{"id":57197,"date":"2012-09-01T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=57197"},"modified":"2012-09-01T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:27:12","slug":"5-local-apps-worth-noting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/57197-5-local-apps-worth-noting.html","title":{"rendered":"5 local apps worth noting"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>The mobile app industry is growing in South Africa, with local developers producing high-quality apps for Android, iOS, Windows Phones and BlackBerry platforms.<\/p>\n

Sho\u2019t Find, VCpay, QuickCV, Bozza and the SupeRugby app are products worth noting on the mobile platforms.<\/p>\n

Sho\u2019t Find (Maxxor)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Developed by Maxxor, Sho\u2019t Find is a location-based application that enables users to find places of interest.<\/p>\n

Stores, shopping malls, coffee shops, bars, movie theaters, hotels and more can be found with Sho’t Find.<\/p>\n

The app syncs with a phone\u2019s native GPS system and shows which local businesses and services are in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

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Sho\u2019t Find app<\/p><\/div>\n

VCpay (Pbel)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

VCpay is a mobile payment app from the developers at Pbel.<\/p>\n

The app allows users to create a virtual credit card for a particular use.<\/p>\n

Users can then specify amounts and preloaded credits to the created cards to use online.<\/p>\n

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VCPay app<\/p><\/div>\n

Quick CV (immedia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Durban-based app studio, Immedia, have developed QuickCV, an app aimed as a recruiting platform.<\/p>\n

QuickCV allows users to upload their details and credentials in a simple format, along with heightened privacy settings.<\/p>\n

If a potential employer requires a contact detail, a request is sent to the candidate first, which then unlocks his or her contact details on the CV.<\/p>\n

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QuickCV app<\/p><\/div>\n

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Super Rugby app (Pbel)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the Super Rugby tournament being an international affair, local developers, Pbel, have produced the primary app for the event.<\/p>\n

The Super Rugby app allows users to get all the fixtures, results and news on-the-fly.<\/p>\n

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Super Rugby App<\/p><\/div>\n

Bozza<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bozza is a mobile app which aims to promote and distribute South African music, entertainment, and sports.<\/p>\n

Initially launched on MXit, Bozza provides content producers across Africa with a platform to give away their content for free and still make money from it.<\/p>\n

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Bozza app<\/p><\/div>\n

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South African developers are delivering apps of international quality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":57209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,97,8863,35,14423,691,14417,14425,14421,14419],"class_list":["post-57197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-blackberry","tag-bozza","tag-headline","tag-immedia","tag-ios","tag-local-apps","tag-maxxor","tag-pbel","tag-south-african-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57299,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57197\/revisions\/57299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}