Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011


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 commerce in the United States is expected to grow 91 percent to $6.1 billion compared to the value of the market throughout 2010. Read Original Content

Facebook is acquiring the team behind social networking service Gowalla as it continues to build out its location-based services and enter the mobile commerce market. Read Original Content

According to WSL/Strategic Retail shopping via smartphones is growing significantly. Currently half of smartphone owners are making purchases through their devices and mobile retail apps are one of the most popular apps being downloaded. 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/

Poland will soon be able to use NFC-enabled smartphones to pay for goods and services. Total value of transactions made via mobile phones in Central and Eastern Europe amounted to around €290 million in 2010. That is expected to grow to €22.7 billion by 2017, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content
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Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of December 5, 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.



The above graphic illustrates the regions within China that are experiencing significant growth in the M2M market. China's Internet-of-things industry reached $193.3 billion in 2010. Read Original Content



As computers and mobile devices continue to play an ever increasingly role in the lives of consumers, this holiday season has been projected to lead with the highest grossing revenues in online shopping ever recorded.  This graph compares the level of growth in online shopping interest between the week before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving week for 2010 and 2011, looking a sample covering hundreds of millions of ad impressions. Read Original Content



Online radio company Pandora has experienced significant growth in the past two years. This sharp increase in revenue can be explained by mobile advertising on Pandora’s mobile app. Read Original Content

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HTML5 News Weekly - Week of December 5, 2011

UK Security firm Sophos made its security predictions for 2012.  They identified new networking and web technologies, including HTML5, as major security risks for the coming year.

HTML5 removes the need for most add-ons and plug-ins because similar capabilities are built in.  However, this also means that HTML5 can become a big target for cybercrime because data is stored within the browser itself.
  James Lyne, a senior technologist at Sophos, states in a December 5, 2011 InfoWorld article (http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/html5-create-new-challenges-security-pros-in-2012-180827) “Traditionally the browser has been a gateway for cyber criminals to get access to your PC, now they're going to be trying to attack the browser itself to steal its data.”


From the Wall Street Journal Tech blog, December 2, 2011 (http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/12/02/mobile-new-browsers-key-targets-for-cybercrooks/?mod=google_news_blog), “New Web and networking technologies will force us to learn some lessons: HTML5, the language to which modern websites are migrating, represents a substantial improvement for developers, but has introduced new vulnerabilities. Older browsers were seen as the route through which attacks could be launched. New HTML5-compliant browsers represent a new target for criminals as they have the potential to store far more information.”

SplendidCRM Software, Inc., provider of customer relationship management solutions, now offers an HTML5 offline client in all editions of its software.  Paul Rony, President of SplendidCRM Software, states "Our new HTML5 Offline Client makes SplendidCRM available on touch devices while in airplanes or at client sites without an available network."
Press Release: http://www.splendidcrm.com/Company/PressReleases/December162011/tabid/147/Default.aspx

Opera announced a new version 11.60 of their browser that includes HTML5 parsing this week.  One of the new features highlighted is the inclusion of a new HTML5 parsing algorithm which “helps unify code discrepancies among browsers."  Press Release:  http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2011/12/06/ 
For more information, and to download the new version:  http://www.opera.com/browser/new/

From the Read Write Web article “Top 6 Trends in HTML5 in 2011”, December 6, 2011
(http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_6_trends_in_html5_in_2011.php),  
“HTML5 is fundamentally changing the way developers approach the Web. Whether it is for desktop browsers or mobile, the language and standards of the future are not some distant point on the horizon. It is right now.”



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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Field Services Velocity

I have had the opportunity to lead enterprise mobility workshops and to learn about field services and enterprise mobility from many different people, in many different countries over the past 2 months.  In this Video Comments I share some of the things I have learned recently.





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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of December 5, 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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The U.S. Census bureau is working with Agilex to create mobile apps for iPads and other tablets for its 2020 census workers as they collect data throughout the country. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, Apple’s iPad will soon experience strong growth in the enterprise mobility applications market as tablet sales are also expected to surge in the next few years. Read Original Content

RFID tracking devices are now being used to track the temperatures of frozen meat shipments. This solution is aimed at maintaining healthy temperatures to prevent dangerous food from being purchased. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

FieldOne Systems, a provider of software solutions for field service businesses, has released a new iPhone app for the FieldOne Mobile series allowing field workers to accomplish more work. Read Original Content
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M2M News Weekly - Week of November 28, 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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Smarter Car and LightSquared are creating an in-vehicle solution that enables dealers and drivers to leverage critical data including location sharing, vehicle maintenance diagnostics and in-car applications via smartphones, tablets or PCs. Read Original Content

