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Mobile Expert Video Series: Mark Crofton

kevin.benedict@netcentric-strategies.com (Kevin Benedict) — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:45:22 PDT

In this short interview recorded this week in Orlando, FL at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, SAP's Mark Crofton talks about mobile solutions, mobile banking and trends in Latin America. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/C_Hejd5622U

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (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 Health News Weekly – Week of May 12, 2013

kevin.benedict@netcentric-strategies.com (Kevin Benedict) — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:19:49 PDT

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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Announced at last week's American Telemedicine Association meeting in Austin, Texas, Medweb and DocbookMD have unveiled Docbook Gateway, a mobile application designed to enable clinicians to communicate and share labs, images and reports via mobile devices with other clinicians. Read Original Content

The Army's wide use of telemedicine is evolving from fixed-based access sites to highly mobile programs using cell phones, according to a report in Telemedicine and e-Health. Read Original Content

As mobile phone subscriptions in Africa continue to grow 20 percent a year over the past five years the Malawi Ministry of Health and NGOs such as Village Reach are collaborating with communities to use cell phones to address some of the causes of poor health care for women and children. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

The market for mobile health sensors will grow at an eye-popping 69 percent compounded annual growth rate over the next five years to $5.6 billion by 2017. In 2012, the market was worth $407 million. That's according to mobile research firm Research2Guidance, which recently issued a new five-year report on the global mHealth market. Read Original Content

Apple, first with the iPhone and then the iPad, has "accidentally" revolutionized healthcare, so argues a blog post on The Motley Fool financial website. Although it was not Steve Job's intention, argues the author, doctors and other health-care professionals are using Apple's devices in groundbreaking ways. Read Original Content

Venture capital investments in the health IT sector continue to accelerate, according to the latest report from the Mercom Capital Group, a global communications and consulting firm. In the first quarter, health IT firms raised a record $493 million, compared with $1.2 billion for all of last year. Read Original Content

MyMedRec, one of Canada's top free iPhone apps to help people and their families keep track of medication use and immunization history, is now available internationally. MyMedRec allows users to keep information on their medications and vaccines at their fingertips, ready to share with their healthcare providers. Read Original Content

University of Missouri researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses GPS systems to locate farmers who have rolled their tractors. The Columbia, Missouri school's News Bureau reported the app could prevent fatalities in these accidents, which often occur far from farmers' homes or roads. Read Original Content

Two Saskatoon registered nurses have created an app to help parents get through the first months with their newborns. NuuNest allows parents to input data after every feeding and diaper change and provides daily tips on infant care. Read Original Content

A teenage boy has become the first person in the U.K. to be fitted with a bionic arm, which can be controlled by a mobile phone app. Read Original Content

PBS’s blog “Rundown” recently posted two articles about the impact of mobile technology and health in 10 African countries.” In the first story, Imani Cheers, describes how mobile phones are helping to fight malaria in Zambia. The second story describes how cell phones are being used to address some of the causes of poor health care for women and children. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 12, 2013

kevin.benedict@netcentric-strategies.com (Kevin Benedict) — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:20:42 PDT

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
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Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read M2M News Weekly
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Juniper Research expects annual revenue generated from content delivered to mobile handsets and tablets to rise by nearly $25 billion over the period — climbing from more than $40 billion this year to $65 billion by 2016. Read Original Content

Despite encouraging sales of Lumia series, Nokia has slipped to the tenth position in the smartphone market, according to research firm Gartner. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, on mobile phones overall, Samsung was No. 1, growing 13 percent in the first quarter to capture 23.6 percent of the market with more than 100 million units sold. On smartphones, Samsung's share was higher at 30.8 percent with 64.7 million units sold. 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.

BlackBerry has announced a new device, known as the Q5, which features the company’s iconic QWERTY keyboard, and runs on the company’s new BlackBerry 10 operating system and also powers the Z10 and Q10 smartphones. Read Original Content

Sony introduced the new Xperia ZR delivering the highest level of water-resistance for capturing photos and Full HD videos underwater. The Android smartphone offers leading technology and content with a 4.6” HD Reality display, 13 megapixel fast capture camera and Qualcomm® Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core 1.5 GHz processor. Read Original Content

With the growing smartphone market in India, many domestic and international smartphone brands seem to take keen interest in throwing their best product to the market. Likewise, Panasonic recently announced the launch of their latest and first smartphone in the Indian market reportedly to be launched by May 16. Read Original Content

As part of plans to reposition itself in Africa’s Smartphone market, Chinese phone maker Tecno has partnered with Qualcomm Incorporated and Etisalat to launch the Tecno P3 smartphone into the Nigerian market. Read Original Content

Lenovo has plans to unveil its first smartphone later this year in Nigeria Africa. This is a strategic move for Lenovo because they are looking for markets they can sell directly to without the intervention of a carrier. Read Original Content

Aiming to establish a firm stronghold in the sub $100 smartphone market that is set to become a $40 billion business opportunity by 2015, Finnish phone maker, Nokia has announced the launch of a new phone in its Asha series, the Asha 501. Read Original Content

Total smart mobile device (notebook, tablet and smartphone) shipments for 2013 Q1 hit 308.7 million units, according to Canalys’ latest worldwide estimates. This represents year-on-year growth of 37.4 percent. Read Original Content

According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is working on two smartphones -- one of which will boast a display that can generate three-dimensional images without 3-D glasses. The report claims the high-end smartphone will also feature retina-tracking technology that may enable users to navigate the display with their eyes. Read Original Content

Global smartphone sales are expected to more than double between 2012 and 2017, reaching close to 1.5 billion units in 2017, with sell-through in emerging markets expected to generate 58 percent of smartphone sales during the period, according to the newest report in the Research in Focus: Smartphones series. Read Original Content

Nokia stopped teasing and has formally unveiled its latest high-end Lumia Windows Phone smartphone, the Lumia 925, which T-Mobile U.S. will exclusively launch for the U.S. market. Read Original Content

Sony swung to an annual profit for the first time in five years and said it expects smartphone sales to jump by more than a quarter to 42 million units this fiscal year, as the once-venerable electronics maker leans more on its mobile business to help revive its fortunes. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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