Mobile Expert Video Series: Jay Bopa Rai

A couple of weeks ago while teaching mobile strategies in the London area I had the opportunity to sit down and discuss enterprise mobility with Kony Solution's Director of Technical Services EMEA, Jay Bopa Rai. In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, Jay shares the trends he sees in the European enterprise mobility market today.

Remember, all past videos are archived for easy reference here.

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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 Health News Weekly – Week of June 24, 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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By 2017, one in five wearable wireless electronic devices for the sports and health care market will be used in the medical realm to track things such as a person’s blood sugar level or heart rate, according to a forecast from ABI Research. Read Original Content

A study published in Diabetes Care showed that children with type 1 diabetes who used wireless technologies to monitor and manage blood glucose levels had significantly better glycemic control and diabetes self-management skills than those who did not. Read Original Content

UK Doctors will be encouraged to prescribe smartphone apps to help patients manage conditions ranging from diabetes to depression, the Government has announced. 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.

Happtique, a mobile health application store aimed primarily at healthcare providers, plans to launch an mRx program that will give hospitals and physicians a mechanism for prescribing mHealth apps to patients. Read Original Content

Results of a survey from Blue Chip Patient Recruitment indicate just 26 percent of users visit health-related Websites, 18 percent download health-related mobile apps and 8 percent spend time at online health communities. Read Original Content

A number of mhealth tools are starting to slowly work their way into mainstream use for patients, such as a blood pressure cuff that connects to a smartphone, a blood glucose meter for iPod touch and iPhone devices, and an app that alerts people when it is time to take their next dose of their medications. Read Original Content

Recyclebank and Transport for London have partnered to release an iPhone app that gives users rewards when they opt out of public transportation and choose to walk or cycle to get around instead. Read Original Content

With the proliferation of mobile devices in healthcare and the growing demand for information delivered to those devices, healthcare interoperability collaborative Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International has produced an implementation guide for providing such access. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 24, 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

India has unveiled a new version of what it says is the "world's cheapest tablet computer" - the Aakash 2.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics Co. expects sales of its new Galaxy S III, launched at the end of last month as a main rival to Apple's iPhone, to top 10 million during July, making it South Korean group's fastest selling smartphone.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has announced its developed version for its next smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 8. WP8 will come with an alteration in the start screen, a new live tiles feature and offer to resize tiles.  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.

Motorola Solutions just bought Psion Corporation for $200 million in cash to bolster its work with industrial companies. The deal will mostly focus on improving Motorola Solutions' toughened-up handhelds and in-car terminals.  Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics, already a world leader in TVs and smartphones, is taking the fight to Intel Corp for the number one slot in semiconductors, betting on strong growth in so-called logic chips that are the brains inside today’s fast-selling smart mobile devices.  Read Original Content

HTC has canceled the planned launch of its high-profile One series in Brazil, and is pulling out - completely - from that market.  Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of June 24, 2012

Kony Solutions has unveiled its Mobile App Manager, giving organizations a single environment for “deploying, managing, analyzing and securing mobile applications for all devices, across all channels, including HTML5, mobile web, native, hybrid, or mixed-mode”.  Read Original Content

A luxury real estate brokerage firm has re-launched its website, building the new site with HTML5 to optimize it for mobile, stating “over 90 percent of smartphones and tablets are HTML5-enabled, and almost 75 percent are HTML5 video only. Without HTML5, you are losing a considerable portion of your audience.”  Read Original Content

Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe Captivate 6, an upgrade to its eLearning software, with enhancements including HTML5 publishing with pause and resume capabilities for iOS and Android devices.  Read Original Content

Microsoft claims that Internet Explorer 10 “achieves dramatic performance gains for JavaScript-intensive applications, particularly HTML5 games and simulations” with page loads 30 percent faster.  Read Original Content

To show off HTML5’s current capabilities, QRlicious has compiled a list of “Our Favorite HTML5 Mobile Apps of 2012”.  Read Original Content

Facebook’s Ringmark tool is now completely open source, and more tests will be implemented in Ringmark soon to better test mobile browsers, as many browsers just aren’t fast enough yet to handle HTML5 games.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has announced that HTML5 support is being added to the Visual Studio LightSwitch tool, allowing LightSwitch apps to run on any platform with an HTML5 compliant browser, including Android, iOS and Windows 8.  Read Original Content

The creators of third party browser Dolphin claim that the latest beta version of the browser, the Dolphin Engine, earns a score of 450+ on the HTML5 browser compatibility test, rendering HTML5 five to ten times faster than Android’s default browser and 100 percent faster than Chrome.  Read Original Content

Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS6 provides development tools to incorporate HTML5’s interactivity and motion for designs on smartphones, tablets and desktops.  Read Original Content

Dot Com Infoway has released a new HTML5 infographic, “HTML5:  Past, Present and Future”, describing the evolution, key features and capabilities of HTML5.  Read Original Content

A major shift is occurring in the application development landscape, and an Oracle development executive states that it’s based on the "perfect storm" provided by the emergence of cloud, mobile and HTML5 as dominant themes in modern systems.  Read Original Content

Gizmox has released a downloadable Community Technology Preview of its Instant CloudMove Transposition Studio, which enables developers to experiment with the tools.  It allows any Microsoft Visual Studio developer to extend VB6 and .NET enterprise client/server applications into HTML5 web, cloud and mobile applications.  Read Original Content

Augmented reality browser Junaio has been upgraded with a new user interface and a new API with HTML5 and JavaScript support.  Read Original Content

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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.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 24, 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

According to Media Post, citing an “Advertising Expenditure Forecast for June 2012 by Publicis Groupe company ZenithOptimedia, advertisers will spend about 15 percent more in 2012 on paid-search marketing, up 15 percent in 2013, and 13 percent in 2014.” Read Original Content

Adcquire's new marketing platform is making waves throughout the marketing industry. The platform, which connects brands and consumers through a mobile app, generates physical interactions with products. Read Original Content

AT&T has just released the findings from a study that indicates social and mobile marketing are the next big thing. Among the small businesses that took part in the survey, almost 60 percent stated they intend to spend more on their marketing online in 2012 than they did last year. Read Original Content

Verivo 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 Verivo Mobile.

StrikeAd, a startup that helps advertisers and agencies manage their mobile campaigns, has raised another $500,000 in funding. The round is an addition to the $3 million Series A led by DFJ Esprit that the startup announced in January. Read Original Content

Ticketing startup TicketLeap has relaunched with a new logo, webpages that encourage more social interaction, and updated iOS and Android apps that create a mobile box office. Read Original Content