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Thursday, February 20, 11AM ET / 8AM PT During this webinar, we will introduce how the adoption of M2M technologies will result in business innovation, and the real customer case will be addressed to validate its deployment. Register Today! | | Today's Top Stories Most small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States don't have mobile-friendly communications and services for customers. Fifty-nine percent of U.S. SMB websites aren't set up for customers to research and make purchases on their mobile devices. Sixty percent of SMBs' websites cannot be viewed on the iPhone, 65 percent can't be viewed on the Samsung Galaxy S and 87 percent of them lack support for viewing on the fourth generation iPad, according to a new report from web services firm hibu. The company audited 1,000 U.S. SMBs' websites across 10 different industries to assess mobile usability. Only 12 percent of the SMBs surveyed supported viewing on all three tested devices, finds hibu. "Hotels and [bed-and-breakfasts] have the most number of mobile-friendly websites, while building construction websites have the least," write report authors. Hotels and B&Bs had more than three times as many websites that supported viewing on the iPhone 5 or Galaxy S. Following lodging, the most mobile-friendly industries were restaurants, with 52 percent of websites mobile enabled, and taxi and limo services, with 44 percent of websites mobile friendly, finds hibu. While mobile-friendly websites are one area of SMB focus, mobile apps are another. Bizness Apps, a mobile marketing services company, recently released its own findings and an infographic on which businesses are making apps part of their mobile strategy. "In terms of the most popular industries creating mobile apps for their businesses, restaurants came first, with a 22 percent likelihood, followed by professional services, which includes lawyers, retailers, accountants, and doctors," writes Bizness Apps founder Andrew Gazdecki in a recent blog post on Business2Community. "Fitness clubs come third." 
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- download the hibu report (.pdf)z
- read a blog post related to the infographic on Business2Community
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More than half of the highest performing IT teams have deployed enterprise app stores, according to Accenture. Moving forward, IT and business leaders must clarify the roles in mobile app development and transform the process to take advantage of new technologies quickly, support regular software iterations and accelerate business growth, explains Accenture in its new report, Accenture Technology Vision 2014. "Farsighted business-users are eager to make their apps more useful and more contact-aware. Companies can no longer view software development as someone else's job. In the digital world, software must become a core competency for every company," observes Accenture's chief technology officer Paul Daugherty. In addition, wearable devices and connected machines are changing the way businesses operate, says Accenture. These devices improve workforce capabilities and automate processes. For example, Philips is running a pilot Google Glass app that enables physicians to monitor a patient's vital signs and react to surgical procedural developments without turning away from the patient or procedure. "As the line between digital technology and the real world continues to blur, traditional companies are leveraging and enhancing their physical assets to create immersive user experiences that are enabling them to leapfrog online competitors," says Daugherty.
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- see the Accenture release
- check out the report
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Ultra-portable PC shipments doubled in 2013, reaching 22.5 million units or 12 percent of the total notebook PC shipments, according to ABI Research stats. The category of ultra-portable PCs includes laptops with screen sizes less than 14 inches and weighing less than 4 pounds, including Apple's MacBook Air, Lenovo IdeaPad, Asus Zenbook, Dell Latitude, Acer Aspire, Lenovo ThinkPad, HP Pavilion and Sony VAIO. "The bulk of ultra-portable PCs are powered by the Windows 8 operating system, which suffered fits and starts during 2013 due to usability issues and poor first impressions by early adopter audiences. A revision, Windows 8.1, was released in the second half of the year to address these concerns, though popular opinion suggests many considering a refresh to their existing systems are willing to wait for the hiccups to be worked out before making a financial commitment," explains ABI. In addition, tablets are becoming more popular, siphoning off potential ultra-portable purchasers, says ABI. By 2015, the research firm predicts that the Asia-Pacific region will pass North America as the largest market for ultra-portables. Jeff Orr, senior practice director at ABI, expects LTE mobile broadband to be a differentiator for mobile network operators and fuel demand of mobile devices in addition to smartphones. "As LTE reaches critical mass for network coverage, markets will be able to abandon 3G mode compatibility and carriers will readily shift toward LTE-only modems in data-centric computing applications," observes Orr.
