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Welcome to the latest edition of what’s on, our newsletter for Orange Partner members. On behalf of the entire Orange Partner team I want to send you the very best wishes for the New Year. I hope it’s one full of good news, success and harmony.
With every New Year comes the promise of a host of new opportunities but, for the mobile business in particular, it’s a promise that seems will be delivered. During 2012 we’re set to see the penetration of NFC-enabled devices reach a critical mass; LTE deployment that will offer real 4G data speeds on mobile networks all around the world; the rise of smartphones in emerging markets; new versions of the major platforms that will bring new features and functionality; the increasing migration of user content to cloud services, and; the number of apps breaking the 10 million barrier (and making it even harder to find the good ones!)
For us at Orange Partner it’s a potential that we’re very aware of so we’ve been busy in putting the building blocks in place to help you make the most of this. During 2012 you’ll see a host of enhancements, upgrades and new functionality that will ensure our partners will reap the benefits of our rapidly developing market.
Happy reading and we look forward to sharing these exciting developments over the coming issues.
Alexia Froudkine
Director, Developer Marketing and Alliances |
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news
Orange underlines role in app ecosystem
In ‘For a richer digital life’ Orange summarizes its role at the heart of the mobile applications ecosystem. Launched at the LeWeb11 event in Paris, the paper emphasises how Orange sees its role as the ‘digital coach’ to its customers, helping them discover, download and use the apps that are best suited to them and their lifestyle. The paper describes the organisation’s role in apps ecosystem: from creation, with its own Orange-branded apps; through discovery and distribution via its Orange selection channels; to how it directly engages with the app developers and publishers through its Orange Partner programme. “At Orange, we want to guide all our customers to ensure they have the best possible experience whatever their choice of handset”, said Paul-François Fournier, executive vice-president of Orange Technocentre read more… |
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| Did you know? Orange is the no1 operator in developing its own applications, which have been created to help customers get the most out of their devices. Today’s range includes more than 60 apps spread across 15 countries, which have been downloaded more than 20 million times. Find out more about Orange apps. |
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TP and Orange are on the field for UEFA EURO 2012
 Polish Telecom (Telekomunikacja Polska, TP) and Orange have successfully completed the first phase of testing for the technology infrastructure and services to be provided during the UEFA European Football Championship later this year. Tests took place between the various stadiums in Poland and the International Broadcasting Centre, which marks a critical stage in the preparations for the UEFA EURO 2012™ championships.
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012, will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July 2012. It is the first time that either nation has hosted the tournament read more… |
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| Did you know? Orange is a key technology sponsor of UEFA EURO 2012™ in Poland and Ukraine. It’s the first time the company has taken on a pan-European sports sponsorship of this size and will see 11 countries in Europe, united under the Orange brand, bringing the tournament to life for football fans across Europe through innovative products and services. |
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Orange and Dailymotion launch 3D channel
Orange and Dailymotion launched in December a 3D channel in French language, which is available on all computers in anaglyphs for use with 3D glasses as well as on 3D-compatible computers. The content available on this 3D-dedicated channel will be enhanced over time with Dailymotion partner- and web-user content. Content offered on this dedicated 3D channel will also be available for mobiles starting in February 2012. read more… |
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| Did you know? Orange signed a partnership agreement to deliver advertising across the Dailymotion platform – one of the top 30 most visited sites in the world. |
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Orange Pro named as France’s leading online business portal
With over 1.3 million unique visitors each month, Orange Pro - the Orange business portal – has been named as France’s most popular B2B site according to a survey of internet business sites by Nielsen-Mediametrie. The study also found that Orange Professionnel, the information and services portal for entrepreneurs and small businesses, is the site where professionals spend most time: an average of 26 minutes per month per person. Although just two years old, Oran ge’s business portal has almost doubled its number of visitors from micro-enterprises and SMEs by enriching its online service offering read more… |
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| Did you know? Now there’s a way to get your business solution to millions of professionals and small businesses in France, Poland and Portugal. le cloud pro is a new service offering a selection of SaaS solutions that give businesses a chance to tap into the benefits usually reserved for huge enterprises.. |
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| Do you have a SaaS business solution in French, Polish or Portuguese that you think would bring real benefits to professionals and small business? Do you want to get it to Orange business customers? Just send us a simple outline of your solution and we’ll let you know if it’s suitable for le cloud pro. To submit your outline just click here |
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Orange launches online site to test people’s perceptions of their local area
Orange has joined up with OWNI, FING and Everydatalab to launch the “Where do you really live?” site that invites internet users to revisit the area where they live in the form of a test, which compares their perceptions of their local area with the real situation. The test, which has been created to be both fun and serious, is designed to see if people are using publicly available or open data to better understand the way their local and national services are run. The results of the test will be published on the site once a statistically significant sample size has been reached read more… |
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countries
Orange selection for Nokia Store comes to Egypt and Romania
 Romania and Egypt, through the Orange subsidiary Mobinil, are the latest countries to roll out Orange selection to its customers with the launch of the exclusive shop-in-shop in the Nokia Store. These countries join Austria, France and UK, which have been running Orange selection in Nokia Store since last year.
