Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of May 20, 2012

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Shares in Sony Corp slumped more than 7 percent to near 32-year lows, as investors doubted the Japanese consumer electronics giant has a strategy to compete in the smartphone market against Apple and Samsung Electronics.  Read Original Content

Forty percent or 838.7 million employees in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, will be mobile workers by 2015, according to a report by the International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content

Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine, will launch a cheap smartphone with Foxconn Technology Group, Sichuan Changhong Electric Co and China Unicom, marking the company's entrance into the mass smartphone market.  Read Original Content

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Chinese browser maker UC plans to take advantage of the growing mobile web market in India, investing $5 million to develop its presence there, with the goal of increasing its user base in India to 100 million by 2015.  Read Original Content

Apple’s iPhone was the most purchased smartphone in Japan in 2011, with sales of 7.26 million or 17 percent of the overall mobile phone sales in the country.  Read Original Content

Taiwan’s MediaTek has formed a partnership with mobile gaming firm Gameloft to develop games that will run on MediaTek’s mobile phone platforms.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of March 25, 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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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

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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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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of March 11, 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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G-Xchange Inc., the mobile arm of Philippine company Globe Telecom, is partnering with American Express to develop an online payment solution for Globe GCASH customers. Read Original Content

Seventy-two percent of mobile Internet users in India use their mobile device as the primary means to access the web.  These users spend 33 percent of their media time on mobile devices, more than the time spent watching television. Read Original Content

China’s online payment platform Alipay has reached 30 million downloads of its mobile apps.  Downloads on Android devices are highest, with 53 percent, followed by iOS with 27 percent. Read Original Content and More Original Content

Cloud computing provider Joyent will expand its services to Asia in the second quarter of 2012.  The expansion will begin with Tokyo and Singapore. Read Original Content

Mobility services play a crucial role in India’s IT industry.  “Mobile phones are becoming smarter and there might come a day when mobility services will replace desktops.” 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