Mobile Expert Video Series: Adam Enterkin

On the Northeast corner of Hyde Park in London, England in Kony Solution's UK office.  While I was in London last week I caught up with Kony Solution's VP of Sales for EMEA, Adam Enterkin and asked him about his strategies and Kony Solution's business model.  I hope you find this interview interesting.


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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
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 Expert Video Series: Alec Berry, Part 2

This is Part 2 of my interview with mobility expert Alec Berry, Director of Professional Services with ClickSoftware.  You can listen to Part 1 here.  In this segment Alec talks about best practices for professional services, and how to successfully deliver mobile projects.  He covers mobile project kick-offs, change management, network connectivity, selecting the right mobile devices and keeping it real.


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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
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 and M2M News Weekly – Week of June 17, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M 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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Mojix has announced the availability of their new Mojix STAR 3000 RFID system, capable of locating passive RFID sensors in large areas with coverage in excess of 200,000 square feet.  Read Original Content

Tanning product company New Sunshine is using RFID technology to protect its products and consumers from illegal product diversion.  Read Original Content

Over 40 of Iowa’s 99 counties are incorporating a system at the polls to scan barcodes on driver’s licenses and voter registration cards to check in voters.  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.

DataDyne has developed a cloud-computing application, EpiSurveyor, which will utilize mobile devices to make real-time electronic data collection possible for nonprofit and government organizations.  Read Original Content

Vehicle mount mobile computers may be a solution to some of the challenges of warehouse operations.  They must be able to withstand extreme temperatures, have keypads that are accessible to drivers wearing heavy gloves, and come equipped with full screen displays that are visible in different lighting environments.  Read Original Content


An M2M solution from web-based telematics provider, Traffilog, will be installed in public service vehicles in the U.K. in time for the 2012 Olympic Games to ensure passenger comfort, safety and security.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 17, 2012

Welcome to the 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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About 700 of the 800 SAP customers in the Philippines are small to medium enterprises, and SAP is planning to introduce products and solutions for this market segment.  Read Original Content

In a decision that reflects the increasingly important role mobile operators play in the prepaid market in India, Prepaid International Forum India has extended its membership admission policy to include mobile operators.  Read Original Content

The transaction volume of mobile e-commerce in China in 2011 increased 609 percent over the previous year, and the mobile ecommerce market in China is expected to reach RMB 25.15 billion Yuan in 2012, with a mobile e-commerce user population of 146 million people.  Read Original Content

Bharti Airtel and Opera Software have finalized an agreement to allow Bharti subscribers to access a customized version of Opera’s software on their mobile devices.  Read Original Content

The Asia Pacific region, North America and Europe are the largest markets for enterprise mobility solutions, according to an infographic from (x)cube LABS.  Read Original Content


eBay India has announced the availability of a free interactive app, the eBay iPad App for India, allowing users to shop and log into their eBay India accounts.  Read Original Content

Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi is hoping to give Apple a run for its money with the goal of shipping more than 100 million smartphones annually for one model by 2016.
Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – June 10, 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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"The global market for mobile health products and services is expected to approach $23 billion by 2017, and much of the growth will not happen in the U.S. but rather in less-developed countries, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers," MobiHealthNews reports. Read Original Content

Developing nations are adopting mobile health technology at a faster pace than developed countries like the U.S., according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Healthcare Finance News reports. Read Original Content

According to the Worcester Telegram, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Memorial Medical Center have developed a prototype iPhone application that detects if the user has atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in the world and puts the patient at high risk for developing a stroke, typically from an embolic event. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

A new report, entitled “The Role of mHealth in the Fight Against Tuberculosis,” details a variety of projects that have shown the effectiveness of using text messages and automatic call-backs on patients’ phones as means of communicating important notices that help sufferers adhere to medication regimens. Read Original Content

AirStrip Technologies is teaming up with Palomar Health to launch a vendor-neutral platform that would allow healthcare providers to access a wide range of patient information sources from smartphones and tablets. Read Original Content


Care transitions technology provider Axial Exchange has acquired mRemedy, a mobile health app company formed by the Mayo Clinic and DoApp in late 2009. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Alec Berry, Part 1

I met Alec Berry, Director of Professional Services with ClickSoftware, just outside of London this week for an interview.  I enjoy interviewing mobile experts that are in the professional services arena as they usually have the best stories and advice as a result of implementing mobile solutions with many different companies.  In part 1 of this interview we discuss the latest mobility trends, mobile and scheduling challenges when working with contractors.


Watch Part 2 of this interview here.



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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
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 News Weekly – Week of June 10, 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
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly

Mobile phone giants Vodafone and 02-owner Telefonica, have announced plans to create one shared grid in the UK. The move is designed to improve existing coverage and to speed up the roll-out of superfast 4G services.  Read Original Content

Apple has sought to disrupt the U.S. launch of Samsung Electronic's flagship smartphone by asking a court to ban the product from sale temporarily. Apple claimed the Galaxy S3 infringed at least two of its patents based on its analysis of a model bought in the UK. Read Original Content

Shares of HTC opened 7 percent limit down after the smartphone maker cut its second-quarter revenue target by 13.3 percent and posted a 26 percent decline in May sales from a year earlier.  Read Original Content

Google has demonstrated new mapping technologies in an effort to reassert its position as a market leader. While it boasts one billion users, Google Maps has recently seen defections by some key developers and partners.  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.

