Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of May 20, 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.

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Mobile health in Africa and the Middle East is developing quickly, but there are differences in drivers and characteristics of the mHealth models employed in each of these areas, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Read Original Content

The proliferation of mobile and electronic technologies, both in the United States and overseas, has changed the way medicine is practiced, affecting both physicians and medical students. Read Original Content

The growth of global mobile healthcare, while rapid stateside, is limited due to economic, organizational and technological differences between nations, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation. Read Original Content

An FCC proposal to allocate spectrum for wireless health monitoring devices could lead to the development of products that may lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes for patients, the head of the agency said today. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

Demonstrating its technology leadership within the healthcare industry, Ingram Micro Inc. has announced it will co-host the 2012 Health IT Innovation Summit on June 28 at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 20, 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.

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 Mobile Health News Weekly

The Apple iPhone continues to lead mobile video messaging usage, increasing from 7.4 percent to 23.6 percent since August 2011. However, the use of Samsung devices is quickly gaining ground, increasing from 2.9 percent to 21.9 percent over the same period.  Read Original Content

Worldwide enterprise wireless local area network segment recorded a growth of 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012 over the first quarter of 2011, according to a report by the International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content

Google has announced that the acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. has closed, with Google acquiring MMI for $40 per share in cash.  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/.

Chief executive of ARM - Warren East - in an interview with Dow Jones news agency, said he expects companies making ARM-based chips to capture about 10 percent to 20 percent of the notebook PC market by 2014 or 2015.  Read Original Content

Android smartphone sales were up by 61.3 percent in 2011, and it has been estimated that 700,000 new smartphones are activated every day. This benefits Google, whose Android operating system was on 56.1 percent of the smartphones that were sold in 2011.  Read Original Content

Samsung continues to pump out mobile phones like there's no tomorrow, while Nokia's global market share continues to slip. Apple now gobbles up 7.9 percent of the market with its iPhone, and Research In Motion keeps on flailing.  Read Original Content

Rotterdam at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange and Too Long on the Road

We had a great three days at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange in Rotterdam this week.  This is a great mobility event where most of the sessions are end user lead, and I filled over 9 pages with notes.  If you ever get a chance to attend, it is worth it! 

What happens when you spend nearly 4 weeks on the road talking about enterprise mobility and mobile strategies?  The following...

Join me next week for a webinar called, Mobilizing the Real Time Enterprise - opportunities, challenges, threats

Companies report that this year they are building multiple applications and deploying to multiple user groups. They also report that they are struggling with their mobile strategies, worrying about how to secure their applications, and unsure of what development approach to take. How prepared are you to tackle the complexities of integrating your enterprise systems and mobilizing your critical business applications?

The ability to dispatch workers, process orders, update records, and run your businesses – all in real time – offers competitive advantages as well as technical challenges.

Learn about:

What it means to run a real-time enterprise supported by mobile technologies in 2012
The mobile strategies and trends of 602 large enterprises and what they mean for you and your competitors

• Enterprise mobility challenges that could haunt you the rest of your career
• Approaches to mobile app development and the value of a platform
• We will set aside time for Q&A, so there will be plenty of opportunity to answer your specific questions on mobile development best practices. So please join us to learn about building the right apps – on time and on budget.

When: May 31, 1:00 PM EDT

Register for the webinar

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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.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of May 20, 2012

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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

A recent study estimates mobile advertising will be a $5.04 billion industry by 2015. HighTable, a startup social website for professionals, compiled data about key factors in the growing mobile marketing space in an infographic. Read Original Content

The Holy Grail of marketers used to be a home telephone number and address. Direct mail and telemarketing, despite being some of the most hated forms of advertising, are historically effective. Now mobile takes marketers closer to consumers than direct mail ever will. Read Original Content

The Australian group buying industry generated $123.5 million in Q1 2012 representing a 72 percent growth over the same period last year. Despite the phenomenal growth, the market contracted by 14 percent on last quarter. 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

Facebook shares fell 11 percent Monday, highlighting the challenges the No. 1 social network faces to live up to its frothy market value. Facebook already has some 488 million mobile users, its fastest-growing platform, but hasn't yet unveiled a strategy to make money in the field. Read Original Content

Tremor Video, the largest independent online video technology company, has announced the launch of its Mobile Creative Platform, a toolset that helps advertisers build and deliver interactive video across all mobile devices and operating systems, without sacrificing ad functionality or viewer experience. Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Optimized Intersections and Mobility

I believe that it is important to understand high level concepts in order to make sense of detailed plans.  Last week, I was in Spain attending a field services related conference and listened to a field services manager explain the importance of teaching service technicians the economics of service businesses.  He wanted his team to understand what it meant to optimize their business, and the role that mobile technologies played in that optimization effort.  I agreed!

In this segment of the Video Comments, I share the concept of Optimized Intersections.  Optimized Intersections consists of the following:

• Mobilized workforce
• Latitude
• Longitude
• Altitude
• Time
• Mobilized Objects

I hope you find this concept useful.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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.