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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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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Nokia: Lumia 800 Launch Going Fine, Thanks

High preorder numbers at Orange.
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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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Vodafone Becomes Latest Carrier to Set Up Shop in Silicon Valley

Vodafone’s new Redwood City facility aims to identify partners and have them in trials on one of the company’s networks within nine months.
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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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The Data Plan of the Future is Available Now, at Least in Europe

While several American carriers have said they are considering plans that allow people to share a data plan among several devices, France Telecom has actually launched such plans in France, Spain, the United Kingdom and Austria. And they are having some success.
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T-Orange?

Google Rocks Real-Time Search

AMD and Intel Bury the Hatchet

Orange Juices U.K. iPhone Sales