M2M News Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

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

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Oracle has announced that the company’s new Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management solution can process over 1 billion meter reads per hour.  Read Original Content

Pike Research estimates that as many as 238 million smart meters will be deployed across Europe over the next nine years, with cumulative investment in smart grid technologies totaling $80.3 billion by 2020.  Read Original Content

The M2M market will represent a $1.2 trillion revenue opportunity for mobile operators by 2020, according to the GSMA.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

With global M2M revenues set to increase by 36 percent yearly, Sprint is focusing on specific M2M areas:  connected transportation, connected meters, sensors and alarms, connected machines, and connected personal devices.  Read Original Content

TechNavio analysts forecast the Global M2M wireless modules market will grow at a compound annual rate of 54.2 percent over the period 2010 to 2014.  Read Original Content

Planning Your Next Mobile Development Project: Best Practices, Hidden Risks

I would like to invite you to join T. L. Neff and me as we present a webinar on the subject of Planning Your Next Mobile Development Project on Thursday, October 20th at 1 PM EDT.  Developing mobile apps brings a new set of challenges and processes that IT teams must be prepared to address.  We’ll focus on the key areas across the software development lifecycle where mobile development differs from traditional IT projects. 

• Learn how to balance project planning and software development processes against today’s constantly changing business and technical requirements for mobile solutions.
• Learn about best practices in defining requirements for mobile apps.
• Avoid the hidden risks in building out and managing the infrastructure to test and deploy mobile apps.

Click here to register!

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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.

Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

The introduction of the iPhone 4S marks the debut of Apple’s newest mobile operating system, iOS 5.  The new OS is not only loaded with some important improvements — from how notifications about missed calls and other messages are displayed to how your device connects to your computer — it also introduces an innovative, voice-activated “intelligent assistant” named Siri.  This is arguably one of the most meaningful updates to the iPhone we’ve ever seen.  Read Original Content

Microsoft Corp is gearing up to grab a share of the highly competitive smartphone operating system market with its partner in the sector, HTC Corp, launching two new phones that run its latest Windows Phone platform.  The two HTC phones — the Titan and the Radar — are scheduled to hit the shelves at the end of this month.  Read Original Content

The Chinese company Huawei recently outlined its strategy for entering the U.S. mobile market.  Huawei’s goal is to offer more affordable Android smartphones, a growing category for both pre-paid carriers and the Big Four (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile).  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Eight months and several hurdles after receiving 510(k) clearance, mobile-health company Mobisante says its smartphone ultrasound device is officially on the market. Read Original Content

Recent problems with the BlackBerry smartphone system appear have to spread to the United States.  The latest development follows two days of sporadic blackouts across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  BlackBerry's owner, RIM, blamed the latest outages on a backlog of emails to Europe from Asia and the Americas.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Primal's Peter Sweeney

Have you ever pondered how semantic engines, vertical search, and interest networking relates to enterprise mobility?  If not, it's about time!  In this podcast I interview Primal's founder and co-president Peter Sweeney on just these subjects.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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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 Marketing News Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

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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Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

The $2 billion mobile marketing industry is expected to continue a yearly growth of 11.4 percent and will begin to gain momentum in emerging markets like Asia, according to The Global Online and Mobile Advertising Industry Outlook.  Read Original Content

Even though Pandora is popular among smartphone and tablet owners, with over 70 percent of listeners using a mobile device, the company is having difficulty finding advertisers on its mobile platform.  Read Original Content

Frost & Sullivan reports that the Australian mobile ad market grew by 26 percent from June 2010 to June 2011 and is now valued at $13.9 million.  It is anticipated to grow to a value of $82 million over the next five years.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

According to both PayPal and eMarketer research, this holiday season will see a significant increase in mobile shopping penetration.  Forty-six percent of smartphone and tablet owners are expected to make holiday purchases using a mobile device.  Read Original Content

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of mobile application downloads worldwide will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 56.6 percent between 2010 and 2015 to reach 98 billion at the end of the period.  Read Original Content

More News on HTML5 and Enterprise Mobility

I have worked as an IT Manager in my career, and I know the pain involved with supporting systems that are a chaotic mix of different technologies and integration methodologies.  I think that is one reason I am so drawn to the idea that HTML5 will help simplify enterprise mobility for many IT organizations.  Build once and then use across multiple mobile operating systems and device types.  That is the HTML5 dream!

