Kevin Benedict Ponders the Future

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 19, 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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According to Prosper Mobile Insights, 23.5 percent of smartphone and tablet owners say their device has been an integral part of their holiday shopping experience so far and they could not shop without it. Read Original Content

Mobile shopping has been one of the hottest trends of 2011, and there are no signs of it slowing down. After rising more than 90 percent this year, mobile commerce will grow at a rate of 73.1 percent in 2012, according to eMarketer. Read Original Content

Jos. A. Bank saw mobile traffic increase 3,000 percent on Black Friday compared to its daily traffic. The retailer revealed its mobile site earlier this year after experimenting with mobile coupons, an iPhone application and in-store campaigns. Jos. A. Bank’s mobile site was developed by 5th Finger. Read Original Content

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Department store chain Nordstrom has updated its iPhone application to offer a holiday guide to users, likely aiming to increase last minute mobile commerce sales leading up to Christmas. Read Original Content

Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility, Mobile Banking and Global Economies

I have recently been reading a number of articles about mobile banking innovations in Kenya and what vendors like SAP's Sybase 365 and other companies are doing to support it. Most people in Kenya, and many other less developed countries, don't own smartphones. However, most do own basic mobile phones with text messaging capabilities. As a result, many vendors and banks have built sophisticated text message-based banking services. The following is a list of some of the available text message-based capabilities and services available in Kenya.

Person-to-person money transfers
Fund remittance from the UK to Kenya
Local and international money transfer
Loan payments
Product purchasing
Airtime purchasing
Funds transfers from interest-bearing accounts
Balance inquiries
Money requests
Attaching short messages to text-based payments
Inviting friends to join mobile banking services
Five different mobile front-ends available: WAP, SMS, Voice, USSD, and STK

SAP's Sybase 365 powers many of these text-based banking systems. I read about Sybase 365 from time to time, but it deserves to be in the spotlight even more for it has the capacity to help revolutionize many economies.

In the book The Birth of Plenty, the noted financial expert and neurologist William J. Bernstein identifies four conditions that when occurring simultaneously are the formula for human (economic) progress. They are as follows:

Respect for property rights (inventors must have proper incentives to protect their inventions).
Belief in scientific rationalism (society must possess the proper intellectual tools to support innovation and progress without penalty).
Existing and functioning capital markets (businesses must have sufficient capital to pursue their visions and business plans).
Effective transportation and communication systems (society must rapidly and effectively move information and finished products).

I believe that mobile technologies can help with at least two out of the four of these conditions. Mobile text-based banking systems can provide trusted and formal banking services where they didn't formerly exist. They can also provide rapid and effective transportation (of funds) and communication systems (that open up and support free markets).

A few years ago I read an article from The Wall Street Journal written by Ronald Bailey entitled, The Secrets of Intangible Wealth. In this article Mr. Bailey writes about a report from the World Bank entitled, "Where is the Wealth of Nations?: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century." The bottom line is that a nation's wealth is greatly determined by intangibles such as:

Trust among people in a society
An efficient judicial system
Clear property rights
Effective government

Bailey says that these four items, identified as "intangible capital", boost productivity of labor and result in higher total wealth. The World Bank concludes the report by summarizing its findings as, "Human capital and the value of institutions (as measured by the rule of law) constitute the largest share of wealth in virtually all countries."

Mobile banking and mobile technologies can introduce formal banking systems, run by internationally trusted institutions, into economies and regions that previously were under-served, or lacked trusted institutions that would support economic development.

If you review the list of services (above) now available using simple and inexpensive mobile phones, you can begin to understand that mobile technologies can not only help to improve governments, but also economies.

