hello...

The economy is the buzz word this month (and maybe for the remainder of this year and next).

Our industry has fortunately not slowed to the same pace as many. I suppose people continue to want to communicate in both good times and bad. They also seem to want the solace of using their handset for some entertainment or productivity. The Apple Application Shop continues to thrive; even my non-techie sister has bought lot's of apps and games for her iTouch.

I was in San Francisco last month for CTIA. We had over 500 people visit us in our booth. Although it was a great turnout for us, I felt that there were fewer people at the show this year than last. The event itself was uninspiring. The Navteq conference was a good one though the day before CTIA started, as was the SIRF event on day one. On the last day, Caroline Lewko held her Mobile Jam Session with great success. I also had the privilege of judging the GSMA Innovation Awards in September for the Israeli competition. Congratulations to InfoGin who have terrific technology to mobilise websites.

Registration has opened for Partner Camp and we have already had a significant number of sign-ups. Partner Camp takes place 15-17 December in Cape Canaveral, Florida. We are finalising the program now for the event and it is great! The number of requests from Orange country decision makers as well as many France Telecom groups are already over allocation. There will be more Orange/FT people to meet then ever before, and they are keen (as am I and the rest of the Orange Partner Team) to meet you. Please register now at www.orangepartnercamp.com. We have kept the price at $595 for all three days including your camp session, hotel, food and entertainment. Our Platinum Sponsor again this year is Access!

This month's newsletter features information on our new APIs, success stories (and we would like to write some more about yours), new devices, and details of the GSMA Mobile Innovation Awards. I hope you enjoy it.

Best regards,

Steve Glagow
VP, Orange Partner

Orange Partner Camp, Cape Canaveral 2008

15 - 17 December 2008
Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.

We've opened the registrations site for our 8th Partner Camp, and registrations are coming in thick-and-fast. Do not delay registering, or you might miss out!

For 72 hours, over 50 key Orange employees and over 300 third parties educate, discuss, inform, experiment, develop and even commercialise there and then.

Find out more about key areas of development within Orange, discover Orange tools to develop your apps, converged services and widgets, see our APIs and the new widget factory, commercialise mobile apps, games and VOD products, talk to us about your products and services within the mobile, internet and fixed line areas (and in particular the Digital Home) and share our longer-term view of the apps, devices and services needed for the future. Orange Design & Usability and Brand teams will also be on hand to help you understand and interpret their respective elements of product development.

Plus there will be organised and informal opportunities to meet relevant key decision makers from Orange France Telecom. All for just $595.

If you're either already working with Orange or want to work with Orange in the fixed, mobile, or internet lines of business, then please take advantage of this opportunity.

find out more and register now >

The 3-day camp is packed with activities. To make the most of these, why not get a head-start on planning - sign up to Partner Camp 'news alerts' and we'll email you programme updates, contest details and meeting opportunities as soon as they're available.

find out more below >

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do you have mobile apps, games or VOD products?
join us at the 'Orange mobile routes-to-market' partner days

7th October, London, UK
28th October, Paris, France

Show us your products, and we'll tell you more about our initiatives to help get your mobile applications, mobile games and mobile Video on Demand (VOD) products to market.

You'll be given feedback and recommendations for the next steps to achieve commercialisation of your product. We'll provide testing facilities, signing and other technical support, plus you'll be able to find out more about the Orange Partner Programme, and meet the team.

You must have a commercialised or nearly-commercialised product suitable for one or more of the three markets, to be eligible to attend this free-of-charge event.

find out more and register >

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Orange Partner success stories

We work with Orange Partner members to build relationships within Orange, and get your products to the market. It's what Orange Partner is all about.

We've just published 3 success stories, to let you know what others are doing and inspire you:

OnePIN with CallerXchange

A SIM application, CallerXchange is now commercialised in Orange Dominicana, and involved in commercial negotiations with Orange countries in Europe and Africa. Utilisation has topped 40%, with subscribers continuing to use the service repeatedly more than one year after launch.
find out more >

Redwood Technologies with momentem

A downloadable app, momentem is now live in the Orange UK Application Shop, and is being considered for other routes-to-market within other Orange Countries.
find out more >

NPTV with mob-it
A web-to-mobile service, mob-it matched an internal need and a commercial agreement was put in place to incorporate it into Orange's photo-sharing service, Pikeo. It is now live, re-named 'Pikeo 2 Go'.
find out more >

We're now interviewing lots of you to find out your views of how you've been successful with us, look forward to publishing details of more Orange Partner success stories soon.

