Mobility News Weekly – Week of July 8, 2012

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

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
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Enterprise mobility is evolving so fast that I thought it prudent to conduct a mid-year enterprise mobility survey with 20 short questions and share that information with you.  For that purpose,  I would be most grateful if you would take a few minutes to answer these questions and share your insights.  I will compile the survey results into a report and share it FREE with all survey participants. Please take the survey here.

ezprints, Inc., has launched "Share Your Voice," a new iPhone application that enables voters to send a printed postcard expressing their views to the presidential candidates.  Read Original Content

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion have announced the BlackBerry® Curve 9310 smartphone, a stylish new smartphone for socially connected customers.  Read Original Content

A report from Russian wireless carrier MTS reveals that Apple's share of the country's emerging smartphone market revenue slipped during the first quarter of 2012 while Samsung doubled its presence mostly at the expense of former leader Nokia.  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.


In 2007, nine million Americans owned a smartphone – four percent of the entire mobile market. Today, nearly 110 million Americans own one, and by the end of the year smartphone owners will become the new mobile majority in the U.S., according to Comcast.  Read Original Content

More than 28 million people in the UK used smartphones during the three-month average ending May 2012, up 38 percent from a year ago. Google’s Android was the top smartphone operating system with 42.1 percent of market share by operating system.  Read Original Content

Industry analysts expect mobile app marketing to reach $7 billion in worth by 2015. Juniper Research said that in-app advertising was expected to grow quickly, with companies integrating their marketing schemes into the downloadable applications.  Read Original Content

First Report - Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey

I have just scanned through the first 53 survey responses, and wanted to share an early result.  By the way, if you have not already taken the quick survey, please do so here!  You will receive the final survey report free if you take it.

The question: What are your biggest challenges to implementing enterprise mobility today?  The top four challenges identified so far in order are:

1. Choosing which mobile operating systems to support
2. Selecting the right mobile security platform
3. Determining the right ERP integration strategy
4. Selecting the right mobile platform

Please invite all of your contacts to also take this survey so we can get the most accurate information possible to base our strategies on.  Here is the survey link, http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e64mo7lmh4g6ur76/start.  Remember, anyone that takes the survey gets the final report free!

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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.

Guest Blog: Mobile DSD - A Requirement

Mobility Expert Alok Pant, CEO of Unvired, shares his insights on mobile DSD (direct store delivery) in this guest blog.

In a world of fast changing tastes and instant gratification, my can of favorite beverage had better be on the shelf. If not, the retailer and supplier will have lost a loyal customer.  Direct Store Delivery (DSD) is a vital process that brings foods and beverages to the shelf. Mobilizing the DSD process makes the supply chain much more efficient, and ensures that the shopping experience is a pleasant one. In the world of enterprise mobility, mobile DSD is not a luxury—it is a must have.

While SAP and other companies have solutions for DSD, the Mobile DSD (MDSD) area remains ripe for innovation.  During our implementations of DSD and MDSD Solutions, customers have shared with us valuable feedback.  The usability of MDSD solutions can be improved to enhance sales and productivity of the delivery drivers.  The User Interface can be simplified for data entry and screen navigation. In many cases, there is a need to re-engineer the process flow to meet our clients' needs. 

One area to improve is in Sales Order creation.  Immediate Sales Order replication to SAP can trigger the follow up leading to faster order fulfillment. Another area to improve is Customer Surveys. During the store visit, the supplier personnel collect customer data via surveys. This survey data can be integrated with CRM systems like SAP CRM, which can be fed into BW and analytics can be utilized to make better decisions. 

Another insight from our customers is that it would be good to integrate the MDSD application with Asset Maintenance/Plant Maintenance systems to create and access Notifications.    Many times, the drivers are doing multiple things —taking orders, merchandising as well as conducting maintenance and repairs on a variety of assets the supplier has deployed at the retailers - think refrigerators as an example. 

Some customers have unique requirements for mobilizing DSD, and only a custom MDSD solution will work.  In these cases, we utilize our domain expertise and deliver a custom MDSD solution.   We also give our customers the option of either an on-premise or in the cloud solution.

Mobile DSD in conjunction with DSD has benefits for both the CP (consumer products) manufacturer and the retailer.  The supplier can better monitor demand on the shelf, be more responsive, and better control merchandising and promotions. New products can be introduced better and innovations increase. The retailer in turn benefits from lower capital outlays and always having fast moving items in stock. 

