Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of October 21, 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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ABI Research believes more than $100 billion in NFC payments will be processed by 2016. The forecast for the following year is even greater as sales could reach as high as $200 billion. Read Original Content

CEO of Google, Larry Page, said the company’s mobile business, which includes advertising and app sales, is now generating revenue at an annual run rate of $8 billion, as compared to $2.5 billion one year earlier. Read Original Content

Research In Motion has struck an agreement to help manage security technology that will make it possible for many Canadians to pay with their smartphones through “mobile wallets.” Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

A new report from Berg Insight says the number of active mobile money users in emerging markets will grow from last year’s 61 million to 381 million by 2017. That's a compound annual growth rate of 36 percent. Read Original Content

According to a report by research firm, ABI, the overall revenue spent using NFC mobile payments will increase from $4 billion this year to $191 billion in 2017. Read Original Content

According to eMarketer, consumer use of smartphones as a POS payment device, whether through NFC or other contactless technology, will total just $640 million this year. However, this figure represents a 283 percent increase over an even smaller base in 2011, and could increase another 234 percent by the end of 2013. Read Original Content

Interest in mobile shopping is highest in the age groups 30-39 years and 40-49 years in Sweden, according to a new customer survey conducted by Payair, a mobile commerce company. Read Original Content

Total spend via mobile devices using NFC is to rise more than twenty-fold, from $4 billion this year to $100 billion in 2016 according to forecasts from ABI Research. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Tony Kueh

Last week I led three sessions on mobile strategies at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas.  While I was there, I had the good fortune of meeting up with and interviewing Tony Kueh, Head of Mobile Platform Solutions and Strategies at SAP. In this interview we discuss SAP's new "open" strategy toward mobile partners.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTsbOzyLz2A

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

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Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud - SMAC

I am speaking at a Cognizant user conference this week in Scottsdale, AZ where social, mobile, analytics and cloud are the central themes.  Cognizant uses the acronym SMAC to refer to these four technologies integrated into one grouping. This event follows the Oracle Open World and SAP TechEd events this month where these same four technology trends were also highlighted.

This SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) grouping makes sense to me.  The SMAC acronym is also a far better marketing acronym than SCAM would be.  Can you imagine saying, "I would like to talk to you about a SCAM."  Not so good!  MACs would also not be a good acronym as it is too closely aligned with our iFriends.  MASC would just make it seem like we were hiding something, so SMAC works for me.

SMAC also makes it past my "pocket test."  I reach into my pocket, pull out my iPhone 5 and examine what I do with it.  I use SOCIAL apps (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Blogger, etc.) on my iPhone.  I use it while MOBILE as my mobile communication and mobile data device.  I use Google Search, and its ANALYTICS everyday, as well as Weather and flight status apps.  I use all kinds of CLOUD based mobile apps including news apps, banking apps, and all the social apps everyday.  So my pocket test says SMAC is relevant.

The words I keep hearing around this SMAC stack are "multiplication effect" and "force multiplier."  Here are a couple of definitions around "force multiplier":

• A factor that dramatically increases (hence "multiplies") the effectiveness of an item or group.
• A capability that, when added to and employed by a work force, significantly increases the productivity potential of that force.

I personally think of Twitter and Blogger as force multipliers in my work.  I can communicate and share information with thousands from my home office in Boise, Idaho by effectively using social networking solutions in the cloud.

I invite you to watch what SAP's CIO Oliver Bussman said to me the other day on the subject of SMAC in this video interview.  I also interviewed Ingo Piroth, SAP's VP of Mobile Services, North America, on the concept of SMAC (see video interview at minute 3:03), where he states that SMAC is probably the biggest conversation topic at SAP right now.

It appears that you will be hearing more SMAC talk from me in the future.

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

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M2M News Weekly – Week of October 21, 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.

