Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - CBS' (NYSE: CBS) CBSSports.com said on Monday that, for the first time, this year it will offer all 63 games of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship -- including the championship game -- via its broadband NCAA March Madness on Demand service. Previously, the video player had provided online access only to the first several rounds of the tournament. Last year, the streaming service attracted 1.38 million total unique users during the tournament.

New York - Bertelsmann-owned publisher Random House has announced plans to begin selling individual chapters to select book titles online, for $2.99 each. The first title under the offering will be Chip Heath and Dan Heath's "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die." Meanwhile, News Corp.'s HarperCollins is offering full access to certain titles, from authors including Paulo Coelho and Neil Gaiman, for a limited time in electronic format. The publisher is also offering access to limited previews of certain titles before they are published.

Atlanta - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) CNN plans this week to launch iReport.com, a new site that will feature citizen journalism photos and videos submitted by CNN viewers. CNN said it has received over 100,000 submissions since launching its iReport feature in 2006, including nearly 10,000 in January alone, but has used less than 10% of all submissions in its broadcasts or on its website. Unlike the iReport submissions that CNN has utilized thus far, the content uploaded to iReport.com site will be not be subject to fact-checking.

Los Angeles - CBS Mobile (NYSE: CBS) has partnered with Qualcomm's MediaFLO USA to expand its mobile access to the reality series "Big Brother" to a real-time, 24/7 live feed of activity from inside the Big Brother house. The service will be available to Verizon Wireless subscribers who live in the 50 or so metropolitan areas currently covered by the FLO TV service.

Los Angeles - Comedy producer National Lampoon announced on Monday that it has acquired the assets of Comedy Express, a multi-platform comedy media company, for an undisclosed sum. The broadband, mobile and TV comedy content features on Comedy Express will be integrated into National Lampoon's broad young adult distribution platforms, which it says reaches nearly one in four 18-24 year-old U.S. college students.

Hollywood, Calif. - Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) Paramount Pictures on Monday launched a new mobile entertainment unit under its digital division, which will focus on developing mobile entertainment and alternative distribution models for the studio. Paramount Mobile Entertainment's management team will include Madeline Herdrich, VP of Mobile, North America; Pradeep Mittur, VP of Mobile, Asia Pacific; and Giovanni Maruca, Director of Mobile, EMEA.

Port Washington, N.Y. - Market research firm NPD Group on Monday introduced a new series of quarterly reports that will track subscription-based PC games, video games and PC software. NPD's Video Game & PC Game Subscriptions Report will provide data on market size and title shares for paid online subscriptions to video games and MMO/PC games, gaming websites, and video game console services. Data will be culled from thousands of gamers ages 13 and older who are members of NPD's online panel of 3 million consumers.

Red Bank, N.J. - BigString Interactive on Monday introduced a Facebook application that lets members of the social network broadcast original live video content. The beta release of BigString TV will allow anyone with a webcam and Internet connection to broadcast live video.

New York, NY (February 11, 2008) -- Digital Media Wire is pleased to announce the agenda and speakers for the upcoming Digital Music Forum East to be held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, NY on Tuesday, February 26 and Wednesday, February 27, 2008.

London - Seatwave, a fan-to-fan, online ticket exchange company based in London, announced that it has raised a $25 million third round of venture capital, led by Fidelity Ventures.

New York - The volume of blog post chatter about a new album can significantly affect future sales, and in turn predict sales for record labels, according to a new study co-authored by NYU Stern professor Vasant Dhar and former student Elaine Chang. The study found that, when legitimate blog posts exceeded a threshold of 40 before an album's release, sales were three times the average, and increased five-fold if the album was associated with a major record label.

Dulles, Va. - Hoping to stimulate the development of new mobile services, AOL (NYSE: TWX) said on Monday announced the creation of its new open mobile platform, which the company plans to make available to developers this summer.

Barcelona - Korea's Samsung Electronics, U.K. chip designer ARM and U.S.-based Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) separately announced plans on Monday to introduce mobile products based on Google's (NASD: GOOG) Android mobile phone software platform, with the latter planning to introduce a prototype this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.