Growing familiarity with social networks is driving new forms of lending and borrowing money, which bypass banks altogether. FULL STORY >

In this week's Gaming News Round-up: Kingdom Hearts 3D is coming to the Nintendo 3DS, whilst female gamers ask developers to address the lack of female avatars within Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer. FULL STORY >

Google reveals the latest Android usage info showing which edition of the mobile OS is the most used. FULL STORY >

Tablets are expected to surpass notebook shipments in 2016, according to a new report. FULL STORY >

Beats Electronics has acquired digital music service MOG. FULL STORY >

Adobe has revealed that its mobile Flash Player is not certified for use on the newest edition of Google's Android mobile OS. FULL STORY >

With nine million preorders, 50 000 of those in SA, the Galaxy S3 is certainly extremely hot property. Is this your next smartphone? FULL STORY >

Google has launched its new 7 Nexus tablet at its I/O developers conference in San Francisco, while giving the initial run of Project Glass a price and date. FULL STORY >

At Adobe's CS6 conference in Bryanston this week, we sat down with international Adobe Evangelist, Terry White, for a lively discussion on digital content creation. FULL STORY >

Sony kicks off the global rollout process for the Android ICS update for its Xperia S smartphone. FULL STORY >

Market research firm ABI Research says that Apple and Samsung are responsible for 50% of the smartphone market sales and snap up more than 90% of the profit in this sector. FULL STORY >

In what is being viewed as the largest release in Windows Azure history, Microsoft South Africa has announced both the local market availability of Windows Azure and the preview of new Windows Azure services. FULL STORY >

In part two of this week's Gaming News Round-up we look at more hot gaming releases that were showcased during the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo. FULL STORY >

It's a question we are getting more and more often: should I buy a tablet or ultrabook? Read on to find out. FULL STORY >

There is a tremendous amount to like about HTC's flagship One X. In fact, in this year's line-up of Android devices, it should only have one other smartphone to be worried about - Samsung's Galaxy S3. FULL STORY >