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The smart metering market in Southeast Asia will reach $6.9 billion by 2022, according to a new study by Northeast Group, LLC. Read Original Content

The worldwide market for smart grid data analytics will grow steadily through 2020, with cumulative worldwide spending from 2012 through 2020 totaling just over $34 billion, according to a report from Pike Research. Read Original Content

A new Strategy Analytics M2M Strategies report "M2M Devices Annual Sales by Air Interface, Region by Industry Vertical" predicts cellular M2M module shipments will grow from 76 million in 2012 to 104 million in 2013. 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. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

The global satellite SCADA/M2M market is expected to reach $2.7 billion in 2021, growing more than two-fold from today’s $1.2 billion annual revenue base. Read Original Content

The wireless industry could see a $1.2 trillion revenue opportunity out of the connected devices market by 2020. Within this market, M2M is instrumental in enabling communications across wider "horizontal" platforms in several key sectors. Read Original Content

Total mobile connections will stand at 6.8 billion including M2M communications, or 5.9 billion excluding M2M and inactive SIM cards by fourth quarter, according to a study by GSMA. Read Original Content

Two types of software platforms that underpin the development of the M2M market are forecast to generate $3.85 billion in revenues by 2017, according to a new report from ABI Research. Read Original Content

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of October 21, 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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Mobile technology has brought major improvements for highway maintenance in the U.K., as now work orders and inspections can be input into a GIS-enabled mobile device that connects back to a central management database.  Read Original Content

Motorola Solutions has acquired rugged wearable computer designer Psion PLC.  Rugged mobile computing and wearable computing is of interest to the military as deployed warfighters increase their participation in network centric operations.  Read Original Content

Telit Wireless Solutions has unveiled a new miniature GPS receiver designed for applications in the commercial, industrial, and consumer segments including wearable and handheld devices.  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.

RFID technology can automate the management of tools and other assets and enable employees to focus on assigned tasks.  Read Original Content

Handheld Group has launched a new rugged mobile device for field professionals, the  Algiz 10X rugged tablet.  Read Original Content

Geo Tactical Solutions has launched its newest line of tactical GPS cameras and GPS modules.  Read Original Content

Many safety managers, inspectors and industrial workers are utilizing RFID technology to improve worker safety, assure regulatory compliance and reduce operational costs.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia – Week of October 21, 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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The total amount spent on mobile commerce in Malaysia grew from RM101 million in 2010 to RM467 million, a 370 percent jump in one year, and the market is forecast to reach RM3.43 billion by 2015.  Read Original Content

The National Australia Bank plans to provide its network of merchants with iPad and iPhone “PAYware sleeves” capable of transforming them into POS devices.  Read Original Content

TechSci Research predicts that the barcode scanners and printers market in India will generate $14 million in revenue by 2017.  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.

Gartner’s Symposium/It xpo, a gathering of CIO’s and IT executives discussing technology initiatives including mobile, social, cloud and big data, will be held November 12-15, 2012 on the Gold Coast, Australia. For symposium information, go to http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/gold-coast/.   Read Original Content

TMS has launched a mobile campaign in Indonesia in which markets will feature “interactive touch points” inviting customers to participate in a survey and competition using their mobile device to win prizes.  Read Original Content

A survey from Tourism New Zealand revealed that 92 percent of tourists used a laptop or mobile device while visiting the country.  Read Original Content

More Asian businesses are looking into improving their mobile sites and apps as mobile penetration is growing rapidly and more people are accessing the Web via mobile devices.  Read Original Content

Citibank has topped 1 million mobile customers in the Asia Pacific region four years after launching its Citi Mobile app.  Read Original Content

Data from The Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates there are currently 16.2 million mobile phones in Australia and the amount of data downloaded through phones has increased by a third from the December quarter 2011 to the June quarter 2012.  Read Original Content

Japan’s NTT Docomo has announced it will begin operating a mobile gaming platform in November of this year and will offer a mobile shopping service in December.  ReadOriginal Content

According to Gartner, the number of mobile handsets sold in India will reach 251 million units in 2013.  Read Original Content

A new report from IDC on BYOD in Australia reveals that 49 percent of IT managers responding to the survey indicated an increase in spending on mobility in 2012.  ReadOriginal Content

SINO Market Research predicts that around 30 million mobile phones will be sold online in China this year, up 68 percent from 2011.  Read Original Content

Singapore’s Jurong Point Shopping Centre has launched their own mobile app which will soon be the first retail app in Singapore to incorporate Apple’s Passbook technology.  Read Original Content

Statistics New Zealand revealed that over 50 percent of New Zealanders now access the Internet via a mobile phone, and mobile phone subscriptions increased by a third to more than 2.5 million over the past year.  Read Original Content

In a recent report, the International Telecommunication Union indicated China had 1 billion cell phone subscriptions at the end of 2011 and India is expected to reach 1 billion in 2012.  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.

Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has partnered with MasterCard to enable users of DoCoMo’s iD mobile payment system to take advantage of MasterCard’s PayPass solution outside of Japan.  Read Original Content

The governments of India and Pakistan are involved in talks to enable mobile users to roam between the two countries.  Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Jens Koerner
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP CIO Oliver Bussman
Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 15, 2012
Mobile Expert Video Series: Bryan Whitmarsh
Mobile Expert Video Series: Ingo Piroth
Mobile Expert Video Series: Mico Yuk

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
The Mobile Business Forecast 2012
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing BetweenOn-Premises and Cloud Delivery
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Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to BetterSolutions

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

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What I Learned at SAP TechEd 2012 about Enterprise Mobility

I learned a lot at SAP's TechEd 2012 this week.  Here are some of my impressions and notes.  SAP, if I have any of this wrong please correct me!

• SAP hired a new M2M leader that reports into Sanjay Poonen.  
• SAP's Vishal Sikka and Sanjay Poonen both spoke about the "Internet of Things", also known as M2M (machine to machine) communications.  This is a huge emerging technology trend.
• Vishal Sikka hinted at the potential of using Hana on Ariba.  Very interesting!
• Learned SAP's SuccessFactor has a mobile application
• SAP Mobility Platform will be the brand for all mobile technologies.  The mobile middleware you ultimately choose under the SMP brand could be NetWeaver Gateway, Syclo's Agentry or SUP.  It will all be there and serve different purposes in the near term.  Long term there will be more convergence.
• 50% of Syclo's customers were IBM Maximo customers (random I know)
• Phase one of the Syclo and SMP (SAP Mobility Platform) convergence will happen Q1 and a roadmap has been defined for the rest
• SAP is now fully embracing partner solutions for developing mobile apps (think ClickSoftware, Sencha, Appcelerator, Cordova, etc.)
• SAP Box, a DropBox like solution, is being developed by SAP and secured with Afaria, is coming soon.
• SuccessFactor's social networking platform JAM, will be the social and collaboration platform of choice from SAP - bye, bye StreamWorks.
• SAP now has 18,000 iPads, 16,000 iPhones, 2,000 Androids and 4,000 BYOD supported mobile devices.  These are all secured and managed through Afaria.  Oliver Bussman and his team truly speaks from experience on issues related to mobility.
• SAP's BYOD policy is bettered called BYODALAIIOOTT - Bring your own device as long as it is one of these ten...
• Sanjay Poonen referenced that Afaria could scale up to support half a billion devices...
• SAP's internal support of Android is still limited to Samsung devices.  SAP and Samsung have a special technology partnership that enables SAP to better secure Samsung Android devices
• SAP is talking a lot about Afaria and SAP Mobility Platform in the cloud
• Sanjay Poonen mentioned a home design app, that allows users to design their own home by choosing colors and other decorations.  The app data is aggregated and analyzed to predict the popularity of various items and colors by the retail stores and manufacturers.  Very cool example of integrating social networking tools with sales forecasting and SCM. 
• SAP has set-up internal "Apple Genius-like" bars in their offices to help employees with mobile devices and apps.
• I heard a lot of excitement from many SAP people, and other CIOs about Windows 8.  There is a lot of pent-up demand and hope.
• Developing a mobile strategy is still the big bottle neck at companies
• Afaria was referenced as extending out to secure M2M devices
• With new UI designs from Microsoft (think Metro) developers may want to design the same app with completely different UIs instead of just simple OS changes...hummm more work and components to manage
• Heard a CIO say a rule of thumb is that each new mobile apps will require 1 FTE to maintain it
• Heard of an effort inside SAP to connect their GRC (governance and risk?) to Afaria so mobile policies could be automatically enforced

Did you miss SAP TechEd 2012?  I have many video interviews of mobility expert that I met there!  More will be published next week.

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

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Mobile Expert Video Series: Jens Koerner

In this segment of Mobile Expert Video Series, I had the opportunity to interview SAP's Product Manager for the Mobility Platform, Jens Koerner.  We discuss mobile middleware both on-premise and in the cloud.  We also talk about Afaria (MDM) in the cloud.  If your head is in the clouds, this is the episode for you.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSvFFRpCXs

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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: SAP CIO Oliver Bussman

I had the honor of spending time with SAP's Global CIO, Oliver Bussman and interviewing him this week.  In this segment of Mobile Expert Video Series, we discuss SAP's internal use of social, mobile, analytics and cloud solutions.