If you want to shout about how you've been successful with Orange, then please let us know. We'll then get in touch with you, and take it from there.

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Orange Application Shop update...

activity in the UK, Belgium and Spain

The Orange UK Application Shop has now received promotion from the UK Orange World homepage on 3 separate occasions, and each has seen a significant increase in sales. More promotions are planned for the near future.

In Belgium , the Shop is now available via WAP on even more handsets, with the Web Shop still set to go live this winter.

And we are progressing with plans for the Orange Spain Shop, and will be publishing more details on this soon.

If you have English, French, Dutch or Spanish apps, then submit them to us now to be considered for the Orange Application Shop – a truly growing route-to-market.

To help you stay up-to-date with the latest Application Shop news, we've set up 'news alerts' – you can subscribe, and we'll email you breaking news, as it happens.
find out more below >

new apps win in the Orange Application Shop – deadline approaching

A reminder of the approaching submission deadline for apps appropriate for the Application Shop. We're offering great prizes for new applications that go live in the Shop between 1st September and 31st October this year:

find out more >

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access Orange APIs...

API contest – deadline Friday 10th October

The deadline for submissions for the Orange API contest is fast approaching! If you've produced (or are producing) a web or mobile application or widget using one or more of our APIs, then enter the Orange API contest, and be in with a chance to win some great prizes.

We're running the contest to recognise and reward you for using our APIs, and to find out more about exactly how you're using them so that we can continue to improve and diversify what we offer to you.

To enter, simply complete the entry form on our website, and include a URL where we can see what you've done.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 10th October.
find out more and enter the contest >

new release: Personal Messages API

The Personal Messages API allows you – through your application – to access information about the messages (email, SMS and MMS) of an Orange France customer, and build email alerts into your application.

An enriched version of the Personal Messages API is now available. In addition to being able to get information about the number of emails received and the number of unread emails, you can now also retrieve the number of unread SMSs, plus an overview of the last unread emails, including subject line and the first 100 characters of the message.
find out more >

new: Service Localisation API

The Service Localisation API enables your applications to access geographic coordinates (raw location data) of a given Orange France mobile phone, or a fleet.

The location system delivers location results as a triple coordinate (X;Y:Z). The services works on any mobile terminal, including indoor, with a 98% GSM territory network coverage.
find out more >

To help you stay up-to-date with the latest API news, we've set up 'news alerts' – you can subscribe, and we'll email you breaking news, as it happens.
find out more below >

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5 new devices

Key details of five of the most interesting new device specs on the Orange Partner site this month...
Orange Partner members can access the full specs by clicking on the relevant links below.

Samsung i900
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML; HTML; RSS feeds
Screen Display: TFT touchscreen; 256k colours; resolution: 240 x 400 pixels; 3.2 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE; 3G; HSDPA (7.2 Mbps)
Extra features include: 5 MP camera; Pocket Office; Accelerometer; GPS receiver with A-GPS support; DivX/XviD/WMV/MP4 player
Take a look at the full spec >

Nokia 6220
Operating System: Symbian OS
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML; HTML
Screen Display: TFT; 16m colours; resolution: 240 x 320 pixels; 2.2 inches
Network Data Support: 3G, EDGE, GPRS, HSDPA
Extra features include: 5 MP camera; Office applications; A-GPS; TV-out; MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
Take a look at the full spec >

Nokia E51
Operating System: Symbian OS
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML; HTML
Screen Display: TFT; 16m colours; resolution: 240 x 320 pixels
Network Data Support: 3G, EDGE, GPRS, WLAN
Extra features include: 2 MP camera; MP3 player; document viewer; video player; VoIP over WLAN
Take a look at the full spec >

Sony Ericsson G502
Operating System: Sony Ericsson Proprietary OS
Browser: WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront 3.4); RSS reader
Screen Display: TFT; 256k colours; resolution: 240 x 320 pixels; 2.0 inches
Network Data Support: 3G, EDGE, GPRS, HSDPA
Extra features include: 2 MP camera; Picture editor; MP3/MPEG4 player )
Take a look at the full spec >

Sony Ericsson W980i
Operating System: Sony Ericsson Proprietary OS
Browser: WAP 2.0; HTML (NetFront 3.4); xHTML; RSS reader
Screen Display: TFT; 256k colours; resolution: 240 x 320 pixels
Network Data Support: 3G, EDGE, GPRS, HSDPA
Extra features include: 3.15 MP camera, 2048x1536 pixels; video; Walkman player 3.0; TrackID music recognition
Take a look at the full spec >

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www.orangepartner.com – what would you improve?

