San Francisco - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) launched a test of a new streaming video-on-demand service on Thursday, to complement the movie and TV episode downloads it rents and sells via its Amazon Unbox service, The New York Times reported.

Los Angeles - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) plans to launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks, according to remarks made by chief executive Jeff Bezos at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

New York - NBC Universal has announced plans to offer many of its TV shows for free download to PCs for a week following their initial broadcasts.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. - Days after tense negotiations with Apple resulted in the pending removal of its TV shows from the iTunes Store, NBC Universal announced that it has struck a deal with Amazon.com to offer its TV programming through the Amazon Unbox video download service.

Alviso, Calif. - TiVo and partner Amazon.com said on Tuesday that TiVo users may now browse, purchase and rent movies from Amazon's Unbox video-on-demand service directly from their televisions, without the need for a PC.

Tempe, Ariz. - Limelight Networks, a provider of content delivery network services that speed the delivery of digital media content across the Internet, announced on Tuesday that its global delivery capability now exceeds 1 Tbps (one terabit per second). "Hitting terabit per second content delivery network capacity is a strong validation of both our architecture and our success with innovative, high-growth media and entertainment customers, who increasingly are turning to online rich media as their most promising growth opportunity," said Limelight chairman and CEO Jeff Lunsford. Limelight customers include Amazon Unbox, Brightcove, MySpace and Xbox Live.

Business 2.0’s B2Day blog provides more details on Amazon’s upcoming digital video service dubbed Unbox, including the full Terms of Use for the service.