Cellphone companies and the government are trying to make it as difficult to use a stolen cellphone as it is to sell a stolen car.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said in a statement late Monday that major cellphone carriers and the Federal Communications Commission have agreed to set up a database of identification numbers that are unique to each phone.

Britain's Home Office confirmed Sunday that its website was attacked after hackers claimed responsibility for shutting it down.

The hackers also claim they attacked the Justice Ministry website and warned of further attacks every Saturday on U.K. government websites.

As a frequent flier and devout Muslim, businessman Abdalhamid Evans always comes up against the same challenge in the air: when to say his prayers.

Muslims are required to pray five times a day at certain hours, but this schedule becomes complicated when crossing various time zones at thousands of meters above sea level.

Tomi Marjuaho repaired mobile phones for 10 years in the town of Salo in southern Finland, where Nokia, the world's top cell phone-maker, set up its wireless operations in the 1980s.

He took a severance package in 2010, as Nokia started hitting hard times, and has not found work since.

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.