M2M News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

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.

According to a new report from Pike Research there will be steady growth in the global market for substation automation, which will grow from $2.7 billion in 2012 to $4.3 billion in 2020. Read Original Content

A new Strategy Analytics M2M Strategies report predicts cellular M2M connections will grow from 277 million in 2012 to 2.5 billion by 2020. Read Original Content

ABI Research expects fleet management and trailer tracking system subscriptions to more than double in the next four years, growing from 13.3 million this year to 30.4 million by 2016. Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance.

Fleet tracking technology helped save US Xpress over $6 million per year by being able to more closely monitor driver performance. Read Original Content

IBM and Vodafone have announced a collaboration to combine mobile communications and cloud computing for the remote management of “smart home” appliances. Read Original Content


The global M2M market will soar to 359.3 million total M2M cellular connections in 2016, according to a recent report from Berg Insight. Read Original Content

According to Pike Research, the total smart grid software and related IT services market will reach $4.3 billion by the end of 2012, and grow to over $8.6 billion by 2017. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

The U.S. smart grid market is expected to continue its double-digit growth momentum of the last five years to reach approximately $26.7vbillion by 2017 with a CAGR of 13 percent over the next five years. Read Original Content

A new Zpryme report reveals that the global grid-scale energy storage systems market is projected to reach $7.3 billion in 2012. By 2020 the global market is projected to reach $67.0 billion. Read Original Content

Brazilian power distributors will install about $670 million of smart meters a year from 2014 after the electricity regulator mandated the technology for all new installations. Utilities will install about 4.5 million of the power gauges from 2014 to at least 2017. Read Original Content

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 2, 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.

Walmart is currently testing a new program called "Scan and Go." The new system would allow shoppers to scan their own purchases with their mobile phones, and then pay at self-service kiosks. Read Original Content

MasterCard has provided a boost to the mobile shopping sector by announcing an exclusive five-year partnership with communications company Everything Everywhere to develop mobile and digital payment solutions.

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Shopping is the third most popular activity conducted on smartphones and most mobile shoppers use their phone for shopping on at least a weekly basis, a study has found. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Earlier this year Gartner Inc., stated the Asia-Pacific will be the largest market for mobile banking in terms of the sheer number of users between 2011 and 2016. Read Original Content

Global mobile payment transactions will pass $171.5 billion this year, according to a new report from Gartner. This is an increase of 62 percent from 2011's $105.9 billion. Read Original Content
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Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M 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.

Nikon has introduced a new camera, the S800c, which comes complete with an Android OS, GPS, and Wi-Fi.  Read Original Content

Law enforcement agencies, like the Allamakee County Sheriff’s Department in Iowa, are utilizing mobile computing and GPS technology to improve response times to emergencies, improve officer safety, reduce the time spent on paperwork, improve access to records and more.  Read Original Content

A software engineer in Los Angeles has developed an iPhone app and now a corresponding website that uses GPS technology and social media to aid in locating missing pets.  Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo.

According to a recent study from Scanbuy, there were over 16 million mobile barcode scans in the second quarter of 2012, with the majority of users in the 25-44 age range.  Read Original Content

Craig Aberle, Publisher of Bar Code Media Group, finds barcode scanners boring - so his firm has launched a contest for developers to create an eye-catching (and even ear-catching) barcode scanner. Read Original Content


Twenty-two companies, including Qualcomm, Sony, Nokia and Samsung, have banded together to form the In-Location Alliance.  The companies will collaborate to standardize indoor location services across the mobile industry.  Read Original Content

In a recent BYOD survey of IT technicians by OnForce, 50 percent of those responding indicate they have received 25 percent more requests for personal mobile device configuration and/or setup at businesses in the past six months than in the previous six months.  Read Original Content
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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

China Mobile International has opened a global network center in Hong Kong to house its global network operations center, Internet and cloud data centers.  Read Original Content

Sony Mobile has announced it will cut 1000 jobs and move its mobile business unit from Sweden to Japan.  Read Original Content

