Archive for the 'orange' Category

To lé ene Emtel ou ene Zoranze?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

This question from many a mauritian buying a mobile phone drives us to reflect on a Brand’s relevance and its social influence.
When a national figure’s job position becomes open, it creates a competitive tension between the postulants because such an opportunity represents a lot of goodwill and prospect, not to mention the attractive salary package [...]

FUP PWNAGE

Friday, August 1st, 2008

I’d sent the URL to a report (PDF - hosted on a fast webhost4life server) to a collegue of mine who had subscribed to the MyT package (for home users.) He told me it was slow during day time and sent me a snapshot.

Is the MyT service that bad during the day? Why is FUP [...]

Surviving the Software Limitations of the Net PC

Monday, July 21st, 2008

First, do read Kurt’s blog entry about the Net PC. It is insightful.
So, what if you did get one with a high priced keyboard, mouse, and monitor, regardless of whether you’ve known about the limitations or not?! How do you survive?
Viva web apps!
Important Note: You’ve only 30 hours of internet access per month. Use the [...]

Orange Sitara goes even further…

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Most of us complained a lot of times that Orange Sitara was completely copied from other international famous dance/singing competition…

Well, seems they tried to be original, for once….
Since some weeks they brought a new concept into the competion….
They made the participants sing, dance and even the mentors had to perform live…
And one of them thought:
Why [...]

UOM End of Academical Yr Party 2008

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Back to University yesterday, this time to ‘chill out’ in The University Of Mauritius End of Academical Year Party 2008.

Early in the morning, i set out for a long drive since i had taken my day off from work to hmm hmm…
Late in the evening, i reached Reduit where i met lots of friends (again) [...]

Mondotek’s Alive with the Teletubbies WLOL

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Orange has launched a contest. Winning the quiz will lead to you obtaining tickets for the Mondotek concert. Check it out here.
You can still buy tickets.
Les billets a Rs 450, et Rs 1,000 en VIP, sont disponibles, dans les magasins Blue Steel, au Pizza Dot Kom et MC N Ben a Beau Bassin, au Paradise [...]

wikipedia.org not accessible using myT?

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

This post was initially destined to contain a new soundtrack, from the TV Serial Monk.

But while looking for more info on Monk, i found out that Wikipedia.org was not accessible!

Not even the english version at http://en.wikipedia.org/I tried to ping, but damn it, my command prompt is now working lol !So, i tried to access if [...]

orange.mu, 1 month after

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

It has been 1 month since www.orange.mu was launched and overall I’am quite satisfied with the new portal, compared to the old Servihoo one.
The main features which I’am very satisfied, from a technical point of view :

built on bleeding edge technology (does anyone hear memcache here ;-))
almost all pages are valid XHTML 1.0 transitional (i [...]

Orange in France deals for selling iPhone at the end of the year

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

From reports, French people may now start waiting patiently for Christmas shopping for the widely acclaimed iPhone. It will be the popular Orange mobile distributor that will be the sole distributor in France. Deal that shall be announced during the IFA meeting in Berlin through the next few weeks.

Read more about this in French here. [...]