Social network Facebook today said it had entered into partnerships with various mobile telephony companies around the world to allow users in as many as 14 countries to send Facebook messages with little or no impact on their cellular data plans. Through this promotion, free or discounted data access will be available in the coming months on Messenger for Android, Messenger for iOS & Facebook for every Phone, which is now optimized for chat.

Wooga today revealed four new titles as it looks to bring games to a bigger audience than ever before. Wooga founder and CEO, Jens Begemann, cited the rise of smartphones and tablets in propelling the industry into the ‘mobile-era’ of gaming. He credits the technical revolution as the catalyst for bringing games to an audience as big as other forms of entertainment such as music and film.

Every once in a while there comes along a startup that claims to be working on ways of changing the manner in which Internet users surf the Net & mine information. No one quite knows whether Vurb will be able to do that. This startup, currently under stealth mode, does claim though to fundamentally change the way people use the Internet.

Talk.io is a new Internet chat application designed for those who want to meet new people & strike up an Online conversation with them. Talk.io claims to give Online communication a new dimension by including a social touch to Online chatting. This new Internet startup aims to allow people to make new accomplices, targeted at those ‘who are willing to move beyond the social networking websites’.

The same group of hackers which had attacked social network Facebook were reportedly behind an attempt to get into the servers of Apple,Inc., last week. The company said on Tuesday it was a victim of a malware attack when a small number of systems inside the company were compromised. - Read more at: http://internet.whatsnewonthenet.com/internet-news-hackers-target-apple