Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of July 15, 2012

Every week we search all of our sources and contacts for news and developments around HTML5.  I hope you find these weekly updates useful.

Now for the news...

The U.K.’s Swanify, specializing in cross-platform development using HTML5 technology, has been selected to develop a mobile app framework for IPC Media publications.  Read Original Content

Neil Goodman weighs the pros and cons of HTML5 mobile apps in this article “Thoughts on HTML5 Based Mobile Apps”.  Read Original Content

Games portal Itsmy has launched a cloud-based HTML5 gaming service for smart TVs and set-top boxes, enabling users to play games using a TV remote control or a smartphone app from the TV manufacturer.  Read Original Content

Micro Focus has developed a mobile app testing solution to enable companies to create mobile business applications.  The Silk Mobile tool provides functional testing of apps on mobile devices across multiple platforms including HTML5, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian.  Read Original Content

Figures from Nielsen research indicate that mobile app users devoted 58 percent of their time on the top 50 native apps in March 2012, a decrease from the 74 percent devoted to the top 50 apps in 2011. The time spent overall with native apps, however, doubled from March 2011 to March 2012.  According to eMarketer, the increasing functionality of HTML5 may close the gap between the performance of mobile websites and native mobile apps.    Read Original Content

Mobile tech startup bMobilized has introduced a do-it-yourself tool that converts any website into a full-featured HTML5 mobile site.  Read Original Content

The New York Times finds that native apps, designed for specific operating systems and devices, still have an edge over HTML5 technology.  “There just isn’t an industry standard way to deliver ads into HTML5 apps,” states Michael Finkel, director of Web product and emerging technologies. Read Original Content

Hunter Loftis of Skookum Digital Works shares 20 HTML5 mobile development tips along with an interactive demo in this article - http://skookum.com/blog/20-html5-mobile-app-development-tips/.

The Dolphin Engine browser (in Beta) is now the fastest HTML5 browser for mobile, with a score of 450.  Chrome and Opera Mobile have scores of 371 and 369 respectively, the highest for current mobile browsers.  (http://html5test.com/results/mobile.html)  Read Original Content

The latest version of the data visualization system from Panopticon Software supports a new HTML5 thin client for tablet deployments, enabling organizations to make interactive dashboards available to mobile users without additional software or browser plugins.  Read Original Content

MyOVS has introduced an HTML5 mobile web application suite for SAP HCM with a new UI optimized for all major smartphones.  Read Original Content

The Arts Council and the BBC released a new project, 60 Years in 60 Poems, an HTML5-based multimedia platform to appreciate 60 years of poetry in a new way.  Read Original Content

U.S. Olympic sponsor BP funded an HTML5 video site which highlights the life and training of Olympic and Paralympic athletes.  Read Original Content

HTML5 game engine Playcraft Labs has officially launched, and founder Martin Wells states he believes HTML5 will become the standard over Flash for web game development, as it is “accelerating and getting better”.  Read Original Content

Flash and HTML5 publishing platform Wix announced that users have built more than one million sites using their HTML5 tools in the last three months.  Read Original Content

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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.
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Kevin Benedict's Q2 2012 Mobile Expert Video Series

In case you missed any of these Mobile Expert Video Series the first go around, here is the list of video interviews that I recorded in Q2 of 2012.  Grab some popcorn and enjoy!
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Top 5 Lessons Learned from Mobilizing SAP in the Cloud

I am excited to present this article from mobility expert Srini Subramanian.  He is the CTO at Unvired and shares his experiences implementing mobility in the cloud in SAP environments with us.


Working with SAP customers on the cloud has been a rich learning and myth busting experience in many ways.  Contrary to popular belief, a number of SAP customers do have a strong affinity for deploying solutions via the cloud.  So what are the insights from our first set of cloud customers?

1. Cloud is relevant and top of the mind for SAP customers 
Many of them already use other solutions such as Salesforce, Workday, Successfactors, etc. and integrate these SAAS / cloud solutions to their SAP systems in a number of ways.  A cloud based delivery of the mobile platform struck a chord with many of the CIO/CTO and IT heads that we spoke to.  It is also a known fact that on-premise or hosted data centers running the dedicated SAP instances need to co-exist with the cloud based platforms / solutions.  A flexible approach to cloud deployment without disrupting existing landscapes is what customers want.

