More News on HTML5 and Enterprise Mobility

I have worked as an IT Manager in my career, and I know the pain involved with supporting systems that are a chaotic mix of different technologies and integration methodologies.  I think that is one reason I am so drawn to the idea that HTML5 will help simplify enterprise mobility for many IT organizations.  Build once and then use across multiple mobile operating systems and device types.  That is the HTML5 dream!

HTML5 Advancing

A new study from Netbiscuits, a mobile software firm, revealed that a majority of the top-selling 10 smartphones in the United States have adopted HTML5 features.  According to the article, “Between 70% and 90% of the top devices support key HTML5 programming elements including offline Web application capability, a geolocation API, 2D animation rendering and Web storage. 
In the last year, HTML5 support is growing for mobile Web development.  Prestigious publishers such as Conde Nast and The New York Times, as well as Apple and Google now support HTML5.  The study found that for accessing mobile sites, the iPhone is the top device, followed by iPod Touch and Android.  “The dominance of Android and Apple still hasn’t solved the fragmentation problem in mobile, however, according to the study.”  A single user experience among all devices is still hindered by differences in hardware, even if all devices run on the latest version of their operating systems. The Mobile Web Metrics Report is available at:  http://www.netbiscuits.com/mobile-metrics-report-2011. 


Adobe and HTML5

According to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, “Adobe is developing great software around HTML5.  HTML5 can be used to deliver rich experiences on the web and will become ubiquitous across mobile devices and desktop computers.”  Adobe is enhancing Dreamweaver for HTML5.  Lynch also indicates that the HTML5 design tool Adobe Edge has been downloaded by over 100,000 users already.  The most recent version of Edge introduces “interactive capabilities such as looping, hyperlinks, and greater animation control”, according to the Adobe Edge website:

Adobe Acquires PhoneGap 

The acquisition is expected to close by the end of October.  The open source platform of PhoneGap enables mobile developers to build cross platform applications with JavaScript and HTML5.  The PhoneGap framework has been downloaded over 600,000 times, resulting in thousands of applications being built.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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 10, 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.




Asymco produced a chart earlier in 2011 illustrating the total units sold by each generation of Apple’s iPhone.  The iPhone 4s is expected to sell more units than all previous models combined.  Read Original Content



Juniper Research reports that a number of mobile services are set to grow significantly through 2012.  This includes over $100 billion in mobile ticket transactions through 2012 and remote mobile payments of digital goods will surge to $2.5 billion by 2014.  Read Original Content



In August Pyramid Research ran a report on the number of NFC-enabled handsets projected to be sold through 2015.  Pyramid expects 17.5 million enabled handsets will be sold in 2011 and forecasts roughly 350 million by 2015.  Read Original Content



A March 2011 article by Juniper Research forecasts the mobile ticketing market to triple during the next four years, reaching 750 million people.  This is up from the 250 million individuals who currently purchase tickets through handsets. The Far East and China region contain the majority of m-ticket users and expects to grow steadily in upcoming years.  Read Original Content 


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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.

HTML5 - What's New This Week?

This week let's take a look at new developments around HTML5, and what companies are doing with it.
 
Facebook Launches HTML5 Platform Plus Apple iPad App

Facebook announced this week that it had  launched an HTML5–based platform, also known as “Project Spartan.”   Users of the will be able to use HTML5-based apps after the impressive overhaul of the iOS version.  Facebook’s Luke Shepard states “We are at the beginning of bringing Facebook Platform apps to mobile.  The features we are launching today are still under development.  They will evolve as we learn more about building richer social experiences on mobile devices.  In addition, we will extend our native support for more mobile platforms such as Android in the near future.  We are excited to see what you will build with these features today and look forward to working with you as we improve these features."

According to Inside Facebook, “iOS developers will get to take advantage of bookmarks, requests and the news feed in the same way that Facebook canvas developers do.”  The changes also allow users to purchase Facebook Credits via mobile.

Facebook also announced its dedicated app for Apple’s iPad. 


Motorola Launches HTML5 Framework for Mobile Apps

Also this week, Motorola launched “RhoElements”, an HTML5 software framework that is designed for developing cross-platform mobile apps.  According to Motorola, the new framework allows developers to create mobile apps “with a consumer-style look and feel” and a consistent interface across multiple mobile platforms.  The new web-based application framework was made possible through Motorola’s acquisition of Rhomobile on July 29, 2011.  Motorola also says that it plans to announce additional cross-platform tools in the coming months.

HTML5 Video Summit

StreamingMedia.com announced on Tuesday that a two-day HTML5 Video Summit will be held in conjunction with the Streaming Media West Exhibition and Conference in Los Angeles, California, November 8 and 9, 2011.  The summit will include how-to sessions, demos, case studies, roundtable panels, and more.  Conference organizers tout HTML5 as “The next generation of online video”. 




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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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 10, 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.

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The value of financial transactions carried out through mobile phones has been estimated to be $245 billion worldwide by 2014 in a new report by global consultancy firm Ernst & Young.  Read Original Content

According to Juniper Research, worldwide mobile payments to merchants for physical goods will grow from $60 billion this year to over $170 billion by 2015.  Read Original Content

By the end of the first quarter 2012, more than 7,000 U.S. Subway restaurants will accept contactless payments through the MasterCard PayPass platform.  Read Original Content

The mobile payment platform Google Wallet is becoming more popular as Office Max and other popular retail stores have chosen to provide customers a mobile payment option when buying products.  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 by Javelin shows that mobile banking usage among consumers has risen from 19 percent to 30 percent during 2011.  Read Original Content

Field Services, Enterprise Mobility and Strategies

I had the thrill of meeting many great people last week while consulting and advising a large European utility company on enterprise mobility, real-time enterprises and networked field services.  I spent four days onsite working with multiple teams understanding their current strategies, processes, ambitions and challenges and helping them formulate an enterprise mobility strategy that would work for them.

The late military strategist, Colonel John Boyd always taught that success in the field comes from three key points in the following order:
  1. People (well trained, intelligent, motivated)
  2. Ideas (good strategies, processes and philosophies)
  3. Things (technologies and resources)
I believe the Colonel.  The team from the utility requested that I spend the week with them helping them to understand enterprise mobility from a global perspective, and to learn what other best in class organizations are doing.  I worked very closely with this team, had good food, laughter and lodging (a castle), and know these people to be motivated and brilliant thinkers. 

We explored their current environments across multiple regions, goals, challenges, processes and infrastructures.  I shared best practices, what I have seen other best in class companies doing to optimze their field services strategies, and provided recommendations.  

The end result of our work together was an understanding of the mobile technology architectures, frameworks and infrastructures that would be needed to support their ambitions and strategies to run a best in class, real-time, field services organization.

Now back to the Colonel's points.  At the utility company, we first needed to understand what the strategies (Ideas) for delivering field services were or should be before we could hope to focus in on the appropriate technology to support it.  We spent the first part of our time together discussing the definition and vision of the "real-time" field services organization.  We asked ourselves, "What does a real-time service organization look like, and what strategies and processes need to be adopted in order to support and manage it?" 

Once the team at the utility company identified the vision they had for their organization and processes, the next step was to review the technologies (Things) needed to efficiently and cost-effectively support their vision.

If your organization would benefit from this kind of workshop, please contact me.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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 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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Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

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.

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

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
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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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