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Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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The Mobile Medical News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly A new study from ABI Research predicts the overall mobile health app market will nearly quadruple to $400 million by the year 2016, up from $120 million in 2010. Read Original Content Manhattan Research recently reported that three out of every four U.S. physicians own some type of Apple device. Smartphone use among physicians is forecast to reach 81 percent by the end of 2011, compared to 50 percent for U.S. consumers. Read Original Content Equitable Life of Canada announced the launch of its EZClaim app for BlackBerry devices. The

How to Use MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Kevin Benedict's Enterprise Mobility Workshops - see how I match the wallpaper! The site www.MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com has grown considerably since it was first started in 2006, and now contains over 1,400 articles.  Many if not most people don't have the time to browse this site in detail, so I wanted to quickly share some of the resources available for your quick reference. Read interviews or listen to podcast interviews with 90+ mobile experts here . Watch over 100+ video interviews with enterprise mobility experts here . Read and browse market numbers, trends, charts and analyst projections here  in the archives of Mobility News Weekly . Read Field Mobility News archives here . Read Mobility Marketing News Weekly archives here . Read Mobile Commerce News Weekly archives here . Read our newest weekly newsletter, Mobile Medical News Weekly archive here . On the right sidebar of www.MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com is a table of contents.  The tabl

Insider's Insight into NFC - Near Field Communications

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Over the past few years, we have seen significant changes across all the major smartphone platforms led by companies such as Apple, Google, BlackBerry and Microsoft.  Each vendor is trying to add unique values in order to differentiate themselves from the crowd.  This competition is helping smartphones evolve as a platform for software applications rather than just being a messaging platform.  Given these developments, technologies such as Near Field Communications (NFC) are getting renewed attention. NFC has the potential to impact the way we shop, travel and transfer data. It can make our lives easier and transactions more convenient. It can make accessing new media and content services more instinctive; it can make it easier to pay for things; easier to discover, synchronize and share information; and easier to use public transportation and other public services.  NFC is creating new opportunities for MNOs (mobile network operators), device manufacturers, service provider, ent

Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly Sears has prepared a mobile marketing strategy for holiday shopping that includes mobile payment options and QR codes advertisements in magazines and newspapers. Read Original Content Best Buy is running geotargeted ads that let consumers save money on products sold at locations closest to them. The ad, which is targeted within Pandora’s iPhone application, tells users where the nearest Best Buy location is.   Read Original Content InMobi has found that the Malaysian mobile advertising market has grown 37 percent during the third

Mobile Expert Video Series: K2 Partnering's Fabio Paradiso

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A couple of weeks ago while I was in Singapore teaching enterprise mobility and mobile strategy workshops, I was able to spend a humid equatorial afternoon with an Italian, Fabio Paradiso from K2 Partnering discussing enterprise mobility and mobile commerce with local businesses.  In this video Fabio shares some of his insights on mobility in Asia. ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups Read The Mobility News Weekly Read The M2M News Monthly Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. According to information gathered by Internet security service provider Zscaler, over 40 percent of mobile device users are using Android handsets, 37 percent are BlackBerry users and, iOS iPhones account for 22 percent. Read Original Content Global advanced water meter shipments accounted for over $500 million in revenue in 2010, with over 70 percent of this in the North American market, according to IMS Research.  Advanced water meters (M2M enabled) can be read by  technologies including handhelds, mobile and network technologies based on telephony platforms (wired and wireless) and radio frequency (RF).   Read Original Content Flurry Analytics recently conducted a study on the amount of time users spent on mobile apps based on categories. Flurry found t

HTML5 - What's New the Week of November 28, 2011

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Adobe Drops Flash Player for Mobile Devices This month Adobe announced that it will no longer develop the Flash Player for mobile devices.  Wow!  Steve Jobs said it was not a worthy technology for the iOS platform and that Apple would not support it.  Now it goes away completely.  Add another correct check mark for the late Steve Jobs. Adobe did state it will release one final version of the Flash Player for Android and the BlackBerry Playbook.
  Danny Winokur, Vice President and General Manager of Interactive Development at Adobe stated on the Adobe Flash Platform blog:  “HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively.  This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.”  He also indicated that “These changes will allow us to increase investment in HTML5 and innovate with Flash where it can have most impact for the industry, including advanced gaming and premium video.” PC Magazine

