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  • BIC Phone Launches In France: €49, Mobile & Ready To Go

    BIC PhoneBIC, famous for disposable pens and lighters, is launching the BIC Phone in France today.

    As with their other products, the BIC Phone focuses on core functions – making and receiving phone calls & texts.

    Available in two playful colours, citrus orange and lime green, the USP of the BIC mobile phone is that it’s ready to go when you buy it.

    None of this normal fiddling around with wrestling the battery out of the packaging, finding the charger and leaving it for X hours to get it ready to use – the BIC Phone is charged a ready to go.

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  • Le Moteur Search: FranceTelecom Takes On Google

    Le Moteur: FranceTelecom Take On Google SearchDo you remember back in the early Web days when everyone wanted to start their own search engine? You couldn’t move for people starting search engines, then Google hit and everyone – bar Microsoft, their huge cash pile and their Live search – backed away.

    FranceTelecom have now launched their search engine, Le Moteur – The Engine, to any non-linguists.
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  • 24/24 Video By Orange France Gets Paramount Deal

    Orange France have picked up a deal with the US studio Paramount Pictures, to distribute their content in France.

    24/24 Video By Orange France Gets Paramount DealIt’s not just old content that will be available, but new productions from Paramount including DreamWorks titles, which will be among the latest films available.

    Orange France customers with a broadband digital television package or a High-Speed Internet package will be able to enjoy a Video-On-Demand programming schedule including the studio’s latest releases, such as Mission Impossible III, Over the Hedge and World Trade Center, among others.

    There’s over 2,500 films, in French or original language versions with subtitles, available on the 24/24 Video service currently, which costs from 3 Euros to rent for 24 hours. Usual features such as unlimited viewing, pause functions and fast forward and rewind are available.