Mobile Commerce News Weekly-Week of October 7, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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In 2012 mobile commerce sales in the U.S. grew year over year 98.6 percent to $20.85 billion from $10.50 billion in 2011. Read Original Content.

Starbucks will be integrating Square’s mobile payment system into many of its U.S. stores this fall, in addition to investing $25 million in Square. Read Original Content.

According to a study released by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center, swiping mobile phones could replace cash and credit cards both online and in stores within the next decade. Read Original Content.

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Debenham’s latest research suggests mobile shoppers are more lucrative, shopping more often and spending more than in-store customers, but they are also far more fickle and will change brands if an experience is not good. Read Original Content.

The Merchant Customer Exchange announced that Dunkin' Brands, parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, has committed to the mobile-commerce solution. Read Original Content.

Based on several online surveys of mobile device owners, a study by Javelin reveals that mobile shopping has become a $20 billion business. More than $20.7 billion was spent using a mobile device over the past year. Read Original Content.

According to Deloitte, In the U.S., using apps and mobile web sites while shopping accounted for a 5 percent bump in retail sales, equating to $159 billion in in-store sales. In the UK the proportion was slightly higher, but that the actual value was lower: mobile usage gave a 6 percent bump, or 24.7 billion in sales. Read Original Content.

Online auction site eBay has revised its forecast for global transactions through mobile to $10 billion for 2012 after this week it saw the 100 millionth download of its app and 100 million listings through mobile. Read Original Content.

Square, the largest mobile payments company, has now reached a $3.25 billion valuation after raising $200 million as it readies to go global. Read Original Content.

Mobile device experts estimate that payments using Near Field Communication-equipped cellphones will account for $240 billion in spending worldwide in 2012 and more than $670 billion by 2015. Read Original Content.

According to a recent survey by TCS the average featured firm was due to spend $17.9 million on mobile technologies, marketing, customer service and similar areas in 2012. Read Original Content.

The Mobile Marketing Association, in partnership with exchange4media, has released the first mobile advertising spend report for India, which estimates the size of the current spend at Rs 180 crore, and is expected to increase by 40 percent in the next 12 months. Read Original Content.

Mobile advertising revenue reached a new high of $1.6 billion last year, according to data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Read Original Content.

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Sky Technologies.

eMarketer projects that Facebook will pull in about $72.7 million in U.S. revenue this year from advertising on mobile devices. Read Original Content

The UK mobile marketing industry is currently worth over £330 million. As recently as 2010, the sector was worth just £85 million per year and this phenomenal growth is set to continue. Read Original Content.

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Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 7th, 2012

I conducted a workshop via webex yesterday with a mining company in Australia.  It was interesting that they had a strong preference for HTML5 apps running on a cloud based mobile platform.  Their thinking was that they want mobile solutions now, but they see no need to sink a lot of money into on-premise solutions and mobile platforms yet.  They felt that HTML5 would give them the most flexibility and easiest implementations and deployments at this time as they mature their own mobile strategies and infrastructure and wait to see who the winners will be in the mobile platform market.

Now for the news...

Intel has continued to survey developers to find out where things are going with HTML5, and 40 percent of those surveyed said that they are already using HTML5 in some way in their development, and the other 40 percent of the survey developers said they planned to use it.  Read Original Content

In this video interview, Adam ‘HTML5 Guru’ Stanley Tells How RIM is Using HTML5 in BlackBerry 10.  (Click here to see the video on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy4fOzQeCY8)  Read Original Content

A new video game, Brainworth, teaches its users about the principles of computer science and skills required to create HTML5 online games.  Read Original Content

Education technology firm Desmos, Inc. has developed a graphing calculator with an interactive HTML5 graphing platform that works across all modern browsers. Read Original Content

A recent webcast on the subject of using HTML5 for web-based trading applications is available.  The webcast discussion is based on the question:  “Is it feasible to adopt HTML5 as an enterprise development technology now, what are the issues, and how can they be addressed?”  Read Original Content

A new report by mobility analyst Kevin Benedict documents the plans and insights of over 120 people involved in enterprise mobility.  When asked how important HTML5 and HTML5 hybrid apps were to their company's enterprise mobility plans, 45% answered it was "very important," and 14% said it was "critical."  Download the entire Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility 2012 Survey report for free here.

