Elsewhere, the preferred technology for beaming television to mobile phones is known as DVB-H (short for digital video broadcasting to a hand-held).

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On Saturday night, as supporters camped outside his headquarters in Lahore's Model Town area, Mr. Sharif sat on a couch in a room packed with close advisers, a remote control in his hand, as he flicked between TV channels broadcasting the vote count.

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My first big splash on the internet came in 2004 when I was one of the first 30 podcasters in the world, hand-coding my RSS feed and speaking timidly into a microphone, broadcasting intimate thoughts to a global audience.

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That's because the hidden hand behind the cutoff is Ergen's longtime nemesis Rupert Murdoch, who controls satellite competitor DirecTV and runs Fox Broadcasting.

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