omScore Japan KK, a wholly owned subsidiary of comScore Inc., has released the latest insights into mobile usage in Japan from its comScore MobiLens product, which showed, among others, that Google Android led as the top smartphone platform in March 2011 with 4.6 million users.

Public and private transport commuters in Copenhagen, Seattle and Sydney are most satisfied in their journey experience, a global Frost & Sullivan survey showed.

New research from the International Data Corporation (IDC) showed that the rapidly expanding mobile worker population, the proliferation of smartphones and media tablets, and the explosion of mobile apps will converge to drive demand for mobile printing solutions over the next five to ten years.

A Juniper Networks study found that enterprise and consumer mobile devices are exposed to a record number of security threats, including a 400 percent increase in Android malware, as well as highly targeted Wi-Fi attacks.

Verizon has introduced its managed mobility portfolio for managing and securing applications on an increasing variety of mobile devices used by employees.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said in its website that it has reached an agreement with Intelsat S.A. and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) to strengthen emergency telecommunication response in the aftermath of natural disasters.

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has introduced the country’s first mobile broadband solution that offers integrated cloud-based Internet protection.

Do Asia's businesses see mobile as a business tool? Jaikishan Rajaraman, senior director for GSM Association, discusses some of the opportunities mobile broadband presents to enterprises.

Just as enterprises are going mobile, it stands to reason that government organizations are discovering the inherent benefits of going mobile. With most government bureaucracies slow to adopt new technologies, it is likely that it is government civil servants, acting as individuals and in an uncoordinated fashion, that are instituting the introduction of mobile solutions and applications into their departments.