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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According to IDC, Android and iOS powered 85 percent of all smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2012, establishing a new combined high for the mobile operating systems from Google and Apple. Read Original Content
Ninety-three percent of airlines today have "mobile services for passengers" as a top investment priority over the next three years. Fifty-eight percent are investing in major programs, and 89 percent of airlines plan to sell tickets via mobile devices by 2015, a recent SITA report revealed. Read Original Content
More than $1 billion was wiped out of HTC's market capitalization on Monday and Tuesday combined, after the Taiwanese smartphone maker warned of weaker third-quarter earnings and reported a 45 percent plunge in July revenue. 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.
Collectively, Apple and Samsung companies watched their U.S. sales increase by 43 percent from the second quarter of 2011 to the same quarter of 2012, says NPD Group. Over the same time, combined sales for other companies, such as HTC, Motorola, and LG, fell by 16 percent. Read Original Content
The global smartphone applications processor market showed a solid 55 percent year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2012, reaching $2.47 billion, according to Strategy Analytics. Read Original Content
Sales of smartphones in the U.S. were up 9 percent last quarter due in large part to pre-paid phones. The NPD Group shared data showing that compared to the same quarter last year, pre-paid smartphone sales nearly doubled with growth of 91 percent. Read Original Content
According to an IDC report, 5.4 million Windows Phone devices were sold in Q2 2012, which is 3.5 percent of the total smartphone market. Comparing this to Q2 2011, Windows Phone had a 115.3 percent growth. Read Original Content
Kevin Benedict is a TCS futurist and lecturer focused on the signals and foresight that emerge as society, geopolitics, economies, science, technology, environment, and philosophy converge.
Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of August 5, 2012
It is interesting reviewing the news around HTML5 each week and analyzing everyone's opinions. I can say that over the past few weeks the majority of articles, quotes and comments describe HTML5 as needing to be used in a hybrid approach. HTML5 seems to have too many limitations for many complex enterprise mobility applications on its own, but with a good HTML5 container you can overcome these.
Now for the news...
Edith Yeung, head of marketing at Dolphin Browser, states
there is no shortage of great apps out there based on HTML5; however, some
hurdles do remain. She provides five
reasons HTML5 apps are hard to monetize in this article in Mashable Tech. The comments following the article provide
differing opinions. Read OriginalContent
According to a recent report from Strategy Analytics, HTML5-based
Web apps do not pose a threat to the massive ecosystems that revolve around
native apps. Analyst Josh Martin states
“HTML5 is not the future of apps. While developers dream of ‘write once run
everywhere’ the fragmented support for and limited APIs within HTML5 make this
impossible.” Read Original Content
One of the major benefits of HTML5 web apps is that HTML5 enables
developers to build an application once and then run it on multiple platforms. One of the limitations is that HTML5 web apps
don't utilize the features that make smartphones and tablets so popular, such
as multi-touch capabilities, cameras and push notifications. Read Original Content
People magazine has developed a new mobile site, utilizing
HTML5 “to ease design and delivery across devices”. The new mobile site offers the complete
desktop content. Read Original Content
While not endorsing HTML5 mobile as being the best approach
in every situation, SAP’s Gabriel Alvarez provides a demonstration of how easy
it is to develop an alternative to native apps using jQuery Mobile and BSP in
his article “HTML5 Mobile with SAP - A Lot Easier Than You Think, Part II”
posted on SAP’s Community Network. Read Original Content
The W3C has named four new editors for the HTML5
specification following the split with the WHATWG group. The new editors will be in charge of
maintaining the W3C’s formal HTML5 specification. Read Original Content
Mavenlink has launched a new HTML5-based mobile application
to enable users to access their workforce collaboration platform on any mobile
device. Read Original Content
Paul Krill discusses nine development tools for obtaining
the best that HTML5 has to offer in this article in InfoWorld “9 programming
tools for maximizing HTML5”. Read Original Content
ABI Research recently released a report analyzing trends in
mobile app downloads. In the short term, native app downloads are expected to
increase; however, the report finds the long term trend is negative, indicating
HTML5-based web apps are playing a role in the slow-down in demand for native
apps. Read Original Content
Many speakers at the recent Black Hat security conference
held in Las Vegas expressed concerns that as developers are turning their
attention to HTML5, not enough attention has been paid to the possible
risks. Shreeraj Shah of Indian security
company Blueinfy stated “There's a lot of opportunity for hijacking the
browsers with HTML5. You can compare HTML5
with a small operating system running in your browser." Read Original Content
MoSync and InMobi have formed a partnership to enable HTML5
and JavaScript developers to use in-app ads in cross-platform native mobile
apps. Read Original Content
appMobi has launched openBuild, a free cloud service that
allows any developer to compile HTML5 code into a distributable "hybrid"
app. The new service supports all HTML5
and JavaScript frameworks, giving developers who use jQuery, jqMobi, Enyo,
Meteor, Sencha Touch or any other mobile-ready framework a free tool for
compiling and packaging their HTML5 code into store-ready hybrid apps. Read Original Content
GIS developer Atlas Cartographic Technologies has developed
a new product, Evernav, an HTML5 navigation tool that will allow advertisers to
place their ads on the map, thus “monetizing the app traffic and meeting one of
the most pressing needs of the developer community”. Read Original Content
SAP and Sencha have teamed up to make it easier for
developers to create HTML5 apps using Sencha Touch 2 and the new OData
Connector for SAP. Read Original Content
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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups
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 August 5, 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.