In Romania, Orange is the market leader with over 10 million customers. With almost 1,000 stores, Orange Romania provides customers countrywide with a complete range of products and services based on mobile and fixed solutions. Mobinil is Egypt’s leading mobile operator with more than 25 million customers and has been growing rapidly. Mobinil sells its products and services through various distribution channels in Egypt. |
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| Did you know? Orange selection is the way for millions of Orange customers to discover and download apps, and purchase directly on their mobile phone bill. It‘s made up of multiple distribution points: our embedded Orange App Shop client on Android, Java & Symbian phones in France and UK; our shop-in-shop in our partner stores in Windows Phone Marketplace (for France and UK) and in the Nokia Store for Symbian 3 devices in Austria, France and UK – and now Romania and Egypt; as well as through the Orange Mobile portal that’s available in multiple countries. Together they give Orange customers relevant content that’s locally chosen, managed and promoted, and tuned to the their needs. Find out more about Orange selection |
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technology
Orange becomes board member of Tizen Association
 Orange has announced that it has become a board member of the Tizen Association, which has been formed to drive industry engagement and in-market support for the Tizen platform.
Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers and silicon suppliers. It has been designed to support multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, smart TVs and more.
For mobile app developers in particular, Tizen provides ways of reusing their applications without having to build a number of different native versions. read more… |
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| Did you know? Tizen has been created to provide a robust and flexible environment for application developers..It’s the first mobile OS to use HTML5 as its main development platform and has a dedicated HTML5 SDK. |
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events
7-8 Feb, Amsterdam, Netherlands: BlackBerry DevCon Europe 2012 – save 50%!
 Orange Partner and Research in Motion (RIM) invite you attend this year’s BlackBerry DevCon Europe event at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre. It’s the place where the developer community comes together to learn how to work with the latest innovations and breakthroughs for the BlackBerry platform. BlackBerry developers and leaders in the development community from across Europe will meet to:
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visit the App Express area, where in just a few minutes you can port existing Android apps to the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet or transform and existing web app into a fully-fledged app for both the BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry smartphones |
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see demonstrations and attend hands-on labs of applications being built in multiple languages |
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meet one-on-one with BlackBerry platform experts to whiteboard ideas and solutions |
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Find out more about the event and the conference sessions by visiting the BlackBerry DevCon Europe 2012 website. |
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| Get 50% off and a free BlackBerry PlayBook: register today using our special Orange Partner discount code DSTEH1 and save 50% off the current registration fee – and you’ll receive a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet at the conference to help kick-start the development of your next app. |
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| let’s meet: If you’re at BlackBerry DevCon why not meet the team at your convenience? If you’d like to arrange a time to meet someone from the Orange Partner team, just complete our let’s meet form telling us a little about your business and what you do, and we’ll make sure the right people are around to meet with you. |
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events
14 Feb, Paris, France. Mobile Monday – focus on tablets
The second Mobile Monday event of this year for our French-speaking partners will be focussing on new uses for tablets. Mobile Monday gatherings are a great opportunity to stay up to date with all the latest technologies and developments in our rapidly-moving industry. You’ll get a chance to:
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understand the latest innovations and ways of thinking |
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hear from the industry’s experts and leading thinkers |
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network and chat with others in the local mobile community |
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| let’s meet: If you’re at Mobile Monday why not meet the team at your convenience? Just complete our let’s meet form telling us a little about your business and what you do, and we’ll make sure the right people are around to meet with you. |
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