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

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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 19, 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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The new iPhone app, Tactical Nav, has been gaining popularity among military personnel allowing users to easily plot and map artillery fire throughout rugged terrain while using their smartphone. Read Original Content

The global enterprise mobility market in terms of revenue was estimated to be worth $5.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach $7.6 billion by 2016. The end-user devices segment accounted for the maximum share, with $3.0 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach $3.8 billion by 2016. Read Original Content

OnForce, a source for on-site tech talent, announced the availability of its Apple iPhone application for IT service corporations and field technicians. The app, available in the Apple App Store, offers efficiency and collaboration benefits throughout the lifecycle of every service event. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

According to IDTechEX, the Global market for RFID technology in 2010 was $5.63 billion, up from $5.03 billion in 2009. The primary drivers for future growth will be "modernizing" applications including asset management, cargo tracking and security, corporate employee identification I.D. cards, networks and facility access control, transport passes, as well as supply chain management. Read Original Content

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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By 2020 the number of connected devices in the world is estimated by Machina Research to be 12 billion, up from one billion in 2010. In Australia Telstra is predicting the M2M market will be worth $1 billion annually in that country alone in 10 years. Read Original Content

RACO Wireless, an M2M partner for T-Mobile announced that the company is on pace to increase its year-over-year growth by 300 percent in 2011. Read Original Content

AT&T is launching a new business division in Atlanta called Digital Life Services, focusing on new opportunities like remote health care, energy management and home security. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

According to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, the age of wireless sensors and M2M technology has arrived. Verizon is increasingly getting involved with M2M projects that include home-energy management solutions and smart meters. Read Original Content

Conjecture, Field Services and Enterprise Mobility

In this Video Comments segment I discuss the word "conjecture" and how it relates to field services and enterprise mobility, plus mobile strategies and decision making tools. I hope you find it useful.

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Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of December 12, 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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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has granted a total of $30 million for 100 telemedicine projects in 34 states and one territory, according to a USDA news release. Read Original Content

Mercy Health System in Philadelphia created a highly targeted app three months ago for its bariatrics program. The app allows users to upload a photo of themselves and change their body image with a stroke of a finger to view what they might look like after weight-loss surgery. Since the app went live it has been downloaded nearly 1,300 times and used by consumers nearly 4,000 times. Read Original Content

The American Telemedicine Association projects an exponential growth in the adoption of telemedicine and mHealth technologies as a record number of consumers are entering fee-capped managed care insurance plans. Currently 73 million Americans are being monitored using telehealth solutions. 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.

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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Android Market, Facebook, as well as Google apps such as Search, Gmail and Google Maps, are roughly the top most popular smartphone applications for the Android platform, according to Nielsen. Read Original Content

Already big in Japan, Panasonic has announced that it plans to take on the world’s smartphone manufacturers and make the leap into the European market. Read Original Content

Apple is learning to compromise. Facing challenges winning over customers for its iAd mobile advertising service, Apple is softening its approach as it loses ground to Google in the fast-growing mobile-ad 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/.

Google has removed a slew of apps from the official Android Market after security researchers found that they contained hidden SMS-message-sending capabilities, allowing criminals to rack up profits at the expense of the smartphone user. Read Original Content

GPS Coordinates and Time

I have been researching and pondering the concept of the 4th dimension this week, and how it relates to enterprise mobility and field services. First I looked up the meaning of 3D or 3 dimensional. Three dimensional is made up of length, width and height. These are basically GPS coordinates. With GPS coordinates you can find and identify a location on the earth or map. If you have GPS coordinates for your mobile workforce or mobile resources you will know where they are located, right? WRONG!!! The only thing that you know is that at a specific time (when the GPS coordinates were captured), they were located at those locations. Time is a very important component. If your GPS coordinates were captured last week, they are not likely to be accurate today?

As I hinted above, the 4th dimension is time, and it is critical to managing real-time field services. You must add time to length, width and height to make 4D. When you have the added value of time, you can do many things. For example:

Monitor travel times by capturing departure and arrival times.
Monitor work start and stop times at a particular location.
Monitor job status at a particular location.
Analyse the best schedules based on locations, travel times, job statuses etc.
Capture KPIs and analyze them.

