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Coming Soon, to a Cell Phone Near You

By Chris Versace

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The next big frontier in video consumption is the mobile phone. Most people now watch video programming on a television, and video consumption on desktops and laptops continues to gain traction thanks to streaming and non-streaming services from companies like Netflix , Hulu, iTunes and others. As for "the third screen," there's been a lot of talk about video on mobile phones, but it's a market waiting to happen. Still, for investors looking for a play on this burgeoning market, Qualcomm offers a good long-term play. Viewing habits are shifting as technologies for video consumption become available. Nielsen recently released a study on how domestic consumers watch video across these three platforms -- television, computer and mobile phone. The number of people consuming time-shifted programming -- via a TiVo or other digital video recorder, or through services like iTunes -- grew 9% in the fourth...

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