A recent study by adtech company Kontera based on data from 15,000 U.S. publisher partners revealed that mobile web traffic is up 430 percent between January and July this year and mobile Web browsing now accounts for 22 percent of web traffic.  Read Original Content

Apple iOS users who have upgraded to iOS 6 or bought an iPhone 5 may be missing Google Maps features, but it is still available as Google is actively maintaining the HTML5-based mobile Web version of Google Maps.  Google Street View will be soon available on the mobile Web version. Read Original Content

A new report from BI Intelligence explains why Facebook abandoned HTML5 for now including topics such as:  HTML5 app functionality still leaves much to be desired; HTML5 has a fragmentation problem; and The promise of HTML5 remains.  Read Original Content

A research report from Strategy Analytics forecasts that the HTML5-focused Firefox OS will capture only 1 percent of the market in 2013.  Read Original Content

An article in PCQuest demonstrates how to remotely debug a mobile HTML5 app with a remote inspector.  Read Original Content

Eyepartner has released Channel Manager HTML5 V1.0, enabling users to publish video and audio into playlists by dragging and dropping content in a channel lineup, and to build unlimited scheduled programming for playback on Roku set-top boxes and HTML5 5-compatible players including iPad and iPhone.  Read Original Content

Google uses HTML5 animations to illustrate its economic impact for each state in the U.S. on its Economic Impact page (http://www.google.com/economicimpact/)   Read Original Content

Oracle has added three new PeopleSoft mobile applications which utilize HTML5 and CSS3 and do not require download.  Read Original Content

A panel discussion which took place on the last day of the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Boston included topics such as the future of mobile, how the mobile interface will evolve, app stores, and HTML5.  Read Original Content

In this article in TechRepublic, “Why you’d be stupid to bet against HTML5”, author Nick Heath explains that although HTML5’s credentials as a mobile development platform have been called into question, it is still set to play a key role as the basis for mobile apps.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

M2M News Weekly-Week of October 7, 2012

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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According to a report by Frost & Sullivan, the smart grid markets in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand are expected to generate revenues of $3 billion by 2018, up from $1.4 billion in 2011. Read Original Content.

According to a new report from Pike Research worldwide sales of smart appliances will climb rapidly over the remainder of this decade, reaching just under 45 million units per year in 2020. Read Original Content.

The worldwide market for smart grid data analytics will grow steadily through 2020, with cumulative worldwide spending from 2012 through 2020 totaling just over $34 billion, according to a report from Pike Research. Read Original Content.

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global M2M Wireless Network Services market to grow at an annual rate of 29.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing number of mobile devices and better network coverage. Read Original Content

Telecom, media and technology experts at Analysys Mason predict the global market for M2M connections will grow to 2.1 billion devices in 2021 from 100.4 million devices in 2011. Read Original Content

Mobile network operators that implemented a cloud-based M2M services management platform could potentially see a five-fold profit increase by 2020, according to a report from Jasper Wireless and Machina Research. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Sandra Benson

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, I interview Sandra Benson, VP of the Construction and Engineering practice at CSS about enterprise mobility in the construction industry.  She details the kinds of mobile data construction companies need to collect and report on every day.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Mark Goode

I had the opportunity last week to spend some time with mobility expert and cattle farmer Mark Goode, VP of Global Sales with DSI last week at Oracle Open World.  DSI has been involved in automated data collection for over 30 years.  What is particularly interesting about DSI, is that they have decades of industrial mobility experience in the challenging areas of warehouse management, supply chain, distribution, M2M and logistics.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Field Mobility – Week of October 7, 2012

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 Ports of New York and New Jersey are requiring trucks using the ports to be equipped with RFID tags for security identification by the second quarter of 2013.  Read Original Content

An airport baggage handling system developed by Bairfuku utilizes RFID technology and is reported to be the fastest in the world, moving baggage at 600 meters per minute.  Read Original Content

The Hiku barcode reader helps make shopping simpler for consumers, featuring voice recognition software so the user can either scan products for a shopping list or tell the device which products to add.  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.

The MIT Enterprise Forum Auto-ID & Sensing Solutions Group hosted a conference in which mobile payments and retail executives discussed “What Technology Will Dominate Retail” – mobile barcodes, mobile wallets, NFC and QR codes.  Read Original Content

A New York Senator is asking the Transportation Secretary to consider developing standards for truck GPS systems.  Truck drivers are relying on GPS systems to plan their routes, but GPS doesn’t take into account low bridges, which has caused accidents.  Read Original Content

Research and Markets has added a new report, “North American Mobile Workforce Management Market: The Growing Power of Mobile Field Service Applications”.  Read Original Content

According to John Nachtrieb of Bar-Code Test, one of the most common and most easily detected and preventable cause of barcode failure is “quiet zone violation”.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia – Week of October 1, 2012

Welcome to 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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According to research from Tata Consulting Services, companies in the Asia Pacific region will spend far more on responding to digital mobile consumers than companies in North America, spending on average $2.41 million per $1 billion revenue.  Read Original Content

LTE has surpassed WiMAX for mobile connectivity in Japan, South Korea and the U.S., according to ABI Research.  Read Original Content

Korea’s SK Telecom now has the third most LTE subscribers in the world, behind Verizon in the United States and Japan’s NTT Docomo. 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.