HTML5 Advancing

A new study from Netbiscuits, a mobile software firm, revealed that a majority of the top-selling 10 smartphones in the United States have adopted HTML5 features.  According to the article, “Between 70% and 90% of the top devices support key HTML5 programming elements including offline Web application capability, a geolocation API, 2D animation rendering and Web storage. 

In the last year, HTML5 support is growing for mobile Web development.  Prestigious publishers such as Conde Nast and The New York Times, as well as Apple and Google now support HTML5.  The study found that for accessing mobile sites, the iPhone is the top device, followed by iPod Touch and Android.  “The dominance of Android and Apple still hasn’t solved the fragmentation problem in mobile, however, according to the study.”  A single user experience among all devices is still hindered by differences in hardware, even if all devices run on the latest version of their operating systems. The Mobile Web Metrics Report is available at:  http://www.netbiscuits.com/mobile-metrics-report-2011. 

Original Source 

Adobe and HTML5

According to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, “Adobe is developing great software around HTML5.  HTML5 can be used to deliver rich experiences on the web and will become ubiquitous across mobile devices and desktop computers.”  Adobe is enhancing Dreamweaver for HTML5.  Lynch also indicates that the HTML5 design tool Adobe Edge has been downloaded by over 100,000 users already.  The most recent version of Edge introduces “interactive capabilities such as looping, hyperlinks, and greater animation control”, according to the Adobe Edge website:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/?sdid=JAXXJ&skwcid=TC|23230|adobe%20edge||S|b|8333479386.

Adobe Acquires PhoneGap 

The acquisition is expected to close by the end of October.  The open source platform of PhoneGap enables mobile developers to build cross platform applications with JavaScript and HTML5.  The PhoneGap framework has been downloaded over 600,000 times, resulting in thousands of applications being built.

Additional Articles on HTML5

HTML5 - What's New This Week?

The HMTL5 Standard - Where Do Things Stand?

HTML5's Future - Comments and Predictions

More HTML5 Apps for Your Review
HTML5 Apps
What Can HTML5 Offer Mobile Developers?
HTML5 - What I am Learning
Projections for and Demonstrations of HTML5
HTML5, Enterprise Mobility and Visual Effects
Challenges with HTML5 for Mobile Applications
More on HTML5 for Mobile Application Developers
What Can HTML5 Offer Mobile Developers?
HTML5 - What I am Learning



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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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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.

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Asymco produced a chart earlier in 2011 illustrating the total units sold by each generation of Apple’s iPhone.  The iPhone 4s is expected to sell more units than all previous models combined.  Read Original Content

Juniper Research reports that a number of mobile services are set to grow significantly through 2012.  This includes over $100 billion in mobile ticket transactions through 2012 and remote mobile payments of digital goods will surge to $2.5 billion by 2014.  Read Original Content

In August Pyramid Research ran a report on the number of NFC-enabled handsets projected to be sold through 2015.  Pyramid expects 17.5 million enabled handsets will be sold in 2011 and forecasts roughly 350 million by 2015.  Read Original Content

A March 2011 article by Juniper Research forecasts the mobile ticketing market to triple during the next four years, reaching 750 million people.  This is up from the 250 million individuals who currently purchase tickets through handsets. The Far East and China region contain the majority of m-ticket users and expects to grow steadily in upcoming years.  Read Original Content 

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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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.

HTML5 - What's New This Week?

This week let's take a look at new developments around HTML5, and what companies are doing with it.
 

Facebook Launches HTML5 Platform Plus Apple iPad App

Facebook announced this week that it had  launched an HTML5–based platform, also known as “Project Spartan.”   Users of the will be able to use HTML5-based apps after the impressive overhaul of the iOS version.  Facebook’s Luke Shepard states “We are at the beginning of bringing Facebook Platform apps to mobile.  The features we are launching today are still under development.  They will evolve as we learn more about building richer social experiences on mobile devices.  In addition, we will extend our native support for more mobile platforms such as Android in the near future.  We are excited to see what you will build with these features today and look forward to working with you as we improve these features."