Video Links http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfSEd5V2Oqs

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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.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 15, 2012

The New York Times has rolled out an HTML5 web app for Apple’s iPad, an addition to the native apps already available.  Read Original Content

The preview of Oracle’s NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 7.3 features new advanced HTML5, JavaScript and CSS development capabilities and is now available for download.  Read Original Content

Microsoft developed TypeScript as a way to help JavaScript scale to larger, more media rich HTML5 projects and they’ve announced that TypeScript is now available for developers and programmers to download a preview, test it in the “TypeScript online playground”, or obtain the source code.  Read Original Content

Google’s Chrome 23 beta adds track support for HTML5 video that enables developers to add elements such as subtitles, captions, chapters, descriptions and metadata to videos.  Read Original Content

Mobile app performance management platform Crittercism, has launched a new mobile app crash reporting service for HTML5 allowing developers to view errors and issues for HTML5, mobile Web and hybrid apps.  Read Original Content

According to Facebook developer advocate Simon Cross, those advocating HTML5 on mobile devices must ”step up their efforts and solve issues with performance and monetization in order for the technology to reach its true potential”.  Read Original Content

A free new PDF editor from Docudesk enables users to edit, share and fax PDF documents from within the browser and can be used from a number of devices including Apple’s iPad and iPhone.  Read Original Content

Sports Illustrated has re-launched its mobile website which is now HTML5-based.  Read OriginalContent

Web designer Tim G. Thomas describes the business case for “Building a Non-Native Mobile HTML5 App”.  Parts 2 - Choosing a Technology Stack and 3 - Hooking Things Together are also available.  Read OriginalContent

As a tribute to Steve Jobs, a developer created a virtual classic iPod using HTML5 and CSS3.  ReadOriginal Content

French developers have created cHTeMeLe, a board game about writing HTML5 code.  Read OriginalContent

Kris Ostrowka, a business development associate at StepLeader, outlines “What You Need to Know about HTML5 vs. Native Apps” in this article in Mobile Marketer.  ReadOriginal Content

The W3C partnered with tech firms including Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, and Microsoft to create a website to serve as a resource for developers seeking information on HTML5, CSS3, and other open-web standards.  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.

Mobile Health News Weekly-Week of October 14, 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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iTriage, one of the leading mobile and Web health care technology companies, now includes 12,444 home health providers in its extensive database of health care providers. Read Original Content.

The mobile health industry is expected to grow from $1.7 billion in 2010 to $5.7 billion in 2015, according to estimates from Dallas-based market research firm Parks Associates. Read Original Content.

The idea of widespread use of uninterrupted, untethered, wireless patient monitoring devices came one step closer to reality when the Federal Communications Commission released a final rule on Sept. 11 outlining its plan for allocating wireless spectrum for medical body area networks. ReadOriginal 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 a recent report from iData Research, the U.S. patient monitoring market was valued at over $3.1 billion in 2011 and will grow to almost $4.2 billion by 2018. Read Original Content.

Smartphones and tablets and other mobile computing information technologies have “the potential” to enhance medication care in hospitals, according to San Diego-based health care technology consultant Mike Wisz, MBA. Read Original Content.

The number of U.S. adults using mobile phones for health-related activities, including looking up health information, grew from 61 million in 2011 to 75 million in 2012, according to a Manhattan Research survey of 8,745 adults. Read Original Content.

The mobile health, or mHealth, 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.

Mayo Medical Laboratories is introducing two mobile applications for iPhones and iPads, allowing physicians and pathologists access to clinical laboratory expertise from Mayo Clinic. 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 number of wireless users continues to grow along with applications available for any age group and in any industry; “the number of people using mobile devices such as the iPhone to access health resources like WebMD's apps grew 125 percent in 2011 from the previous year”.  Read Original Content.

Nonprofit group eHealth Initiative says clinics in poor neighborhoods can improve patients' health and cut hospitalizations by using mobile devices, patient Web portals, and social networks to monitor and inform. Read Original Content.

