Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of May 19, 2013

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Indian mobile point-of-sale device maker Ezetap Mobile Solutions has obtained global certification for the latest version of its point-of-sale device from Europay, Mastercard and Visa.  This development is expected to encourage an increasing number of Indian consumers to pay for purchases at home using cards.  Read Original Content

A survey commissioned by mobile phone company Amaysim reveals one fourth of Australian adults now spend more than eight hours a day connected to technology.  Read Original Content

Mobile payment services are on the rise in Hong Kong.  Hang Seng Bank, a division of HSBC, will launch its NFC service in the third quarter of 2013, and the Bank of China – Hong Kong will also offer the service this year.  Read Original Content

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China Mobile has been aggressively building up its 4G trial network, which could give it an edge of up to half a year over both Unicom and China Telecom in the 4G space.  Read Original Content

With promising mobile commerce opportunities in China, Amazon announced it has opened its Appstore in the country.  Read Original Content

A recent report by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers emphasized the important role of mobile devices in China’s e-commerce, finding one third of Chinese online shoppers used devices such as smartphones and tablets to make purchases.  Read Original Content

MobileTECH Summit 2013 is a new event designed to showcase current and upcoming mobile innovations best suited to New Zealand’s principal food and fibre sectors.  The objective of the summit is to provide new tools, ideas, case studies and contacts for mobile communications to grow future productivity and profits.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of December 16, 2012

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Komli Mobile and mobile ad network Yoose have formed a partnership for mobile advertising services, focusing initially on Southeast Asia and India.  Read Original Content

The Indian government is planning a pilot project with new technology to help locate lost or cloned mobile phones on a real time basis.  Read Original Content

When asked why the telecom doesn’t carry Apple’s iPhone, China Mobile president Li Yue stated “technology is a problem, but it isn't the entire problem, there's also mainly the issue of business model and mutual benefits”.  Read Original Content

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The Australian Communications and Media Authority Communications Report 2011/12 reveals 49 percent of Australian adults own a smartphone, up from 25 percent in 2010/11, and 32 percent of Australians accessed the Internet via mobile phones in June 2012, up from 21 percent the previous year.  Read Original Content

According to a recent study from GfK, 23 percent of “super connected” consumers live in the Asia Pacific region, with the largest number of these online users residing in Taiwan and South Korea.  Read Original Content

The Australian cloud computing market was worth $882.4 million in 2012, and 43 percent of businesses have adopted cloud computing.  Frost & Sullivan predicts the market will grow at a CAGR of 40.3 percent from 2011-2016.  Read Original Content

Xiaomi Technology has become a leading brand in China, the world’s largest mobile market, with some in the mobile industry calling the company “the next big thing”.  In an interview with Reuters, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun predicted seven million smartphones will be sold by the end of the year.  Read Original Content

According to IDC, Apple’s iPhone dropped to number six among smartphones in China during the third quarter of 2012, dropping from its number four place in the second quarter.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of December 9, 2012

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Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia are working with partners in India to utilize mobile phone technology to combat disease and malnutrition in remote areas of India, using mobile phones to provide information and counseling to rural families.  Read Original Content

Research from IDC shows the security appliance market in the Asia/Pacific region excluding Japan grew to $344.5 million in revenues in the second quarter of 2012, and customer revenue is predicted to reach $2.6 billion by 2016.  Read Original Content

China Unicom and China Merchants Bank have teamed up to offer mobile payments services using NFC technology.  Read Original Content

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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is developing a number of technology features for launch in 2013, including SmartSign technology to allow asset finance customers to execute loan documents electronically from anywhere in the world, and CommBiz Mobile, a real-time business banking app “dedicated to meeting the needs of medium to large enterprises”.  Read Original Content

The enterprise mobility market (excluding devices) in India is currently $244 million and predicted to grow to $964.4 million by 2015, with penetration of better devices and increased acceptance of the majority of mobile platforms key factors driving the growth.  Read Original Content

Singapore-based real estate agency ECG Property has reduced manpower requirements by 50 percent by improving the way it handles paperwork.  Agency executive Shawn Tan offers five tips to increase productivity, including giving employees mobile access to data and digitizing workflow.  Read Original Content

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of mobile phone users in China has reached 1.095 billion as of the end of October, with 109.2 million users added in the first 10 months of 2012.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

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According to a PWC report, spending on mobile advertising in New Zealand for the second quarter of 2012 was very low, only $930,000 compared to $30 million in Australia for the same period.  Read Original Content

