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MobiTV Tries to Shutter Howard Forums Over Posted URL

MobiTV is the mobile TV provider for Sprint, which costs $20 a month. They'd keep content they charged you for protected, so freeloaders couldn't swoop in and pick up the same streams, right? Wrong. By punching in qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd, anyone with the right phone can access the streams. That info was posted on Howard Forums, and now MobiTV is claiming that posting that information violates their intellectual property rights. So they're trying to shutdown Howard Forums entirely. Clarification: Sprint tells us that they had "nothing to do with this situation." More »

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Pray You're Not on "The List": Sylar Coming to Your Cell Phone On Demand

NBC Universal is teaming up with MobiTV to bring its TV shows to the small(er) screen: Full-length episodes of "Heroes," "The Office," "Monk," and "Battlestar Galactica" will be available over the air on demand for $1.99 (awesome) but currently only for "a 24-hour viewing period" (not awesome). More »

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MobiTV Demos WiMax Video Reception: Crispy Clean

We've heard a lot of talk about WiMax, the Wi-Fi that can go for miles and miles, and now MobiTV is demonstrating its first implementation in a WiMax broadcast network. Engineers were transmitting TV signals from just a few feet away, but this techno-demo shows us what it'll be like at the end of 2007 when Sprint springs the WiMax service on us all. More »

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Palm Gets Live MobiTV

Here's a nice extra for your Palm TX handheld—MobiTV. 12 channels (mostly sports and news) are available through the service as long as you can pick up a WiFi connection. All you need is a pricey subscription to a data service plan from your cell carrier and you're good to go. More »

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