Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of August 8, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.




Jumptap, a mobile ad network, put out a map this week detailing its 83 million users and their operating system preferences.  Android wins the nationwide race, but it’s interesting to see what states are iOS-heavy, and even more interesting to see what states are still rocking BlackBerry as #1.  Read Original Content



According to new research conducted by Juniper, by the end of 2011 there will be 150 million global users of mobile banking.  As the pie chart illustrates, North America is dominating in user numbers by taking 41 percent of overall users as Western Europe comes in second with 22 percent.  Read Original Content



According to IDC research, during the second quarter of 2011 Nokia and LG experienced significant declines in total shipments suffering a nearly 20 percent decline for both companies.  Meanwhile Apple continues to grow with a 141 percent increase in shipments compared to 2010.  Read Original Content




Researchers at Lab42 have conducted a study on QR codes illustrating basic research in a pictorial chart. Research includes the findings that 67 percent of people in the U.S. have noticed QR codes in magazines, 46 percent of QR code scans result in a desire to save money through QR code coupons and interestingly only 58 percent of people knew that the term “QR” means “quick response”.  Read Original Content


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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
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.

HTML5, Enterprise Mobility and Visual Effects

This week let’s explore an additional feature of HTML5 used for visual effects, and how it can be used by developers of mobile applications. HTML5’s Canvas capabilities allow for smooth animation and impressive visual effects.  Mobile business intelligence apps, mobile marketing campaigns, mobile product catalogs, CAD drawings, Maps, blueprints, etc, could all benefit from these features.

Canvas is basically a region in your web page where you can use JavaScript to draw whatever you’d like. It has no content and border of its own, but has HTML5 code-defined height and width attributes. From the W3C standard: “The canvas element provides scripts with a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly  (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-canvas-element)." 

Sybase shared at SAPPHIRENOW 2011 that SUP (sybase unwired platform) version 2.1 would be largely based upon HTML5.  They also shared that many of their new mobile applications will be taking advantage of HTML5 and features like Canvas.

Browsers currently supporting the canvas element are: Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Some anticipated uses of canvas include building graphs, animations, games and image composition.

Software vendors are already taking advantage of these features.  Here is an example - On August 1, 2011, Adobe released a preview version of an HTML5 development tool, Adobe Edge. It seems to be Adobe’s early answer to the Apple mobile device problem with Flash. Adobe announced on Tuesday, August 2, that Edge was downloaded over 50,000 times in the first 24 hours. The preview version can be found here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/.

According to PC Magazine, “Edge has a definite focus on the mobile Web—the fastest growing segment of Internet use—as shown in the tool's inclusion of the WebKit browser engine, which powers today's dominant mobile platforms: Apple iOS, Android, WebOS, and Blackberry. Despite this focus, the tool will also be able to create content for traditional desktop browsers that support HTML5, such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 9, and Safari.”

Several websites offer applications, games, tools and tutorials for the HTML5 canvas element:
Previously published articles on HTML5

More on HTML5 for Mobile Application Developers
What Can HTML5 Offer Mobile Developers?
HTML5 - What I am Learning
Projections for and Demonstrations of HTML5

Upcoming Events

Field Mobility 2011 - October 25 - 27, 2011
Enterprise Mobility Exchange - November 2 - 3, 2011

Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Mobile Adoption Among Gas and Electric Utilities
Mobile Adoption in Life Sciences
Mobile Adoption in Oil and Gas
Networked Field Services

Recorded Webinars of Note

3 Critical Considerations for Embracing Mobile CRM
The Future of Enterprise Mobility
Healthrageous Mobility Case Study
The Latest m-Business Trends and How the Onslaught of Mobile Devices Affects Development Strategies
The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise:  The Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
Syclo and SAP Deliver Mobile Apps on Sybase Unwired Platform

Ruggedized and Industrial Mobile Device Articles

Consumer Smartphones or Industrial Smartphones?

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
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.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of August 8, 2011


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

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Germany's Fraunhofer Institute has developed an RFID tag that is attached to a vehicle’s front window that pays for parking as the car drives through the main entrance of parking sites.  Read Original Content

Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project has required all employees to wear RFID tags to further increase safety after a recent security breach.  Read Original Content 

A New Jersey city has provided residents with RFID-enabled recycle bins that keep track of how many loads of recyclables each resident provides.  The city keeps track of these numbers and rewards residents with coupons to local businesses based on the number of bin-loads.  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.  http://www.syclo.com/.

A new survey by cTrack shows that companies using GPS tracking systems for their vehicle fleets find many benefits which include fuel-cost savings, reduced overtime, and lowered communication costs.  Read Original Content

Death by Mobile App

I came across an article about an interesting mobile app this week called Death by Car and Murder.  It is the kind of mobile application I have long wanted and even written about.  A mobile application that augments my reality by telling me what is around me, plus what has happened in history around me.  I want an application that tells me if I am in a reasonably safe neighborhood, or am I just asking to be the next crime statistic.

Wouldn't it be interesting to know if the neighborhood you are walking in has a high crime rate (and what kind of crimes), or if the road you travel is higher than others in traffic fatalities?  I would like to instantly see the "safest routes" to walk and drive.

I would like a geo-spatially aware walking encyclopedia that would augment my reality with useful information that I can select and configure.  Today, it seems we are limited mostly to local businesses or tourist landmarks.  I want to know the demographics, history, statistics, behaviors and trends of the people sitting around me in an outdoor cafe.

I would also like to better understand the environment around me.  If I am in a new neighborhood, tell me the history of the community and the economic and business statistics.

We all have unique interests, limited time, limited resources and are mortal.  Wouldn't it be interesting if we could use knowledge about our surroundings and environment to better manage our experiences?  I know this might not seem at first romantic or adventuresome, but it could be.  It might also provide a statistically safer life that better aligns with our interests.

What do you think?







Upcoming Events

Field Mobility 2011 - October 25 - 27, 2011
Enterprise Mobility Exchange - November 2 - 3, 2011

Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Mobile Adoption Among Gas and Electric Utilities
Mobile Adoption in Life Sciences
Mobile Adoption in Oil and Gas
Networked Field Services

Recorded Webinars of Note

3 Critical Considerations for Embracing Mobile CRM
The Future of Enterprise Mobility
Healthrageous Mobility Case Study
The Latest m-Business Trends and How the Onslaught of Mobile Devices Affects Development Strategies
The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise:  The Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
Syclo and SAP Deliver Mobile Apps on Sybase Unwired Platform

Ruggedized and Industrial Mobile Device Articles

Consumer Smartphones or Industrial Smartphones?

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
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.

M2M News Weekly - Week of August 1, 2011

Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.

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The automotive industry will contribute to global M2M connections in a significant way over the next few years.  Machina Research predicts that from 2010 to 2020 global automotive connections will grow from 90 million to 1.4 billion.  Read Original Content

The FAA has approved new M2M communication that allows airline pilots to communicate to air traffic controllers through satellite connections giving them the ability to fly through Polar Regions rather than fly around them during long distance routes.   Read Original Content

Through automotive and electronic health connections the M2M industry is expected to be valued at $66 billion by 2016, according to Visiongain.  Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

According to Frost and Sullivan the health care industry is a driving force behind the surge in connected devices.  This includes hospitals adopting new technologies that include patient monitoring systems and smartphone devices.  Read Original Content

UPS said recently that it has reduced the amount of fuel consumed per package in the United States by 3.3 percent.  The company attributes the improvement to telematics, routing technology and loading optimization.  Read Original Content

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