South Korea’s Samsung is jumping into the enterprise mobility ring by customizing security offerings to alleviate concerns over the “influx of consumer-grade devices entering the workplace and vulnerabilities on the Android platform”.  Read Original Content


Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Wireless operators Sing-Tel and M1 of Singapore have launched NFC mobile wallet solutions.  Read Original Content

FedEx is expanding its mobile services in the Asia Pacific region with the addition of the FedEx Mobile App for iPad and Android users in the region.  Read Original Content


Bottomline Technologies and the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. have partnered to create ANZ Transactive – Mobile, a corporate mobile cash management solution.  Read Original Content

With 55 million Internet users in Indonesia, the e-commerce industry is growing substantially.  According to Frost & Sullivan, the total transaction value of e-commerce in Indonesia in 2011 was estimated at $1 billion.  Read Original Content
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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of August 26, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Tablets like Apple’s iPad are poised to change telemedicine. Telemedicine-dedicated device and software markets at $736 million in 2011 are anticipated to reach $2.5 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

The market for mobile health applications is continuing to grow and is expected to reach $11.8 billion by 2018, according to GlobalData, a market research firm. Read Original Content

The health industry is responding to the increasing popularity and availability of technological innovations, such as tablets and smartphones. Health and wellbeing applications are estimated to make up approximately 40 percent of new smartphone apps currently being developed. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

According to GlobalData, the U.S. dominates the telehealth industry, holding a 51 percent share in 2011, but the Asia-Pacific region is estimated to exhibit the most impressive growth. In 2011, Asia-Pacific contributed $2 billion to the global telehealth and telemedicine market and this is expected to almost quadruple by the end of 2018, to just under $8 billion. Read Original Content

According to a new report from iData Research, the U.S. patient monitoring market was worth more than $3.1 billion in 2011 and it is expected to approach $4.2 billion by 2018. Read Original Content


The expansion of a strong customer base for mobile health apps, with the revenues generated from smartphones and tablets, is a driving force for the growth of the healthcare IT sector in Brazil. It is estimated the revenues from smartphones will reach $46.6 million in 2015, with growth of 112 percent annually. Read Original Content

The market for mobile health apps will exceed $400 million in revenue by 2016, according to ABI Research. In addition, as of April 2012, more than 13,600 iPhone health and fitness apps were available to consumers, MobiHealthNews reported. Read Original Content

A recent survey conducted by digital health communications firm Enspektos found that physicians are more likely than nurses to find medical information in mobile apps credible. Of the more than 100 physicians surveyed, about 70 percent said mobile apps were a very credible or highly credible, while only about 46 percent of the 100 nurses surveyed were as trusting. Read Original Content
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Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of August 26, 2012


Last week I downloaded the new native application version of Facebook mobile for my iPhone.  I must admit that I like the native application far better than the HTML5 version.  The HTML5 version was jerky, slow to load, and scrolling up and down the news feeds was rough.  The native version is much smoother and faster.  The winner of the Facebook mobile challenge is definitely the native application version. 

Now for the news...

According to the article “HTML5 vs. Flash for Gaming and Internet” from Gamer Syndrome, HTML5 is quicker and simpler than Flash and its benefits greatly outweigh the limitations.  Read Original Content

Research from InformationWeek Reports reveals that 74 percent of organizations have or will build custom mobile apps, and 52 percent of those building native apps say that until HTML5 matures, they can’t get the functionality they need in a browser app.  Read Original Content

The Dolphin Browser beta has passed the second of three hurdles in the Ringmark test designed by Facebook.  The test checks support for a wide range of HTML5 features. [Kevin Comment] this may no longer be relevant.  Read Original Content

SkyMotion has launched an HTML5-based web app that uses geolocation, radar observation, motion tracking and other technology bring the user precise up-to-the-minute knowledge of precipitation at their exact location. [Kevin Comment]  I like this! Read Original Content

Is HTML5 replacing the App Store?   While falling short on delivery of heavily animated or specialized experiences the user may expect, HTML5 brings a cost savings in both development and distribution.  Read Original Content