2. Security
Data security is of paramount importance to all customers.  Business data is being unlocked and the safe guarding of that data while it is put to innovative usages needs to be the bedrock of any cloud platform.  The heads of IT recognize that email on mobile is already putting sensitive data on the device and data from business systems like SAP is not new, but only enhancing the amount of data on the device.  Also MDM solutions complement the security needs of the mobile platforms.

Security in the mobile context can be: Data on the cloud, data in transit and data on the device.  The mobile platform does not need to replicate the data from customer systems to the cloud.  Data is held on the cloud in encrypted form only for as long as it is required to be delivered safely to the device.  Data in transit is secured via standard HTTPS/SSL and data on the device is stored in encrypted databases.

3. Time to deploy, rapid change
Companies want to deploy mobile solutions rapidly and they don’t want to wait.  Reasons are many but the primary one is that deployments on mobile devices are in response (or to preempt) to business demands (like approvals on the Go, sales order creation etc) and are time sensitive.  In many cases, deploying the solution a few months later means reduced business relevance.  So solutions need to be rapidly deployed and be adaptable to rapid changes requested by business users.

4. ROI matters, no more POCs
Good old fashioned ROI still matters. Customers are hesitant to make huge investments into POCs with limited production relevance. Customers want quick and free trials with their own SAP systems and mobile devices eliminating the POCs. After the trial, customers are more interested in iterative roll out of mobile processes and investing in shorter bursts as and when required.  Customers want to see bang for the buck quickly as unlike investments in SAP and other systems wherein the investment is depreciated over 10 to 15 years.  Mobile investments are for much shorter periods of 2 to 3 years.  BYOD phenomenon, short device life and mobile manufacturer / telco driven periodic device refresh have driven the shorter shelf life in the mobile investments.

5. Pay as you go / scale as you go
This is a preference for many customers.  Rarely do we find that customers want to go for a big bang deployment of mobile solutions.  Additional deployments, requiring purchasing of (expensive) additional users, are a dampener for larger mobile adoption.  Also significant churn in employees’ headcount due to challenging business circumstances means customers want to not just buy additional users but also return users.  This new trend / requirement of return of users is done much easier in a cloud environment. 


Author: Srini Subramanian, Chief Technology Officer at Unvired, Inc. srinivasan.subramanian@unvired.com
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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of July 15, 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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Mobile-payment transactions are expected to exceed $600 billion world-wide by 2016, according to market-research firm Gartner Inc., up from $172 billion this year. Read Original Content

Mobile spending in western Europe is set to increase eleven fold to €19.2 billion in 2017, according to a study from Forrester. By 2017, mobile will account for 6.8 percent of total online sales — lagging just slightly behind the U.S. Read Original Content

PayPal recently announced consumers with Android devices can pay at Starbucks using its payment service and also announced a deal with GE Energy to become the exclusive payment provider for the GE WattStation Connect mobile app. 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

U.S. based company Punchcard has teamed up with mobile payment service Wipit to offer businesses the ability to create loyalty and rewards programs for consumers who prefer contactless payment. Read Original Content

Research from IT specialist recruitment site CWJobs indicates 45 percent of IT professionals have witnessed a rise in demand for specialist tech pros with mobile skills. A further 79 percent expect the number of mobile roles in the banking and retail sectors to rise. Read Original Content


Juniper Research recently forecasted that contactless mobile payment transactions would reach $50 billion worldwide by 2014. Before the adoption of mobile payments reaches these numbers, there is a debate over the type of scheme that works best in practice and which mobile payment security method is the most robust. Read Original Content
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Kevin Benedict's Video Comments - The Real Time Enterprise and Enterprise Mobility

In this segment of Video Comments, I discuss the new ways of thinking that are necessary in a world of real-time enterprises that requires real-time data, enterprise mobility and "competitive decision making."

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of July 15, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

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.

Vivint enables deployed servicemen and women to remotely control and monitor their home automation and security systems using the Vivint app on a compatible mobile device or computer.  Read Original Content

Family Respiratory in the northeast U.S. has implemented a barcode system for inventory and process automation.  The company experienced error ratios of .001 or less since implementing the system.  Read Original Content

To help determine if benefits outweigh the costs of implementing RFID technology, DC Velocity provides five reasons RFID technology might be right for you.  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.

