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Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 23, 2012

The Field Mobility 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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RFID technology can help retailers reduce loss from theft and internal shrink, especially during the busy holiday season.  American Apparel has reported a 75 percent loss reduction at some of its RFID-enabled retail stores.  Read Original Content

Security experts caution consumers to be sure the QR code they scan is not a sticker that can be placed over the actual QR code by cybercriminals to drive traffic to bad or infected sites.  Read Original Content

The Federal Trade Commission has announced the U.S. government is investigating whether the companies that make mobile apps have violated the privacy rights of children by collecting personal data from phones and sharing it with advertisers and data brokers.  Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

UPS utilizes geospatial technology and telematics to improve efficiency and customer service.  UPS executive Jack Levis describes how the company uses and benefits from the technology in the video “Geospatial Revolution / Episode Two, Chapter Two: Powering Business” featured in Directions Magazine.  Read Original Content

Samwell has developed a new rugged tablet, the Rugged Tablet PC 310 and will show it off at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.  Read Original Content
Microscan’s QX-870 industrial laser barcode scanner won the 2012 Most Popular Product Award in the automation industry.  The award was presented at the Industrial Automation Show in Shanghai, China.  Read Original Content

Food distribution company San SeSan Global of Singapore has seen a 15 percent increase in sales volume since incorporating geospatial technology in distribution management systems via portable devices.  Read Original Content

The city of Redmond, Washington has launched a GIS app to enable residents to see where Santa Claus will be on any given evening and even track his location in real time.  Read Original Content

Walt Disney World is rolling out RFID readers all around the parks and resort guests will receive “Key to the World” cards with embedded RFID technology, enabling them to enter the parks and make purchases.  Read Original Content

NetMotion Wireless offers a free ebook “The Top 5 Best Practices for Field Service Mobility”.  Read Original Content

North Dakota’s Department of Emergency Services and GeoComm have formed a partnership to develop a GIS data set that will be used statewide to benefit public safety organizations.  Read Original Content

Honeywell has announced plans to acquire Intermec to extend Honeywell’s mobile computing line and bring RFID products to the company.  Read Original Content

RFID Journal founder and editor Mark Roberti provides insight into “What CEO’s of RFID Companies Need to Know”.  Read Original Content

Esri has opened a learning center in Abu Dhabi, giving police officers, firefighters, and Ministry of Interior officials from the United Arab Emirates an opportunity to receive extensive training in how to use GIS technology.  Read Original Content

Spanish online supermarket Tudespensa.com ensures quick and accurate delivery with the use of RFID technology in its warehouse to help load ordered goods into the proper delivery vehicle and in the correct sequence.  Read Original Content

Editor Adena Schutzberg details “The Top Ten GIS Stories of 2012” in this article featured in Directions Magazine.  Read Original Content

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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.

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Kevin Benedict is an enterprise mobility analyst, mobile strategy consultant, writer, speaker and SAP Mentor Alumnus. Follow him on Twitter @krbenedict. He is a popular speaker around the world on the topic of enterprise mobility. He maintains a busy schedule writing and speaking at events in North America, Asia and Europe. He has over 22 years of experience working with enterprise software applications and has built a mobile enterprise software company from the ground up that experienced 100% year-over-year growth for 4 straight years.

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