Africa's largest instant messenger and mobile social network, MXit, reveals a boost in new registrations following a recent redesign. 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 >

LulzSec brings an end to its aggressive hacking spree after 50 days on the open ocean. FULL STORY >

Memory and storage solutions provider Kingston Technology aims to give your portable storage a speed boost via its DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G2 16 GB memory stick. 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 >

A hacking attack at a major Australian web host causes the permanent deletion of some 4800 websites. FULL STORY >

FNB is seeing a rapid uptake of cellphone banking in Africa. 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 >

South African companies trying to sweat their aging technology assets may actually be losing money instead of saving it. This according to Intel SA FULL STORY >

Sony Ericsson reveals two new phones targeting social networking fanatics and music lovers. FULL STORY >

When it comes to online gaming services most PS3 fans opt for the free PlayStation Network. Last month however this sentiment met some challenge as the PSN and a number of other Sony services suffered hacker attacks. FULL STORY >

This week in the Tech News Round-up some early hardware running Windows 8 is displayed, whilst the ability to like pages spreads from Facebook to Twitter to Google. FULL STORY >

Google announces that hackers originating from China was behind the latest attacks on its Gmail email service. FULL STORY >

The popular social networking phenomenon Twitter launches its "Follow" Button, which operates in a similar manner as Facebook's "Like" button. FULL STORY >