Mobile Health News Weekly – June 10, 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 global market for mobile health products and services is expected to approach $23 billion by 2017, and much of the growth will not happen in the U.S. but rather in less-developed countries, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers," MobiHealthNews reports. Read Original Content

Developing nations are adopting mobile health technology at a faster pace than developed countries like the U.S., according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Healthcare Finance News reports. Read Original Content

According to the Worcester Telegram, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Memorial Medical Center have developed a prototype iPhone application that detects if the user has atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in the world and puts the patient at high risk for developing a stroke, typically from an embolic event. 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.

A new report, entitled “The Role of mHealth in the Fight Against Tuberculosis,” details a variety of projects that have shown the effectiveness of using text messages and automatic call-backs on patients’ phones as means of communicating important notices that help sufferers adhere to medication regimens. Read Original Content

AirStrip Technologies is teaming up with Palomar Health to launch a vendor-neutral platform that would allow healthcare providers to access a wide range of patient information sources from smartphones and tablets. Read Original Content

Care transitions technology provider Axial Exchange has acquired mRemedy, a mobile health app company formed by the Mayo Clinic and DoApp in late 2009. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Alec Berry, Part 1

I met Alec Berry, Director of Professional Services with ClickSoftware, just outside of London this week for an interview.  I enjoy interviewing mobile experts that are in the professional services arena as they usually have the best stories and advice as a result of implementing mobile solutions with many different companies.  In part 1 of this interview we discuss the latest mobility trends, mobile and scheduling challenges when working with contractors.

Watch Part 2 of this interview 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.

Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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
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Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
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Mobile phone giants Vodafone and 02-owner Telefonica, have announced plans to create one shared grid in the UK. The move is designed to improve existing coverage and to speed up the roll-out of superfast 4G services.  Read Original Content

Apple has sought to disrupt the U.S. launch of Samsung Electronic's flagship smartphone by asking a court to ban the product from sale temporarily. Apple claimed the Galaxy S3 infringed at least two of its patents based on its analysis of a model bought in the UK. Read Original Content

Shares of HTC opened 7 percent limit down after the smartphone maker cut its second-quarter revenue target by 13.3 percent and posted a 26 percent decline in May sales from a year earlier.  Read Original Content

Google has demonstrated new mapping technologies in an effort to reassert its position as a market leader. While it boasts one billion users, Google Maps has recently seen defections by some key developers and partners.  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.

Facebook has launched an app center to help its members explore software available on the social network. The service will be available on desktop computers as well as on Android and iOS system-based phones and tablets running Facebook's own app.  Read Original Content

In just the two years since the release of Apple's iPad, the U.S. tablet market has reached a "critical mass," with nearly one in four smartphone owners also using a tablet in the three-month period ending in April, according to data released by researcher ComScore.  Read Original Content

A recent report from Ericsson says that by 2017, around 85 percent of the world will be connecting to the Internet through their mobiles and in high-speed.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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
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Consumers are spending 10 percent of their media attention on mobile devices while the medium only commands a mere 1 percent of total ad-spend. Comparatively, print medium attracts only about 7 percent of media-time, but still captures an astonishing 25 percent of the total U.S. ad-spend, with print receiving 25-times more ad money than mobile. Read Original Content

In a joint study, the IAB Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence and IAB Europe, the industry bodies, and IHS Screen Digest, the research firm, reported that mobile ad spend will hit $5.3 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will roll out a mobile phone payment system for commuter rail passes and tickets in the fall, and sign-ups are now under way for riders who want to get involved with the first trial runs of the new technology. Read Original Content

The Louisiana Sheriff’s office is streamlining its traffic citation process with the Apple iPad Socket Mobile Barcode Scanner, and Zerion Software's iFormBuilder Data Collection Platform.  The SAAS Mobile Ticketing/Citation system will save time, reduce data entry errors and improve efficiency for law enforcement. 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

FunMobility Inc. has announced the commercial availability of the AppWidget Mobile Engagement Platform, an integrated SaaS mobile marketing suite designed to boost user engagement and enable true mobile relationship management. Read Original Content

Although IDC has forecasted that the skyrocketing growth in mobile marketing may slow to a more modest rate when compared to the tremendous explosion it has seen over the last couple of years, Windows Phone 7 will be surging ahead to level its playing field with iOS and Android, and will be working with Nokia in order to try to achieve this goal. Read Original Content

eMarketer estimates more than 880 million consumers in China—nearly two-thirds of the country’s population—will own at least one mobile phone by the end of this year.
But marketers in China are not flocking to mobile as an advertising medium. The country’s advertisers now spend less than 1.5 percent of total ad spending ends up in mobile. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Verivo's Marc Rosenbaum

What value does HTML5 bring to a mobile platform vendor that says they already support cross-platform development?  How does HTML5 integrate with native apps to form hybrid apps?  These are the kinds of questions I ask Verivo's mobility expert Marc Rosenbaum in this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series.  I hope you find this segment useful.

