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January 2009 |
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hello...
Happy new year, and welcome to Orange Partner’s latest news for January.
We hope you enjoy the update, and look forward to an exciting 2009...
the Orange Partner team
news for January...
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website: more new features on www.orangepartner.com ...
www.orangepartner.com is evolving apace. We hope you’ve been using the ‘most read’ and ‘top searches’ tabs to see what your peers are interested in, as well as bookmarking and sharing your favourite site areas through the social bookmarking links at the bottom of each page.
The latest new feature just released is ‘related tags’ – you’ll see that we’ve tagged some pages to help you find related information. Plus, we’ve also changed the site navigation design, making it easier for you to get around and find what you’re looking for
login and use the new features now 
There are more site enhancements on the way, so please let us know what you think of what we’ve done so far, and what you’d like to see coming soon – Orange Partner is your portal. Send us your suggestions at developers@orange.com with ‘website feedback’ in the subject line.
(And, the site will be fully re-vamped by the end of March ... more information to follow soon.)
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Orange APIs: improved website navigation
As a result of your valuable feedback, the Orange APIs are now grouped in families on the website – Instant, Advanced, Personal and Web 2.0.
We’ve also redesigned the way the APIs are presented, making it even easier to understand what the different groups of APIs enable, and how you can integrate our APIs into your applications. Plus we’ve created new icons for each API, making the different functions instantly recognisable.
find out more and access Orange APIs
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Orange APIs: 2 new APIs
The two new APIs this month are both additions to our range of Instant APIs, allowing you to instantly develop apps to enhance communication between users of your website. They’re both available to use now, in alpha mode, free of charge.
VoiceMashup API
The VoiceMashup API allows you to simply create a vocal service (an automated dialogue made of recorded sounds and vocalised texts, that can be operated via phone keypad) using the VoiceXML language.
find out more
Mobeasy platform
The Mobeasy platform allows you to deliver custom mobile-friendly web pages to any mobile device, optimising user experience.
Simply develop your mobile-friendly web pages using OrangeML (Orange Markup Language) and the Mobeasy platform automatically transforms them with optimal rendering (alignments, font sizes, image sizes, etc) to the destination device.
find out more
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Orange APIs: location API just commercialised, with click-to-call API to be commercialised soon ....
location API
The location API has just become commercially available (in beta mode). This API allows you to locate a user’s mobile (currently only on the Orange France network) within your web application using Cell ID technology. You can now purchase credits for locating a mobile phone with no daily limits to your credits.
take a look at the location API (beta)
SMS API
And just a reminder that we recently commercialised the SMS API (in beta mode) – you can use this API to send and receive text messages within your web application. Now that it’s in ‘beta’ mode, you can purchase credits for sending and receiving text message, and earn credits by receiving text messages to your app via one of a set of French premium short codes
take a look at the SMS API (beta)
click-to-call API
Click-to-call is the next API we’ll be making commercially available - in fact, by the time you read this it may well be live already as it's due to be commercialised in beta in the next few days.
This API allows you to establish phone calls between two numbers (landline, VoIP terminal or mobile) within your web application. Use it to build relationships among your users, or between your users and yourself.
take a look at the click-to-clall API (beta)
get the latest API news...
To help you stay up-to-date with the latest API news, we’ve set up an API ‘news alert’ – subscribe, and we’ll email you breaking news, as it happens.
find out more and subscribe
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mobile apps: apps now for sale on ‘Orange Downloads’ in the UK and France
The new ‘applications’ category on the embedded on-device portal ‘Orange Downloads’ has now gone live in the UK and France, and is showing an impressive impact on sales of apps featured.
This is an extremely visible, high profile route-to-market for your mobile apps – sales of the 5 apps featured on Orange Downloads in the UK in the first week went up by 113%; by the 4th week, sales were up by 277%...
find out how to get your apps onto Orange Downloads
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mobile apps: sell your French apps via Orange World in France
The ‘applications’ category for Orange World in France is now live – and we’re looking for even more French apps to put forward for this exciting route to market.
Orange France are actively promoting the new ‘applications’ channel to their customers – have you submitted your French apps to take advantage of this opportunity?
find out how to get your French apps onto Orange World in France
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mobile apps: sell your subscription apps in the UK Shop
If you have Java applications which require a monthly subscription charge, you can now submit them for inclusion in the Orange UK Application Shop.
Access all the technical details you need to add this functionality to your applications...
find out more
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mobile apps: submit your apps and win...
Submit your apps for the Orange Application Shop before 28th February 2009, and you could win a ‘best of’ award, including €1500 cash, external promotion on the Orange Partner website and in the Orange Partner newsletter, and promotion inside Orange to country product managers...
find out more and submit your apps now
Plus, ‘Sbp Diary Francais’ by Spb Software House, live in the Orange France Application Shop, was the lucky winner of the November €1000 cash draw.
We’re offering another cash draw for all new apps live in the Application Shop in January – find out more
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devices: 4 new specs available
Nokia N96
Operating System: Symbian OS
Screen Display: TFT, 16M colours; 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE; 3G; HSDPA
take a look at the full spec
Sony Ericsson C905
Operating System: Sony Ericsson Proprietary OS
Screen Display: TFT, 256K colours; 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE; 3G; HSDPA
take a look at the full spec
Samsung i200
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard
Screen Display: TFT, 256K colours (65K effective); 240 x 320 pixels, 2.3 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE; 3G; HSDPA
take a look at the full spec
Samsung F330
Operating System: Samsung Proprietary OS
Screen Display: TFT, 256K colours; 240 x 320 pixels, 2.1 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE: 3G; HSDPA (3.6 Mbps)
take a look at the full spec
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meet us: Orange Partner Camp – we hope you enjoyed it!
15-17 December 2008, Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S
Thanks to all of you who joined us in Florida for Orange Partner Camp at the end of last year.
We valued the opportunity to meet with many of you, both existing and new partners, and hear what you think about what Orange is doing, and how we can work together.
Full post-event details including competition winners and session presentations will be available on www.orangepartnercamp.com at the end of January – we’ll remind you to take a look in the next news update.
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