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Bryan Whitmarsh
Mobile Expert Video Series: Ingo Piroth
Mobile Expert Video Series: Mico Yuk
Enterprise Mobility, Risk Management and Remote Job Sites
Mobile Expert Video Series: Jeff Wallace
Mobile Expert Video Series: Michael King

Whitepapers of Note

On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
The Mobile Business Forecast 2012
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Yankee Report "MDM is Dead. Long Live MDM"
Staying Awake with Workforce Management

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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 October 14, 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 News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly

According to ABI, mobile services revenues from mobile business users worldwide will grow to $340 billion by 2017.  The data includes voice, messaging, handset data plans, mobile broadband and enterprise apps, and management services revenues. Read Original Content.

Apple, which dominated the tablet market with 68 percent global market share in the second-quarter, is expected to launch a 7.85-inch tablet called the iPad Mini next week. Read Original Content.

The number of smartphones in use globally crossed 1 billion for the first time in the third quarter and will double by 2015, after the introduction of Apple’s iPhone fueled demand, according to Strategy Analytics. 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.

T-Mobile is expected to announce official iPhone distribution in early 2013, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Nick Delfas. The analyst provided no further details but said that such a deal would add another one to two million buyers of the iPhone 5 in the first quarter. Read Original Content.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Bryan Whitmarsh

In this segment SAP mobility guru Bryan Whitmarsh and I discuss Afaria (MDM) and SAP's new product called SAP Box.  SAP Box is similar to DropBox, but secured by Afaria.  Very interesting indeed!  The purpose is to give employees the capabilities of easily sharing content with other employees, but in a manner secured and approved by IT.

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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: Ingo Piroth

This is a particularly interesting discussion with SAP's VP of Mobility Serivces, North America, Ingo Piroth. We discuss mobile strategies, the latest trends, and the impact of social, analytics and cloud all working together.

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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 October 14, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

eBay has announced that mobile apps have been downloaded 100 million times since being launched in late 2008, while users have listed 100 million items on its auction site using mobile devices. Read Original Content.

Mobile advertising should be mainstream in the next two to five years, predicts research firm Gartner in a report advising marketers to keep an eye on bar code marketing, mobile coupons and augmented reality. Read Original Content.

According to the Internet Advertising Bureau, Internet ad revenues reached $17 billion during the first half of 2012, compared to $14.9 billion in the year-ago period, with mobile ad spending going from $636m to $1.2bn over the same period. 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.

Passengers who use Dubai’s public transport network will soon be able to swipe their mobile phones to pay their fares. It will mean that people with smartphones can pass them over sensors on access gates at Dubai Metro and on buses and water taxis. Read Original Content.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Mico Yuk

This week I am in Las Vegas attending SAP's TechEd.  Yesterday, I was able to meet up and have a great conversation with Mico Yuk, SAP Mentor and business analytics expert.  In this interview Mico describes how she sees enterprise mobility and business analytics working together.

You can read more from Mico Yuk at her blog - http://EverythingXcelsius.com.

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

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M2M News Weekly-Week of October 14, 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.

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According to a new study from Pike Research, global investments in smart city infrastructures will reach $108 billion by 2020. Read Original Content.

Market research firm MarketsandMarkets expects cloud computing and smartphones to fuel a healthy 26.1 percent compound annual growth rate for the global M2M market, reaching close to $86 billion by 2017. Read Original Content.

According to ABI Research, the application enablement platform and connected device platform for the M2M market will grow to $3.85 billion by 2017. 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. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology. 

During a keynote at MobileCon in San Diego this week, Sanjay Poonen, president of technology and innovation products at SAP, highlighted his company's plans to use M2M and the cloud as opportunities for app development and new entrants in the mobile commerce space. Read Original Content.

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global M2M Wireless Network Services market to grow at a compound annual rate of 29.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing number of mobile devices and better network coverage. Read Original Content.

German operator group Deutsche Telekom has partnered with US SIM card solution provider Digi, which specialises in supplying industrial-grade M2M solutions. Read Original Content.

Option, a global leader in wireless connectivity, security and experience, today announces CloudGate, a secure and reliable 3G M2M gateway that brings new levels of flexibility and ease of deployment for M2M solutions in the US market. Read Original Content.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal on SAP Hana

Is your company looking at monitoring and measuring social sentiment or opinion mining?  What is social sentiment?  Social sentiment analysis is designed to determine the attitude, opinion, emotional state, or intended emotional communication of a group.  Companies want to know what the online world thinks of their products, services and brand.  Social Sentiment analysis is where several technologies all work together SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud.  In this interview with SAP's Hana Platform member Puneet Suppal, we discuss how it all works together.

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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.