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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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News WeeklyAlso read Field Mobility News WeeklyAlso read M2M News WeeklyAlso read Mobile Commerce News WeeklyAlso read Mobile Cyber Security News WeeklyAlso read Mobile Health News WeeklyLooking for an enterprise mobility solution? Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here! According to press reports, China's Lenovo Group has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility from Google Inc. for $2.91 billion. The deal will allow Lenovo to obtain 2,000 patent assets and the Motorola Mobility brand and trademark. Read Original ContentBlackBerry Ltd shares have gained more than 50 percent over the past three months. BlackBerry entered a five-year agreement with Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd. to manufacture low-end smartphones starting April 2014. Read Original ContentNokia will soon release a phone running a forked version of Google's Android platform, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The release of the phone, codenamed "Normandy," will come just ahead of the closing of Microsoft's $7.4 billion deal to buy Nokia's handset business. Read Original ContentThe True Cost of Mobility - Companies are under tremendous pressure to develop and deploy mobile apps for their business systems, yet the traditional approach to mobile app development typically costs $250K+ and takes 6+ months for a single app. Today IT professionals are exploring platforms that radically reduce costs and time-to-market for their mobile initiatives, especially around complex applications such as SAP, Oracle, or custom applications. Download the whitepaper - https://www.capriza.com/resources/whitepapers/?resource=true-cost-of-enterprise-mobility&adgroup=MESLG aims to expand its smartphone business by at least 40 percent this year. LG's mobile business strategy for 2014 is to focus on innovation leadership to create the ultimate user experience and further strengthen its innovation leadership in the global smartphone industry. Read Original ContentHTC is aiming at the cheaper end of the smartphone market with new models, as it forecast another loss in the current quarter and unveiled revenues for January lower than at any time since 2007. Read Original ContentSeiko Epson has announced a golf swing sensor that attaches to a club and sends the data back to your smartphone via Bluetooth. The company will enter the wearables market soon, and while not strictly "wearable" the M-Tracer for Golf MT500G is an indication that it is aiming at the sports market. Read Original ContentLenovo Group Ltd., the world’s largest maker of personal computers, plans to expand its smartphone business in three west African countries this year as it builds on a surge in demand in Nigeria. Read Original ContentBy the start of 2014, Samsung had 166 million mobile business customers, according to ABI Research. Read Original ContentSmartphone usage in Mexico more than doubled in 2012. In 2013 it grew almost 50 percent again. As a result, eMarketer projected 6.1 million people will be added to Mexico's smartphone owners population. Read Original ContentAccording to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the Google Android was easily the top smartphone operating system in Spain and left competitors with single-digit market share figures. Read Original ContentAfter experiencing annual growth of 43 percent in 2013 on shipments of 1.32 billion, the global application processor market is forecast to see decelerated growth in 2014, with shipments increasing 23 percent on year, according to a new Digitimes Research Special Report. Read Original ContentFlappy Bird, the newest and most savagely addicting smartphone game to have taken the mobile market by storm, is earning $50,000 in ad revenue each day, Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen revealed in an interview with The Verge. Read Original Content
Some 1.02 billion smartphones were sold around the world in 2013 — a rise of 43 percent on 2012 sales figures — although tablets are growing faster, according to specialist market analyst Futuresource Consulting. Read Original ContentBlackBerry is reportedly planning to launch a 64-bit smartphone with an octa-core processor next year. The firm is developing a handset equipped with Qualcomm's eight-core Snapdragon MSM8994 chipset that clocks in at 2.5GHz, according to N4BB. Read Original ContentLawmakers in California are proposing legislation that would require wireless carriers install a so-called "kill switch" in smartphone and tablets sold in the state that would render the devices useless if stolen. If passed and signed into law, the bill would require phones and tablets sold in California on or after January 1, 2015, to include the antitheft solution. Read Original ContentRecent Articles by Kevin BenedictKevin Benedict Interviews Digital Transformation Expert: Jitin Agarwal on Managing Digital Assets and Code HalosMobile Expert Interview: Mayank MehtaMobile Technology, Roman Roads and Legionaries - Director's CutMy Themes in 2014 are Real-Time, Speed and InsightMobile Expert Interviews: Feedhenry's CEO Cathal McGloinBracing for Change with Enterprise MobilityWebinars of Note (Recorded)Rapidly extend any enterprise application to mobile devices without coding, APIs, or integration.Whitepapers of NoteDon't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the EnterpriseMaking BYOD Work for Your OrganizationManaging BYOD and Legacy SystemsThe Secret to Enterprise Mobile Application AdoptionSolving The Mobile Developer Scarcity ProblemThe True Cost of Mobility************************************************************* Kevin Benedict Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation CognizantFollow me on Twitter @krbenedict ***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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Kevin Benedict serves as the Senior Vice President, Solutions Strategy, at Regalix, a Silicon Valley based company, focused on bringing the best strategies, digital technologies, processes and people together to deliver improved customer experiences, journeys and success through the combination of intelligent solutions, analytics, automation and services.
He is a popular writer, speaker and futurist, and in the past 8 years he has taught workshops for large enterprises and government agencies in 18 different countries. He has over 32 years of experience working with strategic enterprise IT solutions and business processes, and he is also a veteran executive working with both solution and services companies. He has written dozens of technology and strategy reports, over a thousand articles, interviewed hundreds of technology experts, and produced videos on the future of digital technologies and their impact on industries.
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