Posts Tagged ‘Vodafone’

LiMo Will be Vodafone’s Default OS

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Linux | 2 Comments »

To further integrate their Vodafone 360 portal into the lives of consumers, the company has announced that all Vodafone branded handsets for the coming years will carry the LiMo OS.

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Vodafone Renames MyWeb to 360?

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Many sources say this week will be the big rollout of the Vodafone 360 platform in several countries. A few months back we already reported on a softlaunch of Vodafone MyWeb in the Netherlands.

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Vodafone NL Prepares MyWeb for iPhone

August 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Vodafone NL has recently started to replace it's Live! portal by the new MyWeb portal (we wrote about the migration some time ago). As a next step, the operator prepared the portal for the iPhone.

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Vodafone to Migrate From Live! To MyWeb

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Vodafone Netherlands has confirmed that the operator will start migrating consumers away from it's Live! portal somewhere in the next few weeks. The same will happen in 7 other countries.

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Nostromo Signs Exclusive Aggregation Deal for VF CZ

July 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nostoromo has won an exclusive contract with Vodafone Czech to provide content provisioning services for Vodafone's Live! internet and Live! mobile internet portals.

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JavaOne: Alliance to Simplify Java

June 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

An alliance between Sun, Vodafone, Orange and SonyEricsson is working on a way to simplify Java development and deployment for J2me developers world-wide.

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FoneStarz Launches App Store with Vodafone Egypt

June 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Fonestarz has signed a deal with Vodafone Egypt to manage and deliver a full blown app store like environment on the Vodafone Live! portal.

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Vodafone to Release an App Store Too

May 14th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

It seems Vodafone is also jumping the bandwagon as they announce their own App Store. The news was to be expected as competitor O2 (Telefonica) has been making a lot of noise around their Litmus App Store and T-Mobile and AT&T also have their App Stores in place.

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Verizon Joins JIL

April 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Verizon is joining the Joint Innovation Lab. This initiative (which has been started by Vodafone, Softbank and Chine Mobile) is focusing at developing a global widget platform in the hope to create on standard for all OS’s.

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Vodafone MobileClicks 2009 Fund

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

At MobileMonday in Amsterdam yesterday, Vodafone announced the plans for the 2009 edition of its MobileClicks fund that aims at helping start-ups enter the world of mobile entertainment and services.