Istanbul - Turkish wireless network operator Turkcell will launch Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone 3G in the country tomorrow, the company said on Thursday. The phone will be available to subscribers to opt for an 18-month service plan for free, depending on the plan, while the iPhone 3G will also be available without a contract for EUR129 ($189) per month, spread across five monthly installments.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) said on Thursday that the New York-based Bloomberg Television network will make national cable advertising time in the U.S. available through the Google TV Ads platform. Google offers an auction-based pricing system, allowing advertisers to only pay for impressions delivered to their ads. Google's platform also counts NBC Universal and DISH Network among its clients.

Los Angeles - Following their successful remix contest with the song "Nude" off their recent "In Rainbows" record, the band has placed the underlying "stem" tracks for the song "Reckoner" for purchase on the iTunes Store. This time, instead of charging 99 cents for each individual stem, the band is offering all of the stems together as a 99-cent bundle, and eliminated the $5 fee for uploading remixes for voting on by the RadioheadRemix.com community. The band's merchandise company told Wired.com the remix page for the last contest got over 6 million unique visitors, who streamed 1.7 million tracks from the page. So far, over 200 remixes of "Reckoner" have been submitted.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace launched its new music service without having first secured deals with top independent labels such as Beggars Group, Domino and Koch, a move that Merlin, the independent rights body that represents them, called "incredibly disappointing." MySpace Music is a joint venture between the social network and major labels Warner Music, EMI, Universal Music and Sony BMG, and these labels and their artists will therefore share in the revenue generated by the service.

Brussels - The European Parliament has voted to prohibit member states from enacting "three-strikes" laws that disconnect the Internet accounts of repeat file-swappers, TorrentFreak reported.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo has hired the consulting firm Bain & Co. to explore ways to improve efficiency within the company, although it did not explicitly mention potential layoffs, Bloomberg reported.

Duluth, Minn. - A federal judge in Minnesota yesterday declared a mistrial in the copyright infringement lawsuit that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) brought against Jammie Thomas, the first American to be found guilty by a federal jury of illegal file-sharing, who was ordered to pay $222,000 the labels in damages. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis said he erred in his initial jury instructions, which stated that Thomas should be found guilty regardless of whether or not it was proven that anyone downloaded the songs offered from her Kazaa account.

San Mateo, Calif. - MotionDSP, a developer of video enhancement technology, has received an investment from graphics chipmaker Nvidia as part of its first round of funding, which remains open, VentureBeat reported.

Tokyo - Japanese electronics firm Toshiba announced that it has made a $20 million investment in MOD Systems, the developer of a digital media delivery system for retailers that lets consumers download digital content for burning to an optical format.