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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of February 3, 2013

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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The Korea Communications Commission is considering imposing additional penalties on local telecoms for continuing to offer high handset subsidies despite previous warnings.  Read Original Content

SAP consulting house Rolling Arrays and infrastructure provider Savvis have formed a partnership to provide businesses in Singapore a faster way to deploy mobile SAP solutions.  Read Original Content

iSTART Philippines is an initiative from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore to help Singapore-based start-ups enter the Philippines market.  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.

Industry analysts believe government spending and IT companies adopting technology such as cloud computing, big data and analytics will help drive India’s IT industry growth to 10 to 12 percent in 2013.  Read Original Content

As the second half of 2012 saw a year over year increase of 136 percent in smartphone shopping, mobile commerce is enabling Australian online retailers to more effectively offer their products online to a growing Chinese smartphone population.  Read Original Content
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has suggested electronic companies in the manufacturing industry move into IT services and integrate hardware, software, and IT services, to introduce new products.  The government has set a target of having five to eight electronics companies with sales of at least $15.9 billion by 2015.  Read Original Content

VP of Ciena’s Asia Pacific division Anthony McLachlan offers what the firm believes will be the top tech trends to watch for the Australian and New Zealand markets in 2013.  Read Original Content

According to Good Technology’s State of BYOD Report, 76 percent of enterprises now support BYOD.   The company’s APAC vice president Jim Watson states most of the firm’s clients in Australia buy into the BYOD concept.  Read Original Content

The W3C has announced China’s Beihang University will join MIT, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and Japan's Keio University as the organization's four official host centers, with hopes to increase opportunities for collaboration with local developers, Internet companies, and research institutes to shape the Web's future.  Read Original Content

Japan’s NTT Docomo has made an offer to acquire e-commerce site MagaSeek.  Read Original Content

China Mobile has announced its 2013 TD-LTE terminal development strategy and may obtain the first 4G license from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology sooner than expected.  Read Original Content

MapmyIndia has launched a GIS and GPS enterprise solutions division, Mappls, to address challenges faced by Indian government agencies and private enterprises.  Read Original Content

In an effort to ensure Internet information security and protect the rights of citizens, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a non-binding guideline effective February 1 stating sensitive personal data collection and processing in China should only be conducted with individuals' prior permission.  Read Original Content

Malaysian startup Piktochart has launched an upgrade to its infographic builder with more useful features.  Read Original Content

Google Maps has released a map of North Korea providing detailed information about North Korean roads and landmarks and even includes the capitol’s street names. The new map was developed with the help of “a community of citizen cartographers”.  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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