4D field services is the goal to achieve service optimization. However, it is only possible when your mobile workforce and PIVs (Performance Impact Variables) are connected and using mobile technologies. I will write more about PIVs in my next article.

As many of you know my mantra is, "Mobile technologies without mobile strategies is wasted." There are a lot of interesting things that can be done with mobile technologies to provide a company with competitive advantages if they have a good strategy.

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

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HTML5 – What’s New - December 14, 2011

Kony Adds HTML5 to App Building platform 

Mobile platform provider Kony Solutions launched the KonyOne platform this week. The new platform allows developers to define an app once and deploy it across multiple devices, operating systems, and channels. It allows delivery of both native applications and mobile web – HTML5 and non-HTML5, across phones, tablets, and desktops.

Raj Koneru, CEO of Kony said, “We believe the future includes native, mobile web, and HTML5 hybrid or 'mixed mode' applications. Using the KonyOne platform, developers can use a single code base to create optimized applications for any device, operating system or browser. They can create native, mobile web or HTML5 applications or any combination to achieve the best individual user experience."
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HTML5-enabled Smartphones to Hit 1 Billion Worldwide in 2013

Research firm Strategy Analytics says that HTML5-compatible mobile phone sales will reach 1 billion in 2013, up from 336 million in 2011. What is the definition of an HTML5-compatible phone? An HTML5-compatible phone is defined as “A mobile handset with partial or full support for HTML5 technology in the browser, such as the Apple iPhone 4S”.

The Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, Neil Mawston, states “HTML5 has quickly become a high-growth technology that will help smartphones, feature phones, tablets, notebooks, desktop PCs, televisions and vehicles to converge in the future.” 
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HTML5 is Featured in “Small Business Software Trends for 2012”

In the article, "Small Business Software Trends for 2012," the author writes,  “HTML5 is shifting how we look at apps and software. Right now, the browser is central to how we use SaaS solutions (software as a service), but as more users operate remotely and via mobile devices, there is solid evidence that the browser could go away, or at least become dramatically different from what we experience today." [Kevin Benedict Comment: It seems to me that browsers would become more important with HTML5, not less.]

The author goes on to say, "HTML5 makes it possible to add functionality to the browsing experience. If Adobe’s recent decision is any indication of the trend, they terminated their mobile Flash development work to migrate to HTML5." 

HTML5 is also featured in the blog article,  “7 Mobile Trends for 2012: NFC, Nokia, Apps and HTML5” from Josh Smith at, Gotta Be Mobile. “HTML5 will become a bigger force in the mobile space, powering single page apps and offering a snappier mobile web experience.”

Featured Article: NFC - What is the Hype all About?

Featured Webinar: Insider's Insight into NFC (Near Field Communications)

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

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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According to a new research report by Berg Insight, mobile location-based service revenues in Europe are expected to grow from €205 million in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate of 13.4 percent to reach €435 million in 2016. Read Original Content

Marketing budgets are expected to show a healthy increase next year, despite the uncertain financial climate, and ad campaigns will increasingly target mobile devices, according to the Australian Marketing Institute. Read Original Content

Twitter recently introduced several new enhancements to its service, including ads for its mobile applications, a move that could have significant implications for marketers looking to reach a targeted audience with relevant offers via mobile. 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/

Consumer electronics site Retrevo.com said 43 percent of people it surveyed who own smartphones have installed a retailer's app. Only 14 percent have used an app to make a purchase, but 42 percent use their phones to compare prices. Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 12, 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.

