San Francisco - A survey of 50 AT&T stores in 21 cities across 11 states conducted by CNET News.com found that none had a single Apple iPhone 3G in stock. The stores are offering "direct fulfillment" orders, where a customer can pay in advance for a phone, but most of these said even that process is running between 10 and 21 days. CNET contacted Apple retail stores in the same cities, and found seven stores reported having the iPhone in stock.

Los Angeles - Film studio Lionsgate is in talks to offer content on Google's YouTube, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details of the agreement are still being negotiated, but it would create a Lionsgate-branded, ad-supported YouTube channel that would offer clips from movies and TV shows; full-length content was not mentioned. Lionsgate head of digital media Curt Marvis told THR the deal could see Lionsgate's YouTube clips feature links to purchase full-length downloads elsewhere.

New York - Conde Nast-owned fashion magazine Vogue has partnered with IMG to produce a Web-based reality series about the fashion industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. Set to premiere next month, the ad-supported "Model Live" will follow the lives of three working models. In addition to airing on Vogue.tv, the series will also be syndicated on Hulu and Veoh. The Journal reported that the series cost $3 million to produce ($31,000 a minute), and cited insiders who said that clothing retailer Express paid over $1 million to be the top sponsor of the program.

Los Angeles - YouTorrent, formerly a popular search engine that indexed material on all of the most-popular BitTorrent sites, has after legal threats relaunched as an index of solely "legal" content, offering links to over 67,000 files or 6 terabytes of data, TorrentFreak reported. The now-legal site links to verified content offered on sites including Jamendo, Vuze, BitTorrent, Legaltorrents, Legittorrents, Gameupdates, Wortharchiving, BT.etree and Mininova.

Los Angeles - Stickam.com, a site that hosts live video streams from users' webcams and other sources, has announced the launch of a beta version of PayPerLive, which allows users to charge for access to their live video streams. The company, which will take 25% of profits, said the service is targeted at comedians, consultants, musicians, teachers and fundraisers.

San Francisco - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) launched a test of a new streaming video-on-demand service on Thursday, to complement the movie and TV episode downloads it rents and sells via its Amazon Unbox service, The New York Times reported.

Alviso, Calif. - TiVo (NASD: TIVO) announced on Thursday a partnership with Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube that will allow owners of broadband-connected TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD digital video recorders to access hundreds of millions of YouTube videos through their televisions.

Los Angeles - Women now comprise 40% of U.S. video game players, while the average age of an American gamer has risen to 35, according to a survey conducted by Ipsos MediaCT for game industry trade group the Entertainment Software Association (ESA).

Brussels - A proposal to extend copyright term lengths from 50 to 95 years has passed in the European Commission, and will now move to a vote before the European Parliament.

Washington - Ted Leonsis, the vice chairman emeritus of AOL and a well-noted film buff, on Thursday launched his new documentary site, known as SnagFilms. The DC-based company, also backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case and venture capitalist Miles Gilburne, said that it aims to address the "bottleneck" in documentary distribution that "has left many great films unable to reach their potential audience or to provide a viable financial return."

Seattle - Broadband video management and publishing company thePlatform, a unit of Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), announced that it has acquired the assets of San Francisco-based Chirp Interactive, a provider of social media applications.

Moscow - 1C Company, a Moscow-based video game publisher, announced on Thursday that it has acquired fellow Russian game publisher and distributor BUKA for an undisclosed sum.

London - Player X, a distributor of mobile entertainment content including games, video and TV, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Spain-based mobile game developer Gaelco Moviles.

New York - AlleyInsider, an online publisher of technology and business news, has raised under $1 million in funding at a $6 million post-money valuation, PaidContent reported.