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly PayPal has announced that on November 24, the company saw a 538 percent increase in mobile payments compared to the same day last year. Read Original Content Following its success in the United States, Starbucks is planning to install a payment system in its iPhone app for 700 of its stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Read Original Content Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform applicat

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 28, 2011

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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 M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly SAP and Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile software, have unveiled new mobile apps designed for a wide range of industries and mobile workers, from executives to knowledge and task workers. Read Original Content The U.S. Army Logistics Innovation Agency is installing more than 6,500 active radio frequency identification tags as part of its Next Generation Wireless Communications program for logistics applications, to track military vehicles and other equipment as they are washed at Camp Arifjan, in Kuwait. Read Original Content T

Motorola's RhoElements is this Strategy a Trend?

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In October of 2011, Motorola Solutions (MSI), the segment of Motorola that split off to focus on business solutions, acquired RhoMobile .     Rhomobile is a software company that develops mobile business and government solutions, and MEAPs (mobile enterprise application platforms).  The day that Motorola announced this acquisition, they also announced a new solution from RhoMobile called RhoElements, a hybrid HTML5 platform for Windows Mobile, Windows CE and Android based Motorola devices. This is an interesting strategy for a traditional manufacturer of Windows Mobile and Windows CE based barcode scanners, ruggedized smartphones, handheld and tablet computers.  It appears that MSI is no longer willing to wait for Microsoft based OS answers and upgrade paths.   Over the past few years, Microsoft has severely damaged the ruggedized hardware market through neglect and a refusal to provide an upgrade path for their Windows Mobile and Windows CE mobile operating systems.  This has for

Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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The Mobile Medical News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly London-based market research firm Datamonitor estimates the market for telehealth services in the U.S. and Europe will grow from $3 billion in 2009 to nearly $8 billion by 2012. Read Original Content According to ABI Research by 2016 the mobile health app market will be worth $400 million. Read Original Content The Asia Pacific region will generate more than $7 billion in revenues from mHealth services in 2017, according to a new study by the GSM Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read Original Content Webalo technology eliminates the nee

M2M News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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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. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly Ford Motor Company has announced that it will accelerate plans to develop and deliver best-in-world in-car technology to customers across Asia, as it is establishing its connected services group in the Asia Pacific and Africa regions. Read Original Content Asia-Pacific is forecast to become the largest market for M2M subscriptions in volume terms in 2013, and in 2016 is expected to account for

Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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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 Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest smartphone market in the third quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. Deliveries of smartphones to operators and retailers in China grew 58 percent in the third quarter from the previous quarter to 24 million units. That surpassed 23 million units delivered to the U.S. market. Read Original Content China has begun to see a price drop in the mobile terminal market in the third quarter of 2011, especially for smartphones, according to statistics released by Analysys International.   R

Mobile Marketing Innovations - Guest Blogger

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As marketplaces becomes more competitive, companies look for new ways to engage their customers.  An increasingly popular method for doing this is through the use of creative mobile marketing campaigns. People nearly always have their phones and tablets on hand, so it should come as no surprise that these campaigns are doing well.  By taking advantage of the smartphone technology to create branded apps and promotions, many companies are seeing success at bringing customers to their store and visitors to their website. Here’s a look at five of the most innovative mobile marketing campaigns: Starbucks – Starbucks recently launched an app for both the iOS and Android operating systems that allows customers to pay with their smartphones. The app, called Starbucks Card Mobile, is a virtual gift card, of sorts, and is reloadable. With money loaded on this “card” customers can simply scan their smartphones to pay for gourmet coffee and other drinks. More than 3 million customers have alr

Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly According to Juniper Research the mobile retail sector is set to grow up to $15 billion worldwide by 2012. This is an increase of 50 percent over and above the figures for 2011.  An earlier report had predicted that revenue from the mobile NFC market would reach $50 billion by 2014. Read Original Content Mobile QR codes in magazines have risen 228 percent since last January according to research firm Nellymoser. Read Original Content For the second quarter of 2011, Pandora reported revenue that was up 117 percent year over year t