According to Inside Facebook, “iOS developers will get to take advantage of bookmarks, requests and the news feed in the same way that Facebook canvas developers do.”  The changes also allow users to purchase Facebook Credits via mobile.

Facebook also announced its dedicated app for Apple’s iPad. 

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8

Motorola Launches HTML5 Framework for Mobile Apps

Also this week, Motorola launched “RhoElements”, an HTML5 software framework that is designed for developing cross-platform mobile apps.  According to Motorola, the new framework allows developers to create mobile apps “with a consumer-style look and feel” and a consistent interface across multiple mobile platforms.  The new web-based application framework was made possible through Motorola’s acquisition of Rhomobile on July 29, 2011.  Motorola also says that it plans to announce additional cross-platform tools in the coming months.

HTML5 Video Summit

StreamingMedia.com announced on Tuesday that a two-day HTML5 Video Summit will be held in conjunction with the Streaming Media West Exhibition and Conference in Los Angeles, California, November 8 and 9, 2011.  The summit will include how-to sessions, demos, case studies, roundtable panels, and more.  Conference organizers tout HTML5 as “The next generation of online video”. 

http://html5videosummit.com/

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Conferences/West2011/

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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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 October 10, 2011

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 Mobility Charts Weekly

The value of financial transactions carried out through mobile phones has been estimated to be $245 billion worldwide by 2014 in a new report by global consultancy firm Ernst & Young.  Read Original Content

According to Juniper Research, worldwide mobile payments to merchants for physical goods will grow from $60 billion this year to over $170 billion by 2015.  Read Original Content

By the end of the first quarter 2012, more than 7,000 U.S. Subway restaurants will accept contactless payments through the MasterCard PayPass platform.  Read Original Content

The mobile payment platform Google Wallet is becoming more popular as Office Max and other popular retail stores have chosen to provide customers a mobile payment option when buying products.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

Research by Javelin shows that mobile banking usage among consumers has risen from 19 percent to 30 percent during 2011.  Read Original Content

Field Services, Enterprise Mobility and Strategies

I had the thrill of meeting many great people last week while consulting and advising a large European utility company on enterprise mobility, real-time enterprises and networked field services.  I spent four days onsite working with multiple teams understanding their current strategies, processes, ambitions and challenges and helping them formulate an enterprise mobility strategy that would work for them.

The late military strategist, Colonel John Boyd always taught that success in the field comes from three key points in the following order:

1. People (well trained, intelligent, motivated)
2. Ideas (good strategies, processes and philosophies)
3. Things (technologies and resources)

I believe the Colonel.  The team from the utility requested that I spend the week with them helping them to understand enterprise mobility from a global perspective, and to learn what other best in class organizations are doing.  I worked very closely with this team, had good food, laughter and lodging (a castle), and know these people to be motivated and brilliant thinkers. 

We explored their current environments across multiple regions, goals, challenges, processes and infrastructures.  I shared best practices, what I have seen other best in class companies doing to optimze their field services strategies, and provided recommendations.  

The end result of our work together was an understanding of the mobile technology architectures, frameworks and infrastructures that would be needed to support their ambitions and strategies to run a best in class, real-time, field services organization.

Now back to the Colonel's points.  At the utility company, we first needed to understand what the strategies (Ideas) for delivering field services were or should be before we could hope to focus in on the appropriate technology to support it.  We spent the first part of our time together discussing the definition and vision of the "real-time" field services organization.  We asked ourselves, "What does a real-time service organization look like, and what strategies and processes need to be adopted in order to support and manage it?" 

Once the team at the utility company identified the vision they had for their organization and processes, the next step was to review the technologies (Things) needed to efficiently and cost-effectively support their vision.

If your organization would benefit from this kind of workshop, please contact me.

Upcoming Events

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Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
The Evolution of Enterprise Mobility
Mobile Adoption Among Gas and Electric Utilities
Mobile Adoption in Life Sciences
Mobile Adoption in Oil and Gas
Networked Field Services

Recorded Webinars of Note

3 Critical Considerations for Embracing Mobile CRM
Healthrageous Mobility Case Study
The Latest m-Business Trends and How the Onslaught of Mobile Devices Affects Development Strategies
The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise:  The Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
Syclo and SAP Deliver Mobile Apps on Sybase Unwired Platform 

Ruggedized and Industrial Mobile Device Articles

Consumer Smartphones or Industrial Smartphones?

