United States
Research & Development in Boston and San Francisco
Among its 18 R&D centres on three continents, France Telecom created a lab in
Boston in 2002. The lab's mission is to create and develop innovative commercial
offerings
for customers of Orange, the group's commercial brand. The lab works in close
collaboration with the local U.S. ecosystem and benefits the group's R&D global
resources.
The Orange Labs is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the epicenters of American academic and entrepreneurial innovation. The Lab consists of a multidisciplinary and multinational team of approximately 60 engineers and scientists who work in the areas of voice services enablers, new handsets enablers prototyping, W3C related standards, context aware mobility, and business mobility services.
The lab’s vision is to help France Telecom become a model for accessing information and connecting people in a seamless and simple way. Its mission is to leverage the local U.S. ecosystem and to explore new technologies in the mobile, fixed, and broadband areas.
In the area of media services the Boston Lab designed and built a novel music recommendation framework that allows users to push or pull recommendations from their buddies, retrieve recommendations from the collected pool of participants, and generate smart play lists within their library.
Many of these accomplishments were made possible by partnerships with local corporate R&D Labs such as Nokia and Motorola, technology start-ups and premier research universities such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia.Among its 18 Orange Labs on three continents, France Telecom created a centre in San Francisco in 1997. The lab's mission is to anticipate, develop, explore and research technologies and business models coming from the Silicon Valley ecosystem. This member of Orange Labs network, works in close collaboration with the local U.S. ecosystem and benefits the group's R&D global resources. In 2005 the San Francisco lab was chosen to become an Orange Developers Centre supporting the Orange Partners Programme (www.orangepartner.com).
France
Telecom R&D, LLC.
175 Second Street,
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
phone: 1-617-995-8000
France Telecom R&D San Francisco, LLC
Research & Development
801 Gateway Blvd, Suite #500
South San Francisco, CA 94080
United States
phone :+1 (650) 875-1500
fax : +1 (650) 875-1505
The France Telecom San Francisco lab has already obtained some solid results. For example, Pikeo, a new photo sharing site, was launched at the 2006 France Telecom autumn collection.
The Silicon Valley ecosystem includes mostly start-ups and Internet companies in various fields ranging from Information Technology, Search, Online Advertising, or telecommunications manufacters.
The Orange Labs in San Francisco has partnerships with the scientific and academic research communities in the United States including Stanford and Berkeley as well as with major industry players such as Adobe and Microsoft. It has relationships with Silicon Valley start-ups and is also active in research bodies.
