Bouygues and Vivendi in mobile deal
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PARIS Bouygues Telecom and Vivendi Universal, both of France, began a new mobile phone service Wednesday in an attempt to bolster their market share and increase revenue from young customers.
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DIGITAL Bridges, the mobile phone games company, has acquisitions in its sights after signing an exclusive deal with the worldâs biggest computer game publisher.
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(InfoWorld) - As part of a strategy to generate greater revenue from mobile data services, Vodafone Group has collaborated with Palm to launch a smartphone modeled after theÂ Treo 750vÂ but at a fraction of the price and with a newly designed user interface. Vodafone will exclusively sell theÂ Palm Treo 500v, which debuts in Europe in October, for three months, after which the handset will be available to other operators and retail outlets, in Europe and Asia, Roy Bedlow, vice president and general manager of Palm Europe, said Wednesday. Vodafone had a similar agreement with Palm when the operator launched the Treo 750v last year. Pricing of the 500v will vary according to market. The handset will be available free or for a small fee together with a 12- to 18-month contract in the U.K., according to Vodafone spokeswoman Helen Brockett. In Germany, pricing for the handset will begin at â¬30 ($41) and increase slightly according to the conditions of the operator's two-year contracts. By comparison, the Treo 750v sold for more than â¬500 with a two-year contract in Germany when it was launched. However, unlike the Treo 750v, which is targeted primarily at business users, the 500v lacks touchscreen capabilities, largely to lower the handset's cost, Bedlow said. The phone runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Standard operating system, which doesn't support touchscreen capability, unlike the Professional version used in the 750v model. Although the Treo 500v runs on 3G (third-generation) networks, it doesn't support the more recent version HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) protocol, again mostly for cost reasons, according to Bedlow. But the new smartphone is packed with a few features missing in the 750v, including a new interface designed to give users faster and easier access to Vodafone Live mobile Internet applications. The applications are shown in a carousel that users can manipulate for easy navigation, according to Bedlow. In addition to Live, the carousel includes a number of applications such as Google Maps, YouTube and eBay. The Treo 500v is designed for one-hand use, according to Bedlow. Like the Treo 750v, the 500v supports Microsoft Direct Push technology to deliver Outlook mail, as well as Vodafone's own push e-mail service. Users can also configure the handset to send and receive e-mail from the Vodafone account or from other e-mail accounts. "With the Treo 500v, Vodafone wants to broaden its user base for mobile data services such as the Internet and e-mail," Bedlow said. "The handset makes more features of high-end mobile phones available to more users." The new smartphone has 150MB of internal memory and a slot for a microSD expansion card. It is also equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology. As part of the European rollout, Vodafone will offer the Treo 500v next month in Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the U.K., with other European countries as well as the Asia-Pacific region to follow, according to Bedlow. The Treo 500v will not be available in the U.S., although Palm is planning new devices later this year for North American market, according to a company spokesman. Â
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Vivendi Universal SA has reached a deal with French authorities to change its tax regime in a deal that will boost its bottom line, the entertainment and telecommunications giant said Thursday.
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The deal, which was leaked to the press last week, will see the UK-based mobile operator deliver data services -- such as games, ringtones and entertainment -- through a platform that has been credited with making NTT DoCoMo the force that it is in
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Bouygues, the French construction group which has diversified into television and mobile telephones, reported a 92-percent leap of first-half net profits, owing mainly to strong mobile telephone performance.
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German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has agreed with French firm Vivendi Universal and Polish energy group Elektrim to buy Poland's biggest mobile phone group PTC, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported ...
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EU regulators on Wednesday approved French mobile phone operator SFR to buy Tele2 AB's French fixed-line telephone and broadband unit, after SFR and its parent Vivendi promised to stay away from exclusive Internet broadcast rights to blockbuster films and to offer content to rivals.
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Although no official announcement has come from Apple itself yet, Orange on Thursday said that it had won the contract to bring the device to its customers in France.
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TechWeb - Wireless carrier T-Mobile International has signed a deal to use in Europe a variety of popular brands from Warner Bros.
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LONDON, November 25  - Dutch electronics and semiconductor giant, Philips (PHI1.ETR), has sold its entire stake in the French media company, Vivendi Universal.
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Company to offer 3 devices with Bluetooth and GPS capabilities.
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Vivendi fourth-quarter sales rose 1.2 percent as buoyant trading at its Maroc Telecom and in video games helped compensate declines at its music and French mobile businesses.
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French telecoms and media firm Vivendi   said on Friday it planned to raise 1-2 billion euros  in equity as its SFR mobile unit prepares to buy into Neuf  Cegetel and announces a bid for the rest.
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PARIS Vivendi Universal, the entertainment and communications group, clinched a deal with the French government on Thursday that would reduce the company&#39;s tax bill by billions of euros over the next several years in exchange for a pledge to create
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Vivendi fourth-quarter sales rose 1.2  percent as buoyant trading at its Maroc Telecom and in video  games helped compensate declines at its music and French mobile  businesses.
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DoCoMo has tapped up handset vendors to create the platform, which works with both Linux and Symbian phones, working with NEC and Panasonic on the former and Fujitsu on the latter.