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. According to Canaccord Genuity analysts T. Michael Walkley and Mattew Ramsay, Apple controls only four percent of the total phone market, but captures 52 percent of its profits. Read Original Content In the IDTechEx research report "RFID for Animals, Food and Farming 2011-2021", IDTechEx suggests that by 2021 the market for livestock tracking via RFID will have increased from $1.17 billion in 2011 to $4.09 billion in 2021. Read Original Content Asymco.com has published a collection of mobility graphs recently, emphasizing the surge in Android smartphone shipments since the second quarter of 2007. Read Original Content ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn broke the all time mobile ticket sales record.  Twenty-two percent of all tickets sold through Fandango.com were purchased with a mobile device. Read Original Content A recent survey of shoppers by the National Retail Federation found that 50 percent of smartphone owners plan to use their device to research products or make a purchase this holiday. Read Original Content Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. has expanded its mobile offering

HTML5 Week - Thanksgiving Special

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This week we are going to catch up on some of the recent news around HTML5.  Stay tuned all week for articles on HTML5.  Happy Thanksgiving! Facebook launched a new “HTML5 Resource Center” to assist developers with building, testing, and distributing HTML5 apps.   The Resource Center is available to all HTML5 developers.   According to the Facebook Developers website, “Web technologies today enable you to build the kind of experience that until recently could only be built with proprietary technologies, like Flash and native mobile platforms.   With the latest improvements in HTML5 and HTML5-capable browsers ubiquitous on desktops, smartphones and tablets, you can now build similar experiences using web standards. In years past, users primarily used their apps on desktop.   These days, users have multiple devices, and expect their experiences to be seamless and interchangeable across all their devices – desktop, mobile and tablets.   Web enables you to build a se

Enterprise Mobility Workshop in Irvine, California - Next Week

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Next week on Wednesday, November 30th from 4:35 PM to 8 PM , I will be presenting a workshop on Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Strategies at the beautiful Winery Restaurant in Tustin, California (right next to Irvine).  This will be held in an intimate setting with dinner, fine wine and good conversation (and an iPad 2 will be given away).  There are still 10 seats left for executives and IT decision makers that are interested in learning more about enterprise mobility and mobile strategies.  The event is sponsored by Preludesys .  This is a condensed version of the workshops that I presented in Tokyo and Singapore last week. If you are an enterprise executive or IT decision maker interested in learning more about enterprise mobility, then please contact Vince Burns, Preludesys' VP of IT Business Solutions at (310) 766-3079 for reservations. I will be providing an overview of enterprise mobility, my latest mobility research, mobile priorities, expected ROIs, and reviewing n

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 21, 2011

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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 M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Medical  News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly Panasonic has officially announced its Toughpad lineup of rugged tablets.  The 10-inch A1 and 7-inch B1, are built for heavy-duty usage scenarios like military deployment, construction sites, and unruly kindergarten classrooms. Read Original Content Mobile apps geared to enterprises will generate more than $150 billion globally for solution providers over next six years, according to Insight Research Corp. Read Original Content Korean pharmaceutical companies are beginning to use RFID tracking technology to maintain more secure inventori

Mobile Expert Video Series: K2 Partnering's Patrick Caroll

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Patrick Caroll is an industry veteran and mobility expert that has spent time in his career at SAP, Vivido Labs and other large high tech product and services companies.  This last week he was my Asia travel partner, event manager and "minder" ( A  person assigned to guide or escort a visitor, or to provide protection to somebody, or to otherwise assist or take care of something. ~ Wikipedia).   We conducted a series of workshops on enterprise mobility, and mobile strategies in Japan and in Singapore.  We met with folks from SAP, IBM, Danone, FujiFilm, Cognizant, Novartis, GAP Japan, Accenture, British Telecom, Spansion Appio Labs, NEC and many other companies. Patrick does not normally wear the beginnings of a mustache, although with 6 or 7 months I am sure it would look good.  He is participating in the Movember  campaign during the month of November to raise awareness and funds for male cancer initiatives such as prostate cancer.    In this video Patrick Caroll disc

Mobile Expert Video Series: K2 Partnering's Mark Stevenson

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Mark Stevenson with K2 Partnering is a great sport and a pleasure to interview.  He first showed me around some of the best food stands in Singapore, and then was nice enough to allow me to interview him about his versatile Samsung Galaxy. ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups Read The Mobility News Weekly Read The M2M News Monthly Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.