To make our website even more user-friendly and representative of the Orange Partner member community, we've been looking at increasing site interactivity.

We have some ideas in mind, including personalised favourites and quick links, social bookmarking, plus most-read and most-searched listings, so you can see what others are interested in. Plus, you'll be able to PDF, print or email webpages.

Do you have any ideas? For example, how do you use the forum? And what about the developers@orange.com email helpline? Do you want a wiki?

We'd really like to know what you think - send us an email at developers@orange.com with 'improve the website' in the subject line.

All valid suggestions that we use will be credited in a future newsletter.

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GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards: EMEA tournament

The Mobile Innovation Global Awards are part of GSMA's worldwide commitment to finding, supporting and elevating the very best new innovators. The tournaments provide an opportunity for emerging technology companies to present ideas to leading industry investors, equipment vendors, and mobile operators and compete to win the global title.

Entries are now being accepted for the EMEA leg of the tournament, the last one of the awards. The entry deadline is 5 December 2008.

Winners of all 4 tournaments will go through to be considered as 'Top Innovators' at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 16 February 2009, and one overall 'Mobile Innovation Global Champion' will be selected.

find out more and enter the tournament >

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meet us - at industry events in October...

BlackBerry Developer Conference
20-22 October 2008
Santa Clara, CA, U.S

Orange Partner are delighted to show our support of BlackBerry's Developer Conference through gold sponsorship of this event.

Come and see us at stand 301, and don't miss Tom Angelucci talking about how Orange Partner can help bring your apps to market.

find out more >

Symbian Smartphone Show
21-22 October 2008
London, UK

Orange Partner is one of the official stakeholders of the Mobile DevFest, the developer conference taking place on the show floor. Don't miss Steve Parrott talking about routes-to-market for your mobile applications, and come and meet Steve and the rest of the team on our exhibition stand.

find out more >

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a word from our alliances

NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge
With focus on driving the development and visibility of innovative navigation solutions for wireless devices, NAVTEQ's Global LBS Challenge is once again looking for location-based applications which use NAVTEQ map data.

Orange Partner is pleased to sponsor the EMEA leg of this Challenge – open for registrations now, with a deadline of 24 October.

Since the launch of the Challenge in 2003, approximately 25% of the semi-finalist companies have gone on to receive venture capital funding or launched commercially-distributed applications, many on major wireless carriers.
find out more and register >

deCarta devCON'08: "Going Mobile: Location is the big deal"
22-24 October 2008
San Francisco, U.S

Geospatial software platform solution supplier deCarta's devCON'08 offers a first-hand perspective from the technologists and industry experts bringing new capabilities to the location-enhanced applications and services mobile market. Orange Partner are pleased to sponsor this event.

Learn about the very latest mobile LBS tools, innovations and trends, take part in comprehensive mobile LBS workshops, and learn from and network with industry experts.
find out more and register >

Orange Application Shop: getting to market with Orange – NAVTEQ webinar
30th October 2008 (exact time TBC)

Orange Partner's Steve Parrott will be talking about the Orange Application Shop route-to-market in a webinar hosted by NAVTEQ.

Steve will explain the steps involved in getting your product into the Shop, and outline the additional benefits of being in the Shop including exposure of your product to decision makers across Orange and the France Telecom Group.

To participate, you'll need to join NAVTEQ's Network For Developers (NN4D) – a global community and a place to connect with thought leaders highly invested in the location ecosystem.
find out more and participate with NAVTEQ >

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'news alerts'- stay up-to-date

And finally - we're adding some 'news alert' options to www.orangepartner.com, so Orange Partner members can subscribe to get the latest news on key topics, as soon as the info's available.

To start with, we're setting up 'news alerts' for areas that we know to be of interest to you: the Orange Application Shop, Orange APIs, and Orange Partner Camp Cape Canaveral.

find out more and subscribe >

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