Pit Yourself Against International Racers in Need for Speed World

Need For Speed World (free) is a massively-multiplayer online racing game first released in 2010 by Electronic Arts. As befitting the long-running Need For Speed franchise, Need For Speed World features beautiful graphics, dozens of cars, and copious amounts of action.

Race against players from around the globe in Need for Speed World.You can race against other players from all over the world, participate in single-player events where you dodge the cops in crazy urban car chases, gain in rank, and buy new vehicles. Need For Speed World lets you buy in-game SpeedBoost for real-world money, and then use the SpeedBoost to buy cars and other items, but you don't have to buy SpeedBoost to have fun and level up.

You will need to log into the Need For Speed servers every time you start the game, and the game does not offer to remember your password, which can be annoying at times. Nevertheless, the game is very popular; the vendor even threw it an anniversary party earlier this year.

Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor's site, where you can play this Web-based software.

—Erez Zukerman

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Best Tech Awards: New York International Auto Show 2012

This year’s New York International Auto Show revealed some exciting developments in the world of auto-tech. We witnessed flying cars, the taxi of the future and the rise of driver-safety focused infotainment systems. While some innovations might take years to reach the average consumer, we were pleased with the number of products already on the market or set to debut in the coming months. Check out our top picks of the NY Auto Show.

From iPad apps that let you call for concierge service to a Facebook app developed specifically for use in your vehicle, The New York International Auto Show proved that automakers aren’t afraid to step into the app development space. But of all of the apps we saw on the show floor, the best one we saw was also the most practical, Chevy’s $50 GoGo Navigation app.

The app, which is available for the iPhone and Android smartphones, provides users with the same functionality found in built-in navigation systems at a fraction of the cost. Users access the app through their vehicle's Chevy MyLink smartphone integration system, which pulls information from the cloud to their phone and pushes it to their in-dash touchscreen display.

GoGo Navigation will hit the market later this year alongside the new Chevy Spark and Chevy Sonic RS.

Hands-On With Chevy’s GoGo Cloud-Based Navigation App

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