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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Thanks to the growth of smartphones and tablets, entertainment consumption on mobile devices has grown 82 percent from 2010 to 2011. Read Original Content
As of the three months ended July, Google's mobile OS held a 52.2 percent share of the market, a gain of 1.4 points from the prior three months, ComScore said today. In second place, Apple's iOS grabbed 33.4 percent of the market, up 2 points from the prior period. Read Original Content
Hewlett-Packard released the eagerly anticipated beta version of its open-source webOS mobile operating system. Read Original Content
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According to new data from comScore, for a three-month average period ending in July, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Samsung ranked as the top OEM with 25.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, followed by LG with 18.4 percent share. Read Original Content
Research in Motion’s share of the U.S. smartphone market is below 10 percent for the first time ever. Read Original Content
Microsoft and Intel dominance will see serious erosion over the next few years in the era of the tablet and smartphone, market researcher IHS iSuppli said. Read Original Content
More than half of Americans who use apps say they have decided not to install one once they found out how much personal information they'd have to share, according to a study released from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. 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.
Mobile Expert Video Series: DSI's Scott Lutz
Have you ever seen an office designed around Apple TV, iPhones and iPads? Have you ever seen an enterprise mobile software company that runs their customer business center entirely on mobile technologies? This is DSI's first year on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for MADP (mobile application development platform), but they have been around for over 30 years, experts in manufacturing and many other areas, and they have offices all around the world.
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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.
Enterprise Mobility and Changing Business Models
Have you read about the on-demand, smartphone oriented car service called Uber? They are turning the taxi and car service industry on their heads. Why? They allow you to use a free mobile app to hail an available car service or taxi with the push of a button. You can see the location of available cars. You can review the passenger ratings of drivers. Payment is integrated with the application so you don't need cash. You can call the driver with the push of the button.
The user experience is wonderful, according to a patient colleague of mine that I questioned over dinner last night. You can see the distance an available car is from you, and then watch the car's progress as it drives to pick you up. When it nears, you receive a text message, and when it arrives you receive a text message.
Probably one of the coolest features is the receipt you receive upon completion of the ride. It includes pick-up location on a map, route taken, drop-off location, distance traveled, a photo of your driver and the amount paid.
I want to hail a taxi or car service right now! This is a great example of how a simple mobile application, GPS tracking technologies, integrated payment systems, etc., can change an entire industry. I was told that Uber is being sued by taxi companies all over, because they are changing the industry. They are introducing efficiencies where they never before existed. They are removing the middleman. They are removing friction from the system and improving market visibility.
Enterprise mobility is like that. It will change industries and competitive landscapes. You can be the Uber, out front and achieving competitive advantages with mobile solutions, or be the litigating taxi companies. Your pick.
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The user experience is wonderful, according to a patient colleague of mine that I questioned over dinner last night. You can see the distance an available car is from you, and then watch the car's progress as it drives to pick you up. When it nears, you receive a text message, and when it arrives you receive a text message.
Probably one of the coolest features is the receipt you receive upon completion of the ride. It includes pick-up location on a map, route taken, drop-off location, distance traveled, a photo of your driver and the amount paid.
I want to hail a taxi or car service right now! This is a great example of how a simple mobile application, GPS tracking technologies, integrated payment systems, etc., can change an entire industry. I was told that Uber is being sued by taxi companies all over, because they are changing the industry. They are introducing efficiencies where they never before existed. They are removing the middleman. They are removing friction from the system and improving market visibility.
Enterprise mobility is like that. It will change industries and competitive landscapes. You can be the Uber, out front and achieving competitive advantages with mobile solutions, or be the litigating taxi companies. Your pick.
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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join the Strategic Enterprise Mobility Linkedin Group
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.
Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of September 2, 2012
As many readers may know, Facebook replaced their HTML5 version of their mobile app a few weeks ago, in favor of a native application written in Object C. It is much faster and smoother now, however, several functions disappeared with this change. You can no longer just steal your friends photos by holding down on the image and selecting "Save Image." You can also no longer simply swipe to delete a snarky comment that seemed funny when it first entered your brain, but now seems ill conceived (I used this a lot!), and pasted links are now handled awkwardly. This is the give and take between HTML5 and native applications that makes our lives interesting.
Telenav’s Scout for Apps, the HTML5-based voice guided
mobile GPS navigation service is now available for Android and Windows Phone
platforms. Read Original Content
Gizmodo asks “Do you prefer the unregulated world of HTML5
apps, or would you rather stick to the status quo of native apps, with their
additional polish and ability to better function offline?” and receives a wide
range of responses. Read OriginalContent
Facebook has abandoned HTML5 and unveiled the rebuilt app
(rewritten in Objective C) for iPhone and iPad devices, addressing numerous
performance issues with the HTML5 version.
