Sunnyvale, Calif. -Yahoo on Thursday announced the availability of two new email domains. The company said that it has opened registration for new addresses under ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Yahoo, whose web mail service is used by more than 260 million people worldwide, said that the move will create desirable email addresses not available under the yahoo.com domain.

Baltimore - TidalTV, a Baltimore-based broadband video startup founded by Advertising.com co-founder Scott Ferber, said that it has launched a beta test of its streaming TV service. The site offers free access to online video programming through a streaming, browser-based platform, with DVR-style controls. The company has content deals in place with programming providers such as NBC News, MSNBC, Scripps Networks, TV Guide Network, The Weather Channel, Vogue.TV and Sports Illustrated.

San Francisco - Microsoft has reversed its stance, and says it will now continue to support DRM-tethered tracks purchased at its now-defunct MSN Music store "through at least the end of 2011," Ars Technica reports. The company has previously announced that tracks purchased from the store would no longer work on new PCs and devices after Aug. 31.

Los Angeles - Google's YouTube on Thursday launched its Screening Room where independent filmmakers will be able to showcase their movies. The page will feature four new "high-quality" short films every two weeks, as well as some feature-length films. The first month of titles available on Screening Room will include "Our Time Is Up" (2006 Oscar nominee), "The Danish Poet" (2007 Oscar winner) and "I Met The Walrus" (2008 Oscar nominee).

New York - Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive (NASD: TTWO) said on Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the agency's subpoena for information from the company regarding Electronic Arts' (NASD: ERTS) takeover bid.

Los Angeles - Anthony Puzo, son of "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo, has filed suit against Paramount Pictures (NYSE: VIA) over alleged unpaid revenues from Electronic Arts' (NASD: ERTS) video game based on the films, Reuters reported.

Minneapolis - A recent survey conducted by electronics and media retail chain Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) found that 88% of consumers are aware of the digital broadcast transition, but nearly half (45%) said they plan to wait until after it happens to take any action.

You would think that owners of high-end home theater systems would be right in Blu-ray Disc's early adopter sweet spot. But at least one maker of high-end home theater servers is hedging its bets. Kaleidescape Inc., on Wednesday introduced two new players with advanced upscaling features designed to produce 1080p images from standard DVDs. One of the new players has a disc tray that allows advanced playback directly from the disc, without first having to load it to the Kaleidescape server, making it suitable for watching rented DVDs in 1080p.

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple (NASD: AAPL) said on Thursday that more than 5 billion songs have now been purchased and downloaded from its iTunes Store. iTunes has become the largest music retailer in the U.S., based on the amount of music sold during January and February as tallied by NPD Group's MusicWatch survey.

San Francisco - A group of ten law professors has filed a friend of the court brief, indicating they believe a judge erred when he told the jury in the file-sharing copyright infringement case against Jammie Thomas that simply the "making available" of songs in a shared folder on a computer constitutes copyright infringement, Wired.com reports. The "making available" claim is a key argument in the record labels' 20,000 copyright lawsuits against file-swappers.

Washington - Trying to assuage antitrust concerns, Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang on Wednesday met with Congressional leaders on Capitol Hill to outline details of the company's recently signed ad pact with Google (NASD: GOOG), Dow Jones Newswires and other media outlets reported. Under the deal announced last week, Yahoo will run ads supplied by Google alongside its own search results, as well as on some of its web properties in the U.S. and Canada.

Washington - As momentum builds toward the completion of their multi-billion dollar merger, shares of DC-based XM Satellite Radio (NASD: XMSR) and New York-based Sirius (NASD: SIRI) tumbled on Thursday following an analyst report that questioned the very future of satellite radio. Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Wienkes cited a dramatic slowdown in subscriber growth, with younger consumers buying alternatives such as MP3 players and iPhones.

McLean, Va. - Gannett (NYSE: GCI), the publisher of USA Today and 84 other daily newspapers, said on Thursday that it has acquired a minority stake in Seattle-based Cozi Group, the developer of a free Web service designed to help families manage schedules, share information and communicate.

San Francisco - Mochi Media, the operator of an advertising network for online games that claims over 60 million unique monthly visitors, announced on Thursday that it has raised $10 million in its second round of funding, led by Shasta Ventures with support from previous backer Accel Partners.

I have a former colleague of mine who left Ogilvy to focus on his own production company and create video projects. His group, g14 Productions, has just released a fantastic online video show worth checking out. It's called The Reservation and features weekly episodes of 3-4 minutes of a show that is a cross between 24 and Heroes. You might be tempted to called this User Generated Content (UGC) and lump it into the range of video being produced and uploaded to YouTube (some of which is highly entertaining, I'll admit). The difference, though, is that g14 is doing this for a living.