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

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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Researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created a smart option that uses an iPhone app which converts a smartphone into a Medical Monitor.  Read Original Content

Habitat for Humanity Charlotte recently installed GPS fleet tracking systems in its entire fleet of vehicles.  Since deploying a fleet GPS tracking system, Habitat for Humanity has reported an improvement in customer response times, the amount of job orders completed, and reduced fuel consumption.  Read Original Content

The global market for medical device outsourcing services will reach $44.7 billion by 2017, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.  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. http://www.syclo.com/.

American Apparel has been able to reduce the number of employee thefts and processing errors after implementing RFID tracking in 50 of its locations.  Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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

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Berg Insight has reported the market for home health monitoring devices was worth $10 billion in 2010.  They expect the market to grow yearly at 26 percent through 2014.  Read Original Content

Deutsche Telekom and Living PlanIT SA, a specialist in urban technology, are teaming up to develop new ways for city infrastructure to communication with each other using M2M devices and communications.  Read Original Content

The partnership between Sprint and Neptune Technologies is focused on targeting utility companies with their new M2M and smart-metering solutions.  Read Original Content

A new report from medical market research firm Kalorama Information expects the U.S. market value for remote patient monitoring to be $7.1 billion, with annual growth averaging about 25 percent and a $22.2 billion market by 2015.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

InMedica’s report on the telehealth market predicts the total value of telehealth devices currently to be $990 million worldwide.  By 2020 the company expects that number to rise to $6.28 billion, with Americans contributing to 36 percent of the total market.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Steve Jobs: You Will Be Missed.  Read Kevin’s Tribute.

The world expected iPhone 5, but Apple chose to give something less.  From a purely logistical perspective -- and for maximizing margins -- iPhone 4S is sheer brilliance.  Read Original Content

What if they’d just called it the iPhone 5?  The new iPhone is loaded with cool new features that the market was anticipating, with one exception:  it’s not called the iPhone 5; it’s called the iPhone 4S.  Read Original Content

GIA has announced the release of a comprehensive global report on the Smartphone Apps market.  The world smartphone apps market is forecast to reach $101.2 billion by the year 2017.  Read Original Content

Nokia plans to unveil its Windows phones this quarter, increasing the potential for a big holiday race among competing smartphone makers.  Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, will announce more details about the launch at the company's annual trade show in London, on October 26, but hinted a phone would roll out by year's end.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Many bloggers might have been disappointed that the new iPhone 4S doesn't include 4G wireless data or a display larger than 3.5 inches, but analysts believe Apple will increase its U.S. smartphone share with its recent iPhone introductions.   According to Nielsen, Apple is tops in the smartphone market share at 28 percent.  Read Original Content

Steve Jobs: You Will Be Missed

In 1987 I worked in downtown Portland, Oregon at the Nynex Business Center (formerly IBM Product Centers).  We sold IBM, Compaq and Apple products.  I was a young college intern, fresh off the dairy farm and I was in awe of our sales team.  They lived a lifestyle I had only read about.  They traveled, they drove BMWs, they lived in downtown condominiums...and they all had something in common - they were in awe of Apple's Macintosh computer.  That was my first impression of the genius in Steve Jobs.

Here are five things that have most impressed me about Steve Jobs:

1. He was driven out of Apple and the company tanked.  Steve came back and re-created one of the most respected, innovative and successful companies on the planet. 
2. He went into a different industry with Pixar, and created a wildly successful company in the movie industry while pioneering a whole new genre of big time, money making, annimated films.  Pixar was sold to Disney for billions of dollars.
3. He repeatedly impressed us with his designs and understandings of what we wanted, even before we did.
4. I have been in the mobile industry for over a decade.  Steve changed my world.  He did not move the enterprise mobility industry forward with baby steps, it was giant leaps that took us beyond our own imaginations.
5. He not only was a product guy, he created markets.  His vision of the Apple iTunes store revolutionized mobility.  A market place?  This required an entirely different set of skills, but he had them.

