The criminal underworld and inter-generational conflict of The Sopranos is to be beamed to mobile phones, following Cingular Wireless ' announcement Thursday that it has inked an exclusive multi-year deal with premium cable TV network HBO to send video clips of hit television shows to mobile phones.

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This will help SPH - which owns large stakes in Singapore Cable Vision and cellular phone company M1 - deliver multi-media content to PCs and bring data to handheld devices like Palm Pilots and third-generation mobile phones.

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Two months after deciding to step down as a judge on American Idol, global superstar Jennifer Lopez today announces a multi-year partnership with nuvoTV, an English-language cable network for U.S. Latinos.

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In return, cable companies will be able to lock consumers into multi-year contracts and get first dibs on high-volume streamers, the most profitable market segment.

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But rather than lament the loss of the creatively ambitious, mid-priced drama that once brought multi-dimensional characters to the big screen, he, like his many of his cable cohorts, has stepped up to fill the void.

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