IDC Research's Nicholas McQuire in Rotterdam at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange.  He is one of my favorite speakers and interviewees.  In this video we dig deep into how multinational corporations support a BYOD (bring your own device) strategy.

D0 you know I have recorded hundreds of mobile expert interviews and they are available in my archives?

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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 and M2M News Weekly – Week of June 3, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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The tourism department in Gujarat, India is planning a 24x7 call center, a mobile app and GIS mapping of the tourist destinations of the state to help the tourists get information about destinations, facilities and hotels.  Read Original Content

M2M communications are predicted to be among the four major areas driving new growth, according to a survey by Frost & Sullivan of four hundred players in the information and communications technology industry.  Read Original Content

Transcore has launched a mobile app to manage real-time traffic situations.  The TransSuite advanced traffic management system mobile app is designed for use on Apple’s iPad, but can also be used on the iPhone and iPod touch.  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.

DLI has announced the launch of the DLI 9000 Rugged Mobile Tablet, which includes a 5-in-1 mobile payment module option.  Read Original Content

Daimler has launched a new speed control system on their long-haul trucks that utilizes GPS data to automatically choose the right gear for going up or down a hill.  Combined with the “EcoRoll” function, which lets the truck coast in neutral when safe to do so, the system provides a three percent improvement in fuel economy.  Read Original Content

Navman Wireless has partnered with TransitPro Logistics to provide an integrated fleet tracking and Medicaid billing solution for school transportation.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 3, 2012

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

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The Chinese government has officially announced the country now has over one billion mobile phone users.  According to the CTIA Wireless Association, the U.S. trails by far with 330 million mobile phone users.  Read Original Content

Estimates by eMarketer forecast online ad spending in China will reach $7.36 billion in 2012, and by 2016 will more than double to $16.48 billion. Read Original Content

The online ad market in China reached $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a year-over-year jump of 56 percent, according to the Beijing Review.  Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

The results of the TCS GenY survey of 12,300 high school students in India reveal that 79 percent of respondents own mobile phones, and more than 40 percent use mobile phones to access the Internet.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure in India, a program under which 10 technology startups leveraging cloud technology for verticals like e-commerce, mobile, media, social applications, gaming, education and healthcare, enterprise and telecom, will be selected for a four-month incubation program.  Read Original Content

Reports from Marbridge Consulting indicate Microsoft may be set to expand its MSN business in China, pushing into e-commerce and increasing integration with Windows phone.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Interview Series: Verivo's Erik Driehuis and Kurt Monnier

I caught up with Verivo's team in Rotterdam last week and asked them about their new offices and strategies for the European market.  They have an interesting and unique business and pricing model that is explained in this video.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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 Health News Weekly – Week of May 27, 2012

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

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The healthcare industry increasingly sees geographic information system (GIS) software as a tool to improve the quality of care by tracking and analyzing area trends, according to an article published in The Atlantic Cities.  Read Original Content

A Manhattan Research survey of more than 3,000 practicing physicians in the United States indicates that 62 percent of physicians actively use tablets for professional purposes, and half of them have used the device at the point of care. Read Original Content

Since having a heart attack, Bill Davenhall has traveled the globe speaking to audiences and advising governments on geo-medicine, an emerging field that uses GIS mapping to correlate environmental conditions to health risks like heart attacks and cancer. 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 PocketHealth app is a mobile personal health record platform designed for individuals or families who want to personally control and manage their health and wellness. Read Original Content

A recent report from Englewood, Colorado-based research firm, IMS Research, is predicting that medical devices utilized by the consumer to self-monitor their health, rather than those used in managed telehealth systems, will be the biggest opportunity for wireless technologies in healthcare over the next five years. Read Original Content

M2M and Enterprise Mobility - The Convergence

It is my opinion that all enterprise mobility vendors need an M2M (machine to machine) strategy.  SAP now sponsors an M2M initiative, and all other mobility vendors are going to need a good story as to how machine data (the Internet of Things) can feed data into back office solutions like SAP through their mobile middleware.  Remember, a lot of M2M data comes in through assets and vehicle GPS tracking systems.  These are mobile objects, automatically sending data back to a server.