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eMarketer has reported mobile online advertising spending is expected to jump 62 percent worldwide in 2012, with the United States overtaking Japan as the top market. Read Original Content
According to Informa, mobile commerce in AsiaPac is expected to reach $139 billion by 2012, with online advertising spend across the region reaching $22.2 billion by 2014. Read Original Content
According to the Portal Business Resource, in 2015 the global market for mobile advertising will exceed $20.6 billion dollars. Read Original Content
According to Yankee Group, tablets will account for 53 percent of mobile ad dollars in 2014 compared to 47 percent for mobile handsets. By 2016, tablets’ share of mobile ad sales should rise to 60 percent. Read Original Content
eMarketer has released its first projections for ad spending on mobile marketing and found the total market for advertising globally will reach $6.43 billion this year. Read Original Content
Nokia is integrating Groupon daily deals into its Windows Phone-based Lumia device series, a move to expand the scope of its Nokia Maps platform beyond navigation assistance. Read Original Content
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eMarketer has reported mobile online advertising spending is expected to jump 62 percent worldwide in 2012, with the United States overtaking Japan as the top market. Read Original Content
According to Informa, mobile commerce in AsiaPac is expected to reach $139 billion by 2012, with online advertising spend across the region reaching $22.2 billion by 2014. Read Original Content
According to the Portal Business Resource, in 2015 the global market for mobile advertising will exceed $20.6 billion dollars. Read Original Content
According to Yankee Group, tablets will account for 53 percent of mobile ad dollars in 2014 compared to 47 percent for mobile handsets. By 2016, tablets’ share of mobile ad sales should rise to 60 percent. Read Original Content
eMarketer has released its first projections for ad spending on mobile marketing and found the total market for advertising globally will reach $6.43 billion this year. Read Original Content
Nokia is integrating Groupon daily deals into its Windows Phone-based Lumia device series, a move to expand the scope of its Nokia Maps platform beyond navigation assistance. Read Original Content
Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP by SAP Press
SAP Press has just published a new book titled Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP that I recommend reading. It is the best I have read. I had the honor of being asked to write the Forward for this book along with Sanjay Poonen, SAP President and Corporate Offier, Technology and Innovation Products.
Here is an excerpt:
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Here is an excerpt:
Enterprise mobility is transformational. It is not just about a particular mobile
device, screen size, operating system or online application store. It is a new way of conducting business that
demands our attention. Companies will
succeed or fail based in large part on their ability to respond to this
reality.
Within the pages of this book are detailed many of the most
important enterprise mobility trends and technical requirements that are
shaping our IT landscapes today. Nearly
all of us easily recognize and appreciate the value and utility of the
smartphone and tablet in the consumer space.
Today, the great minds of business and enterprise IT have turned their
attentions to contemplating the full range of benefits that mobile technologies
can bring to their individual regions, markets, industries and operations.
This book opens by describing two specific waves of
enterprise mobility, extending and creating.
Extending our ERP and other IT investments out to mobile devices is one
wave, and creating completely new business processes is another. Extending our internal IT investments to
mobile devices offers important incremental improvements that deliver
efficiencies, productivity gains and improved customer interactions to name
just a few, however, creating completely new processes that are only possible
with mobile technology and real-time communication is the giant leap forward.
What can be done differently in your business if you have
real-time visibility to the status and location of your workforce and all of
your resources, assets, inventories, supplies, and customer needs? How can you improve your business performance
by using real-time data in the field to drive better and faster
decision-making? How can you beat your
competition and improve your business performance by developing real-time
unified views of your operation? What is
possible if you have complete situational awareness because you have
implemented a network centric operational strategy that provides full
visibility and maximizes your ability to make good and fast decisions from
anywhere? The answers to these questions
will dictate your company’s future.
This book is the first of its kind. It is the first book I have ever read that
attempts and succeeds in covering the full breadth of the enterprise mobility
landscape from mobile business trends to specific technical development
strategies within the SAP ecosystem. I
would even go further and endorse this book as required reading for anyone, SAP
user or not, that wants to understand the full scope of enterprise quality
mobile solutions and how it is possible to transform your business with this
knowledge.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter @krbenedict.
Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups
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 Commerce News Weekly – Week of August 5, 2012
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.
Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
According to a June 2012 survey including 5,000 Android and iPhone users in the U.S., Nielsen found that 47 percent of those surveyed have used a native shopping app on their phones. The report finds that approximately 45 million U.S. consumers have used shopping apps. Read Original Content
Visa is using the Olympics as an international showcase for mobile payments. The company has installed 140,000 payment terminals in London with NFC chips that enable the tap-and-pay process. The terminal locations include 5,000 London taxis and 3,000 point-of-sale venues. Read Original Content
Forrester Research expects close to 100 million NFC devices, which enable mobile contactless payment, to ship worldwide by the end of the year. 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
According to Berg Insight 30 million NFC-enabled smartphones were sold in 2011, of those sold 5 million occurred in North America. Read Original Content
Google has announced substantial improvements to its Android-based wallet app, allowing users to add credit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Financial Services to its e-wallet. Read Original Content
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Also read Mobility News Weekly
According to a June 2012 survey including 5,000 Android and iPhone users in the U.S., Nielsen found that 47 percent of those surveyed have used a native shopping app on their phones. The report finds that approximately 45 million U.S. consumers have used shopping apps. Read Original Content
Visa is using the Olympics as an international showcase for mobile payments. The company has installed 140,000 payment terminals in London with NFC chips that enable the tap-and-pay process. The terminal locations include 5,000 London taxis and 3,000 point-of-sale venues. Read Original Content
Forrester Research expects close to 100 million NFC devices, which enable mobile contactless payment, to ship worldwide by the end of the year. 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
According to Berg Insight 30 million NFC-enabled smartphones were sold in 2011, of those sold 5 million occurred in North America. Read Original Content
Google has announced substantial improvements to its Android-based wallet app, allowing users to add credit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Financial Services to its e-wallet. Read Original Content
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