So the next time you grab that beverage, thank the process that enables you to quench your thirst - Mobile DSD. 

Alok Pant

CEO

Unvired, Inc.

www.unvired.com

Houston, Texas

M: 7135602760

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of July 8, 2012

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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

According to a new report from Juniper Research, in-app advertising spend across all mobile devices will reach $7.1 billion by 2015. Read Original Content

Budgets for mobile marketing will get bigger next year, according to a new study conducted by Strongmail and presented by eMarketer. The study suggests that 70 percent of marketers will ramp up their mobile budgets in 2013. Read Original Content

Registration is open for the third annual Mobile Marketing Summit: Holiday Focus 2012 New York conference Thursday, September 13 featuring speakers from Kraft Foods, Groupon, Barnes & Noble, HSN, Bloomberg, NBC News Digital, Millennial Media, ForeSee and Vibes Media. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Mobile advertising, and not in-app purchases, will be the main monetization model for game developers targeting the Southeast Asian market because of the lack of convenient carrier payment methods in the region currently, according to one executive at Gree Ventures. Read Original Content

Launched in February 2012 internationally, Facebook mobile advertising is now available in South Africa through its sub-Saharan representative, Habari Media. Read Original Content

According to Lookout Security, five percent of free mobile applications include “aggressive” ads that invade privacy, change settings or deliver ads outside the context of the app, affecting 80 million downloads. Read Original Content

2012 - Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey and Results

PLEASE!

Enterprise mobility is evolving so fast that I thought it prudent to conduct a mid-year enterprise mobility survey with 20 short questions and share that information with you.  For that purpose,  I would be most grateful if you would take a few minutes to answer these questions and share your insights.  I will compile the survey results into a report and share it FREE with all survey participants.

This report will help all of us understand how enterprise mobility is evolving so we can all make better, data driven decisions.

Please take the survey here.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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.

Enterprise Mobility, Institutional Knowledge, New Processes and Context Aware Solutions

One of the most interesting benefits of mobile technologies is the ability to develop completely new business processes and workflows that provide new and unique values.  These are important, and rarely are considered as part of potential ROIs.  Let's think about the following scenario:

A diamond bladed concrete cutter is required for some utility work.  What needs to happen?  The cutting machine needs to be scheduled, located, inspected, transported, and a qualified operator needs to be available to run it.  In addition, a series of safety procedures need to be completed to ensure a safe working environment.  Perhaps municipal government agencies also need to be notified and permits received before the work can begin.

As you can see from this scenario, there are a lot of moving parts and steps that need to be completed in order for this job to be done optimally.  Many of the steps in the workflow are also dependent on other parts.  I can imagine companies developing cloud based workflows that include all of these steps, dependencies, procedures and tasks and connected to mobile applications.  When a job requires this cloud based workflow, it is activated and mobile applications that are integrated to a variety of back-end systems, plus GPS tracking systems, work together to input the data and complete the cloud based workflow.

How many different customized workflows do you think the world needs?  I don't know, but it is a large number!  The value of a mobile solution connected to this workflow is that predictive and context aware activities can start to be implemented automatically by your cloud based workflow.  If a documented workflow has 18 steps, how many of these steps can be automated?  If a diamond bladed concrete cutter needs a trailer to transport it, can available trailers be located by checking GPS locations and then scheduled automatically?  Can the schedules of all of the potential operators in the region be automatically reviewed to see who is available, and then scheduled?  Can government permits be requested automatically?

Most activities in the field have not been automated or even documented.  Required activities have traditionally been completed by experienced personnel that had been trained over many years.  The challenge is that in many field services environments like the utilities industry, they are losing large numbers of their most experienced people over the next 5 years to retirement.  These industries are struggling to harvest the institutional knowledge in the heads of their most senior workers so the next generation can benefit from their wisdom and experience.

If this institutional knowledge can be captured in cloud based workflows and connected to mobile technologies that would ensure real-time communications with the mobile workforce, then this also could be a major benefit.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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.

SAP and M2M - An Interesting Development

I have noted with interest SAP's increasing focus on M2M (machine to machine) communication.  For those not familiar with this area, it involves machines wirelessly reporting their statuses to other machines.  I have heard SAP's Co-CEO Jim Snabe speak on wireless sensors and M2M several times. 

