Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of September 9, 2012

This week I spoke at the ClickConnect 2012 conference.  While attending I listened to the product guys/gals at ClickSoftware discuss their mobile application development platform called ClickMobile Touch which is a development platform for HTML5 based enterprise mobility apps.  While some may question the value of HTML5 for the enterprise, ClickSoftware is not one of them.

ShoutEm has unveiled a development platform for the creation of HTML5 mobile web apps with much of the same functionality as native apps.  Read Original Content

It doesn’t have to be “native vs. HTML5” for mobile apps if developers take a hybrid approach.  The hybrid app will be built individually for each mobile platform, but developers can add layers of HTML5 to run on top of native code in order to take advantage of each platform's best features.  Read Original Content

HTML5 Goodies presents a tutorial on how to create a simple Windows 8 game using HTML5, JavaScript, WinJS and libraries from CreateJS.  Read Original Content.  The HTML5 Development Center can be found at:  http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/index.php#fbid=ZNEP4ORbKct

Indian online entertainment store Hungama.com is launching a new HTML5 version to enable users to listen and stream on all iOS, Android and Windows 8 platforms (the service already exists for BlackBerry and Symbian interfaces).  Read Original Content

Developer Horia Dragomir discusses the challenges of writing HTML5 apps and games for mobile devices in this interview in InfoQ.  (Both video and transcript of the interview are available.)  Read Original Content

Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to implement HTML5-based drag and drop uploads, show upload progress and update content without running a custom proxy server between their web app and S3.  Read Original Content

Chinese search engine Baidu has launched a new Android browser featuring a new HTML5 and JavaScript engine which scored an impressive 482 out of 500 on the HTML5 Browser Test.  Read Original Content

Conde Nast has overhauled its British Vogue website (vogue.co.uk), with a new site built in HTML5 and CSS3,”ensuring it adapts to both the small screens of tablet devices, on the largest of desktop monitors, and all sizes in between”.  Read OriginalContent

The new Free HTML5 Video Player and Converter app solves cross browser compatibility issues by enabling the creation of videos once for playback in all HTML5 compatible browsers.  Read Original Content

appMobi has launched two new cloud-based services for hybrid HTML5 apps, openBuild and storeView.  openBuild enables developers to compile HTML5 code into a distributable “hybrid” app and storeView, for PhoneGap and hybrid HTML5 app developers, aggregates and displays detailed app analytics in a single dashboard.  Read Original Content

Distribution, monetization, platform power and network effects, and functionality are reasons the apps vs. HTML5 debate is important.  A new report from BI Intelligence explains these reasons and what an HTML future will look like for consumers, developers, and brands.  ReadOriginal Content

A new infographic in Tnooz provides information to help organizations with the question of whether to build a mobile app or a mobile website.  Read Original Content

HTML5 has a future, but is currently losing as far as mobile devices are concerned as it’s out-performed by native apps, says David Meyer in this article, “Why HTML5 is in Trouble on the Mobile Front”, in ZDNet.  Read Original Content

According to Tom Petrocelli in his article “Big Differences in Mobile Support for the Social Enterprise” in CMSWire, HTML5 is the lowest common denominator for reaching all platforms and HTML5 support will be on the rise and will be “a core part of the Social Enterprise feature set”.  Read Original Content

appMobi has launched a new free remote debugging tool for HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.  debugMobi simplifies remote debugging on mobile devices with a configuration-free, hosted version of the open source tool Web Inspector Remote that developers can access from anywhere on the Internet.  ReadOriginal Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Udi Keidar

Have you ever wondered about the role cloud computing plays in enterprise mobility and field services?  In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, which I recorded yesterday in San Diego, CA., Udi Keidar, VP of Cloud Services with SAP Partner ClickSoftware explains the world as he sees it.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 9, 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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A recent study by Prosper Mobile Insights found that over 51 percent of smartphone owners confess to reading their emails more frequently on a handheld device rather than a desktop. Some 45 percent of those polled said they had web access on their smartphone.  Read Original Content