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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.

What's New in HTML5, Week of June 10, 2012

I have been having numerous discussions about HTML5 with mobile experts these last few weeks, many of which I recorded on video, so stay tuned to my blog to watch them and learn how leading mobile vendors are incorporating HTML5 into their platforms and mobile apps.

One of my goals with publishing this HTML5 article series each week is to help companies, considering the use of HTML5, to understand the spectrum of use cases and the scope of its adoption by leading vendors.  I hope you find these articles useful.

Now for the news...

The automated software testing tool Testing Anywhere has released a new version, Testing Anywhere 7.5, and is now capable of testing HTML5 and cloud applications.  Read Original Content

OverDrive has announced plans to launch OverDrive Read, an open standard HTML5/EPUB browser-based e-book platform that will allow users to read e-books online or offline, without having to install software or download an app.  Read Original Content

For a comprehensive look at HTML5 in general and specifically as it relates to content publishing, check out this new article from Roger McNamee, “HTML 5: The Next Big Thing for Content".  Read Original Content

Inkling has announced the launch of Inkling for Web, an HTML5-based E-Book app that allows any device with a [compliant] browser the use of Inkling's features, previously available only through its iPad app. All current and future Inkling titles are now available through the new web interface with features including 3D graphics, videos and audio.  Read Original Content

A new provider of in-app mobile payment solutions, Zooz, is now offering an HTML5 mobile web version of its compact SDK, which requires only three lines of code for developers to “cut, paste, and go” in under 10 minutes. Read Original Content

Taptu has announced the launch of an HTML5-based news aggregator web app which will function across all devices.  Read Original Content

According to a YouTube executive, the video sharing site has been slow in fully adopting HTML5 because of browser fragmentation, problems with distribution and cost.  Read Original Content

Uberflip is a cloud-based digital publishing service built on HTML5 for mobile which features geo-targeting tools to allow companies to distribute tailored versions of their marketing pieces by region.  Read Original Content

The FBI has launched its first mobile-friendly website designed for smartphones and built with HTML5, JavaScript and AJAX.  Read Original Content

Jeffrey Zeldman‘s classic “Taking Your Talent to the Web” has been re-created with HTML5 and CSS3 and is now available as a free web book.  Read Original Content

The Beta developers update for the BlackBerry Playbook includes HTML5 optimization, Android functionality and features, and full device encryption support.  Read OriginalContent

appMobi has launched a cross platform game, Boom Town, developed in HTML5 and released simultaneously in Apple’s App Store, Google Play for Android, and on Facebook.  ReadOriginal Content

Progressive Media Group is planning to add HTML5 e-cards to their corporate holiday e-cards product lines, stating “the majority of animations we’ve seen on the web using HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 keep progressing at an encouraging pace”.  Read Original Content

Q4 Web Systems has introduced new HTML5 mobile apps for public companies to communicate with their investors via mobile applications.  Read Original Content

Enterprise mobility solutions provider AnyPresence has developed a utilities solution, backed by a flexible mobile platform, enabling IT staff to assemble mobile apps once, and deploy them instantly as HTML5, iOS and Android mobile applications.  ReadOriginal Content

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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.

Eggs with Benedict (Free Range) Mobile Strategies Workshops in London

Eggs with Benedict, 2012

Next week (June 19th and 20th), I am conducting two private workshops on mobile strategies in London, England.  These are invitation only events for end user companies interested in learning and discussing various mobile strategies.  If your company fits this description and is tackling the challenge of developing an enterprise wide mobile strategy, and you would like to attend one of these half day workshops with me, then please send me an email and I will ask the event organizers if there are still seats open.  There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and brainstorm together.

These workshops are the updated 2012 version of the Eggs with Benedict, Mobile Strategies workshops that I conducted in 11 countries in 2011.

