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

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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.

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

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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: 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.

Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of June 10, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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

Deutsche Telekom has launched an online M2M marketplace for manufacturers and dealers from around the world to offer their hardware, software, apps and solutions relating to M2M communication. Read Original Content

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

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

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo.

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

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

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

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

Latest Strategies for Mobilized Field Services

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

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

In this webinar we will be discussing:

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

I hope you can join us!  Register here!

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

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.

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 10, 2012

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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
Also read Mobility News Weekly

According to Gartner, the two biggest regions for mobile payments are Asia Pacific and Africa. Gartner predicts they will account for 60 percent of mobile payments in 2016, with Asia Pacific in the lead.  Read Original Content

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

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

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

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

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

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

Mobile Expert Video Series: Gil Bouhnick

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

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

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of June 3, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 3, 2012

The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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

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

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

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

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

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

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

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

Mobile Expert Video Series: Uri Pintov

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

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

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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

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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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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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

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.