Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 18, 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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For Australians in rural and remote areas, the National Broadband Network will take the form of fixed wireless or satellite services with download speeds of 12MBs compared to the 100MBs other customers will receive.  Read Original Content

Tencent’s mobile messaging app WeChat is expanding beyond China’s borders,
growing rapidly in Southeast Asia and making headway in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.  Read Original Content

In a first for the country’s car rental industry, The Hertz Corporation has introduced a portable Wi-Fi service in Australia, with 3G units available for rent to enable customers to connect to the Internet from anywhere in Australia.  Read Original Content

According to a report from WPDang, Nokia, in partnership with China Mobile, and HTC, in partnership with China Mobile and China Unicom, plan to launch their Windows Phone 8 devices in December in China.  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.

Alcatel-Lucent and Australian mobile operator Telstra are teaming up to provide race-goers at the week-long Melbourne Cup horse racing event in Melbourne fast mobile broadband coverage, enabling them to use their mobile devices to access the Internet, send videos and pictures, and access other data services.  Read Original Content

Indonesian mobile provider AXIS and Mandalay Digital Group have announced plans to launch Digital Turbine, a fully integrated user experience and multimedia management interface for Android devices, in early 2013.  Read Original Content

A New Zealand enterprise mobility study conducted by Forrester Consulting reveals 80 percent of organizations surveyed reported security continues to be of great concern when allowing employees to access business data via a smartphone or tablet in the workplace.  Read Original Content

According to a survey of young consumers in India conducted by Ericsson, 30 million of 69 million urban consumers aged 9-18 own mobile phones and 3 million use mobile broadband on their phones.  Read Original Content

Citing higher marketing costs and investments in new network technology, South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom reported a 54.2 percent drop in net profits for the third quarter of 2012.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Scott Musgrove

While on the Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP speaking circuit last week in New Zealand and Australia, I met and got to know Scott Musgrove from the Water Corporation in New Zealand.  Scott has a lot of hands on knowledge about enterprise mobility.  He also has speaking stamina.  Several times he had to teach his two sessions back-to-back.  For all the public speakers out there, that is exhausting work.

In this segment of Mobile Expert Videos, Scott shares his insights into enterprise mobility trends and how he sees social and mobile working together.

Video Link: http://youtu.be/Z5Eay7ymZ6s

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobile Expert Video Series: Kevin Benedict

I am sorry it came down to this.  I couldn't find any other person willing to be interviewed.  Actually this was an interview I did a few weeks back in San Diego.  I speak on the trends I am seeing in enterprise mobility.


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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobile Expert Video Series: Dominick Ruggiero

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series, I interview Sky Technologies/Kony Solution's Dominick Ruggiero about trends in enterprise mobility and how Sky Technologies has changed since Kony Solutions acquired them.  Enjoy!

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz

In this segment, I have the privilege to interview SAP's Oliver Betz, Head of Custom Mobile Development at SAP, in Melbourne, Australia.  We discuss HTML5, app development and how to achieve competitive advantages.
Video Link: http://youtu.be/BjqS1woSML4

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC 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 November 11, 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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Rates of mobile health app adoption among American adults with mobile phones hasn't budged much since 2010, according to a new survey from the American Life Project. The portion of mobile phone carrying adults with health-related apps for tracking their health remains around 10 percent. Read Original Content

More people than ever are using a cell phone to get health information. The share of mobile users doing so has gone up to nearly a third from 17 percent two years ago, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Read Original Content

App developer Castle + Anderson recently released SimMon, a tool that simulates a remotely controlled patient monitor. The app runs on an iPhone or iPad and can help train clinicians as they learn to track changes in blood pressure, oxygen saturation and heart rate. 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.