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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 Commerce News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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.

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

It is estimated by 2016, application-to-person messaging – messages between a user and an automated application – will transform industries such as financial services, advertising, marketing, business administration, ticketing, television voting, bill payments and more. Read Original Content

The new Quarterly Benchmarking Index from IMRG and Capgemini has revealed that transactions completed on smartphones and tablets skyrocketed by an astonishing 2,000 percent in two years and accounted for 8.2 percent of total online shopping during the first three months of this year. Read Original Content

A new mobile payment network is leveling the paying field.  Called LevelUp, the network generates unique QR codes on consumer smartphones that can be read by merchant devices.  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

My Mobile Payments Ltd, has launched a new mobile wallet service in India that can be used by customers of any mobile operator or bank (you don't need be with any bank at all), the service called 'Money on Mobile' or MoM, can be used by mobile subscribers to make bill payments, purchase goods and services without the need of cash, check or credit/debit card. Read Original Content

Sprint is working on a mobile-payment service that could take on Google Wallet and countless other competitors in the marketplace, according to a new report from Android Central. Read Original Content

Mobile banking is growing all the time. Not only can you organize your money on your mobile with online and SMS banking, some customers can also use their devices to make payments using NFC. And now, NCR Corporation has announced they will allow their customers to use their mobiles to withdraw money from their account at an ATM. Read Original Content

3D Maps and the Real World of Mobile Workers

I read yesterday about Apple dumping Google Maps and making a big investment in their own 3D mapping technology solution.  I was interested specifically in the 3D aspect of Apple's announced mapping solution.  Since the real world is in 3D, the more 3D the better.

A few years ago I worked on several mobile software projects with a facilities management company.  These projects were very interesting as they involved 3D considerations.  Facility managers need to know things like location and count of electrical outlets,  light fixtures, heaters, network cables and remodeling projects that are not included in the original plans.  Why?  It is their job to assess, maintain and repair the facilities and keep them compliant with local regulations and fire codes, so they must know what they are working on.

In some cases, facilities management company will bring into a room 3D laser scanning technology that will scan the room and completely map out its interior.  These 3D representations are then added to the building plans to provide a complete 3D representation of the building.   This is very useful if you are the person tasked with repairing the building.

I was once involved in a mobile field services project with a company in Oxford, England.  Their business model involved signing multi-year service contracts to support all the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) units in large commercial buildings.  The first thing this HVAC services company did with a new contract is to map out their customer's buildings and equipment and geo-tag them.  That is basically a 3D view of the location of all the equipment they would need to service.

For those not familiar with the concept of geo-tagging, it is simply documenting the GPS location of an object and labeling the location on a map.  In addition, many service companies will add a bar code label to the object so it can be uniquely identified in the EAM (enterprise asset management) system and facilities management systems.  This enables a service technician to simply scan a bar code on an object and have its history and records instantly produced on the handheld computer or smartphone.  It also helps them accurately document maintenance and repairs to that piece of unique equipment.

Buildings are 3D.  So anytime you are servicing objects in a building it is useful to have a 3D representation of it.  Especially, if the buildings are large and the interiors complex.

I recently listened to a segment of TedTalk about an organization that takes 3D scanners and maps out archaeological sites to preserve them digitally.  I thought this was very interesting.  They first described how many historical sites have been lost to history due to wars, looting, vandalism and geological events.  They described how they felt they were in a race against time to scan as many objects as possible to preserve them digitally.  Again these are all 3D maps.

I remember working on a mobile applications project for a services company that did post-disaster inspections of property.  They would enter a building and immediately begin a 3D map of the building.  They were looking for damage to buildings and property including storm damage (water, wind, earthquake, mold, mildew, etc.).  Everything they did involved a 3D map.  I remember discussing how to visually demonstrate water damage that was on the ceiling, two walls and the floor - definitely 3D. 

I teach in all of my mobile strategy workshops the concept of 4D field services.  This takes the concept of 3D (height, width and length) and adds the 4th dimension of time.  When did something happen (time) at that location on the map is also important.

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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 Expert Video Series: Andre Guillemin

Andre Guillemin recently returned from Australia where he conducted a series of workshops on mobile application design for enterprise apps.  I caught up with him in Boston last week, enjoyed some great Indian food (Chicken Biryani), and convinced him to share some of his insights with you.

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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.