I woke up on Monday morning excited at the prospect of going to the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris. As well as going to the event for the first time, I’d been promised a peek behind the scenes at Orange’s efforts to broadcast matches in 3D.

For the Roland Garros event Orange has teamed up [...]

Vodafone’s signed a distribution deal with Warner Music, making it one of the first mobile operators to offer DRM-free music from all the major record labels. The operator’s already signed up Universal Music, Sony Music and EMI.

Although the agreement with Warner Music isn’t earth-shattering, the removal of restrictions from Vodafone’s catalogue is a further step [...]

Looking through the news today, I saw that Orange in the UK has announced a new service called Social Life. This will be a site on the operator’s Orange World portal that allows people to access multiple social networking accounts from one place. This is made by possible by a single log-in.

As I understand it, [...]

Watching the Vodafone quarterly results Webcast this week, a few things fell into place for me. The announcement that Vodafone was to scrap roaming charges in some countries for three months started to make more sense.

Initially, I thought including roaming calls in ordinary bundled minutes was a smart reaction to regulators’ complaints about the cost [...]

It’s struck me in the last month or so that the prepaid phone market in Europe is undergoing a big change — and it’s not a positive one. It was widely assumed the prepaid segment would benefit from an economic downturn as people watched their monthly spending and downgraded to lower-priced handsets. However, the recession [...]

LG’s KS360 hits the high street in the UK this month with a price tag that I think will ignite sales of qwerty phones to consumers. The phone (pictured on the left) comes in a choice of three finishes — blue, pink and black — that will appeal to younger users. The phone packs in [...]

On 4 June 2008, Orange announced it will create 500 jobs in the UK by bringing call-centre work back from India and taking on more staff for its retail shops. It will also cut about 450 management and administration roles. The reorganisation is part of a focus on what Orange calls “the 21st century customer”. [...]

As expected, mobile software has been the big theme of the show.
We arrived at the show having had Google announce its Android platform just a couple of months ago. While undoubtedly adding credibility to the concept of mobile Linux, many in the industry groaned at the prospect of yet another flavour of mobile Linux. Along [...]