Mobility News Weekly - Week of September 12, 2011

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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Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Internet radio company Pandora’s usage on mobile and other connected devices is 70 percent of its total usage.  Mobile revenue in the second quarter of 2011 was about half of all revenue the company generated.  The company reported revenue of $67 million, up 117 percent from a year ago, beating Wall Street expectations of $60.3 million.  Read Original Content

Microsoft is spending millions of dollars in training sales staff from phone companies worldwide as it tries to grow its so far unpopular mobile operating system.  Achim Berg, Microsoft's head of Windows Phone marketing, told Bloomberg that forecasts by analysts that the operating system will have a 20 percent market share by 2015 are conservative.  Read Original Content

Securing mobile devices is one of the biggest challenges facing IT security professionals as cyber criminals turn their attention to this platform, according to James Lyne, director of technology strategy at security firm Sophos.  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/.

SAP and Sybase have announced the latest release of Sybase Unwired Platform. The 2.1 release will enrich the mobile application development experience through significant enhancements to its SDK and new developer resources for the more than 2 million members of SAP Community Network.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Matthew Schwartz

I had the good fortune to meet and corner SAP's VP of Enterprise Mobility for North America, Matthew Schwartz at SAP TechED today.  In this video interview Matt shares his thoughts and insights on enterprise mobility.




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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.

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Puneet Suppal

SAP's PCN mobility enthusiast Puneet Suppal shares his insights on developments in enterprise mobility at SAP TechEd 2011.








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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.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Centigon's Ryan Goodman

This is an interview with Centigon's CEO Ryan Goodman.  They are using Google Maps and business intelligence to offer some interesting mobile solutions for SAP users.

Don't forget to take the enterprise mobility survey at the top of this page!  It will help us all better understand today's market.





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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.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of September 12, 2011

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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Adsmobi projects the European mobile advertising market to be valued at $1.03 billion by 2014.  Read Original Content

Research firm Ovum has indicated that in the Asia Pacific region the expected mobile apps market revenue will reach $958 million by 2015.  Read Original Content

Advertisers in the U.S. alone have been forecasted to spend over $1.1 billion while investing in mobile marketing by the end of 2011, which represents a 48 percent year-on-year increase, according to estimates from eMarketer.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

Sony Music has launched a QR Code advertising campaign in 100 London black cabs to promote new music from 11 popular artists under the Columbia record label.  Read Original Content

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