CLIPS from Time Warner properties, including CNN and Cartoon Network, will be shown on YouTube as part of a revenue-sharing deal.

THE federal government is offering $60 million in funding for health-related projects on the back on the national broadband network.

(Telecompaper) Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom has entered into an alliance with handset maker HTC, Microsoft Taiwan, and local publishing companis to launch e-books. In September, the parties will launch the Hami Bookstore, which will offer e-books for smartphones such as the iPhone and phones based on Android and Windows Mobile, the Digitimes reports. Chunghwa will get a 25 percent commission on sales. In July, rival Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) also announced its plans to enter the e-book market. FET is working with Eslite Bookstore to offer e-books and comics.

(Telecompaper) Motorola and NEC have been selected to develop and implement Japanese operator KDDI's LTE network, including RAN/base stations, in Japan. Motorola's Home & Networks Mobility business will provide LTE products and services including the WBR 500 series eNodeB LTE base stations, while NEC will supply its LTE wireless base stations. KDDI will deploy its LTE network in both the 1.5GHz and 800MHz bands to maximise the effective use of these frequencies. The company intends to offer commercial LTE services by December 2012, following a series of trials scheduled to begin in mid 2010. The operator targets national broadband service covering 96.5 percent of Japan by the end of 2014. KDDI is also planning to introduce au mobile phones equipped with LTE in time for the commercial launch in late 2012.

(Telecompaper) Social networking site MySpace said it has acquired social music service iLike. No financial terms of the acquisition were released. Previous reports put the buy price at around USD 20 million. The deal will be MySpace's first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April. The CEO said the acquisition advances the site's pursuit of innovation and the need to create new distributed social experiences in music and beyond. iLike, which launched in late 2006, is a social music recommendation service that now has more than 50 million registered users. It tracks what users listen to and like and gives recommendations on new music based on that data as well as what users' friends are listening to. It is the top music application on Facebook, Bebo and Hi5. MySpace said iLike will remain headquartered in Seattle.

(Telecompaper) China Mobile reported its interim H1 revenues at CNY 212.9 billion, up 8.9 percent from the same period last year. Value-added business accounted for 28.1 percent of the total revenue. The macroeconomic slowdown, a rising mobile communications penetration rate and changes in the competitive environment posed challenges to the development of the Group's business in the first half, the company said. The net profit increased just 1.4 percent to CNY 55.3 billion or CNY 2.76 per share. EBITDA rose 5.8 percent to CNY 109.9 billion. In the first half of the year, the net addition of new customers was 35.87 million, taking total customer numbers to 493 million. The company also released figures for July, showing net additions of 4.553 million, giving a total customer base of 497.7 million. In June, customers who used 3G network services reached 959,000. For the six months ended 30 June, the group's total voice usage volume reached 1,387.047 billion minutes and the average minute

(Telecompaper) Research bureau Synovate has quantified the changes brought about by the internet on the consumer market. The bureau conducted an online survey for Online Breedband among 1,039 Dutch people of 25 years or older. The results have been put into a reported entitled: "Fifteen years of internet: What has this meant for us?" The study generally concluded that the number of applications used by the public has grown enormously. Initially, the explosive growth in use was confined mainly to surfing and emailing, but this has now expanded to social networking, video, downloading, games and VoIP.

AUSTRALIAN Medical Association president Andrew Pesce has signalled concerns about plans for patient-controlled e-health records.

AUSTRALIA and New Zealand have made a joint bid for a $2.5 billion radio telescope that could help answer questions about the universe.

THE Future Fund sold $2.4 billion worth of Telstra shares yesterday as it prepares to diversify its holdings across the board.