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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of December 23, 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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Chinese telecom vendor ZTE Corporation has announced it will invest an additional $30 million in the United States to enhance its presence there.  Read Original Content

The predicted growth of mobile marketing in South East Asia in 2013 has driven digital advertizing provider Exponential Interactive to introduce its mobile marketing division Appsnack in the region. Read Original Content

LiveOps, Inc. has opened a new data center in Singapore to better serve its customers and partners, providing local access to its cloud voice and data network.  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.

The question “Are Singapore businesses utilizing and benefitting from big data technology?” was debated during a recent panel discussion.  A video of the discussion is available from ZDNet.  Read Original Content

This article featured in Advanced Technology & Design Korea provides a glimpse into new mobile devices Korean companies will release in 2013, including improved smartphones from LG and Samsung.  Read Original Content
Singapore-based Flextronics has announced an agreement with Motorola Mobility to acquire and oversee the manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China.  Read Original Content

Mobile commerce has dropped off sharply in India; 193 new technology start-ups specializing in mobile commerce were launched in the country before October of this year, and 87 of the firms no longer exist.  Read Original Content

VeriFone Systems, Inc. has formed an alliance with China Mobile and the Bank of China to deploy VeriFone’s managed services solutions for NFC payment and mobile marketing in Shen Yang, China.  Read Original Content

Australian start-up Ninja Blocks aims to simplify the process of controlling any device remotely with hardware and software that enables mobile devices to talk to web applications.  Read Original Content

Technology services provider Dimension Data believes Australian businesses will struggle with security issues but make more of enterprise mobility and cloud technology in 2013.  Enterprise mobility will continue to be a key focus for businesses, with the priority to reduce operational costs.  Read Original Content

The Gartner Business Intelligence & Information Management Summit will be held February 25-26, 2013 in Sydney, Australia.  Topics include Analytics, Big Data, Enterprise Content Management, and Enterprise Information Management.  Read Original Content

IDC finds the Application Deployment Software market in the Asia Pacific region excluding Japan region grew 8 percent year-on-year to $641 million in the first half of 2012 and is predicted to see a CAGR of 7.6 percent over the next five years.  The increasing adoption of mobility and cloud computing have stimulated the demand for mobile application platforms, integration and messaging solutions.  Read Original Content

Indian software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services plans to expand its presence in China, Japan, Latin America, and Europe.  Read Original Content

Information and communication technology spending in Malaysia is on track to reach $5.2 billion in 2012, a 7 percent growth from 2011.  Read Original Content

NTT Communications and Verizon are two firms placed in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Asia/Pacific Network Service Providers report recently issued by Gartner.   The report researches and evaluates network service providers in the Asia Pacific region.  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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