Southern separatists hacked the website of Yemen's official Saba news agency on Saturday, posting a portrait of Ali Salem al-Baid, the prominent exiled south Yemen leader.

The home page of the sabanews.net website was replaced by one showing flags of South Yemen and messages glorifying the former country, which merged with the north in 1990.

Fans of hit videogame "Mass Effect 3" will get "more closure" to the end of the saga in add-on software to be available free for download in the months ahead, the Agence France Press said Friday.

The studio behind the epic science fiction action trilogy made the promise on Thursday in response to a campaign by players demanding a happier ending.

If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google's futuristic, Internet-connected glasses.

While wearing a pair, you can see directions to your destination appear literally before your eyes. You can talk to friends over video chat, take a photo or even buy a few things online as you walk around.

Twitter on Thursday turned to a US federal court in its latest effort to stop spammers targeting the worldwide one-to-many text messaging service, Agence France Presse reported Friday.

Twitter sued a small cadre of what it described as "the most aggressive" culprits behind blitzes of messages ranging from junk promotions to frauds and even links to websites or files booby-trapped with viruses.

China struggled Thursday to restore several government websites that international hacking group Anonymous says it attacked in an apparent protest against Chinese Internet restrictions.

On a Twitter account established in late March, Anonymous China listed the websites it says it hacked over the last several days. They include government bureaus in several Chinese cities, including in Chengdu, a provincial capital in southwest China.

The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) said in a press release Wednesday that countries with a low Gross National Income (GNI) spend on the information and communication services more than the developed ones, and that the Arab region comes in the second rank in terms of the cost of these services.

The regional Commission, which launched a flagship report on “Profile of the Information Society in Western Asia 2011”, at the U.N. House, Beirut, also noted that the use of Arabic on Internet recorded its highest growth percentage between 2000 and 2011, while the range of Digital Arabic Content (DAC) was estimated between 1.5 to 2.3 per cent.

Facebook stepped up its patent dispute with Yahoo by filing its own lawsuit against the struggling Internet icon, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Facebook's lawsuit Tuesday came just weeks after Yahoo Inc. claimed that Facebook violated 10 patents covering advertising, privacy controls and social networking. Facebook denied Yahoo's allegations and accused Yahoo of violating 10 of its patents covering photo tagging, advertising, online recommendations and more.

Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city -- to the skepticism of thousands of people still living in temporary housing.

Large parts of the center remain boarded up even as local architects work with the council on a "Smart City" project to rebuild using cutting-edge techniques that has the backing of Prime Minister Mario Monti's government.

The cabinet approved on Tuesday the reduction of the telecommunications ministry’s broadband service fees and internet and commercial lines.

During a meeting it held at the Grand Serail under Premier Najib Miqati, the government gave the green light to make the internet services free between midnight and 7 a.m., Information Minister Walid al-Daouq said in his press briefing.

Google Inc. is building a data center in Taiwan — its third in Asia after Hong Kong and Singapore — to meet the rapidly growing online demand across the region, the company said Tuesday.

The three data centers — with investment totaling $700 million — will provide users with faster, more reliable access to various Google products, the Internet search giant said as its Taiwan facility broke ground in the western county of Changhua.