Capitec offers clients cell phone banking

Capitec Bank yesterday launched its cell phone banking app, saying that a key difference between this app and other banking apps is that it can be accessed on both feature phones and smartphones. It adds that the Capitec Bank app also offers security via the phone and...

Smartphone design now key for consumers

Considering 80% of the world’s population is equipped with a mobile phone, with over 1-billion of these being smartphones, mobile communications technology has entrenched itself into modern day life. As these devices continue to become more integral to our day-to-day...

Tablet banking set for European take-off

More European consumers will bank on their tablets than on their mobile phones by as soon as 2016, according to Forrester’s European digital banking forecast for 2014 to 2018. While mobile banking use in Europe will grow fast from 42-million users in 2013 to...

Mainstream smartphones for government users

A survey by International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals that over 75% of Western European government respondents are using vendors other than Apple or BlackBerry. The use of BlackBerry is on the wane in the government sector, according to the survey, with only 27% of...

Smartphone innovation slowing, says analyst

Samsung launched its new Galaxy S5 smartphone with fanfare last week, but at least one analyst believes the pace of innovation is slowing and there is not much that’s really new in the product. Frost & Sullivan ICT Consultant Lawrence Lundy offers the following...