QR codes were used for the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star game to enable fans to have tickets sent to their mobile devices and for numerous interactive promotions.  Read Original Content


Black Diamond Advanced Technology’s Modular Tactical System will be utilized by the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command for the Operator Control System.  The system incorporates a tactical vest with power management and a rugged computing device and will primarily be used by Special Operations Forces.  Read Original Content

The RFID division at Avery Dennison is the fastest rising, with revenue tripling from $50 million in 2010 to more than $150 million in 2011.  The company sold more than 25 percent of all RFID tags in 2011.  Read Original Content
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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.

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
Also read Mobility News Weekly

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.

A report from Pyramid Research predicts the Asia Pacific region will represent 42.3 percent of global mobile data revenue by 2017.  Pyramid Research recommends operators in Asia prepare for the mobile data traffic growth by beginning to integrate Wi-Fi into their networks.  Read Original Content

Fuji Xerox Taiwan, recognizing the importance of enterprise mobility, has appointed Dimension Data to help design a new network infrastructure to meet the demands of its increasingly mobile workforce.  Read Original Content

Apple has selected Auto-Navi as its partner for maps on future iPhones and iPads in China.  Chinese users of Apple’s devices with the next version of its mobile-device software will use Auto-Navi’s map service and data rather than Apple’s.  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.

To facilitate a forum for e-commerce players to extend their business networks and share information, an ‘E-Commerce Tour’ will be held in conjunction with an ‘Online Shopping Fair’ in Indonesia July 12-14, 2012.  Read Original Content


India’s Prizm Payment Services is planning to roll out a mobile payments service that will work on feature phones as well as smartphones.  Read Original Content

According to a market research report on enterprise mobile cloud computing from Global Industry Analysts, the fastest growing regional market is the Asia Pacific region with a compound annual growth rate of 44.5 percent.  Read Original Content

With a marketing pitch of “reach for your phone before you reach for your wallet”, eBay India is turning its focus to mobile commerce.  Read Original Content
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More Early Results on HTML5 from Kevin Benedict's Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey

In my Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey, I ask the question, "How important is HTML5 or HTML5 hybrid apps to your company's mobility plans?"  Here are the early answers (the survey is still open):

  • 12% - Not Important
  • 28% - Somewhat Important
  • 43% - Very Important
  • 15% - Critical Component
If you haven't already registered your opinions, please take the short survey and receive the full and final report for free!



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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of July 8, 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
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly


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.


Healthcare Finance News has outlined five ways telemedicine can play an important role in decreasing overall healthcare spending. Read Original Content

Healthcare is in the middle of a mobile revolution. Doctors are adopting mobile apps that make them more effective, and patients are taking to ones that give them more control over their healthcare. Here are 11 apps that stand out from the crowd. Read Original Content

According to a recent survey conducted by Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 71 percent of nurses are using smartphones for their job. The survey included responses from 3,900 nurses and nursing students. 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 five reasons why the Surface tablet could be first Microsoft product doctors embrace. Read Original Content


Although they make up just 1-2 percent of the entire market for mobile apps, healthcare apps are expected to grow 25 percent annually over the next five years, compared to still-impressive 23 percent growth estimated for the standard apps market. Read Original Content

A new report by a national health policy institute, NEHI, provides a glimpse of how mobile technologies are reshaping diabetes management. Read Original Content

President Obama has signed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, The Hill's Healthwatch blog reports, shoring up the FDA's role in creating guidance for mobile medical apps. Read Original Content
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Enterprise Mobility and Competitive Decision Making

Colonel John Boyd
One of the greatest military strategists of the 21st century was the late USAF Colonel John Boyd.  In his workshops he emphasized the need for agility, new and quicker ways of thinking, and competitive decision-making.  He taught that advantages in observation and orientation enable a tempo in decision making and execution that outpaces the ability of your competition to react effectively in time.  His core strategies were compiled into the acronym OODA (observe, orient, decide and act).

