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.

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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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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: 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.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 11, 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 that 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

In a recent report BIA/Kelsey projected U.S. mobile local advertising will reach $5.8 billion in revenue by 2016. Read Original Content

Smartdevices continue to gain momentum and according to Tapjoy’s recent study mobile commerce is expected to globally explode by 300 percent. 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.

Forty percent of shoppers visiting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. electronically this holiday season will do so on a smartphone or a tablet, says Gibu Thomas, senior vice president of mobile and digital strategy. Read Original Content

Starbucks has just announced it is broadening its mobile payments by accepting transactions through Square at approximately 7,000 of its coffee shop location. Read Original Content

This year Deloitte anticipates in-store sales influenced by consumers' smartphone use will account for $36 billion, or 5.1 percent of total holiday retail store sales. Read Original Content

Google recently saw a 20 percent drop in quarterly profit, partly driven by slowing ad-sales growth rates due to a shift to less-profitable mobile ads. Read Original Content

Using Mobile Technologies to Drive Business Visibility

Today, I presented a webinar along with Stewart Hill from ClickSoftware on the latest research I have done on enterprise mobility and how it is improving business visibility and transforming industries.  Here are some of the key topics I covered in the webinar:

• The latest industry numbers and trends
• Situational awareness and enterprise mobility
• Reducing the Fog of War with enterprise mobility
• The use of tactics with enterprise mobility
• Force Multipliers and enterprise mobility
• Force projection and enterprise mobility
• Infonomics and enterprise mobility
• Velocity and enterprise mobility
• The Internet of Things and enterprise mobility
• Social collaboration and enterprise mobility
• SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud and how it is transforming industries

If you did not make it to the live webinar, you can watch the recorded version here - http://www.clicksoftware.com/webinars-using-mobile-technology-to-drive-business-visibility-and-real-time-decision-making.htm.

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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.

SMAC News Weekly - Week of November 11, 2012

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I am a SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) analyst.  I research this subject daily and share the best excerpts and interesting numbers that I come across each week.

Each of us is impacted by SMAC.  We all use mobile devices and social networking solutions like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  We use search engines, maps and weather apps, all of which use analytics and are in the cloud.  SMAC is the combination of all of these trends coming together on mobile devices.  This convergence is impacting businesses in many different ways.  We will do our best to capture these by reporting on the SMAC trends, numbers and forecasts in this weekly newsletter.

Now for the news...

Pinfluencer, the leader in Discovery Marketing & Analytics for Pinterest, announced its deep integration with web analytics systems such as Adobe Omniture, Coremetrics and Google Analytics to help marketers discover which pins drive revenue and clicks, and measure true social ROI.  Read Original Content

A survey conducted by DBD Media of 50 e-commerce sites, found that 67 percent haven't integrated social media tracking. Read Original Content

A recent Yesmail report, based on a consumer shopping trends survey and an analysis of the digital marketing campaigns of 20 brands over a three-month period, found that half of consumers are influenced by social media when making online purchases and more than one in three consumers have purchased a product as a direct result of a social media promotion.  Read Original Content

Another Yesmail report result, 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 mobile-optimized.  Read Original Content

Between 2011 and 2016, Gartner is predicting Big Data to grow to $43.7 billion in 2016.  If the market scope is limited to social media, social network analysis and content analysis, the market is growing 45 percent annually from 2011 to 2016. Read Original Content

  

NM Incite, a social media analytics and research joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey, just announced that it has acquired New York-based social TV startup SocialGuide. Read Original Content

Cognizant just published a 2 minute video demonstrating how an average person uses social, mobile analytics and cloud in their daily life.  Very interesting!  Watch Video Here

Accenture Federal Services was awarded a $3 million, one-year contract to help the Office of Health Affairs enhance its biosurveillance capabilities via social media analytics. Read Original Content

SAP announced an aggressive mobile analytics strategy nearly a year ago, and at the vendor's TechEd conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday it underscored mobile progress by announcing yet another new app: SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on its Enterprise Performance Management Unwired. Read Original Content

At its annual IBM Information on Demand 2012 and Business Analytics Forum, IBM showcased its  IBM PureData System appliance, which provides an engineering system for analytics and transactions. Read Original Content

Temenos, the global provider of banking software, announced that nine deals were signed for its Insight Business Analytics solution in the past year, including new projects with Synergy Credit Union and Innovation Credit Union. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

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.

M2M News Weekly – Week of November 11, 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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Shipments of cellular M2M modules are forecast to rise from 76 million in 2012 to 104 million next year, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. 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

A new study from Juniper Research has found the telematics and consumer electronics sectors are rapidly becoming the two anchor industries for the M2M market. The report forecasts the market for M2M and embedded devices will reach 400 million by the end of 2017, up from a little over 110 million at present. Read Original Content. 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.

According to Pike Research, revenue from smart grid renewables integration will grow from $3.8 billion in 2012 to just under $13 billion in 2018. Read Original Content

A report by Berg Insight projects the deployment of 110 million smart meters through 2017, meaning a compound annual growth rate of 20.5 percent. Total smart meter deployments at the end of 2017 will reach 154.7 million. Read Original Content

Telematics and consumer electronics sectors are the fastest growing sectors of the M2M communications market, according to the latest research by Juniper Networks. The report forecasts the market for M2M and embedded devices will reach 400 million units by the end of 2017, up from a little over 110 million today. Read Original Content

The M2M network security market is on a set course for growth—to the tune of $752 million by 2017, according to a report by ABI Research. Read Original Content

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Smart Grid Communications market to grow at a CAGR of 13.37 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increase in smart grid construction. Read Original Content

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 11, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
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Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
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A new program in Alberta, Canada uses GPS to enable at-risk women to connect to a 911 dispatcher while tracking their location.  Read Original Content

Idaho State University and other universities and cities around the world will celebrate World GIS day on November 14, 2012.  "World GIS Day offers everyone a chance to learn more about the fascinating field of Geographic Information Systems and how GIS is part of our everyday lives today.”  Read Original Content

Fast-casual restaurants are using RFID technology to improve service times and track the time for orders from payment to receipt of the order by the customer.  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.

Congress in India is utilizing RFID technology to improve communication among party members.  Read Original Content

Federal emergency responders arriving in unfamiliar hurricane-ravaged regions are aided by a high-tech mobile command center, the Defense Department’s Domestic Mobile Integrated Geospatial-Intelligence System.  Read Original Content

Trimble has unveiled a new rugged tablet, the Yuma 2, designed for outdoor use in construction, transportation, utility work, and other fieldwork areas requiring rugged devices.  Read Original Content

Electric vehicle drivers can now use their Apple iPhone or Android device to access free or paid charging stations for their vehicles.  Read Original Content

High-tech winter sports enthusiasts now have three GPS goggle models available from Zeal Optics.  Read Original Content