Mobility News Weekly – Week of February 13, 2012

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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Global mobile data traffic will increase 18 times between 2011 and 2016, to 10.8 exabytes--a billion gigabytes--per month, according to the latest report from Cisco's Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.  Read Original Content

Global smartphone shipments grew sharply last year (61.3 percent) as mobile handsets increased in capability and were made available at lower prices, according to International Data Corp.'s latest report. Read Original Content

U.S. and European regulatory agencies have approved Google‘s acquisition of Motorola.  Specifically, Google is acquiring the smartphone and set top box assets and, the vital intellectual property Google needs to protect its Android smartphone licensees.  Read Original Content

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According to Gartners's Q4 report, Apple finished 2011 as the world's top smartphone vendor by market share (19 percent), thanks to a Q4 that saw the company grab 23.8 percent of the market.  Read Original Content

More than two thirds of India SMBs (companies having greater than 1000 employees) own at least one smart phone or tablet, and almost half plan to purchase more devices in the next year.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of February 13, 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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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