Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) has decided to shutter its Mash social network, after just a year in beta, CNET News.com reported, citing an email sent to Mash members. The site allowed users to create shell profiles for their friends, and then invite them to join Mash and fill the rest in themselves. "Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you had fun with it. Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available," reads the note from Yahoo community manager Matt Warburton.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) FX network will begin streaming full episodes of its shows from its own website for the first time starting next month, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Previously, episodes of FX series were available for streaming on Hulu and Fancast, and for sale from iTunes. FXnetworks.com expects to offer ad-supported streaming episodes of all of its series -- except "The Shield," for which it does not own streaming rights -- including "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "30 Days."

Boston - Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS) on Friday announced a partnership with grooming products purveyor Gillette and pro golfer Tiger Woods on a joint promotional campaign. The promotion will include retail, print, TV and online advertising, and a video game tournament that will pit consumers against real-life sports celebrities. "Joining Gillette to present such an ambitious global gaming tournament as the Gillette -- EA SPORTS Champions of Gaming is great news for sports fans and works to continue the globalization of our brand," said Peter Moore, president of EA Sports.

Washington - While podcasting "has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of Internet users," consumption is on the rise, as 19% of all Internet users say they have downloaded a podcast, up from 12% in August 2006, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

New York - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), the nation's largest cable TV provider and second-largest broadband ISP, announced this week that it will set a 250GB per month bandwidth cap for its high-speed Internet subscribers, and suspend the accounts of second-time offenders for an entire year. The company noted that most residential subscribers consume an average of about 2 or 3GB of bandwidth per month, and that a subscriber could download four standard-definition movies a day and not hit the limit.

San Francisco - Light Reading Communications Network, a publishing, events and research company for the communications marketplace owned by San Francisco-based TechWeb, said that it has acquired Pyramid Research, a Massachusetts-based provider of communications industry market data.

Los Angeles - Napster (NASD: NAPS) has hinted that the company is up for sale again, saying in its response to a dissident shareholder group that the company is once again exploring possible strategic alternatives, and has retained UBS Investment Bank to assist in the process. The company hired UBS two years ago to explore a possible sale, but no deal emerged. Napster informed shareholders of the move in a letter that also said the company believes that three proposed dissident board candidates are "unqualified."

Edison, N.J. - Video game publisher Majesco (NASD: COOL) said on Thursday that it has received noticed from the Nasdaq that its shares are in danger of being delisted from the exchange, having fallen below the $1 minimum share price requirement for 30 consecutive days.

Tokyo - Japanese video game publisher Square Enix said on Friday that it has made a bid for a majority stake in struggling fellow game publisher Tecmo, in a deal valued at about $102 million.

Santa Barbara, Calif. - Radiohead have announced they will offer a live webcast of the last show on their North American tour tonight from Santa Barbara, California, Pitchfork reports. "It should be a special night, for lots of reasons, and we're going to try and share as much of it as we can on the webcast. Nigel, our producer, will be helping out getting it to you, so if it goes wrong....It's live!" Radiohead's Colin Greenwood wrote on the band's website. Details on the webcast will be made available from a link below.

Los Angeles - The largest BitTorrent tracker in Latvia has been shut down and two administrators were arrested in a raid staged by Latvian authorities with the aid of a local anti-piracy group affiliated with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), TorrentFreak reported. LAmpAFile.lv counted a reported 100,000 members. TorrentFreak added that other Latvia-based trackers have also gone offline as a precaution.

Moscow - Russia's second-largest mobile network operator, Vimpelcom, has signed an agreement with Apple (NASD: AAPL) to distribute the iPhone 3G in Russia, Reuters reports. The phone is expected to start selling in Russia later this year. Reuters reported last week that Apple had also signed on with Russian mobile network MTS to sell the iPhone in Russia.

San Diego - Sony (NYSE: SNE) on Thursday introduced three new Walkman digital music and video players (series S, E and B). The Walkman S-series ($150 4GB, $180 8GB) supports Windows video files with DRM, and features in-flight noise-cancelling headphones and SensMe Channels -- automatically created to align with a user's preferences. The E-series ($100 4GB, $140 8GB) also supports video but offers fewer features, while the B-series ($45 1GB, $60 2GB) line is meant as an entry-level music player, and drops video support entirely.

Fremont, Calif. - Logitech (NASD: LOGI) on Thursday unveiled a new Squeezebox networked digital music player, the $299 Squeezebox Boom, which allows users to access their digital music collections from any room in the house via the plug-in boombox. In addition to personal music collections, the device enables access to Web radio stations and subscription services including Rhapsody, Last.fm, Slacker, Pandora and Sirius.

Los Angeles - China Mobile, which counts over 421 million subscribers in China, said that it has surpassed 80 million subscribers to its new M.Music Wireless Music Club, up from 48 million reported in September 2007, Digital Music News reported.

London - BBC Worldwide is working on an ad-supported music service that would offer free streaming or paid downloads of songs and videos from the BBC archives, including live performances from its "Top of the Pops" and "Live Lounge" on Radio 1, New Media Age reported.

San Francisco - Webcarzz, a San Francisco-based developer and publisher of multiplayer online games, said on Thursday that it has landed $4 million in its first round of funding, led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital.

Los Angeles - Anthony Zuiker, the creator of CBS's successful "CSI" franchise, has signed a "seven-figure" deal with Penguin Group's Dutton imprint to write a trilogy of "digital novels" that will encompass Web-based videos and social networking, Variety reports.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) broke out some statistics on its new Video ID content identification and management system yesterday, revealing that copyright holders whose content is found using the service are choosing to place ads against 90% of the videos, rather than having them blocked.

New York - Publisher Bloomberg yesterday inadvertently ran an obituary for Apple (NASD: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs, and later retracted the mistake, but not before it was picked up and republished by gossip site Gawker.