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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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

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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.

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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

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Best of Kevin Benedict's Mobile Strategy - June 2012 Edition

This is a top 50 list of the best articles that I have written (absolutely not Shakespeare) over the past couple of years that are focused on mobile strategies.  I have now written over 1,700 articles, so rather than read through all the uninspired, here is the top of the heap. I hope you find this list useful.

The Best of Mobile Strategies - June, 2012:

1. Infonomics and Enterprise Mobility
2. M2M, Enterprise Mobility and Healthcare
3. M2M and Enterprise Mobility - The Convergence
4. M2M, SAP and Enterprise Mobility
5. SAP's Mobility Vision - Any Way You Want It
6. SAP's Sanjay Poonen Discusses Mobile Strategies with Kevin Benedict
7. Learning about the Real World of Enterprise Mobility in Scotland
8. Avengers, Enterprise Mobility and Network Centric Warfare
9. Enterprise Mobility, Mobile Sensors and Data Collection
10. Mobile Strategies and Consumer Products Companies
11. Mobile Strategies and Situational Awareness
12. Guidance on Selecting a Mobile Solution Vendor
13. Development Models for Enterprise Mobility
14. The Black Hole of Enterprise Mobility Apps
15. Can You Handle the Truth about Enterprise Mobility and Big Data?
16. Money Ball, Big Data, The Internet of Things and Enterprise Mobility
17. Enterprise Mobility - A Business or IT Strategy?
18. Mobile Strategies, PIOs, Optimized Intersections and Patterns of Life, Part 1
19. Mobile Strategies, PIOs, Optimized Intersections and Patterns of Life, Part 2
20. How Long is too Long for Mobile App Development?
21. Conjecture, Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Strategies
22. Enterprise Mobility, Remote Sensors and Nervous Systems
23. Mobility and 4D Field Services
24. More on Mobility and 4D Field Services
25. Enterprise Mobility and Institutional Memory
26. Mobile Apps the Front End to Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
27. Velocity in Field Services
28. Enterprise Mobility is Not for Everyone, Just Most
29. The Value in a Mobile Enterprise Solution
30. Enterprise Mobility, PIOs and PIVs
31. Mobile Apps and the Marriage of My Virtual and Physical Worlds
32. Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility, Mobile Banking and Global Economies
33. Research on Enterprise Mobility
34. Smart Ideas and Enterprise Mobility
35. Field Services, Enterprise Mobility and Strategies
36. The Benefit of Custom Mobile Applications
37. Enterprise Mobility - A Tank Half Full
38. Enterprise Mobility, Netcentric Operations and Military Mobility
39. Death by Mobile App
40. Consumer Smartphones or Industrial Grade Smartphones?
41. What I am Learning about Enterprise Mobility
42. More on Change Management and Enterprise Mobility
43. Social Networking and Enterprise Mobility in Less Developed Regions
44. Recruitment and Enterprise Mobility
45. Enterprise Mobility and Manned/Unmanned Systems Integration Capabilities
46. Where Should Mobile Intelligence Reside?
47. The Importance of Mobile EAM and M2M
48. Enterprise Mobility Application Predictions
49. Managing a Mobile and Network Centric Operation, Part 1
50. Managing a Mobile and Network Centric Operation, Part 2

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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 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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Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

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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Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly 
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Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

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.

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 Mobility News Weekly

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

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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.

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

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 27, 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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The latest report from IDC says Android and iOS control a whopping 82 percent of the smartphone market. Android and Apple devices simply dominate with a combined market share of 82 percent.  Read Original Content

IDC has released new numbers showing that Android now has a 60 percent market share, while BlackBerry has fallen to a meager 6 percent.  Read Original Content

According to a report from advertising network Chitika, the share of internet-connected mobile devices has risen to 20 percent in the U.S. and Canada, a large portion of which are Apple products like the iPhone and iPad.  Read Original Content

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Smartphone sales will total between 750 million and 800 million units and reach over $230 billion during 2012, according to Richard Kramer from Arete Research. However, Apple, Samsung Electronics and HTC are the only vendors making money, he said.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, said its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone went on sale Tuesday in 28 European and Middle Eastern countries, hoping to cement its lead over Apple’s iPhone.  Read Original Content

New York Times has reported that Facebook may come out with its own smartphone next year. Employees of Facebook and engineers briefed on Facebook's plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year.  Read Original Content