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It was a little after noon in oxford, England, last Thursday when Gina Policelli got the news by phone. No, no one called her up; she tuned in her mobile phone to
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News 24 and caught the latest reports of the Liberal Democrat party conference, then flipped over to Sky News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to...