The 2011 KPMG Mobile Payments Outlook, based on a survey of nearly 1,000 executives found that 83 percent of the respondents believe that mobile payments will be mainstream within four years (by 2015). A study by Gartner also ranked the top most trusted brands in mobile payments. Read Original Content

StumbleUpon, the discovery engine that enables its users to "Stumble" onto personalized web content, recently redesigned its website to facilitate mobile users. Mobile users have increased 800 percent in the past year and have become the company’s main focus. Read Original Content

According to Forrester, mobile commerce is expected to reach $31 billion by 2016. This represents a compounded annual growth rate of 39 percent from 2011 to 2016. Read Original Content

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 12, 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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Amtrak is beginning to offer mobile solutions for train passengers as the company is allowing customers to use smartphones instead of paper tickets while they board trains. Read Original Content

Starbucks is experiencing great success with its newly released mobile payment app. In the last nine weeks Starbucks handled six million mobile payments, double the volume of the first nine weeks after the system launched in January. Altogether it has handled 26 million mobile payment transactions since launch. Read Original Content

Mobile payments and other alternate payments could amount to $2.7 trillion in transactions by 2015, according to a study by Intuit. That would make mobile payments easily twice as popular as cash. Read Original Content

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Research firm Gartner estimates that global mobile payment users will exceed 141 million this year, an increase of more than 38 percent compared with last year, while the volume of mobile payments will exceed $86 billion, up 76 percent from last year’s $48.9 billion. Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: 4D Mobile Field Services

We all understand the concept of 3 dimensional, but what about the 4th dimension? In this segment of Video Comments I discuss the relevance of the 4th dimension to enterprise mobility and field services in particular.

Whitepapers of Note:

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

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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

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The global enterprise mobility market is projected to experience rapid growth between 2011 and 2016 with the key drivers being the ever-increasing mobile subscriber base, advanced telecommunication infrastructure in terms of robustness, and the overall network coverage expansion. Read Original Content

Enterprise mobility provider iPass polled over 2,300 enterprise workers for its quarterly Mobile Workforce Report, and found that the iPhone now makes up 45 percent of phones used by mobile workers. This is up from 31 percent in 2010. Read Original Content

According to ABI Research, users of enterprise B2E and B2C smartphone and media tablet mobile applications are forecast to grow at an annual rate of nearly 90 percent, on track to exceed 830 million active users by 2016. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

India’s rapidly growing enterprise mobility market which encompasses hardware, network and data, applications and associated services currently stands at $244 million, has been growing exponentially over the last three years and is expected to reach $1 billion by 2015, according to Zinnov Management Consulting. Read Original Content

December 2011 Research on Enterprise Mobility

I am sitting in my leather reading chair with my coffee next to a warm, early morning fire reading about enterprise mobility. I am re-reading Aberdeen Group's Mobility in ERP 2011, which is one of the best reports I have read all year, and Cognizant's whitepaper, Enterprise Mobile Apps. Here are some of the insights I have gleaned this morning.

Aberdeen Group's paper: Best-in-Class companies spend 25% of the work week trying to access information, all the others spend almost 40% of their time trying to access information.

Cognizant's paper: Millennials (i.e. generation Y) - will increasingly be unwilling to accept the idea of being bound to a desktop computer in their work lives either as employees or customers. In their minds, productivity, communications, collaborations and decision-making are all dependent on having a mobile device with which they can access their network of peers, whatever information they need, and hundreds of targeted applications.

The paper goes on to say that millennials may not even know how to work at peak capacity without mobile devices.

When you synthesize the ideas in these two papers the conclusion is that some of the most valuable employee skills both now and in the future is a thorough understanding of how to use mobile devices, mobile applications, their peer and social networks and a plethora of mobile information sources to quickly find and access the information they need to optimally do their job.

On August 14th of this year, Thomas L. Friedman, author of “The World is Flat” wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times that I found very insightful. Here are a few excerpts, "…globalization and the information technology revolution have gone to a whole new level. Thanks to cloud computing , robotics, 3G wireless connectivity, Skype, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter , the iPad and the cheap internet enable smartphones, the world has gone from connected to hyper-connected. This is the single most important trend in the world today."

Friedman goes on to say, "... to get into the middle class now, you have to study harder, work smarter and adapt quicker than ever before. All this globalization (and I would add mobilization) are eliminating more and more “routine” work – the sort of work that once sustained a lot of middle-class lifestyles."

