Cupertino, Calif. - At a media event on Wednesday, Apple (NASD: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs unveiled new designs for all of its iPods, a new version of iTunes with a music social network called Ping, the second generation of its Apple TV streaming video device, and a new iTunes Store movie and TV show rentals service. The new $99 Apple TV is one-fourth the size of the first model, and now exclusively supports a new rental model for movies and TV shows.read more

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has teamed with indie rock band Arcade Fire on a new experimental music video and browser experience meant to show off the functionality of HTML5. The ChromeExperiments.com site features "choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing [and] 3D canvas rendering," to the band's tune, "We Used To Wait." read more

New York - Music video portal Vevo said this week that its new iPhone application has been downloaded over one million times since its release on Aug. 18. Sponsored exclusively by AT&T, the app from the joint venture between Universal Music, Sony Music and Abu Dhabi Media Company offers Vevo's full catalog of 20,000 videos from over 7,000 artists. read more

New York - Apple (NASD: AAPL) is in "advanced talks" with News Corp. on offering TV shows for 99-cent rental on its iTunes Store, and has held similar discussions with other media firms, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. The service in discussion would provide 48-hours of commercial-free viewing time for the 99-cent rental fee, with programs becoming available within 24 hours of their first broadcast.read more

Los Angeles - "Bed Intruder," a single produced by Auto-Tune the News creators The Gregory Brothers, has entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at number 89, Billboard reported. The song is built on edited TV news broadcast footage featuring a man talking about an attempted rape of his sister, his voice altered using auto-tune technology. The song reached number 25 on the iTunes downloads chart, and revenue is reportedly being shared equally with the man featured in the video. read more