Cupertino, Calif. - Apple Inc. on Monday announced that it has ended a long-running trademark dispute with Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, over the use of the name "Apple". [more..]

Boston - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced on Monday that state and local officials have reached a settlement with Turner Broadcasting System and marketing firm Interference Inc., under which the two companies will pay $2 million in restitution to the communities and agencies affected by last week's electronic outside advertising blitz for "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" that led to a bomb scare in and around the city of Boston. [more..]

Chicago - Some 42% of U.S. youth (ages 10-17) have seen online pornography, with two-thirds saying they were not looking for porn when they encountered it, according to a new study from the University of New Hampshire in Durham published in the medical journal Pediatrics. [more..]

San Francisco - The major film studios have approved new technology that will allow retailers to burn DVDs on-demand from kiosks stocked with thousands more titles than would fit on their store shelves, the Financial Times reported. [more..]

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. - Korea's LG Electronics on Monday began selling the industry's first dual-format, high-definition DVD player in the U.S. [more..]

A federal judge on Friday issued a temporary injunction against a subscription-based website ParisExposed.com for unlawfully showing personal pictures, videos, diaries, and other items of Paris Hilton once kept at a storage facility. [more..]

Washington - The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), a trade group of companies supporting the digital rights management technology, on Monday announced the publication of a white paper that discusses how digital watermarking can address the issue of "orphan works," or those whose copyright owners cannot be identified or located. [more..]

Stockholm - Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson announced on Monday that it has partnered with Turner Broadcasting System, to develop Turner's Internet, broadcast news and entertainment content for mobile devices. [more..]

New York - Author J.K. Rowling will continue her refusal to allow any of her "Harry Potter" books to date to be published as e-books when the forthcoming seventh and final installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," is released on July 21, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Paris - France has announced plans to offer tax credits to local video game developers, Reuters reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - Amp'd Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator targeting a youth audience, said on Monday that it has signed deals with comedian Jack Black and Howard Gordon, executive producer of Fox's "24," to create original content for mobile phones, according to The Hollywood Reporter. [more..]

Reston, Va. - Electronics giant Sony is the "anonymous" company that won a recent auction for the assets of IPIX, a Reston, Va.-based imaging technology firm that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in July, SecurityinfoWatch.com reported. [more..]

Cambridge, Mass. - Akamai, a provider of Internet content delivery network services, has agreed to pay about 3.2 million in Akamai stock to acquire Netli, a California-based provider of technology for accelerating applications and content over the Internet. [more..]

American Fork, Utah - Move Networks, a provider of video distribution technology for TV network clients, announced on Monday that it has raised $11.3 million in new funding, led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Steamboat Ventures. [more..]

New York - Digital Railroad, an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of professional photography, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million in its second round of venture capital financing, led by DN Capital. [more..]

Cambridge, Mass. - PatientsLikeMe, a provider of online social networking services for patients with serious diseases, has raised $5 million in its first round of venture capital, VentureWire reported on Monday. [more..]

London - Nokia has announced plans to introduce the next generation of its N-Gage mobile phone game platform in September, with publishers Electronic Arts and Gameloft committed to creating games for the new release, GamesIndustry.biz reported. Recent reports have speculated that Nokia plans to integrate N-Gage technology into a series of phones, rather than releasing another dedicated handset. "One of the main events for us is GDC in San Francisco in early March and that's really where you can expect some announcements," Jaako Kaidesoja, head of Nokia's games effort, told Mobile Entertainment magazine. [more..]

Seattle - RealNetworks said on Monday that more than four million users have downloaded its streaming video ad-enabled casual games since June 2006. Instead of the typical 60-minute free trial offered for casual games, Real offers games for free if consumers agree to view video ads every 20 minutes, between levels during natural breaks of the game. The company said the in-game ad format, powered by Eyeblaster, has generated an approximate 10% click-through rate and 74% full video completion rate for its demographic, the majority of whom are women over 30. [more..]

Santa Clara, Calif. - Mercora, an online radio network with over 100,000 user-programmed channels, announced on Monday a partnership with online pop culture magazine PopMatters, on a program to provide promotion for indie music artists. The Listen Up program offers labels "premier streaming media placements" within both PopMatters' editorial content and media center, and in Mercora's music channels; labels will also receive revenue through SoundExchange. The companies said labels initially participating in the Listen Up program include Kill Rock Stars, Ninja Tune, Thrill Jockey and Warp. Founded in 1999, PopMatters claims 1.2 million unique monthly users and 15 million monthly pageviews. [more..]

Boston - Online social network Gather.com announced on Monday that it has partnered with a number of firms that will provide "expert" information for various niche channels on its site. New partners include Harvard Health Publications, for the Gather.com Health channel, Publishers Weekly (Books), Columbia Records (Music) and McGraw-Hill Professional (Money). [more..]

New York - The Concept Farm, a New York-based marketing agency, said on Monday that it partnered with Times Media to launch an online London version of its cable TV series, "Cool in Your Code." The weekly series, available on the Times Online's website, will provide a tour of fashion, food, nightlife and other cultural aspects from a selection of London's 120-plus varied postcodes. [more..]

Fremont, Calif. - Digital Fountain, a provider of digital media delivery technology, said on Monday that its DF Raptor technology will power a music download service from UBC Media. The service will enable listeners to purchase tracks instantly, as they are broadcast by digital radio stations, and will be available later this year in the U.K. from select carriers on Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)-enabled mobile phones. [more..]

New York - Rebel Monkey on Monday announced its launch as a New York City-based casual online game development studio. The company was co-founded by Margaret Wallace -- a co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based casual games developer Skunk Studios -- and Nicholas Fortugno, whose design credits include "Diner Dash," "Plantasia" and "Ayiti: The Cost of Life." The company plans to "tap into the already-vibrant game development community of New York City to bring the next wave of casual game brands to the marketplace." [more..]

New York - Casual games site Boonty on Monday announced the beta launch of Cafe.com, a site that will offer free social casual games -- which incorporate social networking and microtransactions. The site will offer private and public game rooms, multi-player chat, and personalization capabilities like avatar creation and virtual items users can buy to enhance gameplay. [more..]

New York - Atari announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement with Poland-based video game distributor CD Projekt, to market and distribute the company's PC title "The Witcher" in North America in the fall of 2007. The fantasy roleplaying game is based on the world created by best-selling Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. [more..]