These strategies are meaningful to nearly every company that is developing a mobile strategy and thinking about potential ROIs.  Have you considered the negative impact on your business that might develop if your competitors connected their mobile workforce to real-time business analytics, CRM, EAM, field services, ERP, etc, and you did not?  What if your competitors could respond faster to customer service issues, optimize real-time scheduling, respond faster to new sales opportunities, solve problems faster and make better decisions in the field?  What if they could run circles around you?

Boyd stressed that the key to winning is the tempo.  He called his theory, Fast Transients. The theory of Fast Transients suggests that in order to win or gain superiority we should operate at a faster tempo than our adversaries.

There is a big difference between running a batch mode or offline business, and running a real-time enterprise.  Real-time means you have mobilized your workforce and you can make the best decisions possible, and respond as fast as possible from nearly anywhere.

In the mobile strategies workshops that I taught in 11 countries last year, I start by asking the audience what kind of business tempo do they want to support and maintain.  The purpose of this questions is to get my clients thinking about how their business can be transformed if they operated on a faster tempo with mobile solutions and real-time data exchanges.

Boyd preached that the key to winning is the speed with which you change and adapt to changes.  How fast can you switch from Plan A to Plan B?  How soon can you recognize the need to change plans?

In the mid-year enterprise mobility survey that I have open right now, making better real-time decisions is currently the second leading ROI that companies are seeking by mobilizing their enterprise.  The third is developing better customer interactions by using mobile solutions.  Better customer interactions often involve responding to your customers' needs faster.  Sounds like Boyd's tempo strategy again.

If you would like a free copy of the mid-year enterprise mobility survey results, please take the survey and I will send the final results to you.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of July 8, 2012


Would it be useful for you to have the latest data on HTML5 and enterprise mobility?  If so, please take the following short survey and get the complete report free!

Now for the news...

In a recent interview, IBM’s Bob Sutor listed the progress HTML5 has been making including support from major mobile vendors, active standardization efforts, and a growing ecosystem of third-party tools that has been fueling recent success and adoption of HTML5.”  Read Original Content

Content optimization system Inbound Writer has announced the availability of a new release, rewritten entirely in HTML5 and available for Apple’s iPad and other smartphones and tablets with compliant browsers.  Read Original Content

The number of the top 100 websites using HTML5 storage has doubled in the last year, from 17 in 2011 to 34 currently in 2012.  The number using Flash has dropped from 37 to 13.  Read Original Content

YoYo Games is highlighting its Gamemaker: Studio’s HTML5 abilities by publishing seven of the hit games on the Google Chrome Web Store.  The game development tool allows studios to export Android games to HTML5 with "no additional porting or development resources required."  Read Original Content

Offering “an example of the power behind tools that small, resource-constrained publishers can now use to distribute their content across different platforms”, MIT Sloan Management Review has released a new web app for tablets using HTML5.  Read Original Content

The makers of the Dolphin browser want to show developers that HTML5 is a “strong foundation to build on”, and have announced the Dolphin Garage program which opens up access to nearly 150 APIs.  Read Original Content

Flash has been replaced with HTML5 in Google’s Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” operating system.  “HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively, which makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.”  Read Original Content

Facebook has rebuilt its iOS app, abandoning HTML5 for Objective-C.  The new app is reportedly much quicker and will be available in July 2012.  Read Original Content

Mozilla’s open mobile project, Firefox OS, will be an open mobile platform where every app and function is based on HTML5.  Carrier partners on record supporting the project are now Deutsche Telekom, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor and Etisalat.  Read Original Content

Uberflip has developed a new infographic highlighting the rise of HTML5 as a publishing and marketing technology. The infographic is titled “HTML5:  What Marketers Need to Know.”  View the infographic here:  http://www.uberflip.com/blog/infographic-making-a-case-for-html5, Read Original Content

Electronic Arts showcased HTML5 at Google’s I/O conference with Strike Fortress, a social cross-platform game with full 3D graphics and “none of the telltale problems with animation that HTML5 is notorious for”.  Read Original Content

On-device caching is one of the features of HTML5 that mitigate or eliminate many of the pitfalls that come with mobile cloud computing.  Some of the popular mobile apps that take advantage of on-device caching are:  Google Maps for Android, CIA World Factbook (for BlackBerry and Android), and NewsRob Pro.  Read Original Content


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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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