Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 10, 2011

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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Researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created a smart option that uses an iPhone app which converts a smartphone into a Medical Monitor.  Read Original Content

Habitat for Humanity Charlotte recently installed GPS fleet tracking systems in its entire fleet of vehicles.  Since deploying a fleet GPS tracking system, Habitat for Humanity has reported an improvement in customer response times, the amount of job orders completed, and reduced fuel consumption.  Read Original Content

The global market for medical device outsourcing services will reach $44.7 billion by 2017, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.  Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo. http://www.syclo.com/.

American Apparel has been able to reduce the number of employee thefts and processing errors after implementing RFID tracking in 50 of its locations.  Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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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Berg Insight has reported the market for home health monitoring devices was worth $10 billion in 2010.  They expect the market to grow yearly at 26 percent through 2014.  Read Original Content

Deutsche Telekom and Living PlanIT SA, a specialist in urban technology, are teaming up to develop new ways for city infrastructure to communication with each other using M2M devices and communications.  Read Original Content

The partnership between Sprint and Neptune Technologies is focused on targeting utility companies with their new M2M and smart-metering solutions.  Read Original Content

A new report from medical market research firm Kalorama Information expects the U.S. market value for remote patient monitoring to be $7.1 billion, with annual growth averaging about 25 percent and a $22.2 billion market by 2015.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

InMedica’s report on the telehealth market predicts the total value of telehealth devices currently to be $990 million worldwide.  By 2020 the company expects that number to rise to $6.28 billion, with Americans contributing to 36 percent of the total market.  Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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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Steve Jobs: You Will Be Missed.  Read Kevin’s Tribute.

The world expected iPhone 5, but Apple chose to give something less.  From a purely logistical perspective -- and for maximizing margins -- iPhone 4S is sheer brilliance.  Read Original Content

What if they’d just called it the iPhone 5?  The new iPhone is loaded with cool new features that the market was anticipating, with one exception:  it’s not called the iPhone 5; it’s called the iPhone 4S.  Read Original Content

GIA has announced the release of a comprehensive global report on the Smartphone Apps market.  The world smartphone apps market is forecast to reach $101.2 billion by the year 2017.  Read Original Content

Nokia plans to unveil its Windows phones this quarter, increasing the potential for a big holiday race among competing smartphone makers.  Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, will announce more details about the launch at the company's annual trade show in London, on October 26, but hinted a phone would roll out by year's end.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Many bloggers might have been disappointed that the new iPhone 4S doesn't include 4G wireless data or a display larger than 3.5 inches, but analysts believe Apple will increase its U.S. smartphone share with its recent iPhone introductions.   According to Nielsen, Apple is tops in the smartphone market share at 28 percent.  Read Original Content

Steve Jobs: You Will Be Missed

In 1987 I worked in downtown Portland, Oregon at the Nynex Business Center (formerly IBM Product Centers).  We sold IBM, Compaq and Apple products.  I was a young college intern, fresh off the dairy farm and I was in awe of our sales team.  They lived a lifestyle I had only read about.  They traveled, they drove BMWs, they lived in downtown condominiums...and they all had something in common - they were in awe of Apple's Macintosh computer.  That was my first impression of the genius in Steve Jobs.

Here are five things that have most impressed me about Steve Jobs:

1. He was driven out of Apple and the company tanked.  Steve came back and re-created one of the most respected, innovative and successful companies on the planet. 
2. He went into a different industry with Pixar, and created a wildly successful company in the movie industry while pioneering a whole new genre of big time, money making, annimated films.  Pixar was sold to Disney for billions of dollars.
3. He repeatedly impressed us with his designs and understandings of what we wanted, even before we did.
4. I have been in the mobile industry for over a decade.  Steve changed my world.  He did not move the enterprise mobility industry forward with baby steps, it was giant leaps that took us beyond our own imaginations.
5. He not only was a product guy, he created markets.  His vision of the Apple iTunes store revolutionized mobility.  A market place?  This required an entirely different set of skills, but he had them.

