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.

Reston, Va. - Popular social network MySpace (NYSE: NWS) has surpassed Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) to become the top publisher of online display advertising in the U.S., according to new data released by comScore.

San Francisco - A federal court has dismissed a copyright infringement claim against video-hosting site Veoh, saying that the company had done what was required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to respect copyrights, Reuters reported. Adult entertainment company Io Group filed suit against Veoh when ten of its videos showed up on the site, but did not first file a takedown notice, as is stipulated under the DMCA. The company argued that Veoh should be responsible for reviewing all videos uploaded to its site before they become available for viewing.

Los Angeles - SpeedDate, an online, webcam-based dating service, has raised $6 million in its second round of funding, led by Menlo Ventures, TechCrunch reported.

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