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A week-old squabble between two Dutch groups -- the spamfighting Spamhaus Project and Web hosting service Cyberbunker -- has resulted in what has been called the largest distributed denial of service attack in Web history. The cyberfight reportedly has spilled over onto the global Internet and slowed down some data communications, especially in Europe...

Interest in Zynga's various "Villes" may be dwindling, but Facebook this week reaffirmed its commitment to social gaming overall. In fact, they're going strong, the company maintained in a presentation Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco This came a day after a panel at the conference suggested that developers would be well a...

Microsoft is once again being challenged in Europe over alleged anti-competitive practices A group representing Linux developers in Spain has filed a complaint with the European Commission charging that Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows 8, supports technology that makes it difficult for users to place other operating systems on their co...

Facebook announced this week that it will test a new feature that allows select advertisers to run additional targeted ads in user's News Feeds The test is an expansion of Facebook Exchange, one of the social network's most profitable advertising initiatives. The service allows marketers to check users' online viewing habits via a cookie-based syst...

Walmart ratcheted up the e-competition a notch with the announcement Tuesday that it would soon begin offering a locker service similar to the one Amazon recently rolled out. There appear to be few differences between the two offerings: Both provide secure locations, available 24 hours, where consumers can pick up purchases they made online. Users...

Mercedes-Benz put its B-Class Electric Drive sedan on display at the New York Auto Show this week and said it would be the company's first electric vehicle entry into the U.S. market when it arrives in showrooms in 2014 This is a version of the B-Class vehicle that debuted as a 5-door hatchback in Europe with traditional gasoline and diesel power p...

North Korea's Internet liberation has hit a snag -- it's still North Korea One month after announcing that it would grant tourists and visitors 3G Internet access, North Korea appears to have revoked its 3G services.

Apple has slammed the door on WiFiSLAM after acquiring the Android indoor location positioning developer. However, even though it has closed the startup's shop, Apple will likely use its technology to get mapping again When Apple released its outdoor mapping service with last year's debut of iOS 6, it was widely ridiculed as being far inferior to G...

Federal agencies routinely pass up opportunities to improve information technology performance, and save money at the same time, by failing to seek vendor competition in the procurement process, according to a recent survey. Federal IT professionals revealed that their agencies could save as much as US$15.8 billion per year -- about 20 percent of ...

For years Microsoft has been telling us that they have great new products in the pipeline that were competitive, and an approach that was social and customer-centric. For the last couple years, however, we had to watch the slow maturation of that vision First there was Windows 7, which was pretty good. Then came Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone, the Surf...

Synapse is a desktop utility that adds speed and convenience to finding files and launching applications. It does not eliminate the Linux distro's menu, favorites bar or panel icons. Instead, it cuts down on how often you resort to using them....

With the unexpected news that Google's RSS feed reader, Google Reader, is being put outto pasture, many users are scrambling to find new tools for news consumption However, TechNewsWorld has been very much on top of the Android news app meleeover the last year, and we can recommend the top five free news apps still available for theAndroid platform...

Google has made another bid in its attempt at social media relevancy with the launch of iOS and Android updates for Google+ The revamped apps have improvements in four areas -- photos, posts, profiles and communities....

Yahoo has paid a reported US$30 million for Summly, a newsreader app founded by 17-year-old programming prodigy Nick D'Aloisio. The move makes D'Aloisio, based in London, both an instant multimillionaire and Yahoo's youngest employee. The Summly app, which delivers 400-character summaries of news stories, will be shut down, but the technology will...

After six years of watching helplessly as competing providers basked in the iPhone's glory, T-Mobile is going to start offering the coveted device as well. The carrier made the much-anticipated announcement at an event Tuesday morning, where it also revealed plans to step up its 4G network rollout. The announcement about the iPhone, though, was th...

LinkedIn revealed revamped search features this week, making it easier for professionals to identify and engage with possible contacts on the networking site The company added auto-complete and suggested search functions designed to give LinkedIn users a more complete set of results. For instance, if someone types "product manager" into the site's ...

At long last, China and the United States are on the same cyberpage A U.S. district judge in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit brought by activists who claimed that Baidu, China's largest search engine, should be punished -- along with China itself -- for censoring them on the Web....

Dell confirmed Monday that two new possible buyers have submitted bids for the company: Boulder Acquisition Corp. and its Blackstone Group affiliate, with Morgan Stanley as its lead debt financing source; and perennial corporate raider Carl Icahn Dell has already accepted an offer made earlier this year by founder Michael Dell and global technology...

Consumers give hotels, airlines and car rental companies high marks in customer satisfaction for the mobile experience they provide, according to the "ForeSee Mobile Satisfaction Index: Travel Edition." Online travel agencies, however -- not so much. Specifically, of the measured travel categories, hotel mobile sites and apps had an average scor...

Founded in 2010 by trading technology experts, OpenFin is growing on the heels of HTML5 standards edging out ill-fitting older Web solutions. Built onto an open source platform, OpenFin Desktop helps financial institutions to bridge the security gaps in their outdated Web-browser technology ...