Mobile technologies and a hyper-connected world are changing consumers, employees, economics, politics and the enterprise in dramatic fashion today. It is critical that companies recognize these trends and develop an enterprise mobility strategy that incorporates and optimizes the value of these trends for their organizations.

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

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M2M News Weekly - Week of December 5, 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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Smartphones are expected to account for 90.8 percent of all handsets sold in the UK by 2016, driving demand for mobile data, according to a new study from Pyramid Research. Mobile penetration in the UK is expected to reach 152.8 percent or 98 million subscriptions by 2016, driven by the growth in data card usage and M2M service adoption. Read Original Content

CEO of Telifonica, Gilli Coston believes the M2M market in the United Kingdom will grow at 25 percent per year through 2020. Read Original Content

Power and engineering firm Siemens will buy smart meter software company eMeter as they both continue to work in smart meter projects globally. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

Within the first month of implementing Networkfleet, a fleet management solution, Campbell Oil Company saved $1800 and also reduced speeding, increased on-time deliveries, and streamlined fuel tax reporting. Read Original Content

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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ABI Research recently released a report which predicts that the sports and health mobile app market is on pace to hit $400 million in revenues by 2016. Read Original Content

In a bid to accommodate the aging population and the increasingly hectic lifestyles of their patients, physicians are embracing a broad spectrum of Web-based software solutions that are bringing healthcare services into the home. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Juniper Research, the number of downloads for health-related apps in 2012 will total 44 million by the end of next year. The research firm also predicts that the number of health app downloads will jump to 142 million by 2016. 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.

The wireless monitoring device industry in the U.S. has doubled in the past four years to a current value of $7.1 billion. It is expected to triple in the next four years, reaching $22.2 billion by 2015, according to a report by Kalorama. Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

The above graphic illustrates the regions within China that are experiencing significant growth in the M2M market. China's Internet-of-things industry reached $193.3 billion in 2010. Read Original Content

As computers and mobile devices continue to play an ever increasingly role in the lives of consumers, this holiday season has been projected to lead with the highest grossing revenues in online shopping ever recorded. This graph compares the level of growth in online shopping interest between the week before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving week for 2010 and 2011, looking a sample covering hundreds of millions of ad impressions. Read Original Content

Online radio company Pandora has experienced significant growth in the past two years. This sharp increase in revenue can be explained by mobile advertising on Pandora’s mobile app. Read Original Content

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

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HTML5 News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

UK Security firm Sophos made its security predictions for 2012. They identified new networking and web technologies, including HTML5, as major security risks for the coming year.

HTML5 removes the need for most add-ons and plug-ins because similar capabilities are built in. However, this also means that HTML5 can become a big target for cybercrime because data is stored within the browser itself.  James Lyne, a senior technologist at Sophos, states in a December 5, 2011 InfoWorld article (http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/html5-create-new-challenges-security-pros-in-2012-180827) “Traditionally the browser has been a gateway for cyber criminals to get access to your PC, now they're going to be trying to attack the browser itself to steal its data.”

 From the Wall Street Journal Tech blog, December 2, 2011 (http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/12/02/mobile-new-browsers-key-targets-for-cybercrooks/?mod=google_news_blog), “New Web and networking technologies will force us to learn some lessons: HTML5, the language to which modern websites are migrating, represents a substantial improvement for developers, but has introduced new vulnerabilities. Older browsers were seen as the route through which attacks could be launched. New HTML5-compliant browsers represent a new target for criminals as they have the potential to store far more information.”