A new report from Chitika is pointing to a powerful degree of dominance by Apple in the mobile web space. According to the latest data revealed on Thursday, Apple devices are responsible for more than half of all mobile web traffic in the U.S. and Canada today.  Read Original Content

Of the 45.6 billion mobile applications people will download this year, nearly 90 percent will be freebies, according to new research from Gartner.  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

Microsoft on Tuesday opened its Windows Store to developers around the world, meaning they'll now be able to write and submit their wares to the online application market.  Read Original Content

According to an HeBS Digital Industry Pulse Poll performed last month, hoteliers are more interested in mobile website development than any other aspect of mobile marketing, including mobile app development, mobile banner advertising and other initiatives. Read Original Content

Intel has unveiled a power-sipping design called Haswell that is aimed at making the company's chips more effective in portable computing devices.  Read Original Content

Apple faces a dramatically different U.S. smartphone market for the iPhone 5, than it did when it launched the first iPhone in 2007. Today, roughly half of mobile users currently own a smartphone. Thus, while the iPhone 5 may be a "gigantic success around the world," it may be less than gigantic in the U.S., says Stephen Baker, director of industry analysis for The NPD Group.  Read Original Content

According to Nielsen, young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 make up 74 percent of the smartphone market. Yet, through interviews of some 20,000 mobile users in July, the group found that teenagers between 13 and 17 are becoming smartphone owners at a much quicker rate than young adults.  Read Original Content

What I am Learning about Mobility at ClickConnect 2012

I had the good fortune of spending time with Aberdeen Group's Director of Research for Service Management, Sumair Dutta yesterday at ClickSoftware's ClickConnect 2012 event.  He shared a couple of interesting points with me.

1. The biggest ROI available for most field services organizations is the "First Time Fix" goal.  This is when the service technician can fix the problem the "first" time on the job.  There is so much time wasted going out to a job, evaluating it, ordering parts and rescheduling to come back at a later date.  The expense doubles when you can't fix it the first time.  Think about the wasted time, fuel, lost opportunity costs and poor customer service.

How does mobility fix this?  It doesn't unless you connect the right back-end systems together.  You want to be able to see the customer's history.  You want to understand the equipment that needs to be repaired.  You want to have the right tools, certifications and parts with you.  All of these things require integrating back-end systems with your mobile application.  When this is accomplished, you can get it right the first time.

Sumair also shared some of the latest research from Aberdeen Group.  Did you know:

• Only 64% of large companies have mobilized their field services organizations?
• Only 59% of medium companies have mobilized their field services organizations?
• Only 44% of small companies have mobilized their field services organizations?

I predict that many of the large companies that have already mobilized, will be looking for a refresh of both hardware and software in the next 36 months.  The market is wide open and the vision of what is possible is far greater than ever before.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Aberdeen's Sumair Dutta

I had the privilege of attending Aberdeen Group's Sumair Dutta's session today in San Diego at ClickSoftware's ClickConnect 2012 user conference.  In this interview he shares his thoughts on the use of mobile technologies in the services industry and what he is seeing and hearing.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Full Disclosure: I am a 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 September 9, 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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IT research firm Gartner predicts revenue from mobile advertising will reach $20.6 billion worldwide by 2016. That’s a 522 percent increase from the total revenue brought in just last year. Read Original Content

According to eMarketer, Twitter’s mobile advertising revenue will be greater than that of Facebook’s by the end of this year. eMarketer estimates mobile ad revenue for Twitter will reach $129.7 million this year. Read Original Content

According to a study commissioned by Mobile Marketing Association, the optimal level of spend on mobile advertising for U.S. marketers should be, on average, seven percent. The findings represent a leap from the less than one percent currently being allocated today. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Sky Technologies.

