Tag Archives: Orange

Orange and Netvibes deal brings Widgets to the fore

Orange made a very interesting announcement yesterday regarding their support of widgets. Their tie up with Widget Behemoth Netvibes is a big positive step towards adopting widgets as a platform. This ties neatly into the conversations that were going on in Barcelona about unified app platforms. Ericsson, for example, use widgets as the basis for [...]

MWC Report 1. App bunfight – Cream horns at the ready

It seems the big bun fight at MWC this year was the war of the application store. Not, as in previous years, the scrap for platform or handset supremacy, but the realisation that handset manufacturers and network operators need to consider how to create a unified development environment and experience for applications across all devices [...]

Blyk is dead. Long live Blyk!

An interesting piece of news came up in the FT today. Apparently Blyk has changed tack and done a deal with Voda in Holland, possibly admitting that it is coming to the end of the MVNO road. Much is made of how, using an existing operator’s infrastructure, it would be possible to scale the advertising [...]

Is the App Store the saviour of J2ME?

The Apple App Store opened earlier this year to a fanfare of hype as part of the “iPhone The Sequel” Summer blockbuster. Again I was sceptical until I plugged in through my trusty Touch, and I saw how, 7 years ago, a few at Hutchison Telecom dreamed the 3G world would be. Ah, the integration, [...]

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