How is M2M used? In the electrical utility industry, many substations and other key pieces of equipment are set-up to automatically report any problems by sending wireless messages (M2M) to a server that is monitoring the system.  This provides all kinds of efficiencies by enabling remote managers to monitor large numbers of assets that are spread across large geographical areas.

Here are some related articles:

M2M and Enterprise Mobility - The Convergence

SAP Announces New M2M Initiative

M2M, SAP and Enterprise Mobility

SAP Enterprise Mobility and the Gathering M2M Storm

M2M is forecast to experience massive growth.  In fact, it was a central theme of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year.  I have seen forecasts projecting 50 billion connected (M2M) devices by 2025.  Just in the plant maintenance area alone the potential is huge.  Remote plants can be M2M enabled so that key pieces of equipment can report on their maintenance needs and any repairs needed.  These M2M messages can be configured to automatically initiate a work order or service ticket that can be scheduled based upon the priority of the message number.

I believe that the healthcare industry is going to be revolutionized by M2M solutions that can provide remote patient monitoring.  I wrote an article on this subject a few days ago.

M2M and enterprise mobility are cousins.  They both involve wireless data coming into a server from a remote location.  Recently I had the opportunity to interview SAP's Mike Wendell.  Mike is responsible for all of SAP's Industry Principals and has been speaking on M2M quite a bit this year.  He shared that his emphasis this year is cloud, mobility, big data and M2M. 

Mike explained how insurance companies were embracing M2M.  Most insurance companies today are offering discounts for clients that set up GPS tracking in their vehicles so their driving habits can be monitored and recorded.  GPS tracking is a machine to machine implementation.  Data from the vehicle is collected and reported to another machine for analysis.

Mike emphasized to me the wide range of industries that are implementing M2M solutions of some kind.  He talked about the transportation, finished goods, industrial machinery, medical equipment and automotive industries.  I would also add to that public safety and the military.

I asked Mike how M2M solutions most often integrate with SAP environments and he said today it would likely be through NetWeaver Gateway.

Mike introduced me to 2 new buzz words - Machine Cloud and Operational Cloud.  These as I understand it, refer to the ability to monitor large numbers of machines and people to gain a 360 degree view of your operational area through the use of mobile and M2M wireless data.

Wow!  This is an exciting area that I have been watching and writing about for many years, but it is starting to hit the mainstream.

SAP partner ILS Technology provides M2M integration with SAP

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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 July 8, 2012

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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Amazon’s augmented reality app Flow has now come to Google Play. By launching the app and pointing your phone’s camera at a product, you can instantly view more information about the product, its Amazon price, and even related photos and videos.  Read Original Content

Mobile payments have more than doubled in popularity, reaching more than 33 percent of U.S. residents, according to the results of a report, “Business Strategy: Results from the 2012 Consumer Payments Survey” by IT research firm IDC’s Financial Insights division. Read Original Content

Telefónica Digital and Visa Europe have agreed a wide ranging strategic partnership to drive new business opportunities with both companies to co-invest in the development of products and services in areas such as mobile wallet, NFC, acquirer services for mobile point of sale, and merchant offers. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica’s O2 are all pushing ahead on their own mobile payment services, but in a bid to outpace companies like Apple and Google, these carriers are also working together. Read Original Content

Apple’s decision not to include mobile payments in its new Passbook iOS feature was a deliberate strategy by the company’s executives that flew in the face of a more aggressive approach favored by some engineers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read Original Content

Customer adoption of mobile payments is growing fast, and banks need to respond with products and services to cater to this growing demand, according to a new report released by financial researcher and consultant IDC Financial Insights. Read Original Content

mHealth and Mobility - Crowd Sourced Healthcare

I wonder sometimes if we Americans wouldn't be better off simply bypassing partisan politics and the healthcare industrial complex, and developing our own crowd-sourced healthcare program that fully utilizes mobile, M2M, cloud and big data technologies and brings them together to offer optimized healthcare services.  Perhaps we should join together into technology centric cooperatives and hire our own healthcare providers?  Perhaps technology is the answer to this problem.

Perhaps we could develop a program where each of us could be matched up with a CHP (cloud-based healthcare provider) that would provide us with smartphone apps and any additional wearable (M2M) devices that would enable him/her to monitor our health and provide guidance in the comfort and efficiency of our own homes.  When health issues arise, our CHP would manage our treatment by sending us to local labs and service providers that would perform tests and upload the results to our EHR (electronic health record) for our CHP to analyze and provide recommendation.  The analysis and treatment decisions would involve the use of big data.  This would ensure our treatments are data driven, not pharmaceutical rep driven.  Each of our health issues would then have its own cloud-based workflow and decision tree backed-up with the data that supports each plan or decision.  We could reference this health issue workflow from anywhere.