According to researcher eMarketer, Facebook's mobile-ad sales in 2012 will end up around $72.7 million, less than a 3 percent market share for domestic mobile ads. Read Original Content

With over 160 million Americans on Facebook and 53 percent of mobile phone owners having smartphones today, mobile digital campaigning is changing the way political strategists are engaging audiences and investing advertising dollars. The 2012 elections are expected to experience the largest amount of mobile ad spend for political exposure so far. Read Original Content

Research firm EMarketer projects that Facebook’s mobile advertising revenue in the United States will quintuple next year. EMarketer expects Facebook to grab nearly 10 percent of that market by 2014. Read Original Content

Despite uncertain outlooks in both the Eurozone and the U.S. economy, GroupM projects media advertising spending in China will increase by 13.4 percent compared to 2011 to reach RMB 394 billion. Read Original Content

Marin Software’s report, The State of Mobile Search Advertising, indicates consumers are much more engaged with search ads on smartphones and tablets, with click through rates that are respectively 24 percent and 39 percent higher than on desktops. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Moshe BenBassat

I had the opportunity to sit down with the founder and CEO/Chairman of ClickSoftware, Moshe BenBassat yesterday in San Diego, CA and interview him on his background working with military planners, ballistic missiles, air forces and the history of his company.  We dig into the use of artificial intelligence in their workforce optimization software, and the critical role of enterprise mobility in field services.  I believe you will find this interview very interesting.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

M2M News Weekly - Week of September 9, 2012

Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.

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According to a new market research report, published by MarketsandMarkets the total M2M market is expected to reach $85.96 billion by 2017 at a CAGR of 26.1 percent from 2012 to 2017. Read Original Content

The Global Internet of Things and Machine-To-Machine communications market is expected to reach $290 billion by 2017, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 30.1 percent between 2012 to 2017, according to a report by MarketsandMarkets. Read Original Content

According to a recent report by Analysis Mason, the number of M2M device connections worldwide will increase from 100.4 million in 2011 to 2.1 billion by 2021, implying an average annual growth rate of 36 percent. Read Original Content

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. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

The global market for Cellular M2M Modules is projected to reach $2.76 billion, primarily driven by expanding applications of Cellular M2M Communications, and strong support from Governments across the globe. Read Original Contact

IMS Research estimates that more than 25 million smart grid-enabled devices, such as smart thermostats, smart energy displays, and smart appliances with the ability to communicate with smart meters, will be shipped in the U.S. in the next five years. Read Original Content

The State Grid Corporation of China has announced ambitious plans to install 300 million smart meters by 2015. China intends to reach or even exceed a target of 50 million total smart meters this year alone. Read Original Content

By the end of 2016, annual worldwide shipments for smart meters will reach 130 million units, reports IDC Energy Insights. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 9, 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
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Sales figures for online shopping conducted through mobile devices are predicted to reach $730 billion within the next five years, according to Juniper Research. Read Original Content

According to research by comScore, Tablet owners are more engaged in e-commerce than smartphone owners with 39 percent of tablet owners making purchases via tablets in the last month compared to 18 percent of smartphone users. Read Original Content

Orange has announced that customers with Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone will now be able to make contactless payments. Orange customers will be able to make use of the NFC capabilities of the mobile device using the company’s Quick Tap service, which was launched through a partnership with Barclaycard last year. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI, www.dsionline.com.

The percentage of online sales via mobile devices could reach 20 percent by this Christmas, figures released today revealed. Site visits via mobile devices are set to reach 30 percent, according to the latest results from IMRG. Read Original Content

Contactless payment in taxis is on the rise and on track to replace cash transactions, according to Cabcharge. The taxi payment company has reached the two million contactless payment mark through its in-taxi terminals, and will be looking to enable NFC payment options very soon. Read Original Content

PayPal is rolling out a mobile payments application optimized for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. The app joins PayPal's existing mobile services for Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Read Original Content

PayPal is teaming with credit card company Discover Financial Services to expand use of the eBay subsidiary’s nascent mobile payments service from a few thousand merchant locations to potentially seven million by the middle of next year. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Gary Delancy

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of sitting down and talking with a 20-year enterprise mobility veteran, Gary Delancy, VP of Product Development at DSI.  Twenty years ago mobility was mostly relegated to warehouse management.  Since then DSI has become a power house enterprise mobility company in many different industries, including a strong presence in manufacturing environments.  This year, for the first time, Gartner has included them in their Magic Quadrant for MADP (mobile application development platforms).  They also have a long history of integrating enterprise mobility with M2M (machine to-machine) environments.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.