Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of July 8, 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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Marketers are going beyond the norm and creating “designer QR codes” with different colors and even adding a logo to the center.  Read Original Content

The M2M Evolution Conference and Expo will be held October 2-5, 2012 in Austin, Texas.  Read Original Content

China Unicom, Telefonica and Telstra are working together to provide a solution to enable remote management of the subscription data of M2M embedded SIMs.  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.

RFID technology was used in rebuilding the Christchurch City Library’s Papanui Library in New Zealand after the 2011 earthquakes.  The technology was used for self-loan stations to free up staff from issuing items and enable them to focus on customer service.  Read Original Content

Oil and gas firm Statoil is deploying RFID technology to manage the use of drill equipment on offshore oil rigs.  Read Original Content

Social GPS app Waze is expanding from smartphones to cars, with the first car models to integrate the software coming in late 2012.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of July 8, 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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Telit Wireless Solutions announced the opening of a new office in Melbourne, Victoria to serve the growing M2M markets in Australia, New Zealand and the Oceanic region which includes Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.  Read Original Content

China RFID has launched a rugged NFC keychain which can be read with iPhones and Android devices for mobile payment, mobile ticketing and loyalty services.  Read Original Content

The number of mobile Internet users in the Philippines continues to grow, with 35 percent of Internet users accessing the Internet via a mobile device, ranking the Philippines the third highest in Southeast Asia.  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.

Apple has opened its iTunes store in 12 Asian countries:  Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of July 1, 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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Investments in companies that make health information apps rose 78 percent in 2011 to $766 million. Read Original Content

Samsung has released its first mHealth app.  The app collects information about the user in order to help create and maintain a healthier way of living. Read Original Content

According to the analyst firm Research2Guidance the world market for mHealth apps will reach over $1.2 billion this year. 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.

Check out these four reasons telemedicine will benefit from the recent Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to the American Telemedicine Association. Read Original Content

One of the challenges that mobile apps can help solve is providing specialized medical attention to vulnerable populations. In countries like Colombia, this is one of the grand challenges facing public health services. Read Original Content

Widespread adoption of mHealth is viewed as inevitable in both developed and emerging markets around the world, but the pace of adoption will likely be led by emerging markets and lag consumer demand, according to a new global study conducted for PwC Global Healthcare by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of July 1, 2012

I have been frustrated by Facebook's poor performing hybrid HTML5 mobile app for sometime, and was happy to read that it will be replaced this month by a native app.  The native app from Facebook is reported to be 5 times faster.  Interesting indeed.

Now for the News...

Tylted’s HTML5-based game Cubugs was launched in mid-May and has already attracted more than 1 million players, proof that HTML5 mobile web design can indeed compete with apps.  Read Original Content

As a result of the “limitations of HTML5 development, including issues with online and offline play, animations and sounds for mobile devices”, German social game maker Wooga has decided to move away from HTML5 and focus instead on native iOS development.  The studio believes HTML5 still has a future, but its time has not yet come.  Read Original Content

Infragistics has released NetAdvantage for jQuery Community Edition, an entry-level version of its HTML5 and jQuery UX toolset.  Read Original Content

LiveViewGPS has announced the launch of its Live Trac Mobile Tracking Program, which will enable users to monitor Live GPS vehicle tracking from any mobile device with an HTML5 compatible web browser.  Read Original Content

appMobi announced that the number of HTML5 app developers using its platform has exceeded 50,000.  Read Original Content

According to an Oracle executive, cloud computing, HTML5 and mobile together will help to improve the way that apps are developed.  “Cloud, HTML5 and mobile - these three things will conspire to be a perfect storm for our industry. The combination of HTML5, mobile devices and the cloud is a rogue wave. … HTML5 and JavaScript together are becoming a development platform unto themselves.”  Read Original Content

Information and Q&A from a recent webinar on HTML5 test automation is available in this article by Alex Forbes on sys-con.com.  Read Original Content

Augmented reality software company Metaio has released an update of their Junaio browser and open development platform for iOS and Android mobile devices, with a new user interface and a new API for HTML5 and JavaScript development.  Read Original Content

According to Qualcomm Internet Services president Rob Chandhok, the functional capabilities of HTML5 in mobile must be expanded and the increased functionality must be implemented in a fully standard manner.  “HTML5 won't significantly address the technology side of fragmentation until everybody implements HTML5 to the same level on these new devices.”  Read Original Content

Cloud content service provider Brightcove has introduced a new free edition of its app platform, App Cloud Core, enabling Web developers to use HTML5 and JavaScript to develop and operate native apps for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets.  Read Original Content

The Firefox for Android update has been released, with a new look, added speed and HTML5 support.  Read Original Content

The social online game Moonbase has been updated and HTML5 enabled and is available for iOS and Android devices and on Facebook.  Read Original Content

Zooz and MobiCart have formed a partnership to allow merchants to incorporate ZooZ’s advanced payment solution into their mobile apps created using MobiCart, enabling them to collect in-app payments.  The solution is compatible with HTML5 mobile apps, iOS and Android.  Read Original Content

A group of gaming industry developers have created PlayCanvas, a cloud based platform for HTML5 game creation, which will publicly launch by the end of 2012.  Read Original Content

Placecast has announced a new mobile commerce web app, the ShopAlerts Wallet, which is built in HTML5 and compatible with all smartphone platforms. Read Original Content

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

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of July 1, 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.

