Fox Mobile unveiled its Bitbop venture this week that promises to provide a wealth of TV and movie entertainment from a variety of top-tier studios, and if you can get past the fact that you're actually going to have to pay for this content, it's shaping up to be a pretty promising system when it launches later this year.

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Currently its locker accepts content only from the Web sites of customers that include Fox Music, Fox Sports Mobile, Sony BMG, TVT Records and Walt Disney .

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Pearl then formed Mobile Content Venture (MCV) along with NBCU, FOX and Ion to commercialize a mobile television service that will use their stations' over-the-air spectrum to deliver TV programming directly to mobile and handheld devices.

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While Glu does create its own games, the company also strikes deals with other game companies and well-known brands and makes their games available as well--so you'll find mobile games from Atari, Celador, Fox, PopCap Games, Sega Europe, Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting, Hasbro and Harrah's Entertainment.

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They've got to be better than the utterly unscientific "text-in" voter surveys, in which Fox News and MSNBC invited viewers to weigh in by mobile phone texting.

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The fox was first spotted in the wild at last year's Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai.

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