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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week March 10, 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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According to Millennial Media’s Mobile Mix Report for 2012, Apple’s iPhone was the top mobile phone on its platform in Singapore, and Samsung was the top device manufacturer in the country.  Read Original Content

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific has teamed up with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to help public sector organizations in the Asia Pacific region leverage geospatial information, GIS and satellite derived imagery in disaster risk reduction, preparedness and emergency response.  Read Original Content

China Mobile, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and Korea’s KT have agreed on “international roaming” requirements for NFC services, enabling travelers to use their phones for travel and payments.  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.

AirWatch has formed a partnership with SingTel to provide enterprise mobile management services to businesses in the Asia Pacific region.  Read Original Content

China Mobile has announced four smartphones developed to run on the 4G LTE TDD network expected to launch at the end of the year.  Read Original Content
Cloud-based compliance and information security solution provider Trustwave has opened a new Security Operations Center in the Philippines.  Read Original Content

The Asia-Pacific Mobile Subscriber report from ABI Research reveals LTE subscriptions in the Asia Pacific region have increased by 60.92 percent and reached 34.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2012.  Read Original Content

According to Statistics Korea, South Korea’s e-commerce sales in 2012 reached an all-time high of $1.05 trillion, a 14.5 percent increase from $920 billion in 2011.  Read Original Content

Representatives from Tech in Asia, Ideosource and Veritrans Indonesia recently met to discuss Indonesia’s tech trends in 2013.  A video of the meeting is available in this article featured in Tech in Asia.  Read Original Content

According to the new VMware consumer survey, 85 percent of Malaysians bring their own devices to work.  Of the Malaysian employees given their choice of technology at work, 76 percent indicated they are quicker to respond to change, 75 percent are more productive even when outside of the office.  Read Original Content

A new white paper from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology indicates China’s mobile operating system research and development is too dependent on the Android OS and China has the ability to create its own mobile operating system.  Read Original Content

M-commerce firm Mobill has opened a new development center in India and partnered with security solutions provider Sterna Security to offer mobile payment solutions in the country.  Read Original Content

A recent Web threat report from Websense revealed the top two “victim” countries in the Asia Pacific region as China and India.  Worldwide, China ranked sixth, India seventh, and Taiwan tenth.  Read Original Content

Japan's Softbank plans to launch a new GPS tracking service.  The service will feature small GPS trackers that can be placed in a pocket or attached to valuable items and will run on Softbank’s 3G mobile network.  Read Original Content

China Mobile claims it has 50 million users of its Internet of Things system using RFID, barcodes and other methods to identify objects and link them to the Internet.  Read Original Content

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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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