Consultations with our healthcare provider could most often be done via video conferencing on the smartphone app.  Why waste hours driving and sitting in waiting rooms for consultations.  Yes, you may lose some face-to-face value, but I think convenience and efficiency makes up for a lot of routine face-to-face encounters.

Kevin: "Doctor, I think I have a sore throat and fever."
Doctor: "You do."
Kevin: "It will probably go away on its own if I wait a couple of days, right?"
Doctor: "Right."
Kevin: "Thanks.  Can we do this over video conferencing next time?"

I personally see a different physician's assistant or doctor nearly every time I go into the doctor's office.  My visits are most often consultations and could be done equally well in a video conferencing session. 

Each of us, and any healthcare services provider could access our EHR (electronic health record) with permissions and update it.  We could access our own EHR from our smartphone app.  I would love to have a personal healthcare dashboard.  I could then graph how I have gained weight over the past 20 years.  I would need that graph on a line chart, as a pie chart would simply be mean.  We could also set healthy lifestyle goals that our CHP could monitor and help coach us on.

Early in my IT career I worked for a large electronics manufacturer in Boise, Idaho that had their own in-house medical clinic for their employees.  It was wonderful.  I have since always wondered if that model could be replicated in neighborhoods, or co-ops of some kind. 

Perhaps someday soon, technology rather than politics will get it done.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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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 and M2M News Weekly – Week of July 8, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M 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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Marketers are going beyond the norm and creating “designer QR codes” with different colors and even adding a logo to the center.  Read Original Content

The M2M Evolution Conference and Expo will be held October 2-5, 2012 in Austin, Texas.  Read Original Content

China Unicom, Telefonica and Telstra are working together to provide a solution to enable remote management of the subscription data of M2M embedded SIMs.  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.

RFID technology was used in rebuilding the Christchurch City Library’s Papanui Library in New Zealand after the 2011 earthquakes.  The technology was used for self-loan stations to free up staff from issuing items and enable them to focus on customer service.  Read Original Content

Oil and gas firm Statoil is deploying RFID technology to manage the use of drill equipment on offshore oil rigs.  Read Original Content

Social GPS app Waze is expanding from smartphones to cars, with the first car models to integrate the software coming in late 2012.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of July 8, 2012

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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Telit Wireless Solutions announced the opening of a new office in Melbourne, Victoria to serve the growing M2M markets in Australia, New Zealand and the Oceanic region which includes Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.  Read Original Content

China RFID has launched a rugged NFC keychain which can be read with iPhones and Android devices for mobile payment, mobile ticketing and loyalty services.  Read Original Content

The number of mobile Internet users in the Philippines continues to grow, with 35 percent of Internet users accessing the Internet via a mobile device, ranking the Philippines the third highest in Southeast Asia.  Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Apple has opened its iTunes store in 12 Asian countries:  Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of July 1, 2012

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

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
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Also read Mobility News Weekly

Investments in companies that make health information apps rose 78 percent in 2011 to $766 million. Read Original Content

Samsung has released its first mHealth app.  The app collects information about the user in order to help create and maintain a healthier way of living. Read Original Content

According to the analyst firm Research2Guidance the world market for mHealth apps will reach over $1.2 billion this year. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Check out these four reasons telemedicine will benefit from the recent Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to the American Telemedicine Association. Read Original Content

One of the challenges that mobile apps can help solve is providing specialized medical attention to vulnerable populations. In countries like Colombia, this is one of the grand challenges facing public health services. Read Original Content

Widespread adoption of mHealth is viewed as inevitable in both developed and emerging markets around the world, but the pace of adoption will likely be led by emerging markets and lag consumer demand, according to a new global study conducted for PwC Global Healthcare by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of July 1, 2012

I have been frustrated by Facebook's poor performing hybrid HTML5 mobile app for sometime, and was happy to read that it will be replaced this month by a native app.  The native app from Facebook is reported to be 5 times faster.  Interesting indeed.

Now for the News...

