Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 18, 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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Nearly 247 million mobile phone users around the world are expected to download a health app in 2012, according to Research2Guidance. Read Original Content

A new benchmarking study by research firm Cutting Edge Information advises life science companies to create more relevant content when developing mHealth apps by better understanding end-users’' current mobile trends. Read Original Content

EHRIntelligence reported mobile health adoption among patients is booming, with 53 percent of U.S. adults in possession of a smartphone, and just over half of those users accessing medical information from their devices. 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 Mobile Health Application market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 40.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is increasing adoption of smartphones and social networking sites. Read Original Content

The Pew Research Center, in a new report titled Mobile Health 2012, found that 52 percent of smartphone owners referenced health information on their palm-sized, microcomputers. That compares to 6 percent of owners of regular cellphones. Read Original Content

According to researchers, 62 percent of doctors use a tablet in some shape or form and 71 percent of nurses use a smartphone at work. The mHealth industry is forecast to be $11.8 billion market by 2018. Read Original Content

Automatic Data Processing, a business outsourcer that offers payroll, tax and benefits processing applications, has announced an upgrade to its AdvancedMD practice-management health care app for the iPad to allow doctors to capture billing charges on the Apple tablet. Read Original Content

Smartphones may soon be harnessed for monitoring patients with heart failure, offering advantages such as remote assessment and early prediction of decompensation. A recent survey suggested 88 percent of physicians would like to be able to monitor measures of their patients’ health status at home. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 18, 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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736,247 apps are currently live, but since Apple launched its App Store in 2008, 1 million apps have been approved and made available for download, according to a report by the Next Web, which cites information from Appsfire, an app discovery and promotion platform.  Read Original Content

The smartphone market, it seems, is now moving to gender with women in particular being the target of the new smartphones. Oppo, the Chinese company prepping to introduce a 1080p 5 incher called Find 5, has introduced a new smartphone that targets the ladies dubbed Ulike 2.  Read Original Content

Cell phone thieves accustomed to turning big profits on stolen devices may soon find themselves out of business as a new national system comes on line to render any phone reported stolen permanently inoperable.  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.

Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to grow by 30.2 percent to 865 million units next year, accounting for about 43.9 percent of total cellphone shipments, according to Digitimes.  Read Original Content

Gartner Inc. reported this month that Nokia slipped from number three in smartphone sales in the second quarter to number seven in the third. RIM another phone maker that has had its share of troubles in the last several quarters -- replaced Nokia at number three, with HTC not far behind.  Read Original Content

In an interview with German news site, Financial Times Deutschland, Sony Mobile's sales chief, Dennis van Schie, said the company is preparing a new flagship model, which it will unveil at CES 2013 in January.  Read Original Content

This is the first holiday season in which the iPad faces competitors that have built up a solid footing in the market. Amazon and Google introduced tablets just in time for the shopping rush. As a result many consumers and analysts say the new market of keyboardless computers is quickly becoming as confusing as that of the old-school PC.  Read Original Content

SAP has announced strong support for the Windows 8 platform, including six upcoming mobile apps that focus on business training, recruiting and sales.  Read Original Content

ClickSoftware Named Gartner MQ Leader

ClickSoftware, provides automated mobile workforce management and optimization solutions for the service industry.  This year it has been positioned as a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in their 2012 Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management report (download the report free here). Gartner did not position SAP in the Leader quadrant, even though SAP has both Syclo and resells much of ClickSoftware's solution as SAP’s Workforce Scheduling and Optimization.  If fact, ClickSoftware utilizes much of the SAP Mobility Platform in their solution.  What is the logic?  Take a look at what makes up a full Field Service Management solution:

• demand forecasting
• long-and-short term capacity planning
• shift planning
• real-time scheduling and optimization
• enterprise mobility
• business analytics

The service industry needs a lot of tools and automation.  It needs all kinds of back-end solutions and capabilities.  The real value of just about any mobile solution is the back-office or cloud based solution it is connected to.

According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management ClickSoftware is well-positioned to take advantage of the four critical elements of the Nexus of Forces.  The Nexus of Forces is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social, mobility, cloud and information patterns that drive new business scenarios.  At Cognizant we call these four SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) because it is great fun to “talk smac!”

It is easy to forget how important the ERP and the back-office solutions are to mobility.  An enterprise mobility app is only as good as the software in which it connects.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. 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 November 18, 2012

A lot of evolution has happened thus far in 2012 with HTML5.  The best use cases for HTML5 are being discovered, while the areas that are weak are now better understood.  I expect additional development and increasing use of HTML5 in 2013. 