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Android-based devices represented 50.9 percent of all smartphones nationwide in May 2012, up from 50.8 percent in April but still down from a high of 51 percent in March, according to comScore.  Read Original Content

Net Applications issued a report Sunday that shows Apple's iOS dominating the mobile Web with a record 65.27 percent share, up 4.2 percent in June alone. Google's Android came in far behind at 19.73 percent.  Read Original Content

Apple's stores and facilities in Italy could be shut for 30 days because of a row about product warranties.  Italian authorities made the threat because it said Apple was not promoting a standard free two-year warranty.  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's iPhone app will be getting a much-needed improvement in speed, something users have been complaining about for awhile.  Read Original Content

Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. maintained the top spot in the U.S. mobile phone market, strengthening its supremacy as the world’s leading handset manufacturer, comScore showed Tuesday.  Read Original Content

According to a new forecast report from NPD DisplaySearch, laptops may be well on their way to extinction in just four years, being rapidly replaced by none other than the sleek and svelte tablet.  Read Original Content

In the next few weeks, some users of the latest version of Apple’s handset will get a marketing message offering as much as $300 to people who trade it for a Samsung device.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of July 1, 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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According to a new report from Juniper Research, in-app advertising spend across all mobile devices will reach $7.1 billion by 2015. Read Original Content

Boston-based Fiksu has raised $10 million to expand the growth of its mobile app marketing platform. The second round of funding comes from Qualcomm and Charles River Ventures. The company will use the funds to expand its mobile app user acquisition platform. Read Original Content

Researchers at EMarketer have said that in 2014, Twitter ad sales, which account for almost all its revenue, will rise to $540 million from $139.5 million last year. The closely held company doesn’t release sales figures. Mobile is a key part of its growth effort. 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

Online movie ticketing service Fandango said Tuesday that its ticket sales rose 28 percent in the second quarter, with purchases by cell phone more than doubling from a year ago. Read Original Content

Coca-Cola executive Wendy Clark is using her role as a Facebook adviser to outline what she says is a top reason the social networking service needs to get mobile advertising right: reaching emerging markets. Read Original Content

Some users of the latest version of Apple’s handset will get a marketing message from Samsung offering as much as $300 to people who trade their Apple device for a Samsung device. Samsung’s strategy is helping fuel a boom in mobile advertising, which Bank of America Merrill Lynch predicts will surge to $18.3 billion in 2015, from $3.6 billion last year. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of July 1, 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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Results from a joint survey by inMobi and Mobext indicate in-store shopping has been affected by mobile devices. Twenty-two percent of tablet users claim they have shopped less in physical stores since purchasing a tablet and 55 percent of tablet owners make purchases on their device in an average month. Read Original Content

The UK's NatWest Bank is to begin a four-month pilot trial of contactless NFC mobile payments with 1000 customers using the iPhone. Read Original Content

Credit card giant MasterCard and mobile carrier Deutsche Telekom announced they are teaming up for an effort to advance mobile payments across Europe. 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

Kiwibank has released its mobile banking app for iPhones. The app is part of a suite of online innovations from the bank intended to revolutionize how people bank online. Read Original Content

The news that MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom are working together on a mobile payments framework to enable consumers to use their mobile phones as a way to buy goods and services is just another precursor to a gradual revolution that will see telcos become our future banks. Read Original Content

American Express announced its network roadmap to advance EMV chip-based contact, contactless and mobile payments for all merchants, processors and issuers of American Express-branded cards in the U.S. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Israel Beniaminy

Israel Beniaminy owns the title of Senior VP of Product Strategies for ClickSoftware.  He gets to ponder the future direction of ClickSoftware's mobile solutions and research where the market is going. As a result, he is always a very interesting person to interview.  I was fortunate that my visit to the UK last month coincided with his, and I was able to meet up with him and record this interview on HTML5, mobile strategies, and trends and developments in the enterprise mobility market.

*Note - it was sunny in the UK.

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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 July 1, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Hidden RFID tags can be inserted into book, CD or DVD packaging during the manufacturing process, allowing the publisher to track the products throughout the supply chain, and also prevents counterfeit products being returned for a refund.
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Sierra Wireless has announced it will acquire Sagemcom’s M2M business, to occur in the third quarter of 2012.  Read Original Content

Analysys Mason predicts M2M connections will grow to 2.1 billion by 2021, and revenue from M2M connectivity will reach $50.9 billion.  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.

ProfitZoom has launched a mobile field services application for Android devices, which enables field technicians of fire and life safety companies to download service tickets and all relevant information to service their client locations.  Read Original Content

Barcodes have inspired furniture and home décor, such as wall art, pillows, CD holders, chandeliers and even sofas.  Read Original Content

Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc. will host its second annual international developer’s conference targeting M2M industry experts, developers and analysts.  Telit DevCon will be held October 8, 2012 in San Diego.  Read Original Content

Marathon Travels, Workshops and Mobile Expert Interviews

I am home.  I started my Spring travel and video interview season on April 25th and wrapped it up today, July 1st.  The result is over 18 segments of the Mobile Expert Video Series recorded with mobility experts from around the globe.  If you missed them the first time, I invite you to view them here.

In between recording videos, attending school and military graduations, speaking at conferences, consulting and enjoying family time in Europe, I was able to write the forward to a new book from SAP Press on enterprise mobility (due this summer), and present a series of Eggs with Benedict, Mobile Strategy breakfast workshops both in the USA and in Europe.  This fall I will also be presenting these workshops in 4 different locations in New Zealand and in Australia.

You will be happy to know that I am trying to improve my videos.  These are definitely amateur videos, from an amateur reporter that says too many ummms, mispronounces names and has a shaky hand, but I am making slow progress.  Thanks for your patience!  Here is a fun (for me) video project where I collected a bunch of the Mobile Expert Video Series segment clips and put them together into a movie trailer. 

This week, I need to catch up on my correspondence and start several new research projects so I can analyze the latest trends and changing landscape of enterprise mobility and share that information with you here in the second half of 2012.

Thanks for reading and watching www.MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com!

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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.