XL and Samsung collaborate to reward promising Indonesian Android app builders with gadgets and a trip to South Korea. Samsung and Indonesian mobile carrier XL are offering youths the opportunity to fly to South Korea for the XL Samsung Android Application Contest. The program is basically targeted toward young potential app developers who are Android Read the full article…

Samsung’s KNOX lets enterprise users switch seamlessly between personal and business environments on their mobile device, thereby ensuring the security and integrity of their corporate data. Security is often the top priority in enterprise mobility, which is why some organizations — like the Pentagon in the U.S. — still opt for BlackBerry, even as the Read the full article…

In its Q4 2012 Device Activation Report, released by Good Technology, data reveals that Android tablets are starting to gain momentum and that iPhone 5 is the most popular device among 4,000 enterprise customers. Good Technology today released Q4 2012 Device Activation Report, which gives insight to smartphone and tablet activations among Good’s enterprise customers, Read the full article…

Guest contributor Martin Pasquier was at the launch of Social Media Week in Singapore, and he offers a few takeaways from the opening keynote. With 13 true friends on average, human beings of this century seem to contradict our Facebook and Twitter stats. But we have acquaintances, too, from university, or our first job — Read the full article…

Samsung and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Singapore provide rewards through Samsung TecTiles. Two big names, Samsung and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) in Singapore have come up with a reward system for its customers in partnership to place Samsung TecTiles, postage stamp sized Near Field Communications (NFC) stickers in all 51 Read the full article…

The iPhone may have lost its luster in Asia, at least in key “trend-setting” cities, according to a Reuters report. Consumers in these cities are experiencing a so-called iPhone fatigue, and are driven to switch to other brands and platforms. This effect is due, in part, to consumers’ “desire to be different” and because of Read the full article…

MBA Online summarises the aggressive rise of Android in the mobile operating system space. From a small startup acquired by Google in 2005, championed by Larry Page himself, Android became the current dominant mobile operating system in the market with over 250 million Android-based devices activated per year. Compared to 104.7 million iOS devices in Read the full article…