Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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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Deutsche Telekom has launched an online M2M marketplace for manufacturers and dealers from around the world to offer their hardware, software, apps and solutions relating to M2M communication. Read Original Content

Better inventory visibility, greater supply chain management, improved sales and better customer service are driving demand for RFID technology in the apparel industry.  Frost & Sullivan predicts that with a widespread implementation of RFID technology into the industry, the market will reach $1478.1 million in 2017.  Read Original Content

PreisEnte has introduced a barcode scanner app, which will enable consumers to find the right barcode scanner by business and application.  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.

Bell Mobility and Econz Wireless have partnered to offer three new mobile business solutions:  A mobile time and attendance with GPS application; a mobile field service dispatch and work order management system; and a GPS tracking solution for employees and assets.  Read Original Content

O2 UK and Jasper Wireless are collaborating to deploy a cloud-based platform for management of M2M connections, enabling the quick and efficient rollout of connected devices for customers plus real time management and global support.  Read Original Content

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has implemented an RFID solution for automated temperature monitoring, and plans to deploy wireless monitoring and asset tracking for most of its U.S. hospitals.  Read Original Content

Sony has introduced two new rugged Android-based smartphones, which will be available globally in the third quarter of 2012, the Xperia Go and the water and dustproof Xperia Acro S.  Read Original Content

Latest Strategies for Mobilized Field Services

There are very few areas in the enterprise space that are being transformed more by mobile technologies than field services.  I can think of perhaps healthcare, banking and marketing, but field services is a big one.  This week, Gil Bouhnick and I will be discussing in a webinar, how the use of mobile technologies in field services has introduced completely new business strategies for the services sector.  I invite you to join us!  Register here!    

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, June 13th (8:00 am PST/11:00 am EST/ 4:00 pm GMT).

In this webinar we will be discussing:

• The meaning of a real-time enterprise and the role of mobile technologies
• Situational awareness in field services
• 4D Field Services
• Mobilized Objects
• Velocity in Field Services
• Optimized Intersections
• The role of HTML5
• The role of mobile middleware
• The role of enterprise app stores

I hope you can join us!  Register here!

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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.

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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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According to Gartner, the two biggest regions for mobile payments are Asia Pacific and Africa. Gartner predicts they will account for 60 percent of mobile payments in 2016, with Asia Pacific in the lead.  Read Original Content

The Mobile Asia Expo will be held June 20 to 22, 2012, in Shanghai. The Expo is being organized by the GSMA and the Shanghai International Technology Exchange Center.  Read Original Content

Payments processing technology firm i2c, Inc. and Shanghai-based prepaid service provider KargoCard have formed a partnership to deliver prepaid and mobile payment solutions to merchants in China.  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.

American Apparel has launched its first mobile e-commerce store in Japan, stating that Japan is the most important region to focus on mobile marketing.  Read Original Content

The Internet and Mobile Association of India reports that India’s online travel market has doubled over the last 12 months, with online rail tickets jumping from 2.2 million to 5.6 million, and online air tickets increasing from 1 million to 1.9 million.  Read Original Content

Mobile payments have been mainstream in Asia for almost ten years, with Japan in the lead with 47 million Japanese citizens adopting tap-and-go phones.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Gil Bouhnick

I love interviewing Gil.  He is an enterprise mobility product manager for ClickSoftware who is focused on field services and gets involved in both the conceptual and the real.  He works with many end customers and develops real-world solutions that work in challenging environments.  Because of all of this, he is always an entertaining and enlightening person to interview.  In this segment, he discusses mobile app stores and their increasing value to the enterprise.

In addition to the following video interview, we are also presenting a webinar together next week on mobility and mobile strategies in "field services."  You can read more about this webinar and register here.  The webinar will take place on Wednesday, June 13th (8:00 am PST/11:00 am EST/ 4:00 pm GMT).

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

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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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 June 3, 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 future is getting closer for emerging mobile technologies to take a critical role in engaging consumers to make better health decisions. Two early examples are contact lenses that can send and receive data, and vital signs sensors capable of continuously monitoring the wearer. Read Original Content

Medical devices purchased by consumers used to self-monitor health conditions will account for more than 80 percent of wireless devices in 2016, according to a study conducted by IMS Research. Read Original Content

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. 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.

The size of the mHealth market is likely to be $23 billion by 2017.  Telecom operators are developing ICT capabilities to serve eHealth market, such as cloud-based medical records and imaging as well as in the provision of health information exchanges. Read Original Content

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company which helps its clients face growth related challenges and opportunities, is now focusing its energies on the mHealth market. Read Original Content

On Wednesday, the FCC convened an mHealth summit in Washington, D.C., bringing together not only some of the big gorillas of telemedicine — Philips, Medtronic and Qualcomm — but also several mHealth startups focusing on specific health applications: TheCarrot, MedApps, Telcare and WellDoc. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 3, 2012

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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly

The number of devices connected to mobile phone networks will overtake the number of people on Earth within five years, according to Ericsson. There will be 9 billion mobile subscriptions by 2017 while the U.S. census bureau predicts the global population will have reached 7.4 billion in five years.  Read Original Content

The sale of mobile processors is forecast to increase at combined annual growth rate of 22 percent reaching 1.9 billion units per year by 2016, according to new research by NPD In-Stat.  Read Original Content

By 2017, 85 percent of the world’s population will have access to 3G wireless coverage, according to a new report by Ericsson, with half the global population living in areas with 4G networks.  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.

