Orange intends to introduce SIM cards that’ll enable contactless payments – and it’s also aiming to make sure its smartphones are compatible with contactless payment systems.
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It’s time for yet another Christmas mobile shopping report. This one comes from Orange UK, which has been talking to customers using its Orange World mobile portal.
The report says almost a third (31%) of mobile shoppers have been ‘multitasking’ by looking for presents whilst also watching TV.
Orange UK is the latest organisation to publish predictions for 2011. In this case it’s asked over two thousand of its small and medium business customers what they’re expecting to do next year.
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Orange has launched a new set of services called ‘Orange Partner Connect’ designed to let application developers submit applications directly to Orange for distribution in its international ‘App Shop’.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast has a strong retail flavour. There's talk of subsidised iPads arriving in the UK on Orange and T-Mobile, along with joint-branded shops from the two brands. We hear about the appearance of a stand-along Tesco Phone Shop in Bristol, we discover that a fifth of UK consumers will be doing some form of mobile Christmas shopping this year and we contemplate Acer's new app store.
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