Mobile Expert Video Series: Sandra Benson

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, I interview Sandra Benson, VP of the Construction and Engineering practice at CSS about enterprise mobility in the construction industry.  She details the kinds of mobile data construction companies need to collect and report on every day.

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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 Expert Video Series: Mark Goode

I had the opportunity last week to spend some time with mobility expert and cattle farmer Mark Goode, VP of Global Sales with DSI last week at Oracle Open World.  DSI has been involved in automated data collection for over 30 years.  What is particularly interesting about DSI, is that they have decades of industrial mobility experience in the challenging areas of warehouse management, supply chain, distribution, M2M and logistics.

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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.

Field Mobility – Week of October 7, 2012

The Field Mobility 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. 

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The Ports of New York and New Jersey are requiring trucks using the ports to be equipped with RFID tags for security identification by the second quarter of 2013.  Read Original Content

An airport baggage handling system developed by Bairfuku utilizes RFID technology and is reported to be the fastest in the world, moving baggage at 600 meters per minute.  Read Original Content

The Hiku barcode reader helps make shopping simpler for consumers, featuring voice recognition software so the user can either scan products for a shopping list or tell the device which products to add.  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.

The MIT Enterprise Forum Auto-ID & Sensing Solutions Group hosted a conference in which mobile payments and retail executives discussed “What Technology Will Dominate Retail” – mobile barcodes, mobile wallets, NFC and QR codes.  Read Original Content

A New York Senator is asking the Transportation Secretary to consider developing standards for truck GPS systems.  Truck drivers are relying on GPS systems to plan their routes, but GPS doesn’t take into account low bridges, which has caused accidents.  Read Original Content

Research and Markets has added a new report, “North American Mobile Workforce Management Market: The Growing Power of Mobile Field Service Applications”.  Read Original Content

According to John Nachtrieb of Bar-Code Test, one of the most common and most easily detected and preventable cause of barcode failure is “quiet zone violation”.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia – Week of October 1, 2012

Welcome to 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.

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According to research from Tata Consulting Services, companies in the Asia Pacific region will spend far more on responding to digital mobile consumers than companies in North America, spending on average $2.41 million per $1 billion revenue.  Read Original Content

LTE has surpassed WiMAX for mobile connectivity in Japan, South Korea and the U.S., according to ABI Research.  Read Original Content

Korea’s SK Telecom now has the third most LTE subscribers in the world, behind Verizon in the United States and Japan’s NTT Docomo. 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.

Auckland Transport, Telecom New Zealand, and financial services group Westpac are preparing to begin their first NFC field trial, and have developed a virtual mobile wallet that can hold multiple cards including a credit card and transport card.  Read Original Content

Lenovo has set its sights on the smartphone and tablet markets and will start with China, the world’s largest PC and smartphone market.  Read Original Content

China’s Huawei will plan to develop its own mobile OS “if other companies won't let us use their system one day”.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Jason Lanier

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, I have the privilege of interviewing Jason Lanier the VP of Products for @Hand Corp., a 15 year old mobile software company.  In this interview we discuss the impact tablet computers have had on the asset management and field services industries.

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

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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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.