At the New York Times’ recent TimesOpen HTML5, Apps and JavaScript event, Terry Ryan from Adobe presented an update on what Adobe is doing around HTML5.  A slideshow of his presentation, “Adobe & Modern Web Development”, is available here - http://www.slideshare.net/tpryan/adobe-and-modern-web-development  Read Original Content

Fort Payne Alabama’s Times-Journal has unveiled a new HTML5-based mobile website, stating they used HTML5 “to produce a website that is optimized for mobile devices without the limitations that have prevented users from being able to look at certain sites on smartphones or tablets”.  Read Original Content

Web video consultant Lisa Larson-Kelley presents a high-level view of Flash, HTML5, and native app solutions, along with a clear strategy for playback across the widest variety of devices and platforms in this video, also downloadable as a PDF file.  Read Original Content

Adobe’s Muse HTML5 tool has been upgraded with added capabilities for planning, designing and publishing original HTML pages with built-in support for contact forms.  The upgrade also adds support for HTML5 animations created with Adobe edge.  Read Original Content

Transportation company Quality Distribution Inc., is utilizing HTML5 to enable employees and affiliates to access business applications via their mobile devices.  Read Original Content

Gartner’s recent Hype Cycle report (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2124315) shows HTML5 currently climbing the “peak of inflated expectations”, then it’s forecast to drop into the “trough of disillusionment” before climbing the "slope of enlightenment" in five to 10 years.  IDC, however, reported in March of 2012 that 79 percent of developers plan to integrate HTML5 in one form or another into their mobile apps in 2012.  Read Original Content

Robert Reinhardt of VideoRx provides a tutorial on “How to Optimize Video for HTML5 and Flash” in this video that can also be downloaded as a PDF file.  Read Original Content

Centigon has introduced the new version of its GMaps Mobile HTML5-based business productivity app for Apple’s iPad.  Read Original Content

w3schools.com provides free online tutorials on HTML5 features, elements, forms and more.  ReadOriginal Content


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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.
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Mobility News Weekly – Week of August 26, 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

AT&T has announced its new MDM product, with which IT departments at small businesses are able to manage employees' mobile devices and data usage, as well as enforce security policies.  Read Original Content

Samsung smartphone owners are dumping their devices in droves after Apple won a court battle against them last week. Resale site Gazelle says it has seen a 50 percent spike in sales of Samsung phones from its customers, right around the time of the court verdict in Apple’s favor.  Read Original Content

Google's Motorola unit has confirmed plans to release its first smartphone powered by an Intel chip. The firm will unveil the device in London on September 18.  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.

Smartphones are projected to account for more than half of global cellphone shipments in 2013, which is at least two years earlier than previously predicted, according to market intelligence firm IHS iSuppli.  Read Original Content

ABI researchers estimate over 2.4 billion employees will be using smartphones by the year 2017. The above-mentioned projection is based on a growth rate of 17 percent and represents nearly three times more smartphones than used by today's employees.  Read Original Content


Apple Inc.’s court victory over Samsung Electronics Co. might have a deeper impact on the smartphone market if the case prompts more strict patent laws, which could result in more patent suits, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.  Read Original Content

LG Electronics has launched an LTE smartphone with a quad-core processor, the Optimus G. The next month will see plenty of competition, with the expected launch of a new iPhone, Nokia's Windows Phone 8-based smartphones and the successor to Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note.  Read Original Content

The Indian mobile app development market is expected to grow past the $227 million mark in 2012, growing at a 22.6 percent rate from last year, as analyzed by Gartner.  Read Original Content
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Enterprise Mobility, Robotic Pharmaceuticals and M2M

I flew home this week from the Midwest, and sat next to a service technician who worked for a manufacturer of robotic pharmaceuticals.  Have you ever heard of such a thing?  Neither had I!  It seems pharmacies install these pharmaceutical vending machines to automate the dispensing of the 200 bestselling pills.  They replace the routine error prone pill counting work in the pharmacy.  Here is where it gets really interesting!

Doctors in their clinics may prescribe medicine for a patient by tapping the screen of their iPad (or any data input device), selecting the appropriate medicine, pharmacy and submitting the order.  The electronic order goes through the practice management software which electronically sends an order to the pharmacy's pharmaceutical robotics vending machine that automatically selects the right medicine, counts the prescribed number of pills, selects the appropriate container, drops the pills into the container, labels the container and spits it out onto the shelf for the customer to pick-up.

