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Facebook, Twitter, and the iPhone are TV's only hope, according to Elisabeth Murdoch, CEO of Shine Limited, a British television production and distribution company. According to Broadcasting & Cable, Ms. Murdoch told TV producers and distributors at the annual National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) convention: "We in the TV business have to catch up with \nwhat our audience is doing. We can no longer afford to be one-screen business."

With SlingPlayer, the IPhone becomes a mini-TV and the iPad a comfortable portable TV, on AT & T's 3G Network

Disney has created iPhone apps that act as tie-ins with movies, among them an app that allows users to play as Alice and solve puzzles in Wonderland.

If an exemption to the DMCA is granted for jailbreaking iPhones, it likely won't apply to the iPad.

Advertising is expected to play a larger role as a revenue source for iPhone application developers as users become less willing to pay for the applications themselves.

"The Washington Post is using its new iPhone app -- the first of several forthcoming products -- as a test of the market for paid mobile news, according to Goli Sheikholeslami, the Post's vice president and general manager for digital operations."

"MobiTV has released a report today touting the fact that it's witnessed a whopping 49 percent boost in daily viewership over the last year; the company claims that a plethora of live events helped drive that growth, but it's pretty hard to ignore the fact that iPhone support launched in 2009, too."

"Movie tie-in games are tough to pull off, especially if you stick too closely to the story of the movie (hello, spoilers). \nHowever, Toy Story 3 hopes to pull it off with an open world mode that stays true to the movie while still giving players something entertaining (and non-spoilerific) to do. Disney Interactive Studios announced a Toy Story 3 tie-in game Wednesday that's coming out for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, and the iPhone/iPod Touch. No surprises there; but we were glad to hear there's an \nopen world mode in the game that adds a touch of originality to the game called Toy Box."

"There's an iPhone App for CBS News and the network's content is available on FLO TV, both distributed via devices with the type of audience data the network seeks. Seidel said the network elected not to participate in the Open Mobile Video Coalitions because it has no audience authentication for over-the-air, mobile DTV."

""Some of you bring your laptop into the bathroom," he continued. "I know you all bring your iPhone into the bathroom." Those of us who work in digital media may need to start thinking about those baskets full of magazines and Sunday papers in bathrooms everywhere."

"Just 30 or so of the nation's 1,600 digital TV stations are equipped to broadcast M-DTV. The upgrade requires a "relatively modest," $100,000 investment, said Arland. He believes 2010 will see 'many stations jumping on board . . . It's been a 'chicken or egg' thing. They're just waiting for the hardware to come out.'"