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The gloves are off now...or, rather, they are on, and then off, and then on again. Last night Robert Downey Jr. turned up at the MTV Movie Awards with an extended heretofore mostly unseen clip from Marvel Studios' cannot-get-here-fast enough Avengers: Age of Ultron. It’s a let 'er rip 90 seconds of the Iron Man versus...
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Swipe Telecom and MTV recently teamed up to announce a co-branded phablet in India known as the MTV Volt. This phablet features a 6-inch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 854x480. The Volt runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and supports dual-SIM cards for 2G/3G, 2G GPRS / EDGE / HSPA. You'll find a 1GHz dual-core processor as well as...
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Media corporations have been fighting the battle to regain control of their content for years. They’ve sent out countless DMCA notices, but it seems as soon as they succeed in taking down one video clip, five more have already appeared. A quick glance at sites like YouTube or MySpace reveals countless videos that were published without proper...
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It was all very suspicious, an email in our inbox from MTV and the Beatles' Apple Corps. It seemed to point to a "Rock Band" link. But it was the Wall Street Journal that solidified things. According to the all too familiar anonymous sources, we have a deal a-cooking.This is a major coup for MTV, getting the Beatles to sign...
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If you are old enough to remember what MTV was like back in the 80's, then somewhere in the far recesses of your mind--sandwiched between memories of Pet Rocks and scrunchies--you once knew that when MTV first launched, "MTV" actually stood for "Music Television." With seemingly back-to-back reality shows and teen dramas now, you'd think that...
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MTV is launching a social network, which makes sense, given the youth of its audience. What's different about this social network is its focus on activism. The site, Think.MTV.com, is designed to be a resource for social and political issues, aiming to inform as well as let users connect with other like-minded people on issues...
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MTV has decided to shut down its URGE service, while joining RealNetworks and Verizon Wireless together in a joint venture, centered around RealNetworks' Rhapsody. URGE users will be able to migrate their accounts from URGE to Rhapsody. As part of this alliance, MTV Networks and Real are forming a new company, Rhapsody America,...
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