Orange & Vodafone aim to offer mobile social networking to their subscribers

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Both Vodafone and Orange are aiming to get their subscribers interacting with each other by launching new software on their handsets.
Orange launched Social Life in the UK, an application which enables subscribers post to their social networking profiles and send messages via the Orange World mobile site using one login.
Orange PAYG subscribers get free access and it’s also free for some monthly subscribers.Orange also announced the launch of its Orange Widget Player,” a video player providing quick access to news, sports and other content from the Orange World homepage.
On the other hand, Vodafone will roll out social networking tools to its wider network, more than a year after buying Dutch mobile social plaftorm Zyb for £25 million. The service known as Vodafone People,” which organizes users’ contacts and messages across mobile and PC. And it’s not just for Vodafone subscribers, but people on 247 networks.