According to Nerac, a research and advisory firm, market for remote monitoring of medical patients is forecast to reach $5.1 billion by 2013, up from $3.6 billion in 2007. Read Original Content

Machina Research expects the automotive M2M sector to generate 157 billion euros in revenue in 2020, up from 10 billion euros in 2010. The biggest revenue generating segments will be security and tracking, emergency assistance, navigation and insurance. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

Population increases in Australia and a rapid growth of M2M links using mobile networks are among the factors that will see the total number of mobile subscriptions rocket up to 35 million by 2015. Read Original Content
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Velocity in Field Services


Velocity - the speed and
direction of an object.
Velocity is usually a physics term, but it can also relate to enterprise mobility and field services in particular.  The term velocity is often used to describe the speed and direction of an object.   In my workshops, I use it in the context of enterprise mobility and field services to describe the ability to quickly bring all required resources (personnel, skill sets, equipment, parts, customers, schedules, etc.) to the point of need (i.e. job site) at the right time in order to optimize production and efficiencies.

How do you increase velocity?  It requires real time data exchanges between your mobile workforce, mobile assets, mobile inventories, mobile equipment, customers etc.  You need to understand the locations, status, availability and arrival and departure time of all required components.

Real-time mobile data exchanges
with PSION's EP10
From a mobile data perspective you need to have real-time mobile data exchanges that include the ability to send and receive the right data, with the right people, at the right time, in the right amounts, on the right devices.

Velocity, in the context of enterprise mobility, is a purposeful strategy.  It requires IT infrastructure that is designed to avoid latency in real-time data exchanges.  It requires a unified view of the "real-time" status of all relevant players and objects necessary to optimize the delivery of services in the field.

My mantra is, "Mobile technologies without mobile strategies is wasted."

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 28, 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.

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

According to Nielsen, Apple has retained its place as the largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. in the third quarter with a nearly 30 percent share, while the overall market continues to shift toward smart devices, reports Fortune. Read Original Content

China has leapfrogged the U.S. to become the world’s largest smartphone market by volume, according to third quarter figures released by Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android's security features, making them more vulnerable to attack.  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/.

In the third quarter of the year, both Windows Mobile and Windows Phone combined held 6.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market. That's down 33 percent from the 9 percent of the U.S. market Windows Mobile/Windows Phone held in the previous quarter.  Read Original Content

The majority of UK consumers (59 percent) now own a smartphone, 18 percent own a tablet device, and as many as 67 percent have used an app, and 73 percent have accessed a website using these mobile devices in the last twelve months, research from an EPiServer study has found.  Read Original Content
Mobile application downloads in the U.S. increased from 3.8 million in September 2011 to a record 4.91 million in October, a 29 percent month-over-month leap, according to mobile app user acquisition platform Fiksu's latest App Store Competitive Index.  Read Original Content

Research In Motion has released BlackBerry Mobile Fusion – the Company’s next-generation enterprise mobility solution and RIM’s entry into the multi-platform Mobile Device Management marketplace.  Read Original Content

Last month, Apple managed to achieve an impressive 42.8 percent of all UK smartphone sales.  Even though it was introduced during the middle of the month, there is no doubt that Apple's flagship iPhone 4S was responsible for this result.  Read Original Content

According to figures released by VisionMobile, a market analysis and strategy firm, smartphone adoption has reached over 27 percent around the world.  Read Original Content

Research In Motion is introducing a software tool giving corporate customers the option of linking employees' personal iPhones to the BlackBerry network without compromising security.  Read Original Content

According to ABI research, 2016 is the year health and fitness apps will cross the $400 million mark. ABI has further predicted that 1 billion health related apps will have been downloaded by 2016. Read Original Content

HTC hopes to re-spark consumer interest with its new line of smartphones in early 2012, despite the company’s poor performance in the global smartphone market this year, reports Reuters.  Read Original Content

A new study finds that iPhone owners are the most loyal smartphone users, and cites customers' personal investments in Apple's ecosystem as driving an over 80 percent retention rate for the device.  Read Original Content

Lenovo has unveiled three new tablets and a smartphone for the Chinese market and also will launch a smart TV product in the first quarter of next year.  Read Original Content

AT&T has withdrawn its application to buy T-Mobile from the Federal Communications Commission after the FCC dealt a blow to its plans by announcing that it will hold a court hearing to examine the proposed merger.  Read Original Content

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