Vodacom rebrands an Alcatel V860 smartphone as a Vodafone Smart II. Is it worth its R1 300 asking price or should you spend your money on another budget device? FULL STORY >

Volvo joins the CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium to bring some innovative new safety tech to cars within the next five years. FULL STORY >

Sony announces that it is releasing an Android Jelly Bean update for part of its 2012 Xperia range of smartphones. FULL STORY >

According to PwC, Africa's communications market is at the inflection point where high potential starts to turn into high growth. FULL STORY >

Mobile social networks, mobile applications stores and location-based services will be three of the highest value mobile services to reach widespread adoption in the next two years according to Gartner. FULL STORY >

Google's Play breezes past the 25 billion app download mark. FULL STORY >

Qualcomm is aiming to bring a significant processing power boost to the lower tiers of the smartphone market via two new Snapdragon CPU additions. FULL STORY >

Apple reveals some of the latest stats surrounding sales of its new Mac OS X Mountain Lion desktop OS, App Store and iOS devices sold. FULL STORY >

Near Field Communication brings with it a myriad of opportunities for small and medium businesses. FULL STORY >

All the best gadgets and gear from our Hot New Product segment in the magazine. FULL STORY >

A new report from Juniper Research has asserted that near field communication NFC mobile payments will exceed $180 billion worldwide by 2017, as the technology becomes standard. FULL STORY >

Twitter brings new features to the latest versions of its mobile app for Android-based mobile devices and the iPhone. FULL STORY >

Nuance Communications will be making its Dragon Drive! Messaging functionality available within certain BMW vehicles. FULL STORY >

Net Applications reveals what the most utilised desktop PC and mobile browsers were during the month of June 2012. FULL STORY >

Qualcomm's Snapdragon SDK for Android gives developers access to features only found on Snapdragon-powered devices. FULL STORY >