Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of September 30, 2012

Some of the biggest news around HTML5 this week actually came from a hardware manufacturer.  Intermec, the makers of ruggedized and industrial grade mobile barcode scanners, RFID readers and smartphones has released a browser for Windows Mobile devices that supports HTML5.  That is very interesting for the millions of companies running Intermec ruggedized devices.  Theoretically it will greatly extend the kinds of mobile apps that owners of ruggedized devices running old OSs can utilize.

On a related note, Motorola Solutions, a competitor of Intermec, finalized its acquisition of ruggedized handheld manufacturer PSION this week as well.  I mistakenly said Intermec acquired Psion in the first version of this article...sorry PSION and Motorola!  Read Press Release

Now for the news...

Intermec has announced a new HTML5-capable browser “allowing for the development of OS agnostic web applications that can run on iOS, Android and select Intermec rugged mobile computers”.  For details on the browser from Intermec, go to http://www.intermec.com/products/html5/index.aspx.  Read Original Content

ISC has unveiled a solution, touchgeo, to enable mobile data collection for enterprises on an open HTML5 codebase that can be modified by developers to accomplish line-of-business data collection needs in the field.  Read Original Content

Another opinion on Facebook’s HTML5 issues, this article titled Facebook's HTML5 Dilemma, Explained.  Read Original Content

StreamingMedia.com presents a video tutorial from Doceo Publishing’s Jan Ozer on “How to Encode Video for HTML5”.   Read Original Content

PC World ran three Windows browsers - Google Chrome 21, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, and Mozilla Firefox 15 – through a number of tests, including how they handle HTML5 and JavaScript code.  Read Original Content

The W3C has announced its plan to finalize HTML5 in 2014.  Read Original Content

Google and Cirque du Soleil have collaborated to create Movi.Kanti.Revo, an interactive performance for tablets and some smartphones.  The show is built entirely in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.  ReadOriginal Content

Developer Todd Motto has created HTML5 Blank, a WordPress theme for developers.  Read OriginalContent

Native, HTML5 and Hybrid Mobile Apps: Mobile War, is an article from mobility vendor Unvired that delves into the mobile apps battle and explores the benefits and limitations of each option.  ReadOriginal Content

Mike Shema urges developers when adopting HTML5 to keep in mind that “the browser is a hostile place”.  The features of HTML5 may help keep data safer within the browser, but developers must be aware of the need to keep data safe once it travels through the wild realms of servers and databases.  Read Original Content

Adobe has launched a new Web development suite called Edge Tools and Services.  Adobe's goal is to “advance what's possible with HTML5 and associated technologies that have become instrumental to the modern Web." The suite includes the original Edge (renamed Edge Animate), Edge Inspect, Edge Code, two font-related tools and PhoneGap Build.  Read Original Content

Analyst group Gartner advises business to prepare now for HTML5 to avoid being at a disadvantage with regard to competitors who are moving forward with new technologies.  Gartner predicts that HTML5 will have a significant effect on web design in about three years and organizations must start preparing now.  Read Original Content

A recent survey of Appcelerator Titanium developers revealed that 72.4 percent of respondents were neutral to disappointed with HTML5’s performance and 83.4 percent with HTML5’s monetization.  Positive responses came regarding HTML5’s cross-development capabilities and immediate updates.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 30, 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.

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Eighty percent of respondents to a Havas Digital study in India said a mobile or smartphone was their primary device while 13 percent stated that a laptop or desktop was their primary device and 7 percent mentioned the tablet. According to the study, the average connected Indian consumes nine hours of media daily with mobile representing 44 percent of it.  Read Original Content

According to Pew Research two percent of Americans own a tablet of some kind. How many of those run Android? A little less than half, 48 percent. One year ago that number was less than 20 percent. Read Original Content

A recent comScore study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.7 percent market share. Google Android led with 52.6 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple accounted for 34.3 percent.  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.

According to a report from Tradedoubler, 38 percent of people who research a product on their mobile phone will then go into a shop to buy it. Forty-seven percent go on to complete their purchase on a PC, 25 percent on their mobile and 7 percent on a tablet.  Read Original Content

Edinburgh-based Sofant Technologies has unveiled revolutionary miniature antenna technology that is predicted to transform the performance of smartphones and tablet PCs, making poor reception, dropped calls and short battery life things of the past.  Read Original Content

HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster quad-core processor, twice the integrated storage capacity, a bigger battery and LTE in the U.S. The new model is called the HTC One X+.  Read Original Content

Google said users have downloaded mobile apps from the Google Play store more than 25 billion times since it was launched in 2008. The search and Internet advertising giant also said that the number of apps available on Google Play has reached 675,000.  Read Original Content