A spokesperson for the Red Cross told MobiHealthNews that the average daily count for Red Cross apps in October was 369 downloads. The average number of downloads per day between October 25 and October 30 was about 66,000. Read Original Content

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to develop an application so its healthcare providers can access medical images stored in its VistA electronic health record system via mobile devices. Read Original Content

The majority of medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom use smartphones and health-related mobile applications, according to a study published in the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Read Original Content

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

A new app for iPhones and iPads has been launched that works as a reference for radiographic positioning. The app was created by Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Linda Carlson, MS, RT, and Philip W. Ballinger, PhD, RT. Read Original Content

The convergence of mobile technology with an evolving healthcare delivery system will continue to drive the mobile health applications market, which will see revenues grow from $230 million in 2010 to $392 million in 2015, according to research from Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Manhattan Research, the percentage of physicians in the U.S. using smartphones increased to 64 percent. The group increased by 20 percent between 2008 and 2009, the study found. The number of physicians using iPhones doubled, Manhattan Research found. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 11, 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
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Apple and Taiwanese phonemaker HTC have settled all their outstanding disputes over patents, ending a fight that began in March 2010.  The two firms also signed a 10-year license agreement that will extend to current and future patents held by one another.  Read Original Content

Nokia accounted for 7.2 million, or 4.3 percent, of the 169.2 million smartphones sold worldwide in the latest quarter, taking the company down from third place in the prior three-month period, research firm Gartner Inc. said.  Read Original Content

The HTC Droid DNA smartphone sports a large 5-inch Super LCD 3-HD display that is sharper in resolution than the iPhone 5’s screen. The Droid DNA runs on a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon single-core processor, LTE capability, wireless charging, and 8-megapixel rear-facing and front-facing cameras.  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.

Worldwide mobile phone sales are at 428 million units out of which 39.6 percent were smartphones, representing a 46.9 percent increase from the same period of last year, according to a new report from Gartner.  Read Original Content

Verizon Wireless is teaming with Amazon to introduce a preloaded Android home screen application offering subscribers direct access to the online retailer's complete catalog of digital and physical products, including its Amazon Appstore for Android.  Read Original Content

In the coming weeks Nokia will release a maps app called Here in Apple’s App Store. It will be a free download for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners. Nokia will also release a toolkit for programmers to make Nokia-powered mapping apps for Android phones.  Read Original Content

BlackBerry 10 is finally making its debut in January after a lengthy delay, but it may be too little, too late for troubled Research in Motion Ltd.  Read Original Content

Frost & Sullivan indicates the Australian market has grown 29 percent this year outperforming online general advertising - online banner, sponsorships, integrated site content, advertorials, EDM, online directories and online classifieds advertising.  Read Original Content

SAP and the Internet of Things (M2M)

I had an interesting discussion with SAP's new VP of the Internet of Things, Suhas Uliyar recently.    He was still in the process of deciding whether VP of the Internet of Things was the appropriate title, or if it should be VP of the Connected World or something more representative of how the technology was evolving.  He did not like the traditional M2M (machine to machine) reference as that reflected too much of the old model.  He wanted to reflect the future direction of this technology.

Suhas is an industry veteran and mobility expert.  We have spoken numerous times over the past decade as he was leading efforts at a number of MDM (mobile device management) and enterprise mobility companies.  He is very knowledgeable about the needs of large enterprises.

Now back to the topic of M2M.  The traditional use of M2M technology was a sensor would capture data in the field and feed it to an embedded wireless chip that would send it to a server.  As long as the data was communicating the right results, nothing happened.  If the data results meant there was a problem, then hopefully an alert would be created and a human would get involved.  However, over the years sensors have evolved to be much smarter, and so have the embedded wireless chips.  Today, not only can a wireless embedded chip send data results from a sensor, but it can also receive data from a server and operate machines.  This means rather than simple machine to machine communications, you have a bi-directional data feed that enables machines to operate other machines.  That is cool!  That can also be scary if you are imaginative and like scifi books and movies.

In the past M2M was used to monitor very basic sensor data - door open/door closed, temperature good/bad, pressure good/bad, etc.  However today, SAP is looking at this world of connected devices and pondering the role it will play in big data (SAP Hana), business analytics, CRM, EAM (enterprise asset management).

