Washington - The U.S. Senate on Monday passed a bill that would delay by about four months the transition to digital TV broadcasting, giving consumers more time to prepare and the government more time to distribute coupons for digital TV converter boxes. [more..]

Washington - The U.S. Trade Representative is claiming victory over China in a World Trade Organization dispute over the country's protection of intellectual property, and the unauthorized sale of copyrighted and counterfeit goods in the country. [more..]

Los Angeles - The board of directors of Hollywood union the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) ousted executive director and chief contract negotiator Doug Allen, who resigned from his position. [more..]

New York - Just 10 months after acquiring U.K.-based Bebo for $850 million, AOL may now be on the verge of selling the online social network, according to TechCrunch. [more..]

New York - News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media unit has laid off about 100 employees, or 5% of its total staff, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - Citing the economic downturn, trade publication publisher Reed Business has laid off some 30 employees from its Daily Variety, 411, Video Business and Trade Show Week. [more..]

Los Angeles - Mozilla, developers of the Firefox Web browser and other open source software projects, announced that it has made a $100,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation, earmarked for the development of open source video technology. [more..]

New York - Mag Rack Entertainment, a provider of interactive TV, Web and mobile entertainment, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Concert.TV, a video-on-demand television network focused on live music performances and documentaries. [more..]

Social networks overtook adult websites last October in the UK and have remained ahead since, blogs Robin Goad. [more..]

Washington - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent on the technology behind the "multitouch" interface featured on its iPhone and iPod touch devices, World of Apple reported. [more..]

San Bruno, Calif. - Google's YouTube is close to finalizing a deal with Sony Music that would allow users to incorporate music from Sony artists into their videos, CNET News.com reported, citing sources close to the situation. [more..]

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple on Tuesday named Mark Papermaster as its senior vice president of devices hardware engineering, effective April 24. Papermaster, most recently a vice president at IBM, will lead Apple's iPod and iPhone hardware engineering teams. [more..]

San Mateo, Calif. - Mobile advertising firm AdMob on Tuesday announced the release of an advertising unit for Google's Android mobile device operating system, which will allow developers of applications for the Android platform to profit from their creations. [more..]

London - Activision's "Guitar Hero: World Tour" sold 3.4 million copies in the U.S. last year, or twice as many as MTV Networks' "Rock Band 2," which moved 1.7 million units, GameSpot reported, citing new data from market research firm NPD Group. [more..]

New York - The annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Tuesday announced the launch of Bonnaroo 365, a free online concert series featuring multi-camera, HD footage and soundboard audio recordings of performances from the festival. [more..]

New York - The producers of the viral Web parody video "Prop 8 -- The Musical" will stage a one-night-only live performance next month on Broadway as part of a benefit called "Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert," Variety reported. [more..]