Read Original Content
Adobe has released the new version of Contribute, 6.5, now
with HTML5 and jQuery Mobile support.
Read Original Content
This article, “Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5
Mobile App”, is a tutorial for the development of a cross-platform HTML5 mobile
app for searching property listings in the U.K. using JavaScript, jQuery
Mobile, Knockout, and Apache Cordova (formerly called PhoneGap). Read Original Content
HTML5 Apps |
Rob Gravelle reviews and provides examples for using the
HTML5 Canvas charting library PlotKit in this article from HTML Goodies. Read Original Content
Research and Markets has added a new report titled “HTML5:
New Monetization Opportunities for Service Providers”, which focuses on
opportunities created by HTML5 and its implications for mobile
applications. Read Original Content
The new version of Firefox for Android is now available with
new HTML5 capabilities, enabling developers to create Web apps and websites
based on HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and other open Web standards. Read Original Content
The website caniuse.com provides compatibility tables for
support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers. This view is for HTML5 on mobile
browsers. Read Original Content
“HTML5 will fundamentally change the way we make video games.” HTML5 is a great platform for powering games
and the tools used to build them.
Developers need to be aware of the limitations and understand that the
standard is still evolving. ReadOriginal Content
The W3C has published the first editor’s draft of the HTML
Responsive Images Extension, available here:
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/tip/responsive-images/responsive-images.html Read Original Content
Location analytics startup Placed has announced the launch
of support for mobile websites, now providing location data from any mobile
browser that supports HTML5. ReadOriginal Content
Recent research from ComScore MobiLens revealed a preference
for mobile users to download content via apps (51.1 percent) rather than
through a browser (49.8 percent).
Organizations must decide the best fit for their business - mobile apps
or mobile websites. Mike Ricci from
Webtrends believes that HTML5 provides developers a tool for creating a mobile
website that is virtually indistinguishable from an app and actually addresses
some of the shortcomings for apps, closing the gap between apps and mobile
websites. Read Original Content
Microsoft is adding more HTML5 and CSS3 features in Internet
Explorer 10 and is showing them off in a partnership with Atari that brings
users 8 classic games. Read OriginalContent
Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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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 September 2, 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.
According to figures released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau Australia total online advertising increased 21 percent year on year to reach $3.136 billion over the 12 months to the end of June, while mobile ad spend reached $47.5 million, a 212 percent increase. 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. High-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India will lead the surge. Read Original Content
According to Luth Research, companies of all sizes are now discovering mobile marketing is a vital element of their complete programs and are bringing greater returns on investment than their traditional methods. 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
Pandora advertising sales made up $89.3 million of the company’s $101.3 million during its second quarter. Mobile advertising revenue, considered to be a major driver of Pandora’s future growing, rose 86 percent from the year-ago period, to $59.3 million in the quarter. Read Original Content
Thanks to the growth of smartphones and tablets, entertainment consumption on mobile devices has grown 82 percent from 2010 to 2011. According to Millennial Media and comScore, this growth outpaced the 55 percent increase in overall smartphone ownership within the same period. Read Original Content
In 2011, U.S. mobile commerce sales surged 91.4 percent. By 2015, analysts estimate total mCommerce sales will reach $31 billion, a 363 percent increase from 2011. Read Original Content
Mobile Advertising is expected to jump six-fold from $3.3 billion last year to $20.6 billion in 2015, according to Gartner. The proliferation of smartphones, with Internet browsing and a multitude of applications have created fertile ground for mobile media to spawn. Read Original Content
According to figures released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau Australia total online advertising increased 21 percent year on year to reach $3.136 billion over the 12 months to the end of June, while mobile ad spend reached $47.5 million, a 212 percent increase. 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. High-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India will lead the surge. Read Original Content
According to Luth Research, companies of all sizes are now discovering mobile marketing is a vital element of their complete programs and are bringing greater returns on investment than their traditional methods. 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
Pandora advertising sales made up $89.3 million of the company’s $101.3 million during its second quarter. Mobile advertising revenue, considered to be a major driver of Pandora’s future growing, rose 86 percent from the year-ago period, to $59.3 million in the quarter. Read Original Content
Thanks to the growth of smartphones and tablets, entertainment consumption on mobile devices has grown 82 percent from 2010 to 2011. According to Millennial Media and comScore, this growth outpaced the 55 percent increase in overall smartphone ownership within the same period. Read Original Content
In 2011, U.S. mobile commerce sales surged 91.4 percent. By 2015, analysts estimate total mCommerce sales will reach $31 billion, a 363 percent increase from 2011. Read Original Content
Mobile Advertising is expected to jump six-fold from $3.3 billion last year to $20.6 billion in 2015, according to Gartner. The proliferation of smartphones, with Internet browsing and a multitude of applications have created fertile ground for mobile media to spawn. Read Original Content
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