Auckland Transport, Telecom New Zealand, and financial services group Westpac are preparing to begin their first NFC field trial, and have developed a virtual mobile wallet that can hold multiple cards including a credit card and transport card.  Read Original Content

Lenovo has set its sights on the smartphone and tablet markets and will start with China, the world’s largest PC and smartphone market.  Read Original Content

China’s Huawei will plan to develop its own mobile OS “if other companies won't let us use their system one day”.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Jason Lanier

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, I have the privilege of interviewing Jason Lanier the VP of Products for @Hand Corp., a 15 year old mobile software company.  In this interview we discuss the impact tablet computers have had on the asset management and field services industries.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of September 30, 2012

Some of the biggest news around HTML5 this week actually came from a hardware manufacturer.  Intermec, the makers of ruggedized and industrial grade mobile barcode scanners, RFID readers and smartphones has released a browser for Windows Mobile devices that supports HTML5.  That is very interesting for the millions of companies running Intermec ruggedized devices.  Theoretically it will greatly extend the kinds of mobile apps that owners of ruggedized devices running old OSs can utilize.

On a related note, Motorola Solutions, a competitor of Intermec, finalized its acquisition of ruggedized handheld manufacturer PSION this week as well.  I mistakenly said Intermec acquired Psion in the first version of this article...sorry PSION and Motorola!  Read Press Release

Now for the news...

Intermec has announced a new HTML5-capable browser “allowing for the development of OS agnostic web applications that can run on iOS, Android and select Intermec rugged mobile computers”.  For details on the browser from Intermec, go to http://www.intermec.com/products/html5/index.aspx.  Read Original Content

ISC has unveiled a solution, touchgeo, to enable mobile data collection for enterprises on an open HTML5 codebase that can be modified by developers to accomplish line-of-business data collection needs in the field.  Read Original Content

Another opinion on Facebook’s HTML5 issues, this article titled Facebook's HTML5 Dilemma, Explained.  Read Original Content

StreamingMedia.com presents a video tutorial from Doceo Publishing’s Jan Ozer on “How to Encode Video for HTML5”.   Read Original Content

PC World ran three Windows browsers - Google Chrome 21, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, and Mozilla Firefox 15 – through a number of tests, including how they handle HTML5 and JavaScript code.  Read Original Content

The W3C has announced its plan to finalize HTML5 in 2014.  Read Original Content

Google and Cirque du Soleil have collaborated to create Movi.Kanti.Revo, an interactive performance for tablets and some smartphones.  The show is built entirely in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.  ReadOriginal Content

Developer Todd Motto has created HTML5 Blank, a WordPress theme for developers.  Read OriginalContent

Native, HTML5 and Hybrid Mobile Apps: Mobile War, is an article from mobility vendor Unvired that delves into the mobile apps battle and explores the benefits and limitations of each option.  ReadOriginal Content

Mike Shema urges developers when adopting HTML5 to keep in mind that “the browser is a hostile place”.  The features of HTML5 may help keep data safer within the browser, but developers must be aware of the need to keep data safe once it travels through the wild realms of servers and databases.  Read Original Content

Adobe has launched a new Web development suite called Edge Tools and Services.  Adobe's goal is to “advance what's possible with HTML5 and associated technologies that have become instrumental to the modern Web." The suite includes the original Edge (renamed Edge Animate), Edge Inspect, Edge Code, two font-related tools and PhoneGap Build.  Read Original Content

Analyst group Gartner advises business to prepare now for HTML5 to avoid being at a disadvantage with regard to competitors who are moving forward with new technologies.  Gartner predicts that HTML5 will have a significant effect on web design in about three years and organizations must start preparing now.  Read Original Content

A recent survey of Appcelerator Titanium developers revealed that 72.4 percent of respondents were neutral to disappointed with HTML5’s performance and 83.4 percent with HTML5’s monetization.  Positive responses came regarding HTML5’s cross-development capabilities and immediate updates.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 30, 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.