Steve showed us that success can be accomplished repeatedly.  Genius can be genius across many different industries.  He showed us that success is not a roll of the dice, but a mindset.  I will miss Steve Jobs.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

Read The M2M News Monthly

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.

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

When comparing Groupon to other online giants like Facebook, Google, eBay and Yahoo, Groupon is expected to reach $1 billion in revenue sooner than the other companies did.  Groupon is nearly at $1 billion in revenue as it approaches its one-year anniversary.  Read Original Content

More than two in five mobile users will go online using their mobile device each month, eMarketer estimates, but many websites have been slow to make their content available in mobile-optimized formats.  Read Original Content

PayPal research indicates there will be a spike in mobile holiday shopping this year. Forty-six percent of smartphone owners are predicted to make a holiday purchase using their mobile device, 60 percent of those people plan to purchase items while at home.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

Read The M2M News Monthly

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.

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly
Also read Mobility ROI Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

In a recent study eMarketer, reveals 41 percent of smartphone owners plan on using mobile Internet a minimum of once per month.  The group also predicts that marketers will spend almost $1.23 billion on mobile advertising in the United States alone, higher than the $743 million spent last year.  Read Original Content

Sales through mobile devices now account for 10 percent of all purchases made in the United Kingdom.  On average a mobile purchase is made every second in the UK.  Read Original Content

PayPal is opening a pop-up store in downtown Manhattan to showcase the new digital payment services the eBay-owned company plans to introduce in the months ahead.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

Research conducted by Verdict and commissioned by eBay showed that mobile shopping could deliver a £4.5 billion boost to Britain’s economy by 2016 and a further £13 billion by 2021.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Apacheta's Don Grust, Part 2

This is the second part of an interview I conducted last week with mobility expert and Apacheta's CEO Don Grust on issues related to cloud computing, Sybase Unwired Platform, ruggedized handhelds, field services and enterprise mobility. Don Grust has more than 28 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including 17 years in wireless and mobile computing. If you missed it, you can listen to Part 1 here.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

Read The M2M News Monthly

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 October 3, 2011

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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly
Also read Mobility ROI Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

New research from Informa Telecoms & Media projects that the number of NFC handsets shipped worldwide will leap from 44 million in 2011 to more than 630 million in 2015, comprising 40 percent of all new handsets.  Read Original Content

OfficeMax has provided 100 stores with mobile payment terminals that will allow Google Wallet customers to pay and redeem coupons using their smartphones.  Read Original Content

MasterCard is planning to bring mobile payments to the Asia-Pacific region and will target Indonesia and its 180 million mobile phone users.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

ABI Research predicts that mobile payments will soon become a mass-market adopted behavior in the United States and Western Europe by 2016.  Read Original Content

Visa is working on a new Android app that will allow device owners to transfer money to contacts save in their phones.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Apacheta's Don Grust, Part 1

In this two part segment I interview mobility expert and Apacheta's CEO Don Grust on issues related to cloud computing, ruggedized handhelds, field services and enterprise mobility.  Don Grust has more than 28 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including 17 years in wireless and mobile computing. Listen to Part 2 here.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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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 News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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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Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Macy’s is planning on using RFID technology in stores nationwide beginning in late 2012.  They plan on using RFID tracking to increase store efficiency and to help drives sales.  Read Original Content

The Georgetown University School of Medicine is considering using Apple iPads and electronic textbooks as substitutes for traditional paper copies of required course materials.  According to Steve Schwartz, associate dean for clinical informatics, the move would save students the money required to print readings and lecture slides while giving them the option to reach their notes virtually.  Read Original Content

Sweden's national transport administration, Trafikverket, is employing RFID tags to transmit air-quality data to trigger ventilation controls within the six kilometer long Norra Länken tunnel, currently under construction in northern Stockholm.  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. http://www.syclo.com/.

