Phones

Ericsson has teamed up with Africa's leading mobile operators to provide a free SMS-based application to help reunite refugees and displaced persons with families.  read more »

As local and international banks continue to roll out technologies to provide efficient and remote banking services in Africa, South Africa's First Nation Bank (FNB) has announced that it is experiencing a rapid uptake of mobile banking services across its operations in the region.  read more »

Competition in mobile money transfer services in Africa and the Middle East has moved up a notch higher following the move by MTN and Western Union to introduce international remittance services in 21 countries where MTN has a presence.  read more »

Dell will push Google's Android 2.2 OS to its Streak handheld devices in a matter of "weeks," a company executive said this week.  read more »

After applications recently started disappearing from the Android Market, Google continued to have reliability issues with the online store as developers over the weekend experienced issues with erroneous download counts.  read more »

Despite Twitter going into rumour overdrive Monday afternoon, Spotify is still waiting to see if an iPhone application submission will make it past the Apple App Store approval process.  read more »

Mobile phone outfit INQ Mobile has launched two low-cost smartphones that feature tight integration with social-networking site Twitter, it said on Tuesday.  read more »

Developers will now be able to take a look at the SDK (Software Development Kit) for the next version of the Android platform, Google announced on Monday on its developer blog.  read more »