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Mobile Content Bits: Nokia-Telenor; MySpace-MTS; Orange Zap - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Jul 2008 03:55 AM PST

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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UPDATED: Orange Does ‘Unlimited’ Subscription Music, NOT DRM-Free - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:10 AM PST

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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Orange Unveils LiveRadio For WiFi Net Radio In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 19 May 2008 01:14 AM PST

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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Orange Trials Mobile E-Newspaper Reader With Le Monde Et Al - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:58 AM PST

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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Mobile Content Bits: 3 Down-Plays Content, Orange Retail Boss, O2 Caps Speed - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 01:34 AM PST

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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MipTV Round-Up: Hulu Aims Global; MySpaceTV New Production; Orange UK IPTV - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Apr 2008 03:22 AM PST

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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Broadband Content Bits: Warner Accelerates VOD, Orange Premium TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 12:15 AM PST

- 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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Mobile Content Bits: Ad-Funded Games; Orange-Voda Share Nets; New Pay-TV Rules; DK Via Mobifusion - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 19 Feb 2008 07:37 AM PST

- 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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@ MWC Wrap-Up: Orange-Nokia; Vodafone; Orange-T-Mobile; Omnifone - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 12 Feb 2008 05:46 AM PST

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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Government To Propose Three Strikes Policy For Digital Pirates; BPI Applauds Effort - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 12 Feb 2008 04:12 AM PST

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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UK Operators To Develop Common Standards For Measuring Mobile Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 11 Feb 2008 05:54 AM PST

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 Wins French Football’s Saturday, VOD, Mobile Rights - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Feb 2008 03:14 AM PST

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 Content Bits: DRM-Free Orange; O2 Cuts iPhone Tariffs; Ofcom Looks At Mobile Data - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 30 Jan 2008 06:29 AM PST

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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Orange, Dailymotion Bidding For French Football Rights - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Jan 2008 08:35 AM PST

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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Setanta Deal Gives Orange TV Complete English Soccer Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 18 Dec 2007 02:41 AM PST

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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@ FutureMedia: Orange UK IPTV Idents - A Hint Of Things To Come - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 13 Dec 2007 11:00 AM PST

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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Orange TV Launch Pushed Back To 2008 - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 12 Dec 2007 02:29 AM PST

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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Next-Gen Broadband: Nobody Wants To Pay For This Round - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Dec 2007 03:59 AM PST

[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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Orange Hopes To Shift 100,000 iPhones In France - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 Nov 2007 03:00 AM PST

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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Mobile Content Bits: Trinity Mirror Regional, Three, Nokia, Orange Links - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 20 Nov 2007 07:20 AM PST

- Trinity Mirror: The newspaper group will launch a multi-platform mobile service to eventually deliver regional news that could be tailored to a user’s post code (via Media Week). Recently…

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Orange Music Store Sales Double Since January - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 Nov 2007 03:31 AM PST

A day before O2 releases iPhone in the UK, Orange has released its own mobile music download figures, showing a 70 percent increase in sales in the past six months…

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iPhone Friday: Germans First In Europe To Pick Up The Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 Nov 2007 01:26 AM PST

Germans will get bragging rights to owning the iPhone before UK customers this Friday. The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) store at Schildergasse in Cologne will open at 12.01am CET (1.01am…

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Orange Appoints New UK CEO: Tom Alexander, Founder Of Virgin Mobile - 1 Comment
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 23 Oct 2007 01:25 AM PST

It didn’t take long for Orange to rush out a press release after the news leaked out yesterday that it wanted to replace its UK CEO Bernard Ghillebaert. Tom Alexander,…

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Orange Launches £3 Bebo; Replaces UK CEO To Halt Profit Slide - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Mon 22 Oct 2007 04:28 AM PST

From our sister site mocoNews: After originally announcing this in March, Bebo and Orange have finally announced the pricing for a “Bebo Extra” version of the social network - £3…

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Now It’s Really Official: Apple And Orange Announce IPhone Partnership In France - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 16 Oct 2007 03:33 PM PST

The delayed announcement of Orange selling the iPhone in France has finally come through—much the same details as in Germany (399 euros (US$565)) and rumors of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) getting…

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