It’s been a long-time coming, but the big five carriers in the U.K. have struck a deal with the Internet Advertising Bureau to push mobile advertising into a medium that…

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-- Deutsche Welle: German broadcaster Deutsche Welle is adding its DW-TV channel to Microsoft-backed, P2P-based online TV platform Livestation, joining BBC World, EuroNews, France 24, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera and Russia…

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Mobile content news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- What’s Happening With Vivendi Games Mobile? Possible Sale Coming: What is going on with Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile gaming unit…

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Mobile news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- Orange Launches Ad-Funded Mag: Orange has rolled out an ad-funded video magazine service on its portal Orange World. The clips—which includes celeb…

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Update: I eventually got hold of Orange in France, who told me they had incorrectly translated their press release to English, overstating the DRM-free features. Though the release states tracks…

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After home broadband and TV, add another service to Orange’s growing arsenal - radio. The telco is unveiling LiveRadio, a WiFi-enabled radio device that comes with access to more than…

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-- French IPTV: France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is the largest IPTV operator in the world, with 1.1 million subscribers, says a new report from Telecommunications Management Group (TMG). Globally, there…

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Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

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Latest mobile headlines from our sister site mocoNews.net. Click for more detail… -- 3UK To Downplay Emphasis On Content: Analyst Ovum emergees from an interview with 3UK CEO Kevin Russell…

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Threads from the TV content market happening on the Croisette in Cannes… -- Hulu aims global: Jason Kilar, CEO of the NBC/News Corp (NYSE: NWS) web TV JV Hulu.com, told…

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- Warner Bros: The movie studio is to make some films available over VOD platforms the same day they go on sale as DVDs. The studio is giving Sky Box…

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France Telecom’s subsidiary Viaccess is acquiring 100 percent of Israeli IPTV software maker Orca Interactive Ltd for $21.4 million (£10.6 million). Viaccess, which creates DRM products for digital pay TV,…

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- Games prediction: Ad-funded mobile games will be worth £600,000 this year and £41 million by 2012 in the UK, research for the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) says. The forum…

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Day two of the MWC. Here’s what’s happening in UK-related news from our sister site mocoNews.net: @ MWC: Orange, Nokia Sign Services Agreement; Doesn’t Include Ovi: Orange and Nokia (NYSE:…

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The drive to make ISPs more responsible for policing digital piracy continues full steam. The FT reports that next week the government plans to unveil in a green paper on…

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The UK’s five largest operators--Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3—are announcing today their intention to work together to develop common measurement standards for mobile advertising. The FT reports…

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Orange has won the right to broadcast some of France’s Ligue 1 football matches between 2008 and 2012. While Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Canal+ TV won two of three bundles, giving…

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Mobile-related headlines from our side of the pond, from our sister site mocoNews.net… - @ Midem: Orange Plans DRM-Free Music Rentals, Still Talking To Nokia: Orange has promised to drop…

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Somewhat audaciously, Orange is taking on Canal+ in the race to win the TV rights to top-flight French soccer. Canal+, which has 4.3 million pay-TV customers, paid 600 million in…

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Orange UK can now claim to offer all Premier League soccer matches over its mobile TV service. The telco had already offered Sky Sports channels, which hold the rights to…

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This is about all most of us will see of Orange’s UK IPTV platform for a good while - some of the 44 idents Red Bee produced for the mobile…

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It’s been a long time coming - now Orange has pushed the launch of its UK IPTV service back in to next year. The telco told IBC conference delegates at…

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An interesting original effort from France Telecom: it has launched a new search engine called Le Moteur (The Engine), for French language users. Besides the text results, it also has…

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[With Dianne See Morrison] If the UK’s broadband network is to be upgraded to the kinds of speeds enjoyed in South Korea, somebody’s going to have to pay for it…

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France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) chief executive Didier Lombard said he expects Orange to sell nearly 100,000 iPhones by the end of 2007, reports Bloomberg. “The target is a little under…

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