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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Orlando, Florida based Kony Solutions has bought Sky Technologies, a mobility solutions provider specializing in SAP implementations based in Melbourne, Australia. Read Original Content
Nokia Oyj, burning cash as it struggles to revive its smartphone business, is winning time for the recovery effort by gaining more customers for another product, basic mobile phones it sells for $39. Read Original Content
Verizon Wireless will carry Windows Phone 8 devices this year, in a major break from the carrier's overall coolness towards all things Microsoft. This could well be the jumpstart that Microsoft's struggling smartphone operating system needs. Read Original Content
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According to industry supply chain sources, after HTC’s One series failed to impress the market, they decided on significant price reductions across the whole model range. These include the models already on the market, as well as the upcoming new Android and Windows Phone 8 smartphones. Read Original Content
According to a new smartphone market monitoring report from Horizon Research, the smartphone market will grow 20 percent in the next 12 months. More than 55 percent adults will have smartphones by mid next year. Read Original Content
Looking at Japanese smartphone ownership in the three months ending June, ComScore found that Android took home the lion's share with a 64 percent share, up almost two points from the prior three months. Apple's iOS grabbed a 32 percent share. Read Original Content
Taiwan's HTC has invested $35.4 million in a U.S. based provider of mobile enterprise apps, signaling the smartphone vendor is trying to fill a market space once occupied by Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices, according to analysts. Read Original Content
LG Electronics said that it would expand the global launch of its flagship smartphone Optimus Vu in a bid to widen its presence in other nations. The company said that it would roll out the gadget in Europe next month and then launch it in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Asia and Latin America. 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 19, 2012
Every week as I read articles, press releases and news about HTML5 developments, I am struck by how divergent the views are about the role of HTML5 in the enterprise. I really think your views depend on your background. If you are a consumer oriented mobile app developer, native is the only way to go. If you are an enterprise oriented developer, then HTML5 is great. What do you think?
Now for the news...
Microsoft has announced that the Pulse news app is now available on the Web and built entirely from HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. The new Web app shows that “future-Web technologies are rapidly approaching a state where they can easily re-create native app experiences in the browser”. Read Original Content
Now for the news...
Microsoft has announced that the Pulse news app is now available on the Web and built entirely from HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. The new Web app shows that “future-Web technologies are rapidly approaching a state where they can easily re-create native app experiences in the browser”. Read Original Content
To ensure as many visitors as possible can access their
website, the Consortium of Foundation Libraries has developed an HTML5 mobile
site in addition to their Flash-based website.
(See http://m.sophiaguevara.wix.com/html_cfl for a preview of the
site.) Read Original Content
ReelSEO provides a list and details about popular HTML5-capable video players and destination sites. Read Original Content
Health crisis info and support site CaringBridge has launched a new interactive HTML5-based website which combines user-generated content with pre-designed video in order to create a new, custom video experience for each user. Read OriginalContent
Magic Software's UK Managing Director, David Akka doesn’t
believe HTML5 is currently suited to enterprise mobile applications. “There is a lot of hype around HTML. Although
it has improved over the last 15 years, it is still highly dependent on web
browsers - with all the implications of that.”
Read Original Content
DevCon5’s HTML5 Summit will be held October 3-5, 2012 in
Austin, Texas this year in conjunction with ITEXPO.
Read Original Content
HotelTonight’s chief technology officer Christopher Bailey
and EyeforTravel’s Ritesh Gupta discuss HTML5 technology for the travel
industry in this article “HTML5: Hype or Hope?”. Read Original Content
This HTML5 article by Jos Dirksen illustrates how to render
open data based onto a 3D globe, walking the reader through an infographic. Read Original Content
A new HTML5 website gives Nintendo fans the opportunity to
play classic games on their iPhone browser; however, performance is an issue
with some of the games. Read OriginalContent
As of August 15th, Android will no longer offer Flash for Android
devices, making way for HTML5 to take over video on mobile browsers. Android users with Flash will continue to
receive security updates, but that is the extent to which Adobe will continue
to support the plug-in. Flash will no longer be available in the Google Play
store. Read Original Content
This tutorial details how to use the Mobile Photo Album
JQuery plugin for developers to build JavaScript galleries for mobile
devices. Read Original Content
A recent report from BI Intelligence highlights the pros and
cons of native apps and HTML5, giving HTML5 the advantage in distribution and
cost, and native apps the advantage in features, user experience and
monetization. BII believes that HTML5 will win for the future. Read Original Content
appMobi is guaranteeing developers will make money creating
HTML5 apps by
offering complete access to their development tools and
cloud services and only charging for apps that are profitable. Read Original Content
Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant
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Full Disclosure: I am a 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 19, 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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A study by research firm Yankee Group says global mobile ad revenue will soar by three and a half times, to roughly $10 billion to $11 billion, by 2016. High-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India will lead the surge. Read Original Content
The latest round of research by mobile ad network InMobi finds that mobile advertising influences 48 percent of consumers on their purchasing decisions, with more late-technology adopters embracing m-commerce, and of those yet to use it, 45 percent expect to do so within the next twelve months. Read Original Content
According to IAB Australia, total mobile advertising expenditures for the past twelve months grew 212 percent and is valued at $47.5 million. Read Original Content
Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. For more information, visit www.skytechnologies.com.
