New York - Viacom's Comedy Central on Wednesday announced plans to debut a new half-hour late-night series on March 5 that will feature all original broadband programming from ComedyCentral.com Viacom-owned short film site AtomFilms. Airing at 2:00 a.m., "Web Shows" will feature animation, live-action narratives, topical stand-up performances and sketch comedies originally produced for the Internet, including "Baxter & McGuire," "Golden Age," and Atom's "The Punk Group: Fat Girls on Bicycles."

Los Angeles - Tila Tequila, a young, female Asian rap artist who counts over 1.6 million friends and half a billion page views on MySpace, has signed a deal with digital label INgrooves and video producer Endemol to offer her debut single and music video as an independent, digital-only global release. The single for "I Love U," produced by Lil' Jon, and music video will packaged together as a 99 cent download made available exclusively on iTunes until March 13. The music video has already been available worldwide through mobile phone carriers since Feb. 14, with Sprint offering the exclusive download in the U.S.

Seattle - Social music discovery service iLike said on Wednesday that it has surpassed 500,000 registered users since launching its offering four months ago. The company provides a sidebar for iTunes that lets users share playlists online, and either purchase songs immediately or save them to a wishlist, as well as a MySpace widget that shows and plays favorite music. It also offers a social network site that features music recommendations, and music videos from YouTube. Seattle-based iLike also announced a new version of its software for Windows Media Player.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with NBC Universal's iVillage women's entertainment company to create a co-branded casual games channel on iVillage.com. The site will feature titles from EA's Pogo.com, which counts 14 million monthly users and will become the exclusive casual games provider for iVillage.com's 16 million members.

New York - Motorola has indefinitely delayed the release of its iRadio service, which had been in beta testing for over a year and was touted as the company's mobile radio solution, Billboard.biz reported.

New York - Microsoft has signed a music publishing deal with Warner Music Group's Warner/Chappell Music, for the rights to license compositions from Microsoft video game titles.

Emeryville, Calif. - MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband TV and music services, announced on Wednesday that it has surpassed 2 million paying subscribers worldwide, more than doubling its base in under a year. The company offers over 100 channels of live TV and on-demand video for mobile phones worldwide, including 40 in the U.S. "After more than three years of delivering real live television and video on demand services commercially for millions of customers, on almost every type of mobile or broadband network, MobiTV has quickly become the industry's go-to resource for mobile content delivery," said Paul Scanlan, president and co-founder of MobiTV.

San Francisco - Sony has affirmed plans to ship 2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles to North American retailers by the end of March, and expects shipments to have offset early shortages of the consoles in U.S. stores by May, Reuters reported.

Washington - U.S. Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and John Doolittle (R-Calif.) have  introduced a new version of their legislation that would enshrine the traditional rights of consumers to "fair use" of copyrighted works into law, which the lawmakers see as eroding in the digital age.

New York - Mobile music downloads in Japan last year totaled 344.1 million -- up 33% --  compared with just 23 million PC-based music download sales, Billboard.biz reported, citing data from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).

Washington - The Digital Media Association (DiMA), a trade group of webcasters whose members include AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple's iTunes Store, has filed a "friend of the court" brief opposing a claim by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) that digital music downloads should be considered "public performances," and therefore subject to an additional performance license and royalty.

Arlington, Va. - "Star Wars" director George Lucas has filed a trademark complaint against news aggregation site Digg.com, which Lucas says is similar to "The Dig," a PC adventure game released in 1995 by his LucasArts games division.