Orange Exec: Android, Windows Phone and iPhones Are Gas Guzzlers and Developing World Needs a Prius

Senior VP Yves Maitre says all the major smartphone operating systems are too costly and bandwidth-hungry to meet the needs of the next several billion smartphone buyers.
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That Intel Phone Coming This Week: It’s for India’s Lava

Some deductive reason suggests the little-known Indian firm will be first to market with an Intel-based Android phone later this week.
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EC Confirms Inquiry Into Possible Telecom Collusion

Europe’s five biggest telecoms could face an investigation into possible collusion.
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Intel Announces More Phone Customers, Plans for Speedier Chips

France Telecom’s Orange, China’s ZTE and India’s Lava Technologies will use Intel’s chips. The company also announced its future processor road map.
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Orange to Bring Free Wikipedia Access to Cell Users in Africa and Middle East

Over the course of 2012, the carrier will bring the service to 20 countries in the region it covers.
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AT&T’s De La Vega: Shared Data Plans Still in the Works

AT&T’s mobile unit CEO Ralph de la Vega tells AllThingsD that plans are still on the way. But, he says, sometimes it’s better not to rush things.
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Those Family Data Plans Are Finally Coming to the U.S. Next Year

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said his company should have them on the market next year; AT&T expects devices to share a bucket of megabytes in the not-too-distant future.
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Orange Friends Facebook in Effort to Boost Smartphones, Feature Phones

The unit of France Telecom is teaming with the social network and Alcatel on three phones aimed at both mature and emerging markets.
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T-Mobile’s Bobsled Now Running on iPhone, Android and the Web

T-Mobile says it has expanded its voice-over-IP calling service to run on mobile devices, as the No. 4 U.S. carrier looks for new inroads into the calling market.
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U.S. Carriers Silent on Motoroogle, but France Telecom Gives It a Thumbs Up

There’s been a deafening silence from Verizon, AT&T and Sprint in the wake of Google’s announcement that it aims to buy Motorola’s phone unit for $12.5 billion.
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