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

Traditional Chinese medicine retailer Yue Hwa Chinese Products emporium implemented an RFID solution and benefitted immediately due to the decrease in risk of human error. The company also reduced its annual stock take duration from 30 days to five days.  Read Original Content

ZDNet Asia’s “Business Web Performance Benchmark Report” summarizes the findings from benchmark tests for speed and availability of leading websites across five sectors (banking & financial services, government, retail, telecommunications and travel) across Southeast Asia.  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.

Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry is partnering with Vietnam's Advanced International Joint Stock Company to build integrated e-learning "smart classrooms" in Vietnam using Taiwanese products such as notebook computers and projectors.  Read Original Content

Ramco has launched its cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.  Enterprises can now access the solutions on their mobile devices.  Read Original Content

Japan's NEC will open a branch office in Yangon, Myanmar, with the goal of developing the country’s information and communications technology and social infrastructure.  The office is scheduled to open in January 2013.  Read Original Content

Three of Korea’s largest telecom companies SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ are launching a new mobile communication platform called joyn, which integrates messaging, voice and data services.  Read Original Content

According to SAP’s Sanjay Poonen, “Adoption of enterprise mobility in India has already attained a full swing and is expected to intensify in the near future, thereby providing ample opportunities for vendors to capitalize on.”  Read Original Content

Indian mobile devices firm Lava International plans to expand into the mobile app arena, hoping to file 100 patents for mobile applications in education, entertainment and productivity fields over the next two to three years.  Read Original Content

Mobility is a technology quickly catching up in India’s retailing industry. Mobile penetration is predicted to reach most of the population by 2015. According to the latest mobile phone tracker data from IDC, smartphone penetration has increased by 68 percent in the last year and will continue on a growth trend for the next few years.  Read Original Content

With Sri Lanka one of the fastest growing markets in the region, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China has introduced a range of tablet devices to the Sri Lankan market and is planning to establish a tablet PC assembly plant to make the product more cost effective and buyer friendly.  Read Original Content

Hewlett-Packard has recently launched Channel Odyssey, a roadshow covering cities in the Asia Pacific region.  The firm is showing off its innovations for the enterprise market in 12 countries:  Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia, China, India, Korea, and Japan.  Read Original Content

Light Reading India spoke with device manufacturers, analysts and industry experts and provides a recap of the country’s most popular mobile phones for 2012.  Read Original Content

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