In the name of ‘security' and ‘saving cost', big business is encroaching on every facet of their employee's life, including the aspect of mobile telephony.

At the ACTE (Association of Corporate Travel Executives) ASPAC Regional Conference held in Singapore last week, a good number of participants gathered to listen to a panel that was discussing the application of mobile technology in corporate travel.

Imagine that you are on your next business trip abroad. You arrive at the airport and you get a text message from your company informing you which hotel you are staying at, with address information, and letting you know that your ground transportation awaits you.

Or it lets you know how to get a cab, along with the expected fare to your hotel. As you approach your hotel, you receive another text informing you of the corporate room rate you should receive as well as what benefits the hotel should afford you, for example, free breakfast and broadband internet access.

Would that be bliss? You can finally do away with those scraps of paper.

Well, it is reality for a small pilot group of Singaporeans and Europeans that work for Microsoft.

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