Microsoft has received a rare bit of good news concerning its Windows Phone operating system, as Kantar Worldpanel Comtech claims the firm is now challenging Research in Motion for third place in the European smartphone market.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of September 30, 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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More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Read Original Content

The mobile health app market in the U.S. is expected to reach $1.3 billion in revenue this year, nearly double last year's $718 million, according to a report by Research2guidance, a mobile technology research firm. Read Original Content

A new study conducted by Cybercitizen Health and Manhattan Research shows that mobile and tablet health activity adoption continues to accelerate, with the number of adults using mobile phones for health information pegged at 75 million in 2012, up from 61 million in 2011, and tablet health activity adoption doubling from 15 million to 29 million in the same time period. 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.

The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.3 million contract to develop a mobile interface for the agency’s Integrated Health Information System so clinicians and staff can access and update patient records using smartphones and other devices. Read Original Content

Mashable estimates there are approximately 40,000 mobile health apps currently available for tablets and smartphones. By the end of 2012, 247 million health apps will have been downloaded. Read Original Content

iTriage has announced that Harvard Medical School has completed an extensive review of its medical content and has extended its stamp of approval. Read Original Content

A new study from Manhattan Research has found that the number of U.S. adults using tablets to access health information and tools has almost doubled in the last year, reaching 29 million tablet users. Read Original Content

Researchers at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital have developed an application that allows people to monitor their lung function at home or on the go by simply blowing into their phone. Read Original Content

SAP Focusing on M2M as Extension to Mobility

This week SAP's President, Corporate Officer Global Solutions, SAP and Head of Mobility Division, Sanjay Poonen sent me a link to an article he published on the importance SAP sees in M2M (machine to machine) communication.  Here is an excerpt, "We look at all of these machines, whether wired or unwired, and see them as extensions of mobile devices." I would also add, SAP sees them as extensions or sensors feeding an SAP system.

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Here is part of SAP's role and their partner's role in the M2M field as described by Sanjay, "They (M2M enabled devices) all need to be secured, managed, and enabled to run applications in much the same way as a mobile phone.  Managing this smart machine to machine (M2M) evolution requires a comprehensive architecture and technology solutions that we’re working on with our partners." The news here is that SAP and their partners are focusing on M2M these days.  I am very excited about this.

How does M2M relate to SAP's core focus areas?  Here is more from Sanjay, "At the core of M2M are three key elements: Mobility, Big Data and the Cloud.   These are precisely the focus areas that we’ve designated as innovation vectors at SAP.  And when these three elements come together in use cases like the “Internet of Things” or “Machine-2-Machine”, it’s like getting a “Triple Word Score” in the game of Scrabble!""

Sanjay also shows off his philosophical side with this statement, "Think of M2M communication as the “social collaboration” of machine-to-machine or machine-to-man."  I love this statement!  As a SMAC Analyst (social, MOBILE, analytics and cloud) this fits right into my space.

I have been publishing a weekly newsletter for sometime now on M2M, and have written many articles predicting the convergence of enterprise mobility and M2M.  I see these steps by SAP as validation that, at least this time, I got it right :-)

SAP and M2M

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly-Week of September 30, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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Bank of America is testing a new mobile payment service that lets customers use their Apple or Google smartphones to scan pictures to pay for things. Read Original Content

According to a Gartner report the analyst firm expects mobile payment transaction volumes and values to grow 42 percent annually through 2016. By then they project that the market will be worth $617 billion with 448 million users. Read Original Content

Mobile will matter—even, or perhaps especially, in stores—this holiday season, Deloitte LLP says. Mobile-influenced retail store sales such as product research, price comparison or mobile app use will account for 5.1 percent of retail store sales over the holidays, Deloitte predicts. Read Original Content

Marketers allocated 16.3 percent of total search budgets to U.S. mobile search campaigns in Q3 2012, up from 14 percent in the year-ago quarter, according to a report released by IgnitionOne. 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.

Isis, which is a joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA, told CNET that it was delaying the start of its trials, which were scheduled to during September in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas. Read Original Content.

Worldwide mobile payments will soar from $66 billion last year to $172 billion this year and more than $600 billion by 2016, market-research firm Gartner predicts. Read Original Content.

China looks set to adopt the worldwide NFC standard for contactless payments, in a move that could be a boost to the usage of smartphones for making cashless transactions in stores nationwide. Read Original Content

According to a new Forrester Research report, mobile banking will reach 108 million users in the U.S. by 2017. That’s about 46 percent of all U.S. bank account holders. Read Original Content