Taiwan-based computer manufacturers Acer has become the new and sole IT partner of the Springboks rugby team. FULL STORY >

In this week's Tech News Round-up Apple's MacBook is discontinued, whilst Mac OS X Lion becomes Apples fastest selling OS. FULL STORY >

Acer will launch the Aspire 5755 at the end of this month, which is squarely aimed at catering for consumers entertainment, everyday and multi-tasking needs. FULL STORY >

Micro-blogging website Twitter announces that more than a million apps has now been written to support its expanding tweeting infrastructure. FULL STORY >

Researchers at John Hopkins University study health trends on Twitter. FULL STORY >

The world watches as shuttle Atlantis prepares to blast into space to mark the end of the iconic space shuttle program. FULL STORY >

Facebook and Skype enters a partnership which sees face-to-face video calling being offered from within Facebook itself. FULL STORY >

Long-time Facebook rival MySpace is sold off by its owners, faces uncertain future. FULL STORY >

After the social networking disaster that was Google Wave, the online search giant is giving it another shot with Google+. FULL STORY >

Acer joins the 10 inch tablet crowd with its A500 that's powered by a Tegra 2 chipset while running on Android Honeycomb. In theory it's a good device, but does reality care to differ? FULL STORY >

A new iPhone and iPod Touch accessory by apptoyz brings augmented shooting action to your Apple device. FULL STORY >

This week in the Tech News Round-up we might see the iPhone 5 in September, whilst the Winklevoss twins settling their beef with Facebook. FULL STORY >

New data suggests that the world's largest social network is facing a few drops in user numbers, although the bigger picture is still one of Facebook domination. FULL STORY >

Facebook is in the process of testing out a new constantly updated news feed which will function in a similar way to that of micro-blogging site Twitter. FULL STORY >

Facebook's new auto tagging feature comes under fire from privacy watchdogs in the EU. FULL STORY >