Cupertino, Calif. - Apple has confirmed a release date of June 29 for its highly-anticipated iPhone, according to new TV ads for the combination iPod and mobile phone device that debuted on Sunday. [more..]

Los Angeles - Amp'd Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that targets a youth audience with its entertainment-focused mobile phone service, has filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection. [more..]

New York - News Corp.'s MySpace online social network has asked a Pennsylvania state court for help in determining how it should comply with law enforcement requests for private e-mails sent by registered sex offenders using the service, Reuters reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - A 24-year-old Chicago man faces felony copyright infringement charges for posting several episodes of the Fox TV series "24" on the Internet before their broadcast premieres, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Google has acquired Chicago-based FeedBurner, a provider of RSS feed distribution and management tools, for an undisclosed sum, the companies said. [more..]

Los Angeles - Brash Entertainment, a start-up game developer that plans to focus on games based on licensed film, TV and music properties, announced on Monday that it has raised $400 million in its first round of financing, led by ABRY Partners. [more..]

New York - Hearst-Argyle Television, which owns 26 local TV stations in the U.S., announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement with Google's YouTube, and will begin posting local video content from several of its stations on the video-sharing site. [more..]

San Diego - Sony Electronics on Monday began shipping a new Blu-ray Disc player to U.S. retailers, which will carry a price tag of $499, or $100 cheaper than previously announced. [more..]

New York, N.Y. - IAC/InterActive Corp., the New York-based conglomerate of Internet media and e-commerce businesses, is opening a venture capital investment arm in Silicon Valley, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News. [more..]

San Diego - Slacker, the developer of a desktop music player and Wi-Fi-enabled portable music player, has raised $40 million in its second round of funding, PEHub.com reported. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Tumri, a provider of contextual online advertising services, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million in its second round of venture capital financing, led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. [more..]

Los Altos, Calif. - FreeHand Systems, a provider of digital sheet music publishing tools and services, said that it has raised another $2 million from investor Vision Capital Advisors, which exercised 4 million warrants. [more..]

Amsterdam - News aggregation site Digg plans to expand its service to include images, product reviews and other topics of interest to a more general audience, according to comments made by Digg founder Kevin Rose at the TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam, Wired News reported. Up to this point, Digg users -- who post links to stories from around the Web and rank their relative importance -- have primarily shown their interests to include stories related to technology, politics, business and video games. [more..]

Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft has reopened its Soapbox video-sharing site, after ceasing new registrations for the service while it installed filters to block the uploading of copyrighted content. "We are also now conducting proactive filtering of all uploaded content, using technology from Audible Magic," reads a post on the Soapbox blog. "Audible Magic bases their filtering on the video's audio track and their database is being updated constantly. By using this technology, we see this as an important step to ensure the viability and success of Soapbox over the long run." [more..]

New York - Apple is launching a new feature at its iTunes Store called Foreign Exchange, that will see artists from different countries translating each others' lyrics and covering each others' songs in an effort to promote foreign-language music, Billboard reported. The first Foreign Exchange will feature German electronica artist Wir Sind Helden and American act +44, which features former members of Blink-182. Cover songs resulting from the collaborations will be sold exclusively on iTunes. [more..]

San Francisco - CNET Networks' TV.com, a content and community site for TV fans,  on Monday announced the launch of four new original online video programs. "TurboVision," "Prime Times Past," "Extreme Beauty Time with Quentin" and "The Burning Question" will be available to the site's 19 million monthly users. [more..]

Atlanta - Turner Broadcasting's GameTap broadband games and entertainment service announced on Monday the launch of a new free, ad-supported version of the service it will make available to users beyond North America. The free version of GameTap will feature a rotating sample of the service's library of more than 900 game titles, as well as access to hundreds of GameTap TV streaming videos. Subscribers in the U.S. and Canada receive ad-free, full access to all of the service's titles. [more..]

Los Angeles - VideoJug, a U.K.-based producer of factual online videos, on Monday announced the launch of new U.S. operations in Los Angeles. The site offers more than 15,000 professionally-produced and "vetted" user-generated instructional and informational videos created by a team of experts in various fields. VideoJug said it plans to expand its library to over 100,000 free videos in the coming months. The company named Peter J. Schankowitz, former president of worldwide development at Vin Di Bona Productions, as CEO of VideoJug America. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Mobile Content Networks, a provider of mobile search technologies, said on Monday that Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo will deploy the company's search results across all premium music listings on iMenu, part of NTT's iMode service that claims 50 million subscribers. [more..]

San Jose, Calif. - Game Music Central, an online music store specializing in video game music that was launched by the producers of the Video Games Live concert series, on Monday announced the release of what it says is the first compilation CD of video game music. "Best of the Best: A Tribute to Game Music" features new performances of works from 20 game composers, originally heard in titles such as "World of Warcraft," "Myst," "God of War," "EverQuest," "Splinter Cell" and "Prince of Persia." [more..]

Vancouver, Canada - Former senior developers from "Company of Heroes" studio Relic Entertainment on Monday announced the formation of a new game development studio, Smoking Gun Interactive. The Vancouver, Canada-based company will be led by CEO and creative director John Johnson, previously director of franchise development and producer on "Company of Heroes." [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - GSN, the game show network jointly owned by Liberty Media and Sony Pictures Entertainment, on Monday debuted "The Prison Life: Paris," an online game that "gives players a sneak-peek of the heiress' potential new job behind bars." [more..]