Tylted’s HTML5-based game Cubugs was launched in mid-May and has already attracted more than 1 million players, proof that HTML5 mobile web design can indeed compete with apps.  Read Original Content

As a result of the “limitations of HTML5 development, including issues with online and offline play, animations and sounds for mobile devices”, German social game maker Wooga has decided to move away from HTML5 and focus instead on native iOS development.  The studio believes HTML5 still has a future, but its time has not yet come.  Read Original Content

Infragistics has released NetAdvantage for jQuery Community Edition, an entry-level version of its HTML5 and jQuery UX toolset.  Read Original Content

LiveViewGPS has announced the launch of its Live Trac Mobile Tracking Program, which will enable users to monitor Live GPS vehicle tracking from any mobile device with an HTML5 compatible web browser.  Read Original Content

appMobi announced that the number of HTML5 app developers using its platform has exceeded 50,000.  Read Original Content

According to an Oracle executive, cloud computing, HTML5 and mobile together will help to improve the way that apps are developed.  “Cloud, HTML5 and mobile - these three things will conspire to be a perfect storm for our industry. The combination of HTML5, mobile devices and the cloud is a rogue wave. … HTML5 and JavaScript together are becoming a development platform unto themselves.”  Read Original Content

Information and Q&A from a recent webinar on HTML5 test automation is available in this article by Alex Forbes on sys-con.com.  Read Original Content

Augmented reality software company Metaio has released an update of their Junaio browser and open development platform for iOS and Android mobile devices, with a new user interface and a new API for HTML5 and JavaScript development.  Read Original Content

According to Qualcomm Internet Services president Rob Chandhok, the functional capabilities of HTML5 in mobile must be expanded and the increased functionality must be implemented in a fully standard manner.  “HTML5 won't significantly address the technology side of fragmentation until everybody implements HTML5 to the same level on these new devices.”  Read Original Content

Cloud content service provider Brightcove has introduced a new free edition of its app platform, App Cloud Core, enabling Web developers to use HTML5 and JavaScript to develop and operate native apps for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets.  Read Original Content

The Firefox for Android update has been released, with a new look, added speed and HTML5 support.  Read Original Content

The social online game Moonbase has been updated and HTML5 enabled and is available for iOS and Android devices and on Facebook.  Read Original Content

Zooz and MobiCart have formed a partnership to allow merchants to incorporate ZooZ’s advanced payment solution into their mobile apps created using MobiCart, enabling them to collect in-app payments.  The solution is compatible with HTML5 mobile apps, iOS and Android.  Read Original Content

A group of gaming industry developers have created PlayCanvas, a cloud based platform for HTML5 game creation, which will publicly launch by the end of 2012.  Read Original Content

Placecast has announced a new mobile commerce web app, the ShopAlerts Wallet, which is built in HTML5 and compatible with all smartphone platforms. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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 July 1, 2012

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

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly

Android-based devices represented 50.9 percent of all smartphones nationwide in May 2012, up from 50.8 percent in April but still down from a high of 51 percent in March, according to comScore.  Read Original Content

Net Applications issued a report Sunday that shows Apple's iOS dominating the mobile Web with a record 65.27 percent share, up 4.2 percent in June alone. Google's Android came in far behind at 19.73 percent.  Read Original Content

Apple's stores and facilities in Italy could be shut for 30 days because of a row about product warranties.  Italian authorities made the threat because it said Apple was not promoting a standard free two-year warranty.  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.

Facebook's iPhone app will be getting a much-needed improvement in speed, something users have been complaining about for awhile.  Read Original Content

Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. maintained the top spot in the U.S. mobile phone market, strengthening its supremacy as the world’s leading handset manufacturer, comScore showed Tuesday.  Read Original Content

According to a new forecast report from NPD DisplaySearch, laptops may be well on their way to extinction in just four years, being rapidly replaced by none other than the sleek and svelte tablet.  Read Original Content

In the next few weeks, some users of the latest version of Apple’s handset will get a marketing message offering as much as $300 to people who trade it for a Samsung device.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of July 1, 2012

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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

According to a new report from Juniper Research, in-app advertising spend across all mobile devices will reach $7.1 billion by 2015. Read Original Content

Boston-based Fiksu has raised $10 million to expand the growth of its mobile app marketing platform. The second round of funding comes from Qualcomm and Charles River Ventures. The company will use the funds to expand its mobile app user acquisition platform. Read Original Content

Researchers at EMarketer have said that in 2014, Twitter ad sales, which account for almost all its revenue, will rise to $540 million from $139.5 million last year. The closely held company doesn’t release sales figures. Mobile is a key part of its growth effort. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Online movie ticketing service Fandango said Tuesday that its ticket sales rose 28 percent in the second quarter, with purchases by cell phone more than doubling from a year ago. Read Original Content

