Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 28, 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.

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According to Nielsen, Apple has retained its place as the largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. in the third quarter with a nearly 30 percent share, while the overall market continues to shift toward smart devices, reports Fortune. Read Original Content

China has leapfrogged the U.S. to become the world’s largest smartphone market by volume, according to third quarter figures released by Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android's security features, making them more vulnerable to attack.  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 the third quarter of the year, both Windows Mobile and Windows Phone combined held 6.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market. That's down 33 percent from the 9 percent of the U.S. market Windows Mobile/Windows Phone held in the previous quarter.  Read Original Content

The majority of UK consumers (59 percent) now own a smartphone, 18 percent own a tablet device, and as many as 67 percent have used an app, and 73 percent have accessed a website using these mobile devices in the last twelve months, research from an EPiServer study has found.  Read Original Content
Mobile application downloads in the U.S. increased from 3.8 million in September 2011 to a record 4.91 million in October, a 29 percent month-over-month leap, according to mobile app user acquisition platform Fiksu's latest App Store Competitive Index.  Read Original Content

Research In Motion has released BlackBerry Mobile Fusion – the Company’s next-generation enterprise mobility solution and RIM’s entry into the multi-platform Mobile Device Management marketplace.  Read Original Content

Last month, Apple managed to achieve an impressive 42.8 percent of all UK smartphone sales.  Even though it was introduced during the middle of the month, there is no doubt that Apple's flagship iPhone 4S was responsible for this result.  Read Original Content

According to figures released by VisionMobile, a market analysis and strategy firm, smartphone adoption has reached over 27 percent around the world.  Read Original Content

Research In Motion is introducing a software tool giving corporate customers the option of linking employees' personal iPhones to the BlackBerry network without compromising security.  Read Original Content

According to ABI research, 2016 is the year health and fitness apps will cross the $400 million mark. ABI has further predicted that 1 billion health related apps will have been downloaded by 2016. Read Original Content

HTC hopes to re-spark consumer interest with its new line of smartphones in early 2012, despite the company’s poor performance in the global smartphone market this year, reports Reuters.  Read Original Content

A new study finds that iPhone owners are the most loyal smartphone users, and cites customers' personal investments in Apple's ecosystem as driving an over 80 percent retention rate for the device.  Read Original Content

Lenovo has unveiled three new tablets and a smartphone for the Chinese market and also will launch a smart TV product in the first quarter of next year.  Read Original Content

AT&T has withdrawn its application to buy T-Mobile from the Federal Communications Commission after the FCC dealt a blow to its plans by announcing that it will hold a court hearing to examine the proposed merger.  Read Original Content

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Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011


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

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A new study from ABI Research predicts the overall mobile health app market will nearly quadruple to $400 million by the year 2016, up from $120 million in 2010. Read Original Content

Manhattan Research recently reported that three out of every four U.S. physicians own some type of Apple device. Smartphone use among physicians is forecast to reach 81 percent by the end of 2011, compared to 50 percent for U.S. consumers. Read Original Content

Equitable Life of Canada announced the launch of its EZClaim app for BlackBerry devices. The mobile app enables users to submit health and dental claims and receipts electronically from their mobile device. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

Ottawa Hospital is being praised for purchasing 3,000 iPad devices and hiring 70 app developers to create mobile applications that focus on both patient service and administrative functions. Read Original Content
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Insider's Insight into NFC - Near Field Communications


Over the past few years, we have seen significant changes across all the major smartphone platforms led by companies such as Apple, Google, BlackBerry and Microsoft.  Each vendor is trying to add unique values in order to differentiate themselves from the crowd.  This competition is helping smartphones evolve as a platform for software applications rather than just being a messaging platform.  Given these developments, technologies such as Near Field Communications (NFC) are getting renewed attention.

NFC has the potential to impact the way we shop, travel and transfer data. It can make our lives easier and transactions more convenient. It can make accessing new media and content services more instinctive; it can make it easier to pay for things; easier to discover, synchronize and share information; and easier to use public transportation and other public services.  NFC is creating new opportunities for MNOs (mobile network operators), device manufacturers, service provider, enterprises and consumers.

Endeavour and BlackBerry are presenting a webinar on “Insider’s Insight into NFC” where they will discuss NFC device and application capabilities.  This webinar will be presented on December 8th, 2011, at 10:30 AM CDT.  Register here!

Webinar Outline:
  • Introduction to Near Field Communication
  • NFC Ecosystem with focus on NFC Enabled Smartphone Devices
  • NFC Use Cases
  • Guidelines & Considerations
  • Future of NFC

Participants and Highlights:
  • NFC Application Demo
  • Tom Parish - Mobile Strategy Thought Leader
  • Pradeep Rao - Alliances Solutions Manager at Research In Motion
  • Dwarak LN – Sr. Consultant – Technology Consulting Group, Endeavour
  • Basavraj Birajdar – Technical Architect, Endeavour

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of November 28, 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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Sears has prepared a mobile marketing strategy for holiday shopping that includes mobile payment options and QR codes advertisements in magazines and newspapers. Read Original Content

Best Buy is running geotargeted ads that let consumers save money on products sold at locations closest to them. The ad, which is targeted within Pandora’s iPhone application, tells users where the nearest Best Buy location is.  Read Original Content

InMobi has found that the Malaysian mobile advertising market has grown 37 percent during the third quarter and is experiencing one billion ad impressions each quarter. 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/

Pandora, the online radio company, is now providing radio service to 70 percent of its customers through mobile devices. Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: K2 Partnering's Fabio Paradiso

A couple of weeks ago while I was in Singapore teaching enterprise mobility and mobile strategy workshops, I was able to spend a humid equatorial afternoon with an Italian, Fabio Paradiso from K2 Partnering discussing enterprise mobility and mobile commerce with local businesses.  In this video Fabio shares some of his insights on mobility in Asia.




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Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 28, 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.


According to information gathered by Internet security service provider Zscaler, over 40 percent of mobile device users are using Android handsets, 37 percent are BlackBerry users and, iOS iPhones account for 22 percent. Read Original Content



Global advanced water meter shipments accounted for over $500 million in revenue in 2010, with over 70 percent of this in the North American market, according to IMS Research.  Advanced water meters (M2M enabled) can be read by technologies including handhelds, mobile and network technologies based on telephony platforms (wired and wireless) and radio frequency (RF).  Read Original Content



Flurry Analytics recently conducted a study on the amount of time users spent on mobile apps based on categories. Flurry found that the top two most used apps were games at 47 percent and social networking at 32 percent. News and entertainment were the third and fourth most used applications. Read Original Content


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