Orange UK has launched real-time recommendations on its Orange World Portal, which was foreshadowed back in September. The idea is to recommend content to people based on their profile, and…

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Record labels are reportedly quite excited about the boom in mobile music services in the UK—Apple’s iPhone, Vodafone’s MusicStation and Nokia’s Music Store (also on Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK). IFPI…

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Operator Orange has released its mobile music download figures, showing a 70 percent increase in sales in the past six months and an almost doubling of sales between January and…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) seems to have taken a leaf from Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) book: Say nothing officially, but ensure steady leaks to maintain interest. The latest rumor is that Google…

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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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The FT is reporting that Bernard Ghillebaert, the CEO of Orange UK, is leaving his post and will be replaced by “a Briton from outside the France Telecom (NYSE: FTE)…

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After a month that included the head of France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) telling journalists informally that mobile operator Orange would sell the iPhone in France, and then subsequent reports that…

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Wow, mobile TV has a long way to go—in Europe and North America, at least. While Alcatel-Lucent and France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) VPs bored a Mipcom panel audience with a…

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Today’s mobile headlines from our sister site paidContent:UK at the Mipcom TV market and conference in Cannes… - KateModern Going Mobile in UK, LG15 Aims For TV Carriage: Orange, an…

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Subscribers to Orange’s French three-screen TV offering have been watching trial shows more on mobile than via other available media. The telco’s Rewind TV service offers TV programming to computers,…

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-- 3 is apparently working on a Skype mobile, but all 3 will say is that it and a “leading internet communications company are working together to produce a exciting…

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If this week seems a bit quiet on iPhone news, perhaps it is because the (supposedly official) announcement of Orange distributing Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) handset in France has been stalled…

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Orange UK will offer recommendations to people who use its Orange World Portal, with the idea to suggest content which customers might like based on their previous usage. The recommendations…

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The Register has noted that Orange UK’s new line-up of handsets for the Xmas rush (here) is conspicuously lacking anything from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT). I don’t…

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The mobile payment market may finally be getting somewhere in the U.K.: today the five biggest mobile operators got together to jointly—that’s right, not in competition with each other—launch a…

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Orange UK has threatened to boycott Nokia’s incipient music service unless the manufacturer “agrees to work with the operator to ensure that customer experience is paramount”. The Independent is citing…

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Operators have been looking to non-voice services to boost ARPU in the face of flagging voice revenue for a while now, and have finally come to the conclusion that one…

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With Apple planning to launch its iPhone in the region at the end of the year, Orange and Sony Ericsson, makers of the Walkman phone, are taking to the stage…

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Orange U.K., one of the first British operators to embrace mobile advertising on its portal, has now added an advertising component to local listing information it delivers via SMS, Mobile…

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French telco Orange has announced plans to drop its Orange Messenger, with plans to replace it with Orange Messanger by Windows Live...effectively mobile Windows Live Messenger. “Orange Messenger by Windows…

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At Digital Hollywood, I did a short interview with Herve Payan, SVP of Content Services at Orange, the flagship brand of France Telecom, where he talked about how Orange looks…

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Contrary to earlier reports suggesting Vodafone as a buyer, Deutsche Telekom will sell its Ya.com internet unit to France Telecom for EUR 320 ($433) million. A Spanish broadband provider, Ya.com…

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A new Informa Telecoms & Media report (via an e-mail release) contends the U.K. mobile content market is “on the cusp of becoming multi-billion dollar industry.” But that boom can…

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--The Apprentice in the UK has gone mobile, offering weekly content including behind-the-scenes and preview clips from the TV show along with the iconic “You’re Fired” moment to UK subscribers.…

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The number of text messages, the number of users surfing the mobile Web and the top ten ringtones are just a few of the items covered in the Digital Media…

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