Coca-Cola executive Wendy Clark is using her role as a Facebook adviser to outline what she says is a top reason the social networking service needs to get mobile advertising right: reaching emerging markets. Read Original Content

Some users of the latest version of Apple’s handset will get a marketing message from Samsung offering as much as $300 to people who trade their Apple device for a Samsung device. Samsung’s strategy is helping fuel a boom in mobile advertising, which Bank of America Merrill Lynch predicts will surge to $18.3 billion in 2015, from $3.6 billion last year. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of July 1, 2012

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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Results from a joint survey by inMobi and Mobext indicate in-store shopping has been affected by mobile devices. Twenty-two percent of tablet users claim they have shopped less in physical stores since purchasing a tablet and 55 percent of tablet owners make purchases on their device in an average month. Read Original Content

The UK's NatWest Bank is to begin a four-month pilot trial of contactless NFC mobile payments with 1000 customers using the iPhone. Read Original Content

Credit card giant MasterCard and mobile carrier Deutsche Telekom announced they are teaming up for an effort to advance mobile payments across Europe. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Kiwibank has released its mobile banking app for iPhones. The app is part of a suite of online innovations from the bank intended to revolutionize how people bank online. Read Original Content

The news that MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom are working together on a mobile payments framework to enable consumers to use their mobile phones as a way to buy goods and services is just another precursor to a gradual revolution that will see telcos become our future banks. Read Original Content

American Express announced its network roadmap to advance EMV chip-based contact, contactless and mobile payments for all merchants, processors and issuers of American Express-branded cards in the U.S. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Israel Beniaminy

Israel Beniaminy owns the title of Senior VP of Product Strategies for ClickSoftware.  He gets to ponder the future direction of ClickSoftware's mobile solutions and research where the market is going. As a result, he is always a very interesting person to interview.  I was fortunate that my visit to the UK last month coincided with his, and I was able to meet up with him and record this interview on HTML5, mobile strategies, and trends and developments in the enterprise mobility market.

*Note - it was sunny in the UK.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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 and M2M News Weekly – Week of July 1, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M 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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Hidden RFID tags can be inserted into book, CD or DVD packaging during the manufacturing process, allowing the publisher to track the products throughout the supply chain, and also prevents counterfeit products being returned for a refund.
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Sierra Wireless has announced it will acquire Sagemcom’s M2M business, to occur in the third quarter of 2012.  Read Original Content

Analysys Mason predicts M2M connections will grow to 2.1 billion by 2021, and revenue from M2M connectivity will reach $50.9 billion.  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.

ProfitZoom has launched a mobile field services application for Android devices, which enables field technicians of fire and life safety companies to download service tickets and all relevant information to service their client locations.  Read Original Content

Barcodes have inspired furniture and home décor, such as wall art, pillows, CD holders, chandeliers and even sofas.  Read Original Content

Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc. will host its second annual international developer’s conference targeting M2M industry experts, developers and analysts.  Telit DevCon will be held October 8, 2012 in San Diego.  Read Original Content

Marathon Travels, Workshops and Mobile Expert Interviews

I am home.  I started my Spring travel and video interview season on April 25th and wrapped it up today, July 1st.  The result is over 18 segments of the Mobile Expert Video Series recorded with mobility experts from around the globe.  If you missed them the first time, I invite you to view them here.

In between recording videos, attending school and military graduations, speaking at conferences, consulting and enjoying family time in Europe, I was able to write the forward to a new book from SAP Press on enterprise mobility (due this summer), and present a series of Eggs with Benedict, Mobile Strategy breakfast workshops both in the USA and in Europe.  This fall I will also be presenting these workshops in 4 different locations in New Zealand and in Australia.

You will be happy to know that I am trying to improve my videos.  These are definitely amateur videos, from an amateur reporter that says too many ummms, mispronounces names and has a shaky hand, but I am making slow progress.  Thanks for your patience!  Here is a fun (for me) video project where I collected a bunch of the Mobile Expert Video Series segment clips and put them together into a movie trailer. 

This week, I need to catch up on my correspondence and start several new research projects so I can analyze the latest trends and changing landscape of enterprise mobility and share that information with you here in the second half of 2012.

Thanks for reading and watching www.MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com!

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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.