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The banking industry in the Asia Pacific region has bumped aside telecommunications companies to drive the market for mobile banking and payments, although both industries are struggling to find the right business model for satisfying revenue requirements balanced with consumer needs and expectation.

Inside Info says it now has available for the Australian market the first and only business intelligence software for the iPhone that allows users of the phone to access click-and-query management, sales, marketing and product information.

The financial crisis has hit the overall mobile phone market in Australia, with a 16 percent decline in sales last year, but there was some joy amidst the gloom and doom with the smartphone segment defying the recession and growing by 7.6 percent.

There’s been rapid adoption of GPS in mobile phones, with mobile vendors seeing location-based services as a major untapped business opportunity.

3 Mobile has today launched a new WiFi application that turns its customers’ mobile phones into mobile wireless hotspots.

3 Mobile has brought out a range of new mobile phone plans especially for small to medium sized businesses which 3 says will help them in the current economic climate to streamline their administration and squeeze maximum value from their existing spend.