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By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - YouTube has a new paid channel for horror junkies, adding Screampix as the first subscription channel dedicated to frightful fare. It launched on Wednesday in the US and Canada for $2.99 a month, and will rollout to the U.K., France and Brazil later this year. The channel features more than 200 hours of horror footage, including full-length features, trailers and interviews. Movies are grouped into categories such as "Women on a Rampage" and "Zombiepalooza. ...

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Orlando Jones is a self-described comic book nerd, so when it came to finding the perfect venue for "Tainted Love," his gritty and profane love letter to graphic novels, the actor and comedian said Machinima immediately sprung to mind. The popular YouTube channel is a gathering spot for fans of geek culture and it's a destination for Jones when he wants to get his inner fanboy on. "Tainted Love" debuted two weeks ago on Machinima Prime and the third episode airs Thursday. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The online shopping sites Newegg and Overstock Inc won a patent battle on Wednesday with telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA, which had accused the companies of infringing its patented technology. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears all patent appeals, upheld a lower court decision which found that Newegg and Overstock did not infringe on a software patent that allows computers to adapt the shopping web sites to their own screen size rather than having a server do the work. ...

Microsoft may do away with point system, favoring gift cards for Xbox purchases, according to a report.

Apple CEO Tim Cook expected to testify next week at a hearing on the various tax-reduction strategies used by companies.

By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - One of the biggest television shows next season won't air until the season is nearly over - and that should tell you something about broadcasters' wavering loyalty to the traditional September-May broadcast season. Fox plans to debut its 12-episode "24" revival in May, and use it to launch another much-hyped, limited-run series, M. Night Shyamalan's "Wayward Pines." The network is following the lead of NBC, which used an unconventional April launch date for "The Voice" in 2011 to build it into a hit. ...

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Michael Jackson landed Sam Tsui on Oprah, but now Tsui must rely on someone else's music - his own. A 24-year-old Pennsylvania native, Tsui blossomed into one of the most popular cover artists on YouTube while at Yale, covering everyone from Jackson to Britney Spears to Adele. His channel amassed more than 500,000 subscribers with the help of childhood friend and producer Kurt Schneider, who helped deliver Tsui's covers and mash-ups to millions of fans. ...

Gamers now can save and sync game progress across devices and get matched up with other players on Android or iOS.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains his "meh" attitude toward "Star Wars" and why he would rather be Captain Kirk than Captain Picard.

Citizens in the country once again have access to the Internet, following an eight-hour outage early Wednesday.

The person who downloaded the 50 billionth app will receive a $10,000 App Store gift card, and the 50 people who downloaded apps right after that each will claim a $500 gift card.

A move is in the works to phase out Xbox's virtual currency in favor of its real counterpart, according to a report.

MIAMI (AP) — Smartphones are increasingly popular not only with consumers, but also with thieves who see the devices as another way to tap into bank accounts and other sensitive information, experts say.

Maybe you should ask the publishers

Apple has told a US court it certainly wasn't involved in any conspiracy to rig the prices of ebooks.…

1 in 3 polled punters will quit ISP gobbled by Sky

Boycotting Rupert Murdoch-owned stuff - such as the media baron's newspapers - is nothing new.…

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Four British hackers who took part in 2011 cyber-attacks on targets ranging from the CIA to Sony were audacious, arrogant men whose motivation was "anarchic self-amusement", a court heard on Wednesday. The men, who have pleaded guilty to a variety of offences, were members of the hacking collective LulzSec that caused millions of dollars of damage to corporate and government computer networks during an online crime spree they boasted about on Twitter. ...

The country lost Internet access on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys.

By Ethan Bilby BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission warned China on Wednesday it was ready to launch an investigation into anti-competitive behavior by producers of mobile telecommunications equipment, opening a new front in a trade offensive against a key partner. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said in a statement that he and fellow commissioners had agreed in principle to open an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy case, but would first seek to negotiate a solution with Chinese authorities. "The clock is ticking. ...

By Ethan Bilby BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Wednesday it was ready to launch an investigation into anti-competitive behavior by Chinese producers of mobile telecommunications equipment, opening a new front in a trade offensive against China. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said in a statement he and fellow commissioners had agreed in principle to open an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy case, although they would first seek to negotiate a solution with Chinese authorities. "The clock is ticking. ...

We've heard worse ideas

British tabloid The Sun has revealed a subscription plan to access the digital version of the newspaper, Sun+.…

Private biz bags taxpayer handout? Thank George Osborne

How does one fairly distribute £150m to extend Blighty's mobile coverage? Give the whole lot to a private company that has paid no corporation tax for four years and effectively holds a monopoly.…

By Ethan Bilby BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission plans to send a formal warning to China that it is ready to levy trade duties against telecoms equipment makers Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp over what it says are illegal subsidies, people close to the matter said. EU trade chief Karel De Gucht is set to win support from the bloc's executive on Wednesday to send the warning letter and show China's new president, Xi Jinping, that Brussels is serious about countering what it says is state support. ...

A new document filed in the e-book price-fixing suit accuses Apple of conspiring to hike prices, but the tech giant denies these claims, saying it was actually partaking in constant one-on-one negotiations.

Software giant singles outs the MacBook Air as a design benchmark for one of the best Windows 8 tablets.

Who wants to be cycling's 'secret sauce' anyway?

When big vendors take on major sporting sponsorships, the first thing that usually happens is lots of shiny happy marketing material about just how the vendor's technology will propel athletes to success.…

French gov cries 'Non!' to $300m video slurp

Yahoo! has had to give up its attempt to take a controlling stake in French video startup Dailymotion after the government intervened, according to media reports.…

Torrent freaks are off to the tropics

The Pirate Bay has fled to the Caribbean after Swedish authorities launched yet another attempt to seize its domain name.…

That makes the cheap-as-chips e-reader cool now, right?

In a perhaps desperate bid to drum up sales, Barnes & Noble is selling its Nook E Ink-based e-book reader for a pound less than 30 quid - a discount of £50.…

Must be willing to die off-planet and on-air

A Netherlands-based non-profit group called Mars One is seeking video applications from pioneers willing to take a one-way trip to Mars and become stars in a new interplanetary reality show.…

PowerPC, x86, and MIPS can run, but they can't hide

The non-profit Linaro software engineering effort , established two summers ago to whip the Linux kernel and add-ons to create the Linux platform for mobile devices, is setting its sights on myriad networking devices.…

You'll never moan about the price of Thunderbolt cables again

Feature If you think you know all about the O2 Arena having visited it when it was called the Millennium Dome, then think again.…