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- see ABI's release
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>> Yahoo to buy enterprise app developer Tomfoolery for $16M Yahoo is in talks to purchases enterprise app developer Tomfoolery for $16 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tomfoolery was founded in 2012 by Kakul Srivastava, a seven-year veteran of Yahoo, and Sol Lipman, a former vice president at AOL, to develop apps to help workers socialize and collaborate, the WSJ explains. Anchor, its flagship app, enables colleagues to share files and communicate about projects using iPhone and Android apps. Read more on Yahoo's deal. [More on enterprise apps: Everything you know about mobile app user engagement may be wrong | Enterprise mobile apps: Money maker or minefield?] >> Mobile key to record e-commerce sales in UK Mobility was the key to e-commerce sales reaching record levels last year in the U.K., according to IMRG stats cited by eMarketer. Overall e-commerce sales totaled £91 billion ($151 billion) last year, up from £78 billion ($129 billion) in the U.K. Mobile sales increased 138 percent year-over-year in 2013, with smartphones sales jumping 186 percent and tablet sales increasing 131 percent. This year, IMRG forecasts e-commerce sales to reach £107 billion ($178 billion) in the U.K. Read more on IMRG's stats [More on mobile commerce: Mobile muscles in on media dominance | Mobile financial apps fuel demand for hardware security for mobile devices] >> Intel will need to fend off Chinese in entry-level tablet chip market Intel, which has long dominated the PC chip market, will need to fend off Chinese vendors in its effort to make gains in the entry-level tablet chip market, observes IHS Technology. This segment is crowded with Chinese vendors, such as Rockchip, Allwinner and Amlogic, which are able to produce lower-end, affordable tablet chips. Shipments of tablet process chips will surge 23 percent this year and 18 percent in 2015, topping 400 million by 2016, predicts IHS. Read more on IHS' views of the tablet chip market. [More on Intel: Intel wants in on mobile device chip | Apple gets Microsoft, Oracle, Intel as allies against Samsung in iPhone ban] >> Smartphone shipments top 1B last year Shipments of smartphones topped 1 billion units last year, up 38.4 percent from 2012, according to the latest IDC stats. Samsung shipped close to one-third of the total number, while Apple shipped 15.3 percent of the total, Huawei, 4.9 percent, LG, 4.8 percent and Lenovo, 4.5 percent. Smartphones made up 55.1 percent of all mobile phone shipments in 2013, up from 41.7 percent in 2012. "Among the top trends driving smartphone growth are large screen devices and low cost," says Ryan Reith, program manager with IDC's worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker. Read more on IDC's smartphone stats. [More on smartphones: Mobile devices replace desktops as preferred method to open marketing emails | Smartphone apps replacing embedded telematics units for hailing, dispatching taxis] >> Apple's iOS in the Car demoed on YouTube video Apple's iOS in the Car system is demonstrated in a YouTube video posted on Tuesday, AppleInsider reports. The video shows an iOS simulator apparently running on an OS X Mavericks operating system with a virtual 800 pixel by 480 pixel display. "iOS developer Steven Troughton-Smith captured the video and traverses the maps app's basic functionality, searching for San Francisco's Moscone Center on the iPhone and then beaming directions to the would-be in-dash display," the report explains. Read more on the iOS in the Car video [More on iOS in the Car: Ethernet in-vehicle networking to reach 40% penetration rate by 2020 | Apple's iOS in the Car, MirrorLink to dominate in-vehicle smartphone technologies] Scope of Samsung's penalties:
>> Samsung's Apple damages equivalent to 16 days' profit (InfoWorld) Market trepidation over Apple:
>> Wall Street concerned by lower-than-expected iPhone sales in Apple's holiday quarter (AppleInsider) Wireless connectivity still driven by Wi-Fi:
>> Wi-Fi Fills Insatiable Demand for Fast Wireless Web Links (eWeek) On-demand cab service faces litigation:
>> Parents Sue Uber Over Daughter's Death, Claim its App is Illegal (CIO) Fresh take on mobile devices at work:
>> Enterprise Mobility: Devices, Security, Design, And Distribution (TechCrunch)(IDG News Service) Social Scan:  A little Luddite is not a bad thing in a CIO. http://t.co/G6ZG1jURnq My new blog post.
As people move the a #cloud based model, they want greater visibility to apps. #cio #hmgcionyc NFL's CIO Looks to Improve Fan Experience With In-Stadium Tech - http://t.co/Ffkoyd6m79 And finally... 7 habits of highly defective people (Vala Afshar) | Webinars > Maximize Workforce Productivity with Mobile Apps - Tuesday, January 28th, 2pm ET/ 11am PT This webinar will explore how to deploy a mobility platform architecture to design, build and manage mobile applications across the enterprise; provide real-time access to critical applications and data; and support diverse mobile device types while extending back-end data integration to mobile devices. 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