Facebook has launched an app center to help its members explore software available on the social network. The service will be available on desktop computers as well as on Android and iOS system-based phones and tablets running Facebook's own app.  Read Original Content


In just the two years since the release of Apple's iPad, the U.S. tablet market has reached a "critical mass," with nearly one in four smartphone owners also using a tablet in the three-month period ending in April, according to data released by researcher ComScore.  Read Original Content

A recent report from Ericsson says that by 2017, around 85 percent of the world will be connecting to the Internet through their mobiles and in high-speed.  Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of June 10, 2012

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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Consumers are spending 10 percent of their media attention on mobile devices while the medium only commands a mere 1 percent of total ad-spend. Comparatively, print medium attracts only about 7 percent of media-time, but still captures an astonishing 25 percent of the total U.S. ad-spend, with print receiving 25-times more ad money than mobile. Read Original Content

In a joint study, the IAB Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence and IAB Europe, the industry bodies, and IHS Screen Digest, the research firm, reported that mobile ad spend will hit $5.3 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will roll out a mobile phone payment system for commuter rail passes and tickets in the fall, and sign-ups are now under way for riders who want to get involved with the first trial runs of the new technology. Read Original Content

The Louisiana Sheriff’s office is streamlining its traffic citation process with the Apple iPad Socket Mobile Barcode Scanner, and Zerion Software's iFormBuilder Data Collection Platform.  The SAAS Mobile Ticketing/Citation system will save time, reduce data entry errors and improve efficiency for law enforcement. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

FunMobility Inc. has announced the commercial availability of the AppWidget Mobile Engagement Platform, an integrated SaaS mobile marketing suite designed to boost user engagement and enable true mobile relationship management. Read Original Content


Although IDC has forecasted that the skyrocketing growth in mobile marketing may slow to a more modest rate when compared to the tremendous explosion it has seen over the last couple of years, Windows Phone 7 will be surging ahead to level its playing field with iOS and Android, and will be working with Nokia in order to try to achieve this goal. Read Original Content

eMarketer estimates more than 880 million consumers in China—nearly two-thirds of the country’s population—will own at least one mobile phone by the end of this year.
But marketers in China are not flocking to mobile as an advertising medium. The country’s advertisers now spend less than 1.5 percent of total ad spending ends up in mobile. Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Verivo's Marc Rosenbaum

What value does HTML5 bring to a mobile platform vendor that says they already support cross-platform development?  How does HTML5 integrate with native apps to form hybrid apps?  These are the kinds of questions I ask Verivo's mobility expert Marc Rosenbaum in this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series.  I hope you find this segment useful.


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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
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.

What's New in HTML5, Week of June 10, 2012


I have been having numerous discussions about HTML5 with mobile experts these last few weeks, many of which I recorded on video, so stay tuned to my blog to watch them and learn how leading mobile vendors are incorporating HTML5 into their platforms and mobile apps.

One of my goals with publishing this HTML5 article series each week is to help companies, considering the use of HTML5, to understand the spectrum of use cases and the scope of its adoption by leading vendors.  I hope you find these articles useful.

Now for the news...

The automated software testing tool Testing Anywhere has released a new version, Testing Anywhere 7.5, and is now capable of testing HTML5 and cloud applications.  Read Original Content

OverDrive has announced plans to launch OverDrive Read, an open standard HTML5/EPUB browser-based e-book platform that will allow users to read e-books online or offline, without having to install software or download an app.  Read Original Content

For a comprehensive look at HTML5 in general and specifically as it relates to content publishing, check out this new article from Roger McNamee, “HTML 5: The Next Big Thing for Content".  Read Original Content

Inkling has announced the launch of Inkling for Web, an HTML5-based E-Book app that allows any device with a [compliant] browser the use of Inkling's features, previously available only through its iPad app. All current and future Inkling titles are now available through the new web interface with features including 3D graphics, videos and audio.  Read Original Content

A new provider of in-app mobile payment solutions, Zooz, is now offering an HTML5 mobile web version of its compact SDK, which requires only three lines of code for developers to “cut, paste, and go” in under 10 minutes. Read Original Content

Taptu has announced the launch of an HTML5-based news aggregator web app which will function across all devices.  Read Original Content

According to a YouTube executive, the video sharing site has been slow in fully adopting HTML5 because of browser fragmentation, problems with distribution and cost.  Read Original Content

Uberflip is a cloud-based digital publishing service built on HTML5 for mobile which features geo-targeting tools to allow companies to distribute tailored versions of their marketing pieces by region.  Read Original Content

The FBI has launched its first mobile-friendly website designed for smartphones and built with HTML5, JavaScript and AJAX.  Read Original Content

Jeffrey Zeldman‘s classic “Taking Your Talent to the Web” has been re-created with HTML5 and CSS3 and is now available as a free web book.  Read Original Content

The Beta developers update for the BlackBerry Playbook includes HTML5 optimization, Android functionality and features, and full device encryption support.  Read OriginalContent

appMobi has launched a cross platform game, Boom Town, developed in HTML5 and released simultaneously in Apple’s App Store, Google Play for Android, and on Facebook.  ReadOriginal Content

Progressive Media Group is planning to add HTML5 e-cards to their corporate holiday e-cards product lines, stating “the majority of animations we’ve seen on the web using HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 keep progressing at an encouraging pace”.  Read Original Content

Q4 Web Systems has introduced new HTML5 mobile apps for public companies to communicate with their investors via mobile applications.  Read Original Content

Enterprise mobility solutions provider AnyPresence has developed a utilities solution, backed by a flexible mobile platform, enabling IT staff to assemble mobile apps once, and deploy them instantly as HTML5, iOS and Android mobile applications.  ReadOriginal Content
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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus
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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