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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Apple topped local manufacturers in Japan for the sale of phones in 2012, with a 15 percent market share compared to a 14 percent market share for both Sharp and Fujitsu.  Read Original Content

Tokyo Metro subways will offer a new mobile app with free Wi-Fi access in a trial running through the end of July.  The company will test how passengers react to the different types of information provided.  Read Original Content

Indonesia’s largest carrier, Telkom, plans to expand into Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan in 2013.  The carrier currently operates overseas in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, and Timor Leste.  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.

TechNavio’s new report, Mobile Commerce Market in India 2012-2016 is now available.  Analysts predict the mobile commerce market in India will grow at a CAGR of 71.06 percent over the period 2012-2016, citing the growth in mobile subscriptions as a key factor contributing to the market growth.  Read Original Content

Malaysian online shopping site Zalora Malaysia has launched a new mobile site.  Zalora Malaysia executive Leow Wee Jonn states the new site will “continue to change the Malaysian e-tail landscape”.  Read Original Content
ShopSpot’s Dave Sloan highlights “3 Hot Mobile E-commerce Trends in Asia” for 2013 in this article featured in e27.  Read Original Content

According to Forrester research, 89 percent of Chinese information workers use smartphones at work.  Read Original Content

A Chinese language mobile teaching and learning tool developed by Microsoft and education partners in Singapore will be adopted by additional schools by 2014.  Read Original Content

Japanese ad agency Hakuhodo has launched a new platform based on a mobile app used by consumers to take pictures of ads or commercials.  The system mixes image recognition software with GPS and time data from the smartphones to link to product information.  Read Original Content

IDC Asia Pacific executive Charles Reed Anderson believes Singapore companies will leverage BYOD more than other countries in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan). He forecasts Android will dominate across the region in the near future, but iOS will retain a major share of the market in Singapore.  Read Original Content

NEC and Fujitsu have completed the construction of the Asia Submarine-cable Express system which links Japan with the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.  The system now connects major cities in East and Southeast Asia with services offered by NTT Communications and other participating carriers.  Read Original Content

Adobe has doubled its staff in Australia and New Zealand over the last 18 months and has opened a new office in Sydney.  Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen states Australia and New Zealand are fundamental in the transformation to the Cloud, and “We view this country as one of the leading countries in terms of the openness to technological innovation”.  Read Original Content

Japan’s NTT Communications has opened new data centers in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S. with plans to open centers in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand in March.  The new data centers are part of a push for the firm to offer its cloud-hosting services worldwide.  Read Original Content


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