Digital Audio/Video News

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia is preparing to launch a new music-bundled phone, photos from the firm's website showed on Friday. Full Story »

Amazon has unveiled a "limited time only" promotion called Disc+ On Demand that has the potential to change the way we consume media. Now when you purchase select DVD or Blu-ray discs, you can download a digital copy of your film for instant viewing via your Mac, PC, Roku, TiVo, and more. This promotion is the perfect way to get a little more out of the Christmas gifts you buy for others; you can watch the movies first. Full Story »

Chinese regulators have taken a wide-ranging war against online porn one step further by closing a series of popular BitTorrent and other video-sharing Web sites in recent days. Full Story »

Best Buy has the Insignia 52-Inch NS-LCD52HD-09 HDTV on sale for $1000, $600 off the original price (and $400 off our review unit's price), plus free shipping. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - In a Dec. 7 story about the Vevo online music video venture, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Google Inc.'s YouTube will receive a fee for providing Vevo's technology but will not share in advertising revenue. YouTube will be paid for its technology and also will receive a small percentage of Vevo's ad revenue. Full Story »

NEW YORK - IPhone users who jam the airwaves by watching video on their devices will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T Inc. executive said Wednesday. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a grainy black and white Web video, similar to footage from an in-store security camera, you can make out the muscular frame of rapper 50 Cent, smashing dozens of TV sets with a baseball bat. Full Story »

SEATTLE - Shares of RealNetworks Inc. soared Wednesday after investors learned that the digital entertainment company will not have to pay damages to VeriSign Inc. Full Story »

PARIS (Reuters) - Taking a page out of Apple's book, France Telecom's mobile phone unit Orange launched its own shop to sell downloadable videos, games, music and other content to its 130 million mobile phone subscribers. Full Story »

YouTube-backed video site Vevo is now live after a star-studded launch event in New York City. Full Story »

LONDON (Billboard) - American pop singer-songwriter Pink will headline the 2010 Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park on July 2. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - MySpace on Tuesday announced that it has bought online music service imeem and is weaving it into the social networking community. Full Story »

DALLAS - Texas Instruments Inc. raised its fourth-quarter profit and sales outlook on Tuesday, citing an improving market for chips used in cell phones and other electronic gadgets like hard disk drives and video game consoles. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York. Full Story »

What could be cooler than surfing the Web and watching your big-screen TV at the same time? Getting rid of your cable box, perhaps. The folks who brought you the free Boxee software that transfers streaming video, music and other media from a computer to a TV announced upgraded features this week and debuted the first piece of hardware: A little black box (of course). Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million. Full Story »

Last week was a busy one for acquisitions: Apple bought Lala, a streaming music service, and Google acquired AppJet, makers of realtime collaborative text editing software EtherPad. Google announced that the AppJet developers (many of whom previously worked for Google) would be joining the Google Wave team, improving the services offered by the new Wave product. Full Story »

There's been a lot of noise over the last few days about Apple's purchase of the online music-streaming service Lala. No one's quite sure what this means for the future of Apple's iTunes music service, or Lala's own service. Full Story »