An Algerian sought in connection with the "SpyEye" computer virus designed to steal financial and personal information was extradited by Thailand to the United States to face charges, officials said Friday.

The U.S. Justice Department said Hamza Bendelladj, known by his alias "Bx1," would face charges in federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, for his role in developing, marketing and distributing the malware.

Microsoft's Hotmail, the free webmail service used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, was phased out Friday, as the U.S. tech giant completed a rebranding to Outlook.com.

"We're excited to announce that we've completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com," Microsoft's Dick Craddock said in a blog post late Thursday.

Industry tracker comScore on Friday reported that Apple gained ground in the U.S. smartphone market, nibbling into the lead held by handsets powered by Google's Android software.

Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market climbed nearly three percent to 39 percent in the first three months of this year, making the California company the most popular handset maker in the country, according to comScore.

Jonathan Ive is taking his new job as head of iOS design at Apple very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it might cause a delay for the latest version of the operating system powering iPhones, iOS 7.

Ive took over the position of head of iOS design from Scott Forstall 6 months ago, and he's already started to change lot of what Forstall created. Engineers are rushing to finish iOS 7 by June to show it off at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Bloomberg reported.

Internet giant Google has recognized the Palestinians' upgraded U.N. status, placing the name "Palestine" on its search engine instead of "Palestinian Territories," the U.S. company said on Friday, raising the ire of Israel.

The domain name www.google.ps, Google's search engine for the territories, now brings up a homepage with "Palestine" written underneath the Google logo.

The head of Dailymotion, the video-sharing site at the center of an uproar after the French state blocked its sale to Yahoo!, said in an interview published Friday there was still a lot of interest abroad for his firm.

Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg admitted this week to having derailed plans by the U.S. web giant to buy a majority stake in Dailymotion, dealing a blow to attempts by France to appear more business-friendly.

Facebook on Thursday began letting people locked out of their profiles get back in with the help of "friends."

A new Trusted Contacts account recovery feature lets Facebook users set up lists of friends who can provide codes to unlock accounts.

Facebook's profit in the first quarter of this year climbed as it used its grip on people's online social lives to challenge Google and Apple for revenue from mobile ads and apps.

Mobile advertising helped Facebook boost its first-quarter profit 58 percent from a year ago to $217 million, and to lift revenues past market forecasts, according to earnings results released Wednesday.

Facebook on Wednesday said it will delete beheading videos being shared at the leading social network as it re-evaluates its policy regarding whether such content is acceptable.

The move came as a reversal for Facebook, which had been responding to complaints by refusing to intervene since the clips didn't violate the social network's policy because they were being shared to condemn decapitations.

Global sales of tablet computers surged in the first quarter of 2013, led by Android-powered devices that outpaced gains by Apple's iPads, a research firm said Wednesday.

IDC said the worldwide tablet market saw sizzling growth of 142.4 percent compared to the same period a year ago, with shipments hitting 49.2 million units in the first three months of 2013.