iOS: CommBank’s payments app Kaching has been available since December, but now access to the feature has been built into the main NetBank app as well. Handy if you’re regularly sharing payments. [iTunes App Store]
We got told about it back in October, but the Commonwealth Bank’s Kaching app, offering NFC functionality and the ability to send payments to others, is now officially available.
Commonwealth Bank has outlined its plans to offer near-field communication (NFC) payments and peer-to-peer payments for iPhone users through a new app called Kaching — but you’ll need a bank supplied case and there’s no Android option on the agenda straight away.
We’ve talked up the merits of practicing savings and investment strategies in a simulator before, but many online simulators aren’t geared particularly to Australian conditions. Investorville, developed by the Commonwealth Bank and designed to demonstrate some of the challenges of investing in property, is an exception.
The Commonwealth Bank rolled out its long-anticipated iPad app today, but there’s also a bunch of other mobile banking goodies on offer: new versions of its iPhone and Android apps, a Windows Phone 7 app, a tablet-optimised mobile site and the promise of additional platforms in the future.
The Commonwealth Bank argues that local branches aren’t dead, customers want online access when they visit their local bank and that HTML5 apps are the way of the future. I pretty much agree on the last point, but I’m not so sure about the other two.
When the Commonwealth Bank rolled out its Android app in February, it copped a lot of criticism from Lifehacker readers (amongst others) for being not much more than a bookmark to the NetBank site. According to CommBank executives, that was largely due to security concerns, but the future of its app strategy will be centred on HTML5 rather than platform-specific apps.