A team of researchers from the University of California, Davis has transformed iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.  Read Original Content

The New Zealand government is moving forward with its plan to deploy an electronic national livestock identification system, according to Beef Central.  Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly - Week of September 26, 2011

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

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Healthcare market research company, Kalorama Information has predicted that the market for remote patient monitoring is likely to grow by 25.4 percent annually over the next five years to reach $22.2 billion by 2015.  Read Original Content

Sprint and water utility company Neptune Technology Group are partnering together to provide an M2M enabled water metering solution for nationwide use.  Read Original Content

A recent report from ABI Research reveals that the cellular M2M embedded module market declined 16 percent from 2009 to 2010.  The drop in market value was linked to price erosion.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

A cloud-based M2M sensor and tracking system is being used by U.S. Customs as they monitor imported and exported products across borders.  Read Original Content

Mobility ROI Weekly - Week of September 26, 2011, Part 3

This week I will publish three Mobility ROI reports (this is 3/3), as I have a bunch of ROIs that I have saved up over the past few weeks but have not had time to share. The ROI (return on investment) report includes ROIs that I come across in my weekly research on the topic of enterprise mobility. My goal is to create an archive of mobility ROIs that we can all use. I hope you find this helpful.

Pacific Gas and Electric, has over 5,000 specialists on 1,500 crews that support 50 million customers.  They use solutions from Clicksoftware that include ClickSchedule, ClickPlan, ClickAnalyze and ClickForecast to manage scheduling and many other things. PG and E recognized the following ROIs:

• ROI - Productivity gains as a result of centralized scheduling.
• ROI - Better utilization rates and forecasts as a result of accurate measurement of crew utilization rates and projected utilization rates for future weeks across all regions.
• ROI - Efficiency gains as a result of management's ability to move crews among service regions.
• ROI - Cost savings and efficiencies gained by consolidating 67 dispatch offices down to two.
• ROI - Cost savings and efficiencies gained by providing a unified view of the operational area on one scheduling solution.

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Property management company Developers Diversified Realty needed an easier way for employees to view updated property records while visiting multiple sites per day.  Webalo was chosen to provide a mobile enterprise system that would update employee smartphones with relevant data while still on the road. The following ROIs were achieved:

• ROI - Saved time by selecting cloud-based mobility solution.
• ROI - Saved cost by selecting a cloud-based mobility solution.
• ROI - Recognized value immediately.
• ROI - Provided better customer service by keeping all data updated and current on mobile devices.
• ROI - Cost savings and efficiencies gained by replacing paper and traditional processes.

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Healthrageous used Pyxis Mobile to create a mobility solution that connects customers through their smartphones and mobile devices to the company’s services. The reported ROIs were:

• ROI - Improved customer service by connecting customers through mobile devices with their health programs.
• ROI - Achieved a competitive advantage over other personalized-connected health companies. 
• ROI - Provided convenient mobile solution to improve service and the user's experience.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

Read The M2M News Monthly

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 Podcast Series: ClickSoftware's Gil Bouhnick, Part 2

In Part 2 of this interview with mobility guru Gil Bouhnick (listen to Part 1 here) we discuss enterprise mobility, Windows 8 and tablet trends.




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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

Read The M2M News Monthly

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.

Mobility News Weekly - Week of September 26, 2011

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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly
Also read Mobility ROI Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Gartner expects Apple to sell a whopping 148.7 million iPads in 2015.  Android-based tablet sales, in comparison, will hit 116.4 million, Gartner says.  All told, 326 million tablets are expected to be sold in 2015.  Read Original Content

With speculation around the iPhone 5 already in hyper-mode, Apple has fueled the fire by sending out email invitations to an October 4 event on its Cupertino campus.  In Apple's typical wink-and-a-nod fashion, the invite features four iOS icons revealing the location, date and time of the event. The headline simply read "Let's talk iPhone."  Read Original Content

The new Amazon tablet doesn't have anyone at Apple scared, and it shouldn't.  It's Barnes & Noble, Samsung, and Acer who should be quaking in their boots.  That's because Amazon's tablet aims to be to the 7-inch tablet market what the iPad is to the 10-inch market.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

In July, Nielsen placed the market share of Google's Android OS in the U.S. at 38 percent.  Three months later, for the period ending in August, Nielsen finds that Android has risen to 43 percent of all active U.S. smartphones, a gain of five points.  Read Original Content