I believe in HTML5.  IT organizations have as their number one priority, solving business needs, followed by managing TCO (total cost of ownership).  HTML5 fulfills both of these needs.  If a mobile worker needs order and inventory information while on the road, they don't need every bell and whistle possible in native code.  If HTML5 can efficiently enable many of these small mobile apps that provide real productivity to be developed and deployed quickly at low costs, then IT organizations should be embracing it.  If you have time later, find a use case for native, but don't delay productivity gains in order to justify developing in native.

Now for the news...

The Wikimedia Foundation is deploying an HTML5-based video player that will make it easier to add video clips to the millions of articles on the Wikipedia site.  Read Original Content

Researchers at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology report online tracking technology is evolving as tracking techniques like Flash cookies are being replaced by HTML5.  The use of Flash cookies dropped 15 percent from May to October 2012 and HTML5 local storage use increased by 12 percent.  Read Original Content

Google has launched a new experimental and interactive web app, JAM with Chrome, built with HTML5, CSS3 and the Go programming language. Read Original Content

Sencha has released version 2.1 of the Sencha Touch JavaScript library for mobile devices, designed to help developers create HTML5 apps for mobile platforms including iOS, Android and BlackBerry.  Read Original Content

The BlackBerry 10 browser has passed Ring 1 of the Ringmark benchmark standard for HTML5 app compatibility.  Read Original Content

Amit Gupta of JoomlaIntegration believes HTML5 apps for Smartphones “have a better user interface, utilities for events and other effective features”.  Mobile shopping from applications using HTML5 is formulated with the Database, Canvas and GeoLocation API’s.  Read Original Content

Developer David Walsh describes and demonstrates “Camera and Video Control with HTML5”.  Read Original Content

An executive at European news outlet FinancialTimes.com recently stated the decision to focus on HTML5 rather than native apps resulted in increased mobile usage and revenues for the company.  “The reports of the death of HTML5 are greatly exaggerated.”  Read Original Content

Microsoft’s new SDK for IE10 enables developers without advanced expertise in CSS and HTML5 to “create site features such as multiple columns, positioned floats and device adaptations” and features an HTML5 application cache that makes website files available offline.  Read Original Content

Maltese furniture house Fino has redesigned its website using HTML5 technologies and is now easily viewed on desktops and mobile devices.  Read Original Content

LinkedIn has replaced the HTML5-powered search function on its iPad app with native code, and the company reports it saw a 20 percent increase in searches as a result of the change.  Read Original Content

Mozilla has released Popcorn Maker 1.0, a free online video editor built entirely in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.  Read Original Content

LG Electronics announced it has added HTML5 support for its Pro:Centric IPTV platform for the hospitality industry.  Read Original Content

FTAdviser has launched a new mobile web app built using HTML5 technology “to provide an effective, interactive user interface without the need to download through an online store”.  Read Original Content

Jaspersoft has replaced the Flash-based visualization engine with HTML5 in the new release of its business intelligence suite.  Read Original Content

Tom’s Guide provides a list of “20 HTML5 Games to Pass the Time”.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 18, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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New research from Juniper shows more than 500 million people will use mobile coupons next year, a 30 percent rise on 2012, with the growth powered by further integration into social networks. Read Original Content

A recent IDC report estimates total mobile device spending, driven largely by m-commerce, will exceed $1 trillion by 2017. Read Original Content

The Australian arm of mobile network operator Vodafone has released details of its forthcoming SmartPass NFC mobile wallet, which could launch "as early as next year" after testing takes place over the next few months. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

Twenty-eight percent of those who own a smartphone or tablet plan to shop from their mobile devices on Thursday, according to a Harris Interactive survey of more than 2,000 adults on behalf of Digitas. That’s nearly twice the percentage that said they would shop from a mobile device on Thanksgiving in a similar survey conducted last year. Read Original Content

Mobile is expected to make a huge impact on retail this holiday season, with almost 70 percent of smartphone owners expected to use their device to shop. Read Original Content

According to an eConsultancy report, search engine marketing in North America is expected to be worth $23 billion by the end of 2012 with a large portion coming from mobile traffic; projections show an additional $4 billion in growth throughout 2013, which brings the industry to an estimated worth of $27 billion. Read Original Content

Mobile devices captured nearly 20 percent of all online shopping in Q3 2012, which bodes incredibly well for online retailers heading into the holiday season. Read Original Content

According to a market research report published by MarketsandMarkets the total NFC applications market is expected to reach $10 billion by 2016 at an annual rate of 38 percent from 2011 to 2016. Read Original Content

According to a study by Harris Interactive 27 percent of tablet and smartphone-owning consumers plan to use them for their holiday shopping this year. Read Original Content