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 the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 92 percent of South Australian children aged 5-14 access the Internet, up from 65 percent in 2006, and 31 percent now have mobile phones. Read Original Content

Japan Display Incorporated has unveiled three new prototype displays, combining mobile display technologies from Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi.  Read Original Content

China Unicom’s chairman states the iPhone 5 is currently being tested by authorities, and the company will begin selling the device once it has been approved.  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.

Investors have indicated one of the biggest challenges in dealing with North Korea is the lack of cell phones. There are currently an estimated one million 3G cell phones in the country.  Read Original Content

India’s handygo Technologies has launched Gadget Guide, a mobile based service for Airtel mobile customers featuring gadget updates and reviews.   Read Original Content


China’s Singles Day Shopping Festival brought $800 million in eight hours to Chinese online store TMall.com.  Read Original Content

According to South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, Samsung has increased the price of its mobile processors for Apple’s iOS devices by 20 percent.  Read Original Content

India has launched the Aakash 2 tablet computer, available to students at the subsidized price of $20 and with a commercial sales price without subsidies of $64.  Read Original Content

Capitalizing on low mobile broadband penetration rates and increasing demand for smartphones, China’s Huawei Technologies predicts revenue in southern and eastern Africa will climb as much as 30 percent in the next three years.  Read Original Content

The new Ma! Iwaidja free smartphone app was developed to help prevent the extinction of the Iwaidja language, one of Australia’s 100 endangered indigenous languages.  Read Original Content

Sabre Pacific has launched the Abacus Mobile tool in Australia to provide travel agents access to its system at all hours. Read Original Content

Mobile Internet services firm NQ Mobile has announced it will acquire mobile online activities provider Beijing Feiliu Jiutian Technology.  Read Original Content

It is rumored Microsoft plans to launch its own Windows Phone smartphone in China, but competition will be tough, as Canalys predicts that by 2015 close to half of Chinese smartphones will be priced under $200.  Read Original Content

According to a report released by the Australian Centre for Retail Studies, the use of mobile devices to purchase retail goods has grown to an expected $5.6 billion in 2012, a dramatic rise from $155 million in 2010.  Read Original Content

South Korea’s Samsung is developing flexible plastic displays for mobile devices.  The displays will make mobile devices unbreakable, bendable and lighter and are planned for launch in the first half of 2013.  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.

Syniverse has announced the opening of a development center in Nanjing, China, designed to “drive the development of next-generation mobile solutions in this fast-growing market”.  Read Original Content

Globe Telecom has partnered with American Express to launch a virtual Amex card in the Philippines.  Read Original Content

The Australian government has announced enhancements to the Emergency Alert system, enabling emergency services to send location-based text messages to mobile phones when emergencies strike.  Read Original Content

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