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Welcome to the latest edition of what’s on, our newsletter for Orange Partner members. It’s been a very busy time since our last newsletter - as you’ll see from the stories in this issue - but I wanted to start with a big ‘thank you’ to our friends in France, UK, Romania and US who came along to our recent events – it was great to see you.
You may be interested to know that the Orange customer base has grown to 221 million people, with more than 162 million of them using mobile services, according to the figures in the Q3 financial update. Major growth took place in Africa and the Middle East, where new operations are making significant inroads in these rapidly developing markets. For us that’s a key factor in measuring our success: playing a key role in these markets gives us the local knowledge that makes a real difference for our customers. And it’s this local knowledge that can make a real difference for the partners we work with, helping you find customers who want to do business with someone who understands what they want.
In this issue you’ll discover how Orange is expanding its range of distribution channels to help get apps to even more customers around the world, how smartphones are opening up new horizons for customers who are elderly or disabled and find out what apps Orange customers are looking for the coming festive season.
Happy reading and we look forward to sharing exciting opportunities over the coming months.
Alexia Froudkine
Director, Developer Marketing and Alliances |
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news
Orange customers get ready for an appy festive season
 With the festive season approaching fast there are millions of Orange customers getting ready to download, use (and pay for) more apps than ever before. With technology products topping the wishlists for many people this Christmas, app downloads are set to outstrip last year’s market peak.
At Orange we’re on the lookout for apps that could give our customers an easier, happier and brighter festive season. We’re after French and English language apps for distribution in Orange selection for Nokia Store, our partner store with Nokia that’s targeted at Symbian 3 devices. |
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| Got a festive French or English language app? If you have a fun app that that can add a little festive cheer or a useful app to help our customers plan for the big day or help them remember everyone’s wishlist then tell us about your app today. |
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Orange Partner Connect links up for free UK apps
Orange Partner Connect, the online service hub that enables content providers to submit content for Orange customers, is now up and running for free content in the UK, with paid-for content set to follow later this year. Orange Partner Connect was created to help developers get their Android, Java and Symbian content into the Orange App Shop, the client embedded within Orange Signature phones. The UK now joins our shop in France, which has been open since March for both free and paid-for content. |
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| Want to get your French or English language Android, Java or Symbian to Orange customers? Take a look at what you need to do by clicking here |
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| Did you know? The Orange App Shop device client is available from the homescreen of Orange Signature devices and is already available to our customers in UK and France on more than 4 million phones. Find out more about Orange App Shop |
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Smartphones help remove barriers for all ages and abilities
 Enhancing the independence, quality of life, education and experiences regardless of age and ability is a key goal for us at Orange. Today’s smartphones now have the performance and functionally that give developers an exciting platform for creating accessibility innovation that can eliminate barriers for senior citizens and people with disabilities. We’re really keen to create a distribution point to get your accessibility solutions directly to Orange consumers and business customers around the world. |
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| If you have a accessibility solution that you’d like to get to Orange customers why not tell us about it |
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Dailymotion launches Graph API for free access to video content
 Dailymotion, one of the industry’s leading video-sharing services, is to offer free access to its library of tens of millions videos through a new application programming interface (API). Called Graph API, the new interface enables developers to easily access, publish and modify content from the Dailymotion site and embed it in websites and apps. A feature of the new API is its ability to give a consistent view of the related Dailymotion objects and the connections between them (including friend relationship, users’ posted videos, videos in groups/playlists). Graph API is the latest in Dailymotion’s API family. Read more… |
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| Did you know? Orange signed a partnership agreement in August this year to deliver advertising across the Dailymotion platform – one of the top 30 most visited sites in the world. |
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countries
Orange selection for Nokia Store opens for Austrian customers
 Orange Austria is the latest country to roll out Orange selection to its customers with the launch an exclusive shop-in-shop in the Nokia Store. Austria now joins the UK and France, both of which have been running Orange selection in Nokia Store since Summer this year.
With more than 2 million customers Orange Austria is one of the country’s leading operators, and has more than 50 stores in major centers across the country. |
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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, Romania and the UK; our exclusive partner stores in Windows Phone Marketplace in France and the UK and in the Nokia Store for Symbian 3 devices in Austria, France and the UK; as well as through the Orange country mobile portals 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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Apps competition targets young and local developers in Morocco
 Meditel, the Orange affiliate based in Morocco, has launched an app competition targeted at both young developers and local developers. With a top prize of a Toyota Aygo car, and featuring a range of other top prizes, the competition is aimed at encouraging the developer community across Morocco to develop applications of interest to Meditel’s local base of more than 10 million customers. Other major prizes are aimed at students and colleges/universities. The competition closes for entries on Sunday, 18 December 2011, with the winners announced at the end of February 2012. Read more… |
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| The Meditel Apps Challenge is open for Android and iOS apps in French or Arabic languages, and has a submission deadline of Sunday, 18 December 2011. |
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market
Bigger isn’t always better in the world of apps
 All the app talk today centres on the number of apps available and the number of downloads. But it seems the huge numbers actually have an adverse effect for developers, according to figures from research firm research2guidance. Their figures show the average application in the Nokia Store generated 160% more daily downloads than the average in Apple’s App Store. And 80% more in Windows Marketplace. The difference is attributed to visibility: While these stores have a sufficiently large user base that desire apps, there are significantly fewer apps and therefore less competition. The findings underline the pet hate of many developers – the lack of visibility for all their hard work. Bigger, it seems, isn’t always better. |
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| Did you know? Get your apps in Orange selection and you’ll benefit of being part of a small selection of what’s best for Orange customers, so you’ll be one of just tens – rather than one in hundreds of thousands. |
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Developers believe iOS and Android will rule the enterprise
According to the IDC Mobile Developer Report, developers expect Android and iOS to extend their dominance from the consumer segment into the enterprise space, a market previously dominated by RIM’s BlackBerry devices. According to the report, developers believe the race for the top prize is a dead heat with 44 percent banking on Android and another 44 percent going for iOS. Just 4 percent believe RIM will maintain its dominant position. |
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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. 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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events
7-9 December, Paris, France: Meet Orange at Europe’s No 1 internet event
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Orange Partner will be at Le Web Paris 11 in December to tell you all about Orange selection, our exclusive distribution channel for Orange customers that can give your app the visibility (and you the download opportunities) it really deserves. We’re particularly interested in talking to companies, start-ups and organisations with:
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apps (both consumer and business) and solutions that would appeal to Orange customers and help to enrich their digital life |
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great ideas! we’re also really interested in talking to you if you’ve just got a great idea but don’t know how to turn it into a customer-focused solution. |
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We’ll have experts from the Orange Partner team on hand throughout the event to chat with you about the opportunities with Orange. |
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| We’ve reserved one-to-one meeting slots throughout Le Web Paris 11 so you can 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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