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.

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Google's Android and Apple's iOS continued to pull away from the competition in October 2012, combining to control 87.9 percent of the U.S. smartphone market according to a new report issued by digital research firm comScore.  Read Original Content

The mobile phone market is a growth industry, but according to the latest IDC report growth for 2012 is predicted to be only 1.4 percent compared to last year. More than 1.7 billion mobile phones will ship this year with the number expected to reach 2.2 billion in 2016. Read Original Content

The bad blood between Apple and Samsung is turning into a classic tech battle.
That Apple fights on with Samsung, but settled with HTC makes sense. In stores Samsung is without a doubt the single biggest threat to Apple, according to Ben Wood, director of research at CCS Insight.  Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

According to Research and Markets, the global Smartphone industry is highly concentrated such that the combined revenue share of Apple and Samsung is expected to have reached around 60 percent and the combined profit share around 95 percent in 2012.  Read Original Content

Based on SMB Group market survey, smartphone use in the Philippines has grown tremendously by 316 percent in 2012 since it was introduced in the market just a few years back.  Read Original Content


Nokia’s flagship smartphone is a remarkable handset, which runs Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 8 software, has got to be the best $100 phone you can buy, with an excellent camera, a big, beautiful video screen, and snappy 4G LTE data downloads.  Read Original Content

HTC said it will not bring its mid-range Windows Phone 8S device to the U.S. market, and will instead put all of its marketing efforts behind the high-end Windows Phone 8X.  Read Original Content

Taiwan's HTC Corp. remains the fifth largest mobile phone maker in the United States but has lost market share to Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., according to data compiled recently by the research firm comScore.  Read Original Content

IDC says worldwide IT spending in 2013 will exceed $2.1 trillion, up 5.7 percent from 2012. The biggest driver of that growth will be mobility: Sales of smart mobile devices including smartphones and tablets will grow by 20 percent, generate 20 percent of all IT sales, and drive a whopping 57 percent of all IT market growth.  Read Original Content

South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung is aiming to capture a 50 percent market share in value terms of India's overall mobile phone market by 2013, a top executive of the company said.  Read Original Content

Amazon is planning to bring out its own brand of Kindle smartphone. It is reported that Foxconn has grabbed the contract for manufacturing the Kindle smartphone, and that Amazon intends to launch the smartphone as early as mid 2013.  Read Original Content

According to Frost & Sullivan, the global customer experience monitoring market earned revenues of over $865.1 million in 2011 and estimates this to reach $2.54 billion in 2018.  Read Original Content

In a recently published forecast study, ARCchart expects the daily traffic handled by carrier networks worldwide will ramp at a CAGR of nearly 31 percent over the next five years, eventually accounting for 102 PB of data, almost 6 times higher than the 17 PB of daily traffic for 2011.  Read Original Content

The unlocked iPhone 5 is now finally available from Apple in the U.S. As with previous releases, the unlocked phone is coming to the U.S. significantly later than Canada and some countries in Europe, where it went on sale in September alongside the carrier locked versions.  Read Original Content

Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker will be presenting on the state of the web at Stanford. This update to Meeker's deck has new data, and new slides covering digital payments, education, and healthcare.  Read Original Content

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