Analysts have predicted there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2025.  The world is quickly moving to this number.  Already there are examples from early adopters such as Vivint, the winner of Gartner's 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Award on how to wirelessly connect devices to machines and revolutionize an industry.  Vivint has a video available here that demonstrates how they use some of this technology, but you will have to sit through a ClickSoftware commercial to view it.  This is definitely an interesting emerging field.  Companies should start watching and exploring how this technology will impact their industries and markets.

Suhas said the Internet of Things today, is less about sensors and embedded wireless chips, and more about process orchestration.  How will all of these new sources of data introduce efficiencies into companies?  How will the data be analyzed and reported in ways that can change the competitive landscapes?  These are the areas of interest before Suhas today.  Welcome on board the SAP ship!

I publish a newsletter every week on Tuesdays called M2M News Weekly.  According to Suhas that name may be dated, but the news is news :-)

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Mobile Expert Video Series: Tom Thimot

I met up with and interviewed SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) expert Tom Thimot from Cognizant last week in Melbourne, Australia.  He spends his time studying the integration of SMAC and how it is impacting businesses.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC 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 November 11, 2012

There are a lot of companies announcing support for HTML5 this week - especially media related.  However, even with this momentum there remains a great need.  Yesmail reported this week results of a survey that shows 41% of mobile device owners have purchased products as a result of mobile email promotions, but one-third of those emails linked to web pages that were not optimized for mobility.

Now for the news...

The Next Web has launched its new site named TNW: Reader Edition which “focuses on improving readability, mobility and browsability thanks to simplified UI, speed and the wonders of HTML5”.  Read Original Content

According to Chris Heilmann, the debate about the “readiness” of HTML5 is based on a lot of false assumptions and myths.  He addresses these HTML5 myths in the article “HTML5 Mythbusting” on the hacks.mozilla.org website.  Read Original Content

Developer Brian Taylor outlines and describes what he feels are the “Advantages of HTML5 and CSS3” in this article in Business 2 Community.  Read Original Content

CampusTours has launched an update to its Virtual Capitol experience built with HTML5.  Read Original Content

According to HTML5test.com, the Wii U Internet browser has the most comprehensive compatibility with HTML5 of any dedicated game console to date.  Read Original Content

Results of a new survey of app developers from Kendo UI reveal 51 percent of respondents indicate HTML5 is important to their job now, and 31 percent say it will be important to their job within the next 12 months.  Read Original Content

Journalism.co.uk has launched a beta web app built with HTML5. The HTML5 app is a work-in-progress, with functionality such as sharing via social media and bookmarking to be added soon.  Read Original Content

Weejot.com, which uses HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and JQueryMobile, wants to build enthusiasm for app development and programming, so will give Weejot accounts to all students using the service on any campus.  Read Original Content

jqMobi has released the developer preview of HTML5 framework jqMobi version 1.2, which adds support for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.  Read Original Content

Accusoft has announced the release of Prizm Content Connect v6 HTML5 zero-footprint content viewer, optimized to view documents in desktop and mobile web browsers that support HTML5.  Read Original Content

HTML5 based books allow publishers greater control over their content and allow authors to embed the book in their own site to sell copies.  Michael Kozlowski describes “How HTML5 Based Books Will Disrupt the Digital Publishing Sector” in this article in Good E-Reader.  Read Original Content

PurdueSports.com and CBS Sports College Network worked together to create a new HTML5 backup video player, enabling fans of college football and the Purdue University Boilermakers to get their football fix on their mobile devices.  Read Original Content

Social project management platform Wrike has released a native HTML5 web app and Android and iOS apps to keep up with the rising trend of individuals working remotely on their mobile phones.  Read Original Content

To help with CNN’s coverage of the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, B-Reel utilized HTML5 to create an interactive microsite, Campaign Explorer, which runs on CNN’s website and can also run as a Google Chrome application for desktop and tablet devices.  Read Original Content

India's largest online hotel network, Travelguru, has launched a new HTML5-based mobile website.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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