The world is no longer about people driving long distances, pulling out a clipboard and paper, and writing down data in a rain storm.  Small wireless chips do the monitoring for us.  These M2M or embedded wireless devices measure and monitor and message the data to our servers.

Today's assets, facilities, security systems and plant equipment can be configured to use embedded wireless chips to report all kinds of things to us.  This information can automatically trigger service tickets that are dispatched to service technicians and updates are then sent to enterprise asset management systems.

It is predicted that by 2025 there will be 50 billion wireless embedded chips sending our systems messages.  How are we to utilize this data?  How can we use this data to provide "situational awareness?"  These are the questions we all should be pondering.

Here is one example of a vendor working to connect M2M to SAP's solutions.  ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance.

See related article

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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 Expert Video Series: Accenture's Sailesh Tailor

In this interview, Accenture's utility and mobility expert Sailesh Tailor shares his insights into the UK utility market, and the demand for enterprise mobility and mobile devices in this market.  He discusses both software and hardware strategies.

Accenture Mobility offers the following five services:

1. Mobile Strategy and Consulting
2. App Development
3. Device Platform Development
4. Managed Services
5. Business Integration Services (large workforce management solutions)

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

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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.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of May 27, 2012

In this edition of "What's New in HTML5" I seem to be collecting people's arguments in support of HTML5.  I guess it serves it's purpose of helping people make good mobile strategy decisions.  Enjoy!

Companies including the Financial Times of London, Technology Review, NSFW and The Toronto Star are moving away from native apps and putting their support and efforts behind the “build once” HTML5 platform as their mobile publishing platform of choice.   Read Original Content

By using features such as geolocation, offline caching, web storage, canvas and others, mobile web apps can hold their own against native apps, thanks to HTML5 and open web standards.  Video and transcript of the educational session, “How to build, distribute and monetize HTML5 mobile web apps” by Emanuele Bolognesi are available.  Read Original Content

HTML5 is the best platform for rapid game development available right now, according to an article by University of Texas student Austin Hallock.  Read Original Content

One of the benefits of an HTML5 mobile site is that users will always receive the most updated version of the website, without having to update an app each time there are revisions.  Another is that developers only need to create one version of an HTML5 mobile website, rather than creating four separate versions of code for a native app for all of the major smartphone operating systems (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows).  Read Original Content

According to spaceport.io’s PerfMarks II Report, the best iOS and Android smartphones ran HTML5 eight times slower than on a laptop computer, on average.  Additional benchmarks show that Android HTML5 performance is falling behind iOS, with iOS approximately seven times better than Android.  Read Original Content

There is room for all forms of mobile apps - native apps, HTML5 web apps, and hybrid apps, as the look, feel and functionality are rapidly evolving to be equal across the board for each type.  Depending on the scope, depth and complexity of a given mobile app and its intended deployment, any of the approaches could work, or an app could conceivably go through iterations that cross all three approaches.  Read Original Content

Mobile gaming company Tylted has launched a new HTML5-based game called CuBugs, the first in a series of HTML5 games in development.  Read Original Content

Diesel eBooks has launched a suite of new mobile products, including the eFreedom app, an optimized eBook Store for mobile devices built using HTML5 technology.  Read Original Content

When it comes to mobile, it’s no longer an “app-only world” for digital publishers.  HTML5 has become the default form of coding for many news sites, and according to the CEO of news aggregator Zite, “the decision isn’t a technology one — native code versus HTML5 – instead, it’s a distribution decision”.  Read Original Content

Noteflight LLC has developed an HTML5-based mobile music viewer for musicians wishing to view sheet music on a mobile device rather than on the printed page.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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.