Mobile Content Bits: Mobile TV Progress; Nasdaq Smartphone Index; Facebook App Downloads

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Mobile DTV: At NAB, the Open Mobile Video Coalition provided an update on its efforts to roll-out national broadcast TV to mobile devices To date, it says 45 stations have started mobile broadcasts with Washington D.C. kicking off on May 3 and two stations in Detroit following. The association also says it has gained the support from Intel (NSDQ: INTC). Finally, the first available consumer device will be the “Tivizen,” which was funded by broadcasters. The small device, from Valups, receives mobile TV signals and then re-transmits them to Wi-Fi devices, such as a laptop or mobile phone. It will cost $149 beginning in May.

— The NASDAQ and Consumer Electronics Association has teamed up to create the “OMX CEA Smartphone Index,” which consists of 84 companies that are involved in one way or another with the “building, design and distribution of handsets, hardware, software, and mobile networks associated with the development, sale and usage of smartphones.” It has some of the usual suspects like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), and has a starting valuation of 250.00. [Engadget]

— Facebook downloads: GetJar says that more than 50 million people have downloaded Facebook

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