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Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
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Eighty percent of respondents to a Havas Digital study in India said a mobile or smartphone was their primary device while 13 percent stated that a laptop or desktop was their primary device and 7 percent mentioned the tablet. According to the study, the average connected Indian consumes nine hours of media daily with mobile representing 44 percent of it.  Read Original Content

According to Pew Research two percent of Americans own a tablet of some kind. How many of those run Android? A little less than half, 48 percent. One year ago that number was less than 20 percent. Read Original Content

A recent comScore study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.7 percent market share. Google Android led with 52.6 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple accounted for 34.3 percent.  Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

According to a report from Tradedoubler, 38 percent of people who research a product on their mobile phone will then go into a shop to buy it. Forty-seven percent go on to complete their purchase on a PC, 25 percent on their mobile and 7 percent on a tablet.  Read Original Content

Edinburgh-based Sofant Technologies has unveiled revolutionary miniature antenna technology that is predicted to transform the performance of smartphones and tablet PCs, making poor reception, dropped calls and short battery life things of the past.  Read Original Content

HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster quad-core processor, twice the integrated storage capacity, a bigger battery and LTE in the U.S. The new model is called the HTC One X+.  Read Original Content

Google said users have downloaded mobile apps from the Google Play store more than 25 billion times since it was launched in 2008. The search and Internet advertising giant also said that the number of apps available on Google Play has reached 675,000.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has received a rare bit of good news concerning its Windows Phone operating system, as Kantar Worldpanel Comtech claims the firm is now challenging Research in Motion for third place in the European smartphone market.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of September 30, 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 News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
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More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Read Original Content

The mobile health app market in the U.S. is expected to reach $1.3 billion in revenue this year, nearly double last year's $718 million, according to a report by Research2guidance, a mobile technology research firm. Read Original Content

A new study conducted by Cybercitizen Health and Manhattan Research shows that mobile and tablet health activity adoption continues to accelerate, with the number of adults using mobile phones for health information pegged at 75 million in 2012, up from 61 million in 2011, and tablet health activity adoption doubling from 15 million to 29 million in the same time period. 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.

The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.3 million contract to develop a mobile interface for the agency’s Integrated Health Information System so clinicians and staff can access and update patient records using smartphones and other devices. Read Original Content

Mashable estimates there are approximately 40,000 mobile health apps currently available for tablets and smartphones. By the end of 2012, 247 million health apps will have been downloaded. Read Original Content

iTriage has announced that Harvard Medical School has completed an extensive review of its medical content and has extended its stamp of approval. Read Original Content

A new study from Manhattan Research has found that the number of U.S. adults using tablets to access health information and tools has almost doubled in the last year, reaching 29 million tablet users. Read Original Content

Researchers at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital have developed an application that allows people to monitor their lung function at home or on the go by simply blowing into their phone. Read Original Content

SAP Focusing on M2M as Extension to Mobility

This week SAP's President, Corporate Officer Global Solutions, SAP and Head of Mobility Division, Sanjay Poonen sent me a link to an article he published on the importance SAP sees in M2M (machine to machine) communication.  Here is an excerpt, "We look at all of these machines, whether wired or unwired, and see them as extensions of mobile devices." I would also add, SAP sees them as extensions or sensors feeding an SAP system.

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Here is part of SAP's role and their partner's role in the M2M field as described by Sanjay, "They (M2M enabled devices) all need to be secured, managed, and enabled to run applications in much the same way as a mobile phone.  Managing this smart machine to machine (M2M) evolution requires a comprehensive architecture and technology solutions that we’re working on with our partners." The news here is that SAP and their partners are focusing on M2M these days.  I am very excited about this.

How does M2M relate to SAP's core focus areas?  Here is more from Sanjay, "At the core of M2M are three key elements: Mobility, Big Data and the Cloud.   These are precisely the focus areas that we’ve designated as innovation vectors at SAP.  And when these three elements come together in use cases like the “Internet of Things” or “Machine-2-Machine”, it’s like getting a “Triple Word Score” in the game of Scrabble!""

Sanjay also shows off his philosophical side with this statement, "Think of M2M communication as the “social collaboration” of machine-to-machine or machine-to-man."  I love this statement!  As a SMAC Analyst (social, MOBILE, analytics and cloud) this fits right into my space.

I have been publishing a weekly newsletter for sometime now on M2M, and have written many articles predicting the convergence of enterprise mobility and M2M.  I see these steps by SAP as validation that, at least this time, I got it right :-)

SAP and M2M

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.