With the adoption of rich media and smartphone penetration rates, “Super Wi-Fi” – TV white spaces - is likely to see the most success in Asia.  Read Original Content

A survey commissioned by the Mobile Marketing Association of Singapore found that 90 percent of Singapore residents own a smartphone, and 39 percent choose mobile devices over a PC or laptop.  Read Original Content

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A recent report from Google reveals India ranks second in the world in accessing private details of its citizens.  Read Original Content

YuDian from voice technology firm iFlyTek is being called the Chinese version of Siri, and is available to anyone with an Internet-enabled mobile phone in China.  Read Original Content

Australia’s SmartTrans has finalized contracts with China Mobile and UnionPay in the last year, and currently provides the mobile software and website for China's State Lotteries.  Read Original Content

Due to demand from domestic companies wanting to venture overseas and multi-national companies wishing to expand, Singapore’s SingTel is planning to expand its network infrastructure in India and China over the next 12 months.  Read Original Content

The Marina Mandarin Singapore hotel has introduced “OneGuest Mobile Solutions” for its food and beverage outlet, integrating order taking, customer service management and real-time updates.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 25, 2012

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According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 92 percent of South Australian children aged 5-14 access the Internet, up from 65 percent in 2006, and 31 percent now have mobile phones. Read Original Content

Japan Display Incorporated has unveiled three new prototype displays, combining mobile display technologies from Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi.  Read Original Content

China Unicom’s chairman states the iPhone 5 is currently being tested by authorities, and the company will begin selling the device once it has been approved.  Read Original Content

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Investors have indicated one of the biggest challenges in dealing with North Korea is the lack of cell phones. There are currently an estimated one million 3G cell phones in the country.  Read Original Content

India’s handygo Technologies has launched Gadget Guide, a mobile based service for Airtel mobile customers featuring gadget updates and reviews.   Read Original Content

China’s Singles Day Shopping Festival brought $800 million in eight hours to Chinese online store TMall.com.  Read Original Content

According to South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, Samsung has increased the price of its mobile processors for Apple’s iOS devices by 20 percent.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 18, 2012

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For Australians in rural and remote areas, the National Broadband Network will take the form of fixed wireless or satellite services with download speeds of 12MBs compared to the 100MBs other customers will receive.  Read Original Content

Tencent’s mobile messaging app WeChat is expanding beyond China’s borders,
growing rapidly in Southeast Asia and making headway in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.  Read Original Content

In a first for the country’s car rental industry, The Hertz Corporation has introduced a portable Wi-Fi service in Australia, with 3G units available for rent to enable customers to connect to the Internet from anywhere in Australia.  Read Original Content

According to a report from WPDang, Nokia, in partnership with China Mobile, and HTC, in partnership with China Mobile and China Unicom, plan to launch their Windows Phone 8 devices in December in China.  Read Original Content

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Alcatel-Lucent and Australian mobile operator Telstra are teaming up to provide race-goers at the week-long Melbourne Cup horse racing event in Melbourne fast mobile broadband coverage, enabling them to use their mobile devices to access the Internet, send videos and pictures, and access other data services.  Read Original Content

Indonesian mobile provider AXIS and Mandalay Digital Group have announced plans to launch Digital Turbine, a fully integrated user experience and multimedia management interface for Android devices, in early 2013.  Read Original Content

A New Zealand enterprise mobility study conducted by Forrester Consulting reveals 80 percent of organizations surveyed reported security continues to be of great concern when allowing employees to access business data via a smartphone or tablet in the workplace.  Read Original Content

According to a survey of young consumers in India conducted by Ericsson, 30 million of 69 million urban consumers aged 9-18 own mobile phones and 3 million use mobile broadband on their phones.  Read Original Content

Citing higher marketing costs and investments in new network technology, South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom reported a 54.2 percent drop in net profits for the third quarter of 2012.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

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The use of mobile phones in Bangladesh is rising rapidly, with 100 million users out of a population of 153 million, but only 25 percent of cell phone users have access to the Internet.  Read Original Content

China Mobile has announced it will introduce commercial NFC services in 12 Chinese provinces in February 2013 and plans to expand to fifty cities later in the year. The company expects to sell 10 million NFC phones in 2013.  Read Original Content

South Asia’s MoMagic Technologies and Symphony Mobiles of Bangladesh have formed a partnership, MoMagic Bangladesh, to target India’s growing value added services market.  Read Original Content

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Microsoft India recently hosted a special event in New Delhi to offer a preview of the upcoming Windows 8 phones, indicating the handsets on display, the Nokia Lumia 820 and 920, Samsung Ativ S and HTC’s WP8S and WP8X, should reach India’s retail market within the next few weeks.  Read Original Content

Luxury mobile phone maker Vertu has opened its first store in India in New Delhi and has plans to expand to other cities including Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.  Read Original Content

Bharti Airtel has opened a “network experience center” to monitor its services across India and South Asia from a single location.  Read Original Content

Australia’s Telstra has launched the Telstra 4G Tablet, designed to cater to “tech-minded Australian families”.  Read Original Content

According to IDC, smartphone adoption in New Zealand has risen dramatically, from 13 percent to 44 percent of the country’s households in one year.  The study found the most popular activities on smartphones were Internet banking and emailing.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

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Japan’s NTT Docomo has unveiled a real-time translator app for Android devices that will convert Japanese to English, Mandarin and Korean.  Translations to French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai will be added later in November.  Read Original Content

With an influx of new users due to low-priced handsets and low call rates, China Mobile has posted a 1.3 percent gain in third-quarter net profit.  Read Original Content

Due to the rapid commercialization of 4G cellular wireless standards and the increasing number of 3G network deployments, the wireless test equipment market in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand is predicted to grow at a rapid pace.  The market earned revenues of over $312.8 million in 2011 and is forecasted to reach $921.1 million in 2017.  Read Original Content

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Results of a Visa and research firm TNS survey of Web users in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and Vietnam revealed that 40 percent of those responding viewed product information on the Internet via smartphones and tablets during 2012.  Read Original Content

According to a new Strategy Analytics Mobile Workforce Strategies report, there are many more companies now in China, India and Brazil open to a mobile workforce, and trends indicate that more businesses are investing in mobile devices and solutions to enable productivity and efficiency of their workforce.  Read Original Content

Asia has seen a 192.5 percent increase in mobile Internet traffic since 2010, with China leading the way.  Read Original Content

Globe Telecom has partnered with China Mobile Hong Kong and will soon partner with Korea’s SK Telecom to provide LTE data roaming services.  Read Original Content

RIM executives have stated Indonesia will be one of the first markets to receive the latest BlackBerry 10 and a new version of BlackBerry Messenger. RIM has 56 percent of the smartphone market in Indonesia.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of October 28, 2012

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According to a recent study by Citrix, 91 percent of Hong Kong organizations will use BYOD initiatives and 76 percent of local businesses in Hong Kong either already provide mobile work styles to staff or plan to do so in the next 12 months.  Read Original Content

Citing a dim market outlook for devices using the Windows OS in the country, Samsung has decided not to introduce Ativ S smartphones using Microsoft’s Windows Mobile as its main operating platform in Korea.  Read Original Content

In a preliminary results announcement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Chinese mobile phone and telecoms equipment maker ZTE Corp stated it will report a loss of as much as 1.75 billion yuan ($279.2 million) in the first nine months of 2012.  Read Original Content

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Japan’s Softbank recently announced it will acquire a 70 percent stake in Sprint Nextel.  Read Original Content

Airtel and the Andhra Pradesh government in India have developed a service to enable customers to make payments for their electric bills through their mobile phones.  Read Original Content

Industry experts believe three big new technologies will add value to the existing mobile marketing solutions in India – location-based services, voice-based interactions and interactive applications.  Read Original Content

Company officials and market analysts forecast that Korean mobile carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus will see a sharp drop in earnings in the third quarter of this year because of rising market costs and increased expenditure to promote faster and more advanced network technology.  Read Original Content

ZTE has been awarded the contract for China Mobile’s TD-LTE rollout in five major Chinese cities.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia – Week of October 1, 2012

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According to research from Tata Consulting Services, companies in the Asia Pacific region will spend far more on responding to digital mobile consumers than companies in North America, spending on average $2.41 million per $1 billion revenue.  Read Original Content

LTE has surpassed WiMAX for mobile connectivity in Japan, South Korea and the U.S., according to ABI Research.  Read Original Content

Korea’s SK Telecom now has the third most LTE subscribers in the world, behind Verizon in the United States and Japan’s NTT Docomo. Read Original Content.

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Auckland Transport, Telecom New Zealand, and financial services group Westpac are preparing to begin their first NFC field trial, and have developed a virtual mobile wallet that can hold multiple cards including a credit card and transport card.  Read Original Content

Lenovo has set its sights on the smartphone and tablet markets and will start with China, the world’s largest PC and smartphone market.  Read Original Content

China’s Huawei will plan to develop its own mobile OS “if other companies won't let us use their system one day”.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of September 23, 2012

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As Microsoft accelerates its efforts to increase its presence in the market for mobile Internet devices, Korea is crucial as it is home to some of the company’s major business partners, including Samsung and LG.  Read Original Content

American non-profit mPowering is working with Indian charity Citta to bring mobile technology to a rural, poor region of India, providing smartphones loaded with culturally customized mobile apps and location analytics built around the concept of rewards and incentives to 56 families.  Read Original Content

According to the head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China will issue 4G licenses for LTE TDD networks in about a year, which speeds up the original timetable for deployment of the high-speed networks in the country.  Read Original Content

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Hong Kong mobile operator SmarTone has activated 4G LTE service and made Ericsson its sole end-to-end network supplier.  Read Original Content

Samsung has broken ground for a new memory manufacturing complex in China, which will produce NAND flash memory chips, a critical component powering IT and mobile applications for high-speed and large-density data storage.  Samsung expects the complex to be operational by 2014.  Read Original Content

China’s minister of industry and information technology stated that a comprehensive management system would be introduced in the country to include government management, industrial self-regulation and supervision by society over the Internet industry.  Read Original Content

Singapore's Workplace Safety and Health Institute has developed a new ergo@work mobile app to help to raise awareness on good ergonomics among office employees and help prevent work-related health issues due to poor postures.  Read Original Content

Singapore’s telecom firm SingTel is planning to launch money transfer services that can be handled directly from their customers' mobile phone by the end of 2012.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of September 16, 2012

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With QR codes, NFC and smartphone technology, mobile marketing in Korea is rising rapidly.  Read Original Content

In Australia 18 percent of IT leaders indicate a shortage of mobile technology skills when searching for employable talent and that shortage could worsen in the short term.  Read Original Content

Asia-focused hotel technology provider MVI and IBM have collaborated to launch a mobile device management solution for mobile smart devices to support interactive, live and on-demand video services in hotels, such as Hong Kong’s L’Hotel élan. Read Original Content

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According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report, widespread adoption of mobile technology in healthcare in China is now viewed as inevitable by 80 percent of doctors and healthcare payers, including government officials, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.  Read Original Content

With an increasing number of mobile Internet users in China, investment in the industry reached $378 million in the first six months of 2012, a year-on-year increase of 18 percent.  Read Original Content

Research firm Gartner has predicted the Asia Pacific region and Africa will comprise over 60 percent of global mobile payments volume by 2016.  According to SAP, mobile commerce in the Philippines is growing rapidly.  Read Original Content

Myriad Group is partnering with Facebook to provide social mobile messaging for mobile operators Celcom in Malaysia, Indosat in Indonesia and Mobily in Saudi Arabia.  Read Original Content

Mindspeed is teaming up with China Mobile Research Institute to accelerate the adoption and deployment of the small cell network in China.  “With more mobile subscribers in China than any other country in the world, the development of a small cell network is critical to meet the growing data and traffic demands on the network.”  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of September 9, 2012

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Despite a push for mobile business, China’s Baidu only has 35 percent of the mobile search volume.  The company is pushing for pre-installation of its search engine in mobile devices.  Read Original Content

According to a recent survey by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, over 50 percent of full-time employees prefer mobility and employing mobile technology into the workplace.  Read Original Content

Indian e-commerce site Freecharge.in offers a unique customer service plan in which customers can simply recharge their prepaid mobiles online and in return receive gift coupons of the same value.  Read Original Content

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Globe Telecom is reaching out to the micro, small and medium-sized businesses in The Philippines, which comprise 99.6 percent of all Philippine enterprises, by offering its mobile marketing tool TxtConnect.  Read Original Content

Korea’s Samsung is wasting no time after its legal loss to Apple, already implementing plans to change its products and develop new mobile technologies.  Read Original Content

South Korean operator LG U+ and LG-Ericsson have partnered to offer subscribers in South Korea access to voice over LTE (VoLTE) services.  Read Original Content

The Android OS leads Apple’s iOS in mobile usage in the Asia Pacific region, with the biggest leads coming from New Zealand with 47 percent Android vs. 16 percent iOS; and Malaysia with 41 percent Android vs. 6 percent iOS.  Read Original Content

Google’s AdMob unit has more than 10,000 registered developers in China and its servers now get 7.9 billion requests a month to show ads to mobile-app users in the country.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

China Mobile International has opened a global network center in Hong Kong to house its global network operations center, Internet and cloud data centers.  Read Original Content

Sony Mobile has announced it will cut 1000 jobs and move its mobile business unit from Sweden to Japan.  Read Original Content

South Korea’s Samsung is jumping into the enterprise mobility ring by customizing security offerings to alleviate concerns over the “influx of consumer-grade devices entering the workplace and vulnerabilities on the Android platform”.  Read Original Content


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Wireless operators Sing-Tel and M1 of Singapore have launched NFC mobile wallet solutions.  Read Original Content

FedEx is expanding its mobile services in the Asia Pacific region with the addition of the FedEx Mobile App for iPad and Android users in the region.  Read Original Content

Bottomline Technologies and the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. have partnered to create ANZ Transactive – Mobile, a corporate mobile cash management solution.  Read Original Content

With 55 million Internet users in Indonesia, the e-commerce industry is growing substantially.  According to Frost & Sullivan, the total transaction value of e-commerce in Indonesia in 2011 was estimated at $1 billion.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of August 26, 2012

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China Mobile saw a drop in net income from 34.42 billion yuan in the second quarter of 2011 to 34.40 yuan in the second quarter of 2012.  Read Original Content

RFID technology is enabling officials in Shanghai, China, to protect passengers and taxi drivers and to hopefully slow or stop counterfeit taxis in the city.  Read Original content

Research in Motion has released an enterprise mobility solution, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, in Malaysia to “help enterprises meet the rising adoption of personal mobile devices for work use”.  Read Original Content

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Thailand may finally hold its 3G auction in October of 2012, making it one of the last countries in the Asia Pacific region to do so.  Read Original Content
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The government of Sri Lanka announced the launch of a cloud facility to “drive innovation and better services for the people”.  Read Original Content

The Indian state of Maharashtra will soon be utilizing RFID technology at border crossings so that trucks, trailers and tankers can avoid long lines for clearance at check-points and also to halt corruption by regional transport officials.  Read Original Content

During the company’s global restructuring, Hewlett-Packard will not reduce its workforce in India, according to CEO Meg Whitman.  Because all business units are in India as well as research and development, the workforce in India will stay largely intact and may increase over time.  Read Original Content

With the recent launch of NFC technology for mobile commerce in Singapore, consumers are concerned with possible security issues with the technology.  Read Original Content and Read More Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of August 19, 2012

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GPS provider MapmyIndia has launched CarPad 5, a combination GPS navigator, smartphone and 3G tablet that runs on the Android OS.  Read Original Content

According to a survey from research firm Analysys International, tablet sales in China have increased 63 percent in the past year.  Chinese consumers purchased 2.34 million tablets during the second quarter of 2012, with iPads comprising 72.6 percent of the sales.  Read Original Content

India’s Tyroo Direct has launched new product offerings for mobile performance to enable advertisers to scale their digital marketing campaigns by being visible on all screen types - web, tablets and mobile.  Read Original Content

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To meet the demand for high bandwidth mobile broadband access, Huawei will work with China Mobile to deploy WLAN mobile backhaul networks in 17 cities in the Shandong province.  Read Original Content

A new study from Adobe reveals consumers in the Asia Pacific region primarily use mobile search due to time spent away from home and not having access to a desktop PC.  Read Original Content

RFID technology is being utilized in India to provide the public with schedule-related information and to ensure buses operated through the Vytilla Mobility Hub stay on schedule.  Read Original Content

A new mobile marketplace in Singapore and a winner at Startup Weekend Singapore 2012, Carousell, has gone live and the app is available exclusively in Singapore.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of August 12, 2012

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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According to a research study from Frost & Sullivan, the RFID technology market in the Asia Pacific region is the fastest growing in the world, with the Americas accounting for the majority of RFID revenues.  Read Original Content

The market potential for m-commerce in India is strong and growing, with 757 million unique connections and growing at 8 to 9 million each month.  Read Original Content

Singapore’s infrastructure for mobile payments using NFC technology will be rolled out through NFC-enabled mobile phones in the next several weeks with three types of payment modes.  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.

Search firm Baidu of China is focusing on growth in the mobile and e-commerce areas.  The company’s online advertising customer base reached 350,000 by the end of the second quarter of 2012, up 9.7 percent from the first quarter.  Read Original Content

Forrester Research predicts the number of tablets used for office work in the Asia Pacific region will reach 19 million by the end of 2012, growing to more than 83 million by 2016.  Read Original Content

China’s business-to-business e-commerce transactions generated $466.7 billion in the first half of 2012, with the number of companies using business-to-business platforms exceeding 16.5 million.  Read Original Content

According to the Internet & Mobile Association of India, India has the third largest number of Internet users, following China and the United States.  The country has an online population of 150 million, with 63 million using social media such as Facebook and Twitter.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of August 5, 2012

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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The Western Australia Police are utilizing a mobile communications service, which allows officers to access information in real-time while supporting field operations.  Mobile communications enable over 26,000 inquiries to be recorded each day with over 360 devices.  Read Original Content

India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies has developed the NASSCOM Enterprise Mobility initiative to create awareness and understanding of emerging technologies, facilitate knowledge sharing, create a community of technocrats and highlight local products.  Read Original Content

Touted as Asia’s Leading Mobile Event, Enterprise Mobility World Asia 2013 will be held April 24-25, 2013 in Singapore.  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.

Name-dialing mobile technology service CallMyName is expanding into countries in the Asia Pacific region.  Read Original Content

Indonesia has launched the Ina-GeoPortal interactive map, part of the country’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure.  The Ina-GeoPortal will provide government agencies and the general public real time access to spatial information on areas that are prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.  Read Original Content

Mobile online shop creator zubibu is expanding into global markets by adding support for 25 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of July 29, 2012

Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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Gartner forecasts an incredible rise in the number of global mobile payments users, with a predicted increase from 141.1 million in 2011 to 349.4 million by 2015.  The Asia Pacific region is predicted to remain the largest segment, with growth from 69.1 million in 2011 to 127.8 million in 2015.  Read Original Content

Arbitron Mobile Oy and iResearch Consulting have formed a partnership to jointly operate a syndicated, mobile media research service in China, the world's largest smartphone market.  Read Original Content

LetMobile has announced the opening of a new office in Sydney Australia, which will serve Australia, New Zealand and the growing Asian market.  LetMobile provides secure corporate collaboration solutions for mobile devices.  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.

Singapore’s Chan Brothers Travel has selected Amadeus Mobile Traveller to provide an integrated mobile application supporting pre-trip, in-trip and post-trip travel needs.  Read Original Content

HTC’s Ray Yam claims China could become the driving force in mobile innovation with all the elements in place to “ensure that the country will serve as a hotbed of future innovation for the global mobile industry”.  Read Original Content

According to the Internet and Mobile Association of India, the total mobile commerce market in India is Rs 400 crore and is predicted to reach Rs 2,000 crore by 2015. There are currently between 8 to 10 million mobile banking customers in the country, with that number expected to rise between 40 to 60 million in the next four to five years.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of July 22, 2012

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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According to Frost & Sullivan, M2M services will see future growth in India’s enterprise mobility landscape, with a predicted compound annual growth rate of 41 percent by 2017.  Mobile e-mail currently dominates the enterprise mobility landscape, and is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 15 percent by 2017.  Read Original Content

M2M communications provider Telit Wireless Solutions has chosen Rabyte Electronics as a new distribution partner in India, focusing on development of the M2M market at the grass root level in India.  Read Original Content

India’s Profit by Outsourcing has announced the addition of mobile application development services across various platforms including Android, JAVA ME, Symbian, Windows and Apple’s iPhone.  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.

MediaCorp, a leading media company in Singapore, has formed a partnership with mobile marketing and advertising solutions provider Sofialys to provide mobile advertising solutions.  Read Original Content

Japan’s largest mobile phone company DoCoMo is considering overseas acquisitions.  DoCoMo’s CEO, Kaoru Kato, states that revenue outside Japan may grow to as much as $2.5 billion in the year ending March 2016.  Read Original Content

Telecommunications companies across the Asia Pacific region may see a drop in profit margins, in part due to rising cost pressures including handset subsidies, price undercutting, and capital expenditure from new spectrum rollouts. Read Original Content

Rakuten Global launched the Kobo Touch e-reader tablet in Japan this month. The tablet retails for $100.  Read Original Content