July 2010

Last month, Springboard Research was holding its Cloud Asia 2010 event in Singapore and will even have a second round on the subject in Hong Kong next week.

As part of the Singapore Government’s efforts to enhance its online presence and connect with the public more effectively, the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) commissioned home-grown provider of mission-critical government infrastructure and solutions, Ecquaria Technologies Pte Ltd, to revamp their www.gov.sg portal and develop an appropriate iPhone app.

Smaato Inc., a global mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company, published recently a whitepaper on mobile advertising in South-East-Asia that caught my attention, as it reveals interesting results on the mobile Internet boom in the region. The privately held company, based in Silicon Valley, was founded in 2005 by an experienced international management team.

The popular consumer electronics brand Samsung launched the world’s first Smart Projector phone this month in Singapore.

The Asia Pacific ICT Industry Cooperation Summit was held on 16th of July 2010 in Macau, in conjunction with the opening of the 1st Communic Macau 2010.

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) provides recommendations for the global ad units broadly used in mobile advertising in the following mobile media channels: Mobile Web, messaging, applications and mobile video and TV.

Mobile Tagging, also called Mobile Code Reading, uses the camera of a mobile phone for the reading of data encoded in a two-dimensional barcode that can be read by optical scanners, called barcode readers, or scanned from an image by special software.

Within industry experts’ persistent predictions about the imminent advent of mobile near-field communication (NFC) contactless payments, the Japanese market is frequently cited as proof that such payments have a future.

If you are a mobile operator facing the prospect of slow growth or no growth, the experience of utility companies should interest you.

Smartphones outsold laptop computers for the first time and the trend is likely to continue as many people acquired a taste to leave their laptops at home in favour of the smaller, lighter devices.