The prescribing doctor could be on the other side of the world and is operating a machine that dispenses medicine to you in your local pharmacy.  Wow!  That is a great example of enterprise mobility and M2M (machine to machine) systems working together to deliver an improved and more efficient process.

On another note, I was honored earlier this summer to write the Forward, along with Sanjay Poonen, to SAP Press' new book called Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP.  This is now their best selling book!  That of course has nothing to do with me, but it certainly reflects the interest the SAP community has in enterprise mobility.

M2M for ERPs

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Situational Awareness, Enterprise Mobility and Field Services

 I read an interesting article this morning titled, Afghanistan Creates Proving Ground for UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) Capabilities.  Here is an excerpt from the last paragraph of this article, "They (UAS) are providing the kind of situational awareness that wasn’t even imagined a generation ago,” Singer said. “The sea change that’s happened is that they have gone from being unimagined to an expectation.”

I am on a Delta flight as I am writing this article, connected to the Internet, and keeping up with my workload.  I also have situational awareness as I am connected into all of my business and banking systems.  I can communicate and receive updates from my clients and customers.  This capability, was also unimagined a few years ago, but is now an expectation.

After reading the article I referenced above, I pondered how this technology could help the field services industry.  I came to the conclusion that most field services organizations will not be flying drones overhead, but perhaps they will begin to incorporate more use of real-time video feeds between service technicians and the central office.  Perhaps senior managers can ask their junior technicians to activate their headlamps and video feeds so they can see the equipment being serviced and assist remotely.  Most of the popular smartphones today provide these real-time video feeds (face time or similar functionality), but I have yet to see significant enterprise processes built around them.

Yesterday, I visited enterprise mobility vendor DSI in their Kansas City, Missouri office.  They were celebrating their first appearance on Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms and wanted to brief me.  They have new headquarters and have set-up all of their audio visual contols on iPhones and iPads.  All of the giant monitors in all the rooms are controlled via Apple TV.  Each of their conference rooms have iPads mounted to the walls and connected to Outook so the rooms can be reserved via their calendar systems. DSI has offices in Australia, the UK, Singapore and other locations all set-up with state of the art video conferencing systems.  All of these functions enable managers to utilize mobile technologies and video conferencing to have situational awareness and M2M (machine to machine) control of their environments.  Very cool!  Their glass doors even slide shut with a shhhhhhhhhh sound just like on Star Trek.

During my tour of DSI's new offices, Scott Lutz,  Global VP of Marketing, showed how a mobile app on his iPhone could control the lights, window shades, monitors and many other things in the room.  It was an awesome example of an M2M system in action.  I can see how mobile video feeds, M2M controls from your tablets and smartphones can become the "expected" in the near future.


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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant
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Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of August 26, 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

PwC has predicted mobile advertising and m-commerce will be among the fastest-growing segments in media over the next four years. Mobile-ad spends are predicted to achieve compound annual growth of 46 per cent to 2016, compared with 10.3 per cent for the total Internet market. Read Original Content

Advertising spend on mobile messaging will reach a total $7.4 billion by 2017, according to a report from Juniper Research. This growth will be driven by a surge in use of location-based SMS, Juniper says. Read Original Content

A new report from eMarketer indicates spending on mobile advertising will reach $6.43 billion in 2012, driven by 97 percent growth in the United States, which will account for some $2.3 billion of the total. 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.

Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, has predicted consumer spending on mobile apps stores and digital content will increase from $18 billion this year to a significant $61 billion by 2016. Read Original Content

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. The surge will be led by high-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India. Read Original Content


Days after a California jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages over patent infringements, experts can’t seem to decide what – if any – effect the decision will have on the smartphone market, let alone mobile marketing. Read Original Content

In 2011 venture capital investments in mobile marketing and advertising were $592 million, almost a five-fold increase from $128 million in 2010. InMobi alone secured $200 million in financing last year. Read Original Content
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