apps

First National Bank (FNB) today launched a revamped version of its banking app, tailored specifically for tablets.The bank was the first in South Africa to launch an app in 2011, with its major competitors all eventually following suit. The new tablet app has most of the same features as the ...

Absa has officially launched its smartphone banking app, making it the last of South Africa's major banks with such an offering.The app, which is available on Android and iOS, includes a number of traditional online banking features, as well as a GPS-based ATM locator and branch locator and the ...

This is interesting. We've just received a media invite to the launch of Investec's smartphone banking app.The fact that the South African-founded banking group, which also operates in the United Kingdom, Australia and Ireland isn't as interesting however as the date.The app is set to have its official ...

Nick D'Aloisio has designed an app, Summly, that will summarise the news you want to hear in about three to four paragraphs, receiving millions in backing from all over, including celebrity investors like Stephen Fry and Ashton Kutcher. The app launches today and has been chosen by Apple as its ...

I’ll start this article off with some complete honesty: besides toasted sandwiches and the occasional omelette here and there, I’m not much of cook.Sure, I can braai (South African term for BBQ) with the best of them, but when it comes to the kitchen, I am absolutely hopeless. I’ve ...

Facebook has been has been big on apps for a little while now. It’s a little surprising therefore that it’s taken it so long to announce an App Centre.There’s not much differentiating Facebook’s centre from the kind of app stores we’ve become used to courtesy of Google and Apple. ...

I'm going to start this post with a little disclaimer to save my own ass: if you're ill, go see a doctor. Of course, sometimes we all have little aches and pains that we don't want to bother our hard-working GPs with, and the temptation to get on the net ...

Apps are everywhere. There are app stores, fuelling the app economy, which is part of the app ecosystem. It stands to reason that we must be downloading a lot of them then. But how many?Millions? Hundreds of millions? Nope. Not even close. At the moment we’re downloading around 31-billion ...

If you’re a Zimbabwean tech entrepreneur, this might be of interest to you. A competition launching next week at the Harare Club of JumpStart -- the community driven initiative for tech entrepreneurs -- will enable developers to launch their apps and earn revenue from them on Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s biggest ...

Robert Nyman could be the geek of all geeks. As the Swedish-based Technical Evangelist for Mozilla, Nyman is a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web. In the app era, while everyone is slagging off the web, he remains a big fan and feels it will flourish. Nyman ...