Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace on Wednesday launched a public beta of a mobile streaming video service worldwide, allowing users to view videos they've uploaded or marked as a favorite on their mobile devices. The company tapped RipCode to provide on-demand video transcoding for the service, available to MySpace Mobile's estimated 10 million monthly unique users.

Los Angeles - MySpace has apologized for apparently mistakenly taking over the URL that a Canadian band called "Mobile" had chosen on the site, Hypebot reported. The band "Mobile" had been using MySpace.com/Mobile for the past two years, until MySpace took the site over last week and redirected traffic to its own MySpace Mobile service (Mobile.MySpace.com or M.MySpace.com). "MySpace has reinstated the registered URL www.myspace.com/mobile to the band -- this was an error on our part and we apologize for any inconvenience caused. The band's profile has not been altered in any way," MySpace told Hypebot in a statement.