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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.

Australia’s O4 Corporation is to give a real make-over to Melbourne-based cosmetic and personal care distributors, The Heat Group, who will replace an old, manual laptop system used by its sales teams with O4’s mobile sales force automation solution.

Mobile email use in the Asia pacific region is emerging as the growth market in the enterprise mobility space with a massive annual growth rate of 34% predicted over the next four years.

The latest forecasts on the growth of mobile broadband predict revenues of $137 billion globally by 2014 but, despite that, operators will have to content themselves with the fact that user growth will be far faster than actual revenue growth.

The ‘international business elite’ are increasingly accessing the Internet while on the move, with a growing need for more flexibility to view television content on their laptops as well as on their desktop computers and mobile devices.

MOKO.mobi (ASX: MKB) a mobile web service that enables people to easily chat and share over their mobile device, says it has signed an agreement with Reliance Communications, India's second largest wireless carrier with over 61.3 million customers.