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In a first round of financing, PONTIS Venture Partners, a venture capital company headquartered in Vienna, Austria, as well as a group of business angels are participating with a EUR 2.3 million investment in Xendex, one of Europe’s leading developers for mobile games. The former founders of 3United mobile solutions PLC, an Austrian company that was bought for EUR 55 million in early 2006 by global market leader Verisign, are among the business angels. Xendex also has offices in London and Krakow and has generated sales growth of 80% in the last year and now has over 70 channel partners, including T-Mobile, Orange and O2.

Tags: 3United Mobile Solutions PLC, O2, Orange, PONTIS Venture Partners, T-Mobile, Verisign, Xendex

Someone once said that Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen and soccer is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. Well if you just love to see a bunch of seriously overpaid thugs strut their stuff on a soccer pitch then today is good news. Grab yourself an Orange mobile phone and you will be able to see all English Premiership games on your handset. If the ‘bootiful game’ is not your thing then no worries, Setanta Golf is also thrown into the £5 a month package, presumably as you have no chance of actually seeing a golf ball on a screen the size of a politicians intellect. In three months time you will be off to the opticians - I guarantee it.

Orange has become the first British network to offer sports programming from pay-TV group Setanta, making its mobile TV service the only one available where football fans can watch all televised Barclays Premiership games.

Mobile phone customers willing to pay £5 a month will get access to Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2 and Setanta Golf from today. Orange already provides Sky’s mobile TV service so anyone willing to shell out for both will have access to every televised match of the Barclays Premier League.

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Tags: Orange, Setanta