eMarketer has released projections for ad spending on mobile marketing and found that the total market for advertising globally will reach $6.43 billion this year. Advertisers are expected to spend $2.4 billion on mobile advertising in the United States in 2012, up from $1.23 billion in 2011. Read Original Content
Brands and advertisers spent 150 percent more on mobile ad display prices over the course of the London Olympics Games, research from M&C Saatchi Mobile has found. Read Original Content
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said revenue from Sponsored Stories, the company's news feed ad product, has a run-rate of about $1 million per day, half of which comes from mobile. 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
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 study by research firm Yankee Group says global mobile ad revenue will soar by three and a half times, to roughly $10 billion to $11 billion, by 2016. High-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India will lead the surge. Read Original Content
The latest round of research by mobile ad network InMobi finds that mobile advertising influences 48 percent of consumers on their purchasing decisions, with more late-technology adopters embracing m-commerce, and of those yet to use it, 45 percent expect to do so within the next twelve months. Read Original Content
According to IAB Australia, total mobile advertising expenditures for the past twelve months grew 212 percent and is valued at $47.5 million. Read Original Content
Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. For more information, visit www.skytechnologies.com.
eMarketer has released projections for ad spending on mobile marketing and found that the total market for advertising globally will reach $6.43 billion this year. Advertisers are expected to spend $2.4 billion on mobile advertising in the United States in 2012, up from $1.23 billion in 2011. Read Original Content
Brands and advertisers spent 150 percent more on mobile ad display prices over the course of the London Olympics Games, research from M&C Saatchi Mobile has found. Read Original Content
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said revenue from Sponsored Stories, the company's news feed ad product, has a run-rate of about $1 million per day, half of which comes from mobile. 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
Kony Solutions Acquires Long Time SAP Mobility Partner Sky Technologies
Kony Solutions Acquires Sky Technologies |
Kony Solutions wanted to expand into the enterprise mobility arena, and Sky Technologies needed more investment and a bigger, global presence. Both Kony Solution and Sky Technologies have good technology stories and reputations. This will make them both stronger and more formidable mobile application development platform competitors. There is definitely market consolidation occurring.
Kony Solutions has been working hard over the last year to expand from their B2C mobility roots into the enterprise mobility space and this acquisition will bolster their credentials as Sky Technologies has over 14 years of experience delivering mobile solutions into the SAP ecosystem and over 100 SAP mobility deployments with large companies. I have spoken to many SAP/Sky Technologies' customers over the years and have always heard good reports on their mobility solutions.
This spring I had the opportunity to film an interview with Kony Solution's Chief Mobile Officer Sam Lakkundi in which he shares details of their ambitions. Also, while in Europe this summer speaking on mobile strategies I was able to meet Kony Solutions' Director of Technical Services, Jay Bopa Rai and film an interview him. I have also recorded interviews with the Sky Technologies team over the years that offer insight into their solutions and focus:
SAP customers have went from enterprise mobility famine to feast. They now have a plethora of good, solid choices to select from.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and get all the enterprise mobility news and market developments.
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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.
Kevin Benedict's Video Comments - The Tempo of Enterprise Mobility
In this video I discuss what "tempo" means to mobile strategies, and provide examples of how companies find competitive advantages by increasing their tempo through the use of mobile technologies. How could increasing the tempo of your business through the use of mobile technologies help your bottom line?
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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.
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