In this week's Tech News Round-up the global smartphone market grows shows significant growth, whilst it would appear that only LG is willing to take up the MeeGo mantle. FULL STORY >

Nigeria beats SA to claim Opera Mini's African browsing crown according to Opera Software's latest State of the Mobile Web report. FULL STORY >

Vodacom unveils its SuperMobile technology network, enabled at north of 1000 base stations in the country, delivering speeds of up to 43.2 Mbps. FULL STORY >

In part 2 of this week's Tech News Round-up Google reveals some figures surrounding its Android mobile OS, whilst Intel says it'll support USB 3.0 in its Sandy Bridge replacement platform. FULL STORY >

Opera Software today released the Opera 11.10 browser, the newest update to Opera's desktop browser. Amongst a host of new features, Barracuda adds seven new languages including Afrikaans. FULL STORY >

Major milestone as Opera Mini reaches 100 million phones, Opera CEO says: "Sweeeet!" FULL STORY >

Canada's RIM again features prominently in part 1 of this week's Tech News Round-up, with the Blackberry maker announcing its fiscal results as well as numerous developments. FULL STORY >

Opera launches the beta version of its new Opera 11.10 web browser, codenamed 'Barracuda'. FULL STORY >

In this week's Tech News Round-up: BlackBerry users are advised to turn of Java in their OS 6-running devices, whilst leaked pics of the Droid 3 and HTC Pyramid surface on the web. FULL STORY >

Internet search giant Google releases the latest Android version usage figures, indicating which version of the mobile OS is the most used. FULL STORY >

Opera Software launches the first beta version of its open-source suite of debugging tools dubbed Dragonfly. FULL STORY >

Nokia is reportedly receiving a billion dollars from Microsoft to produce handsets powered by Windows Phone OS. FULL STORY >

Opera launches its Opera Mobile Store, giving mobile browser users access to an entirely new online portal. FULL STORY >

An official Android 2.3 Gingerbread build has reportedly been developed for the Samsung Galaxy S (at least for the European models). FULL STORY >

Following the launch of a plethora of new Android Honeycomb-running tablets during the 2011 Mobile World Congress, Apple introduces its iPad 2. FULL STORY >