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Now you can rent a Telecel Teletune for less than a dollar
Yesterday, we received an update from Telecel on their relatively new Teletunes service. The company is basically providing more subscription options to subscribers. Where subscribers could only buy (more like […]
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Has South Africa resorted to cyberwarfare after cricket defeat?
UPDATE: After the flurry of comments to this article, Tweets and Facebook comments, we’d like to clarify issues around the article. The beauty about blogging and social media unlike traditional media […]
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Utande launches new WIMAX broadband service
This morning Utande Internet Services (Pvt) limited, a subsidiary company of Dandemutande Investments a company in Zimbabwe’s telecommunications industry launched its broadband WIMAX service under the uMAX brand. The Financial […]
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Supersport does 1st HD Broadcast in Zim
Zimbabwe’s cricket match against Bangladesh (17 June 2012) was a happy occasion not only because the hosts won by 11 runs, but it also marked a significant broadcasting milestone as it was […]
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biNu in explosive growth
biNu the Sydney based startup founded in September 2008 by Gour Lentell and Dave Turner recorded a jaw dropping 112% increase in unique Monthly Active Users (MAUs) for Zimbabwe in […]
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Gwatamatic the technical marvel – Part II
William Gwata next to his iconic machine So how does the Gwatamatic work? Well basically there are 2 models of the Gwatamatic: The Gwatamatic 2000 and the Baby Gwata. As […]
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Jumpstart tackles funding for startups
At Jumpstart’s last meeting held on 13 June 2012, entrepreneurs had a chance to explore various funding models available to them. The keynote speaker at the event was Munya Chiura, Head […]
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Telecel announces Opera Mini co-branding partnership
You’ll remember that some four months ago, Telecel Zimbabwe started testing a co-branded Opera Mini browser for its subscribers. The browser was being automatically pushed to Telecel subscribers’ mobile phones. Today, […]
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Insights into Zim Internet usage
1,223,947 that is the total number of people in Zimbabwe who have some form of Internet access, whether at home, the office, Internet Café or by mobile. This is […]
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FBC finally launches Mobile Moola. Announces MasterCard Acquirer status
In September last year, we posted that FBC had introduced a new mobile banking service called Mobile Moola. They had and hadn’t. The advertising for the product died down and […]
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ForgetMeNot Africa announces the Apps Challenge Test Drive shortlist
If you entered an App in the ForgetMeNot Africa eTXT Apps Challenge, we have some good news for you today. ForgetMeNot Africa just released the shortlist of the apps that […]
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Whatever happened to the Gwatamatic?
Imagine you are a bachelor coming home from another stressful day at work, just the thought of cooking supper definitely saps the last ounces of strength from your body. And […]
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Herald’s sms service leaves rival’s in the dust
This last month (May) we at Techzim have been using the Herald and Sunday Mail service known as MobileNEWS and we have not been disappointed by it. The two newspapers are […]
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What if you lost your laptop…would you lose your data too?
On Friday, as routine I passed through Mdala Ngwenya’s office which is along main street one of the busiest streets in Bulawayo. I was greeted by a young man working on a pc in the other office adjacent to the reception. I sat for a while at reception area just browsing the net from my…
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The definitive start-up guide for challenging environments
After I wrote my last article 5 Startup Lessons from Facebook IPO, I realised that in as much as there where some valuable lessons from the story of Facebook of […]
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The death of the Zimbabwean music record company; the rise of the Independent artist
So the digital music revolution in Zimbabwe rumbles on with today’s news in The Herald about leading record company Gramma Records active consideration of introducing MP3’s. Emmanuel Vhori, Gramma’s general manager is quoted as saying “Recording companies are prepared to give it (their) all, to extinguish the flames of piracy that had literary turned musicians…
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8 days to go before eTXT Apps Challenge deadline. Have you submitted your app yet?
Developers in Zimbabwe have just 8 days, specifically until next week Friday the 25th, to submit their eTXT apps for the ZeTXT Apps Challenge that has been going on since March. The challenge has presented local developers with an opportunity to develop mobile based applications for the eTXT platform available on the Econet network. The…
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Econet slashes MMS tariffs by more than half
In an apparent bid to have more mobile subscribers using the freshly launched Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Econet has slashed tariffs for the service by more than half, from US 15 cents to just 6 cents. The country’s largest telecoms firm made the announcement yesterday to customers via an SMS which read: