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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 17, 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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About 700 of the 800 SAP customers in the Philippines are small to medium enterprises, and SAP is planning to introduce products and solutions for this market segment. Read Original Content

In a decision that reflects the increasingly important role mobile operators play in the prepaid market in India, Prepaid International Forum India has extended its membership admission policy to include mobile operators. Read Original Content

The transaction volume of mobile e-commerce in China in 2011 increased 609 percent over the previous year, and the mobile ecommerce market in China is expected to reach RMB 25.15 billion Yuan in 2012, with a mobile e-commerce user population of 146 million people. Read Original Content

Bharti Airtel and Opera Software have finalized an agreement to allow Bharti subscribers to access a customized version of Opera’s software on their mobile devices. Read Original Content

The Asia Pacific region, North America and Europe are the largest markets for enterprise mobility solutions, according to an infographic from (x)cube LABS. Read Original Content

eBay India has announced the availability of a free interactive app, the eBay iPad App for India, allowing users to shop and log into their eBay India accounts. Read Original Content

Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi is hoping to give Apple a run for its money with the goal of shipping more than 100 million smartphones annually for one model by 2016.
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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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
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According to Gartner, the two biggest regions for mobile payments are Asia Pacific and Africa. Gartner predicts they will account for 60 percent of mobile payments in 2016, with Asia Pacific in the lead. Read Original Content

The Mobile Asia Expo will be held June 20 to 22, 2012, in Shanghai. The Expo is being organized by the GSMA and the Shanghai International Technology Exchange Center. Read Original Content

Payments processing technology firm i2c, Inc. and Shanghai-based prepaid service provider KargoCard have formed a partnership to deliver prepaid and mobile payment solutions to merchants in China. 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.

American Apparel has launched its first mobile e-commerce store in Japan, stating that Japan is the most important region to focus on mobile marketing. Read Original Content

The Internet and Mobile Association of India reports that India’s online travel market has doubled over the last 12 months, with online rail tickets jumping from 2.2 million to 5.6 million, and online air tickets increasing from 1 million to 1.9 million. Read Original Content

Mobile payments have been mainstream in Asia for almost ten years, with Japan in the lead with 47 million Japanese citizens adopting tap-and-go phones. Read Original Content

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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
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The Chinese government has officially announced the country now has over one billion mobile phone users. According to the CTIA Wireless Association, the U.S. trails by far with 330 million mobile phone users. Read Original Content

Estimates by eMarketer forecast online ad spending in China will reach $7.36 billion in 2012, and by 2016 will more than double to $16.48 billion. Read Original Content

The online ad market in China reached $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a year-over-year jump of 56 percent, according to the Beijing Review. 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.

The results of the TCS GenY survey of 12,300 high school students in India reveal that 79 percent of respondents own mobile phones, and more than 40 percent use mobile phones to access the Internet. Read Original Content

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure in India, a program under which 10 technology startups leveraging cloud technology for verticals like e-commerce, mobile, media, social applications, gaming, education and healthcare, enterprise and telecom, will be selected for a four-month incubation program. Read Original Content

Reports from Marbridge Consulting indicate Microsoft may be set to expand its MSN business in China, pushing into e-commerce and increasing integration with Windows phone. Read Original Content

Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten is leading a $100 million investment in image-based social network Pinterest. With 25 percent of all Rakuten sales in Japan on a mobile device, the company would like to see more development in mobile commerce. 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 www.antennasoftware.com

According to Microsoft’s Greater China COO, the Windows Phone has edged out the iPhone claiming seven percent of the Chinese market. Read Original Content

With the condition that Android for mobile devices remains free for at least five years, Chinese authorities have approved Google’s plan to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Read Original Content and Read More Original Content

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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
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Citing a commitment to the Asia Pacific region as an important market for cellular communications, Celcite Management Solutions has opened a new office in Singapore. Read Original Content

The results of a survey by Frost & Sullivan reveal that 25 percent of Australian businesses rate mobility to be either their top priority or a very important priority in 2012. Read Original Content

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase Inc. has been working with The Philippines’ Globe Telecom to run live commercial voice traffic across multiple Asian operators, allowing Globe Telecom to exchange international calls directly with other mobile operators rather than routing calls through traditional wholesale voice carriers. Read Original Content

Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal has launched a mobile app for Android devices, reaching out to the millions of Android users in India. Read Original Content

To increase the options for mobile banking in India, banks have begun offering mobile services through a new method, USSD, which works on a menu-based banking model on mobile devices allowing users to perform services by recalling the menu and simply dialing a number. Read Original Content

The number of citizens in Taiwan accessing the Internet via mobile devices is currently more than 4.9 million, according to the Institute for Information Industry in Taipei. Read Original Content

Subscriptions for 3G last year grew 172 percent in China and a staggering 1,050 percent in India. It is predicted that China will have 230-250 million 3G subscribers by the end of 2012. Read Original Content

Ericsson has signed a framework agreement with China Mobile and a letter of intent with China Unicom for equipment and services. Read Original Content

Some of the key trends contributing to the rise in enterprise mobility in India are:
Predicted accelerated growth in mobility among larger enterprises; increased start-up activity in mobility; and concerns on security and integration. Read Original Content

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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
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Google continues to work closely with Chinese authorities in seeking approval of the acquisition of Motorola Mobility. It is expected the acquisition will be completed by mid 2012. Read Original Content

Walmart Labs, part of the social and mobile commerce arm of Walmart, Walmart Global e-Commerce, is opening a new facility and hiring an additional 100 workers in Bangalore, India. Read Original Content

ABI Research predicts that mobile capital expenditure in the Asia Pacific region will reach $53.3 billion by the end of 2012. Read Original Content

The percentage of mobile-only Internet users in China is estimated to be 30 percent. In India, the percentage is predicted to exceed 50 percent by 2015. Read Original Content

According to a recent survey by InMobi, 27 percent of online users in Thailand access the Internet via mobile devices, spending an average of 6.6 hours per day online. Read Original Content

Of the smartphones sold in India in 2011, Nokia took the lead at 46 percent, with Android devices coming close at 30 percent. Read Original Content

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The GSMA has predicted that China will become the largest mobile broadband market in the world by 2016, with 639 million mobile broadband connections. India is predicted to come in second with 367 million, followed by the United States with 337 million. Read Original Content

The mobile commerce market in India is just emerging, but m-payment and m-banking segments have shown significant growth over the last few years. Research and Markets has added a new report to their offering – "Mobile Commerce Market in India 2012". Read Original Content

ABI Research predicts mobile Internet will account for 44 percent of Hong Kong’s and 40 percent of Japan’s mobile revenues in 2012. China is growing, with a predicted 25 percent of 2012’s mobile revenue coming from mobile Internet, up from 23 percent in 2011. In India, mobile Internet will represent 19 percent of the 2012 service revenue. Read Original Content and Read More Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Profit by Outsourcing, a web development company in India, has launched Mobile Application Development Services. The goals of the new services are to enable enterprise mobility for its customers and their end users in the service areas of client professional services and customer support. Read Original Content

Taiwanese firm AppWorks Ventures and 24 app design teams held a press conference last week to present apps designed to make life for mobile device users more convenient. Read Original Content

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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
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DeNA, a mobile platform operator in Japan, has signed agreements with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom to use their official app stores to offer mobile games. The agreements give DeNA access to almost 3 billion subscribers of the three carriers. Read Original Content

Tokyo-based DeNA has partnered with the Walt Disney Company to develop mobile social games. “Disney Party” was launched on March 28, 2012 for the Mobage network in Japan. “Disney Fantasy Quest” will follow in April, with a third game available this summer. Future plans are to release the games worldwide. Read Original Content

With low mobile Internet startup costs and 356 million mobile Internet users at the end of 2011, investors are urged to look into China’s mobile Internet industry. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Accumulate and Potevio have partnered to develop mobile financial and mobile authentication services for the Chinese market. Projects include an NFC solution, mobile payments, and secure utility bills payments. Read Original Content

China has introduced a new $100 smartphone with the Shuidi handset, developed by Chongqing Guohong Technology Development. Read Original Content

Asian travel service provider Abacus International has launched its first customized mobile point-of-sale app for travel agencies. The app development was a collaboration between Abacus, Kuoni India, and Excellent Management Limited. Read Original Content

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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Cognizant is enhancing operations in the Asia Pacific region and has opened a new development center in Singapore. Read Original Content

PayPal is hoping to move into China and has applied to Chinese authorities for a domestic payment license. If the license is approved, PayPal may also expand its PayPal Here mobile card payments service into China. Read Original Content

Demand for the Internet in China is high, with 505 million Internet users at the end of November 2011 and 58 percent of those users access the internet via cell phone. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

The chairman of China Mobile, Wang Jianzhou, has resigned and reports indicate former vice minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua is replacing him. Read Original Content

Consulting firm Netscribes (India) Pvt. Ltd. has released a new report, Enterprise Mobility Market in India 2011. Read Original Content

According to a new report by Research and Markets, the unified communications market in India is being boosted by the ongoing proliferation of high speed Internet services such as 3G and broadband. Further, the demand to incorporate mobility amongst corporations is also raising the demand for UC based technology so as to facilitate seamless flow of information and data. Read Original Content

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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Augmented Reality for smartphones tiptoes into India. It is estimated to have 5 percent of the “traditional media marketplace” in India. One question is whether it’s just a novelty or a wave of the future? Read Original Content

Philippine telecommunications provider Globe Telecom has partnered with Flash Networks to introduce Harmony Monetization solutions. Read Original Content

GraphicMail and SME Guru of Singapore have joined together to offer email and mobile marketing services in Southeast Asia. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Mobile technology has played a large part in travel industry growth in Asia, providing a way for consumers, vendors and employees to connect. Read Original Content

A study from On Device Research reveals that 38 percent of China’s Internet users in 2011 were mobile-only users. In rural areas, the number of mobile-only Internet users is up to 45 percent, with 29 percent in urban areas. Read Original Content

Consulting firm IDC, tracking China’s growth, predicts that the country will become one of the top five countries for smartphone numbers, along with India and Brazil. Apple’s iPhone sales in China during the last quarter were described as “staggering”, and IDC predicts it will narrowly top sales in the U.S. by the end of 2012. Read Original Content
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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.

Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

A recent global IT survey by the Ponemon Institute and Websense revealed that 61 percent of Australian IT professionals felt the use of mobile devices in the workplace is an important part of achieving business objectives. Read Original Content

BlackBerry leads as the most popular enterprise platform in India, according to a recent survey of CIOs. Sixty-one percent of those responding preferred the BlackBerry as an enterprise mobility solution, with Android far behind with 18 percent. Read Original Content

CTI Group and Australia’s KNet Technology have announced a partnership and a move into the Asia Pacific region. Read Original Content

A study from research firm TechNavio shows that mobile may be the solution for voice over Internet protocol technology for businesses in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The research predicts that the market will reach $5.3 billion in two years. Read Original Content

TriQuint Semiconductor has opened a headquarters facility in Singapore. "With Asia's appetite for new technologies, particularly in mobile devices, and government support of the latest communications infrastructure, we believe Asia will continue to offer great opportunities for business growth.” Read Original Content

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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Samsung’s market share in the Chinese market is three times larger than Apple’s and still growing, Bloomberg reported. Read Original Content

By 2016, iGR expects approximately 96 percent of U.S. handset sales to be comprised entirely of smartphone sales. Read Original Content

4G handsets grabbed 35 percent of the smartphone market in the fourth quarter, up from just 6 percent a year earlier, NPD said. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Beginning March 1, Facebook began allowing brands that people “like” to send messages and ads to those users’ mobile news feeds. Facebook could generate more than $1.2 billion from mobile ads in the program’s first year, estimates Mobile Squared. Read Original Content

By 2016, at least 50 percent of enterprise email users will rely primarily on a browser, tablet or mobile client instead of a desktop client, according to Gartner. Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of February 26, 2011

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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M2M industry executive Derick Tsang will bring his knowledge of M2M and telecommunications to the Asia Pacific region for Telit Wireless Solutions. The company has created a new “president of the Asia Pacific region” position for Tsang, and he will be responsible for South Korea, China, India, Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Australia. He will also establish Telit sales outreach in Japan. Read Original Content

Chinese search engine provider Baidu will take advantage of the booming mobile and smartphone market in China and focus on mobile in 2012. In Q4 2011 China became the largest mobile market in the world. Read Original Content

Apple sales of the iPhone in China are soaring, as are sales of Mac computers. In 2011, $13 billion in sales for Apple were in China, and sales of Macs increased 100 percent. Apple is adding support for a number of services in its pursuit of the Chinese market, including search engine provider Baidu and sharing services. Read Original Content

Hong Kong now hosts Asia’s first social media research center with the launch of the new Social Media Laboratory with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Professor Tony F. Chan states “With this laboratory, our faculty and researchers are taking an active part in nurturing research and development talents in the blooming new arena of social media, and building Hong Kong as a leading hub of creative media and IT technologies in the region.” Read Original Content

The iPad trademark battle rages on, and tops the tech news in China this week. Also, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has announced plans to regulate Internet television, including mobile video services, in the country. Check out China’s five top tech news stories. Read Original Content

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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English Premier League football club Manchester City is launching a website in Japan. The club’s website will be developed for Japan’s i-mode mobile web. Visitors to the website will be able to access the football club’s news, data, and merchandise in Japanese. Read Original Content

With the mobile apps industry providing nearly 500,000 jobs in the U.S., a new apps store is coming to the Philippines. The new store, MyAppsMall, is the product of a partnership between Philippines telecomm provider Globe and Sing-Tel in Singapore. The app store will be free of charge, and providers hope to encourage local developers to create and distribute their apps through the platform. Read Original Content

China Unicom Beijing and China Telecom will be working with Waterloo firm ClevrU Corp. to provide mobile online teaching programs for up to 250 million people. The learning platform is designed to reach students via smartphones and tablets. Read Original Content

Online retailer Flipkart, currently with five offices in India, has announced plans to acquire another Indian online retailer, Letsbuy.com. Flipkart, launched in 2007, has over 2 million registered users. Read Original Content

Announcing plans to double the number of cities in India selling its smartphones, BlackBerry provider RIM is taking advantage of the significant growth potential. Smartphone shipments to India set a record high in 2011, with over 15 million sold in the month of November. Read Original Content

With the e-commerce market in India predicted to grow 47 percent this year, Amazon has launched a new online shopping service, junglee.com. The new service taps into the large e-commerce potential in India, which currently has only 52 million active Internet users, with only 40 percent of those users shopping online. Read Original Content

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.

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

India tops the charts for mobile advertising, according to Buzz City’s latest quarterly report, serving over 32 billion ads in 2011. Mobile ads have grown 139 percent, with more than 126 billion ads served in 2011, compared with 52 billion in 2010. Read Original Content

Juniper Research predicts that the number of mobile banking users will reach 530 million by 2013, with the developed markets of North America, Western Europe and the Far East & China having the highest penetration of users in 2016. Read Original Content

Mobile connections in China are approaching 1 billion, with 973.7 million connections at the end of 2011, with 3G accounting for 80 percent of the new connections. “Last year Apple said that China was its second most important market after the US, accounting for 16 percent of its total revenue in fourth quarter 2011.” Read Original Content

The enterprise mobility landscape is growing in India, states Sunil Gupta of Symphony Services in an interview with CIOL. “We are expecting that in 2012-13, 15-20 percent of our revenues will be coming from enterprise mobility alone.” Read Original Content

India is the second largest and one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. “It is time for SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises) in India, to consider M-commerce options. M-commerce in India is in its initial stage, but it is showing signs of a healthy rate of growth.” Worldwide, of the 4 billion cell phones, 1.08 billion are smart phones and over 50 percent of local searches are now done on mobile devices. Read Original Content

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