Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

The Field Mobility 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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Survey technology firm Terrametrix is utilizing mobile mapping system StreetMapper to perform detailed surveys of 7,250 bridges throughout the state of California.  Read Original Content

In 2011, 21 million consumers used smartphones to scan a QR barcode, and the number is forecast to increase to 26 million.  Read Original Content

City officials in Hattiesburg, Mississippi used National GIS Day to explain to residents how GIS technology provides access to statistical and physical data to city planners to aid in planning for proposed bike lanes, transit routes and street improvements.  Read Original Content

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As the standalone GPS market wanes, device makers are working with auto manufacturers to provide in-car navigation features as an alternative.  Read Original Content

Information Mediary Corp. is developing an NFC version of its drug-tracking products to enable customers to use NFC-enabled phones to track medication usage in clinical trials.  Read Original Content

Government agencies are finding many ways to utilize QR codes, including incorporating the codes on business cards, using the codes to provide information about park services, sports leagues, trails, and historic markers, and even using QR codes to enable citizens to make tax payments.  Read Original Content

Geospatial firm NAG has developed a new software platform which will be used on the International Space Station in January 2013.  The software will enhance the observation and collection of high-resolution imagery of the Earth for research and education.  Read Original Content

Time-Space Compression and Enterprise Mobility

There is a time to recognize sea change and to take action.  That time is now for developing an enterprise-wide mobile strategy and to start implementing enterprise mobility.  I think companies in the past couple of years have not been sure the role mobility would play in their specific company, markets and industries, however it should be clearer now.  It is time to act and be bold.

I propose that mobility is just the beginning.  Mobility is part of a historic time-space compression shift that is impacting all people and industries.  It is important for us to understand the impact this shift will have on each of our companies.

Paul Virilio wrote a great deal about time and speed, and time-space compression.  He calls the science of speed dromology, and strategies around time chronostrategy.  He proposed that the speed at which something happens may change its essential nature.  His argument is - that which moves with speed quickly comes to dominate that which is slower.  The bottom line, is companies that can see faster, analyze faster, communicate faster, produce faster, decide faster and act faster will have enormous competitive advantages.  Mobility is an essential element of all of this.

Time-space compression often occurs as a result of technologies that seem to accelerate speed and reduce distances.  These technologies today include the Internet, Skype, mobile communications, SMS, sensors, satellites etc.  In transportation they are things like trains, jets, rockets, overnight delivery systems etc.  In business, they are ultra-fast market trading systems, globalization, online sales, currency markets, faster production cycles, mobile banking and payments, etc.  

All of these components play a role in compressing time and space.  I can operate a global business, across all time zones from my Boise, Idaho backyard patio.  Speed changes things as Virilio proposed.  The very nature of a business or industry is transformed as time-space compression happens.

Is your company researching this topic?  Should it be?  Virilio suggests that there is a shift toward the emergence and dominance of chronostrategies (time strategies).  We can see this reflected in just-in-time manufacturing, overnight shipping, e-Readers, streaming video, mobile marketing, location based services, social networking sites etc.  All of these are about time and space compression.

I see chronostrategies as a key focus in the field services space.  Companies are constantly seeking ways to improve and optimize their scheduling to be more productive.  They are using their knowledge of location to reduce travel times and optimize routing.

The bottom line is the world is changing and so are your industries and markets.  Mobility is a supporting technology that will enable your company to compress time and space.  The debate should shift from whether mobility has value for your company, to whether your company can transform itself to keep up with the time-space compression that is happening all around it.

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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.

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

Welcome to 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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According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 92 percent of South Australian children aged 5-14 access the Internet, up from 65 percent in 2006, and 31 percent now have mobile phones. Read Original Content

Japan Display Incorporated has unveiled three new prototype displays, combining mobile display technologies from Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi.  Read Original Content

China Unicom’s chairman states the iPhone 5 is currently being tested by authorities, and the company will begin selling the device once it has been approved.  Read Original Content

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Investors have indicated one of the biggest challenges in dealing with North Korea is the lack of cell phones. There are currently an estimated one million 3G cell phones in the country.  Read Original Content

India’s handygo Technologies has launched Gadget Guide, a mobile based service for Airtel mobile customers featuring gadget updates and reviews.   Read Original Content

China’s Singles Day Shopping Festival brought $800 million in eight hours to Chinese online store TMall.com.  Read Original Content

According to South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, Samsung has increased the price of its mobile processors for Apple’s iOS devices by 20 percent.  Read Original Content

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

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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

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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