Google is escalating its rivalry with Microsoft with the purchase of Quickoffice, the maker of a widely used mobile application for working on documents created in Microsoft’s programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.  Read Original Content

Nokia has today taken another step towards connecting the next billion consumers by unveiling the Asha Touch family of mobile devices. The three new phone models - the Nokia Asha 305, Nokia Asha 306 and Nokia Asha 311 - further expand the successful Asha family, first introduced in October 2011.  Read Original Content

SAP Completes Acquisition of Syclo

Chicago 2012

SAP completed the acquisition of Syclo today (Wednesday, June 6, 2012).  This means, hopefully, many answers to questions that nobody at SAP or Syclo would answer until after the sale closed.  I know, I have tried.  A brief digression on that topic - in Rotterdam a few weeks ago, I almost frightened a poor SAP mobility spokesman to death.  I was sitting in a room listening to his description of SAP's mobile solution and when he asked for questions, I put my hand up to ask about Syclo.  When he recognized me he nearly feinted.  He was sure I was going to write something that would finish his career!  I assured him that nobody reads these blog articles so not to worry.

More on  SAP and Syclo - I saw that in July, Syclo has their annual user conference, and I imagine that is the place to get all the answers.  Here is a description of the event:

If you would like to learn more about SAP and Syclo’s joint plans, then the Syclo Mobile Conference is the must-attend event of the year.  Learn what the acquisition will mean to you and your mobile plans.

The event will be held July 11-13 in downtown Chicago, where you will:

• Hear about the SAP/Syclo joint vision and roadmap
• Network with leaders from both SAP and Syclo, as well as your peers
• Learn from mobile solution customers such as National Grid, Wrigleys, Lockheed Martin, W.W. Grainger, US Cellular, Etisilat and more
• Learn how to get the most out of mobile for both technical and business audiences
• Take the opportunity to provide input and shape the future of enterprise mobility

The entire agenda can be found at http://www.syclo.com/SMC/agenda.

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

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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 June 3, 2012

Have you noticed how many of your iOS (iPhone and iPad) apps are now in HTML5? I have several that were updated and are now HTML5.  Very cool!

WebMobi has released a mobile HTML5 app creation platform for Blackberry developers, providing features including developer components for the developer to create their own UI in HTML5, jQuery Mobile or Cordova, and a WYSIWYG designer component to create custom HTML5 content.  Read Original Content

Verivo Software has added HTML5 support to its enterprise mobile app development platform, enabling developers to incorporate HTML5 content and Javascript into native and hybrid apps.  Read Original Content

HTML KickStart is a website development toolkit which contains a set of HTML5, CSS, and jQuery files, layouts, and elements.  Read Original Content

Yahoo has announced the launch of an HTML5-based mobile search app, Axis, with search functionality built with HTML5 and running off Yahoo's Cocktails platform, which blends elements of Javascript, SQL and HTML5.  Read Original Content

Merchandising content and technology provider Easy2 Technologies is converting its products to HTML5 and eliminating the need to use Flash.  “By migrating from Flash to HTML5 we are providing a richer visual experience to shoppers and increased flexibility and scalability to clients and partners.”  Read Original Content

The use of HTML5 provides “100 percent pure mobility”, as it works on anything with an HTML5 compliant browser - smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops, according to ClickSoftware’s Stephen Smith.  Read Original Content

ProPoint Graphics has launched a suite of mobile solutions for business, including mobile app design and HTML5 design.  Read Original Content

Kaazing University is offering 13 free HTML5 instructional videos for development of Ultrabook applications.  The videos are published on Intel’s Software Network (http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/html5-how-to-video-series-for-ultrabooks/).  Read Original Content

The new version of Cubender’s website building platform will introduce many HTML5 features, such as HTML5 audio, video and forms.  Read Original Content

Ecommerce Developer provides a list of 17 tools and tutorials to aid developers with creating HTML5 mobile apps and sites.  Read Original Content

According to some experts, Facebook should focus efforts on the push for further development of HTML5, rather than to create its own smartphone.  Read Original Content

Mediacom and mobile ad network InMobi are collaborating to produce HTML5 ad units using InMobi’s Sprout platform.  Read Original Content

Publishing software provider Quark has announced its acquisition of Mobile IQ to expand the company’s enterprise digital publishing solutions.  Quark and Mobile IQ share a vision of digital publishing that includes HTML5 and XML.  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.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 3, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

According to a Mobile Mix report by mobile advertising and data platform provider Millennial Media, in Q1 2012, 73 percent of mobile impressions served by Millennial Media were delivered on smartphones, trailed by non-phone connected devices at 20 percent and feature phones at 7 percent. Read Original Content

BluFi Lending, a direct lender, recently unveiled its BluFi Mobile Connect, a mobile marketing and communications platform that enables home buyers to access property information instantly via their mobile device or smartphone. Read Original Content

MoneyRates.com, a personal finance site owned by QuinStreet, Inc., has earned the Best Financial Services Mobile Website award in the Web Marketing Association's 2012 MobileWebAwards. 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

Viacom has tapped the Weather Channel's Pete Chelala and its own Deborah Schlessinger-Brett (formerly director of new business for Nickeolodeon) to run its newly created mobile ad sales team for music and entertainment. Read Original Content

Flurry, the leading app advertising and measurement platform, has announced its mobile app user acquisition network, Flurry AppCircle, set new traffic records during May 2012. The network generated 670 million sessions for iOS and Android apps using its paid service. Read Original Content

Mobile is killing the display ad, just as the Internet killed the newspaper ad. In the past two and a half years, global mobile traffic has jumped from 1 percent to 10 percent of total Internet traffic, according to the latest excellent slideshow from Mary Meeker. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Uri Pintov

I recorded this interview a few weeks ago in Spain with ClickSoftware's Uri Pintov.  In this segment Uri discusses enterprise app stores and their value, the future of Microsoft mobility, mobile business views, HTML5 and more.

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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.