SplendidCRM Software, Inc., provider of customer relationship management solutions, now offers an HTML5 offline client in all editions of its software. Paul Rony, President of SplendidCRM Software, states "Our new HTML5 Offline Client makes SplendidCRM available on touch devices while in airplanes or at client sites without an available network." Press Release: http://www.splendidcrm.com/Company/PressReleases/December162011/tabid/147/Default.aspx

Opera announced a new version 11.60 of their browser that includes HTML5 parsing this week. One of the new features highlighted is the inclusion of a new HTML5 parsing algorithm which “helps unify code discrepancies among browsers." Press Release: http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2011/12/06/  For more information, and to download the new version: http://www.opera.com/browser/new/

From the Read Write Web article “Top 6 Trends in HTML5 in 2011”, December 6, 2011
(http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_6_trends_in_html5_in_2011.php),  “HTML5 is fundamentally changing the way developers approach the Web. Whether it is for desktop browsers or mobile, the language and standards of the future are not some distant point on the horizon. It is right now.”

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

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Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Field Services Velocity

I have had the opportunity to lead enterprise mobility workshops and to learn about field services and enterprise mobility from many different people, in many different countries over the past 2 months. In this Video Comments I share some of the things I have learned recently.

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

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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 5, 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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The U.S. Census bureau is working with Agilex to create mobile apps for iPads and other tablets for its 2020 census workers as they collect data throughout the country. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, Apple’s iPad will soon experience strong growth in the enterprise mobility applications market as tablet sales are also expected to surge in the next few years. Read Original Content

RFID tracking devices are now being used to track the temperatures of frozen meat shipments. This solution is aimed at maintaining healthy temperatures to prevent dangerous food from being purchased. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

FieldOne Systems, a provider of software solutions for field service businesses, has released a new iPhone app for the FieldOne Mobile series allowing field workers to accomplish more work. Read Original Content

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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Smarter Car and LightSquared are creating an in-vehicle solution that enables dealers and drivers to leverage critical data including location sharing, vehicle maintenance diagnostics and in-car applications via smartphones, tablets or PCs. Read Original Content

According to Nerac, a research and advisory firm, market for remote monitoring of medical patients is forecast to reach $5.1 billion by 2013, up from $3.6 billion in 2007. Read Original Content

Machina Research expects the automotive M2M sector to generate 157 billion euros in revenue in 2020, up from 10 billion euros in 2010. The biggest revenue generating segments will be security and tracking, emergency assistance, navigation and insurance. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

Population increases in Australia and a rapid growth of M2M links using mobile networks are among the factors that will see the total number of mobile subscriptions rocket up to 35 million by 2015. Read Original Content

Velocity - the speed and
direction of an object.

Velocity is usually a physics term, but it can also relate to enterprise mobility and field services in particular. The term velocity is often used to describe the speed and direction of an object. In my workshops, I use it in the context of enterprise mobility and field services to describe the ability to quickly bring all required resources (personnel, skill sets, equipment, parts, customers, schedules, etc.) to the point of need (i.e. job site) at the right time in order to optimize production and efficiencies.

How do you increase velocity? It requires real time data exchanges between your mobile workforce, mobile assets, mobile inventories, mobile equipment, customers etc. You need to understand the locations, status, availability and arrival and departure time of all required components.

Real-time mobile data exchanges
with PSION's EP10

From a mobile data perspective you need to have real-time mobile data exchanges that include the ability to send and receive the right data, with the right people, at the right time, in the right amounts, on the right devices.

Velocity, in the context of enterprise mobility, is a purposeful strategy. It requires IT infrastructure that is designed to avoid latency in real-time data exchanges. It requires a unified view of the "real-time" status of all relevant players and objects necessary to optimize the delivery of services in the field.

My mantra is, "Mobile technologies without mobile strategies is wasted."

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and 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.

Kevin Benedict Ponders the Future

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility, Mobile Banking and Global Economies

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 19, 2011

M2M News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

Conjecture, Field Services and Enterprise Mobility

Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

Mobility and 4D Field Services

HTML5 – What’s New - December 14, 2011

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: 4D Mobile Field Services

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 12, 2011

December 2011 Research on Enterprise Mobility

M2M News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

HTML5 News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Field Services Velocity

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

M2M News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

Velocity in Field Services

Interviews with Kevin Benedict

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