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More On Party Call, The Group Calling Service Orange Is Planting In Facebook
Earlier today I posted a story about how France Telecom-owned Orange today announced a “partnership” with Facebook for group-calling service Party Call. The plan is for it to go live…
The Facebook Mobile Plot Thickens: Orange To Offer ‘Party Call’, A Social Calling Service Starting Summer 2013
Facebook Phone it may not be, but today we have one more example of how users will be able to use Facebook on their phones — and in place of traditional…
Facebook Turns On Carrier Billing Mobile Payments In France With Orange France And Bango
Another step in Facebook’s plans to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments in France, covering services like virtual gifts and game…
UK’s First 4G LTE Service, EE, Will Feature New Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Huawei Devices. Orange, T-Mobile Brands To Gradually Fade Away
Today Everything Everywhere, the JV between Orange and T-Mobile UK, unveiled some more details about its new 4G network — the first commercial LTE service for the UK market. It…
How The Telecom Company Free Disrupted The Mobile Landscape In France
Imagine a mobile phone plan, such as the one from Free in France, with unlimited talk, unlimited SMS and MMS messages, tethering and, even more important, unlimited data with a…
Vive La France: Orange Bites The NFC Bullet, Plans Nationwide SIM-based Rollout In Home Market
NFC, the technology that can help turn a mobile handset into an instant, superpower payment device, has been long on promise but largely short on delivery. But today, the France…
Another European Carrier Goes VC: Orange Partners With Publicis, Iris In $400M Fund
Today sees the launch of one more venture capital fund backed by a large European telecoms carrier: Orange, the retail face of France Telecom, is teaming up with the advertising…
Meet Intel’s Newest Smartphone, A Low-Cost Device Designed For Orange In Europe
The next step in Intel’s ambition to become a central player in the mobile ecosystem is dovetailing with mobile carrier Orange’s strategy to grow its line of own-brand smartphones. At…
Facebook’s Mobile Net Widens As Orange Turns On Access In Africa
A significant announcement today that could have a big impact on Facebook and its mobile strategy: the mobile carrier Orange, part of France Telecom, announced that it is rolling out…
Is this finally the beginning of Japanese Android phones being made available outside their home market? Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo yesterday announced it has inked a deal with…
Confirmed: Orange acquires 49% of DailyMotion for €59 million, rest to follow
Rumors have been flying around for the last week about a possible acquisition of DailyMotion, the French-born equivalent of YouTube. And the first half of the 2-part transaction has just…
An American iPhone In Paris
For the past 10 days, I’ve been in Paris. A few of us were there to cover the LeWeb conference, which was great, but I decided to stick around for…
Orange UK tells iPhone 4 buyer delivery was delayed due to 'antenna problems'
As you’re no doubt aware by now, some iPhone 4 owners have been reporting poor reception and even dropped calls when holding the device by its metal frame, which doubles…
Orange UK Tells iPhone 4 Buyer Delivery Was Delayed Due To ‘Antenna Problems’
As you’re no doubt aware by now, some iPhone 4 owners have been reporting poor reception and even dropped calls when holding the device by its metal frame, which doubles…
I can understand how you might be playing your guitar one day, then coming to the realization, “Hey! This thing just puts out electrical signal. I should be able to…
Orange, OpenX team up to establish pan-European ad exchange ecosystem
France Telecom / Orange is partnering with OpenX to launch Orange Ad Market, a brand new online advertising marketplace tailored to the European digital industry. Orange Ad Market will be…
Orange, OpenX Set Out To Build Pan-European Ad Exchange Ecosystem
France Telecom / Orange is partnering with OpenX to launch Orange Ad Market, a brand new online advertising marketplace tailored to the European digital industry. Orange Ad Market will be…
France Télécom / Orange Exec Confirms Apple Tablet Is On The Way
Apple is doing a fine job keeping shush about the tablet computer it has been working on for several years and which is due to be announced later this month…
Orange, Twitter sign European partnership – tweets by SMS just the start, Twitter on TV could follow
Social Networking continues to be the killer app for mobile and Twitter is no exception. Loved by both handset makers and mobile networks alike the microblogging service is seen as…
Orange UK announce iPhone launch date and tariffs – a price war it isn't
[UK] Orange UK will begin selling the iPhone on November 10th, just eight days time. But it won’t usher in the price war that many had predicted (although I wasn’t…
iPhone no longer exclusive to O2 in the UK, heads to Orange ‘later this year’
Some pretty big iPhone news to share with y’all this morning: the iPhone will no longer be exclusive to O2 over in the UK, becoming available on Orange “later this…
UK cellular company Orange has just announced a foot-powered air pump capable of recharging a cell phone. The “Orange Power Pump” will be shown off at the Glastonbury Festival in…
The French Come Calling For Wikipedia (Orange Strikes Mobile Deal)
France Telecom’s Orange, one of the biggest mobile phone operators in Europe, has partnered with Wikimedia to provide Wikipedia content through co-branded channels on Orange’s mobile phones and web sites.…
Rumor has it that the belle of the ball at CES, LG’s videophonewatch, is going to be carried by Orange for a cool £1000, or almost $1500 in your American…
Wuh Oh: Orange UK halts BlackBerry Bold sales, citing "quality issues"
According to a leaked internal memo, Orange has pulled the BlackBerry Bold from the shelves due to “reports of software issues”. Originally expected to hit AT&T here in the states…
Bic and Orange team up to make Bic Phone, fill landfills
After so many years with them glued to our ears, being stuck without your cell phone sucks. Pay phones are getting harder to find (plus, you’ll catch the herp), and…
Read&Go, an e-paper from France Telecom One of Europe’s biggest telecommunications companies, Deutsche Telekom, is developing a portable e-reader, apparently a competitor for Amazon’s Kindle. There are no pictures of…
If I happened to be traveling in France and I needed a cell phone while I was there, I’d probably pick one of these up. The BIC phone will be…
France's Orange to let you trade in your current iPhone for the new one for €50?
Flickr’d How would you like to trade in your current iPhone for the new one that’s rumored to be released on June 9? It looks like France’s Orange may let…
Orange expands iPhone's footprint to Africa, might face challenges in Egypt
Orange is getting Apple’s iPhone for a big part of the world, as its region includes parts of Europe, the Mid East, and Africa. This will be the iPhone’s first…