Steve showed us that success can be accomplished repeatedly.  Genius can be genius across many different industries.  He showed us that success is not a roll of the dice, but a mindset.  I will miss Steve Jobs.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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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 October 3, 2011

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.

When comparing Groupon to other online giants like Facebook, Google, eBay and Yahoo, Groupon is expected to reach $1 billion in revenue sooner than the other companies did.  Groupon is nearly at $1 billion in revenue as it approaches its one-year anniversary.  Read Original Content

More than two in five mobile users will go online using their mobile device each month, eMarketer estimates, but many websites have been slow to make their content available in mobile-optimized formats.  Read Original Content

PayPal research indicates there will be a spike in mobile holiday shopping this year. Forty-six percent of smartphone owners are predicted to make a holiday purchase using their mobile device, 60 percent of those people plan to purchase items while at home.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, 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.

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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.

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Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

In a recent study eMarketer, reveals 41 percent of smartphone owners plan on using mobile Internet a minimum of once per month.  The group also predicts that marketers will spend almost $1.23 billion on mobile advertising in the United States alone, higher than the $743 million spent last year.  Read Original Content

Sales through mobile devices now account for 10 percent of all purchases made in the United Kingdom.  On average a mobile purchase is made every second in the UK.  Read Original Content

PayPal is opening a pop-up store in downtown Manhattan to showcase the new digital payment services the eBay-owned company plans to introduce in the months ahead.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

Research conducted by Verdict and commissioned by eBay showed that mobile shopping could deliver a £4.5 billion boost to Britain’s economy by 2016 and a further £13 billion by 2021.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Apacheta's Don Grust, Part 2

This is the second part of an interview I conducted last week with mobility expert and Apacheta's CEO Don Grust on issues related to cloud computing, Sybase Unwired Platform, ruggedized handhelds, field services and enterprise mobility. Don Grust has more than 28 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including 17 years in wireless and mobile computing. If you missed it, you can listen to Part 1 here.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, 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.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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
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Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly
Also read Mobility ROI Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

New research from Informa Telecoms & Media projects that the number of NFC handsets shipped worldwide will leap from 44 million in 2011 to more than 630 million in 2015, comprising 40 percent of all new handsets.  Read Original Content

OfficeMax has provided 100 stores with mobile payment terminals that will allow Google Wallet customers to pay and redeem coupons using their smartphones.  Read Original Content

MasterCard is planning to bring mobile payments to the Asia-Pacific region and will target Indonesia and its 180 million mobile phone users.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

ABI Research predicts that mobile payments will soon become a mass-market adopted behavior in the United States and Western Europe by 2016.  Read Original Content

Visa is working on a new Android app that will allow device owners to transfer money to contacts save in their phones.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Apacheta's Don Grust, Part 1

In this two part segment I interview mobility expert and Apacheta's CEO Don Grust on issues related to cloud computing, ruggedized handhelds, field services and enterprise mobility.  Don Grust has more than 28 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including 17 years in wireless and mobile computing. Listen to Part 2 here.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, 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.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of October 3, 2011

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 Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly
Also read Mobility ROI Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Macy’s is planning on using RFID technology in stores nationwide beginning in late 2012.  They plan on using RFID tracking to increase store efficiency and to help drives sales.  Read Original Content

The Georgetown University School of Medicine is considering using Apple iPads and electronic textbooks as substitutes for traditional paper copies of required course materials.  According to Steve Schwartz, associate dean for clinical informatics, the move would save students the money required to print readings and lecture slides while giving them the option to reach their notes virtually.  Read Original Content

Sweden's national transport administration, Trafikverket, is employing RFID tags to transmit air-quality data to trigger ventilation controls within the six kilometer long Norra Länken tunnel, currently under construction in northern Stockholm.  Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo. http://www.syclo.com/.

A team of researchers from the University of California, Davis has transformed iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.  Read Original Content

The New Zealand government is moving forward with its plan to deploy an electronic national livestock identification system, according to Beef Central.  Read Original Content