Winning app targets sanitation

Team Shinsekai from Senegal has won first prize in Ericsson’s Apps for African City Life Competition, for developing an app that aims to support environmental sanitation and hygiene development in cities. Dadja Matiasso Bassou, project leader for team Shinsekai, says:...

New insurance app offers instant assistance

According to the Apple App Store, downloads have doubled over the past year alone to reach 40-billion downloads in January 2013. In line with this shift, local underwriter MUA Insurance Acceptances has now launched a new mobile app that enables instant communication...

School textbooks live on the iPad

ZA Books is a new online bookstore launched by Apple distributor Core Group, focusing on school-level textbooks for iPad users. The company has sourced textbooks from the majority of South Africa’s academic publishers, and made them available for purchase and download...

FNB app available for BB10

FNB has announced that a BlackBerry 10 version of the FNB Banking App has been developed and is available for the new BlackBerry 10 operating system. The FNB app is currently in the BlackBerry store and is available as a free download. Since the app’s commercial...

Milestone for Nedbank app

Nedbank has reached a number of milestones in a few short months, exceeding R1-billion in transactional value being processed via the Nedbank app, with no incidents of fraud.  This is a significant achievement in the current area of online fraud. The Nedbank App Suite...