Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace on Wednesday launched a redesign of MySpace Karaoke, which now includes the ability for users to record their performances to video. Since its launch less than six months ago, the site has drawn over 4 million users, who have created over 500,000 karaoke recordings. The new MySpace Karaoke video recorder lets users record their performances in standard or high-definition, using just a microphone and webcam.

Helsinki - A court in Finland has found a 15-year-old guilty of libel, for posting a YouTube clip of his teacher singing karaoke at a school event with the added English-language subtitle, "Karaoke of the mental hospital," Reuters reported.

Foster City, Calif. - Sony Computer Entertainment America on Tuesday shipped its "SingStar Pop" karaoke-style singing game for PlayStation 2 to retailers. Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's London Studio, the sequel to "SingStar Rocks" lets players sing along to 30 actual music videos from artists including Destiny's Child, A-Ha, U2, James Blunt, Franz Ferdinand and Whitney Houston. The game also incorporates the PlayStation 2's EyeToy USB camera accessory to allow users to watch and record themselves performing.

*This story originally contained an error and has been corrected. See below.

Davidson, N.C. - UpSnap, a provider of free mobile search and streaming mobile audio entertainment, announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with karaoke firm Sound Choice to create a mobile karaoke service. Mobile users can text "karaoke" to 27627, choose a song, and are then sent a streaming karaoke version of the song to their phones. North Carolina-based UpSnap is offering the service for free for 30 days, after which time it will cost $1.99 per month.

*This story initially said that lyrics would be sent to phones along with the audio. Sound Choice contacted DMW to inform us that lyrics are not included in the serice, only streaming karaoke versions of songs.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts announced that it has acquired San Francisco-based SingShot Media, developer of an online karaoke community.

Salt Lake City, Utah - Fonix, a developer of speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies, on Wednesday introduced a new version of its VoiceIn voice recognition application designed specifically for karaoke game developers.