Orange has announced an exclusive partnership with French music streaming brand Deezer.
It’s launched Deezer Mobile in the UK as an exclusive service for Orange ‘pay monthly’ users. Customers on the ‘Panther’ price plan will have ad-free mobile music streaming included as part of their tariff.
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The GSMA has announced that the Global Mobile Awards 2012 are now open for entry. The awards will be presented at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February.
There’ll be eight categories of awards:
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Chinese search engine Baidu, which dominates the search market in China, says it’ll create its own mobile operating system based on the Android OS.
It’s called Baidu Yi (meaning ‘easy’) and will integrate Baidu services, including maps, music and Chinese handwriting recognition.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Every so often I see a piece of mobile technology that I really want to get my hands on. Most recently, that’s been the Looxcie 2 – which is probably best described as a wearable camcorder.
Now, that in itself is nothing new – it’s possible to buy a set of sunglasses with a built-in mini video camera or even a small digital camera that fits to your cycle helmet – but this has two distinct tricks up its sleeve.
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Telefónica has announced three significant changes to its organisational structure.
It’s setting up a new business unit called Telefónica Digital. Matthew Key, who joined O2 in 2002 and had previously been in charge of Telefónica Europe, will run the unit. It’ll be based in London with offices in Madrid, Sao Paulo, Silicon Valley and a number of locations in Asia. Around 2,500 staff will be drawn from Telefonica and its associated businesses.
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