Last night Google announced a new service that’s supposed to disrupt the gaming industry; Google Stadia. From a conceptual standpoint, Stadia is pretty cool and if adopted by masses this […]
Like clockwork, most large businesses have been using the RBZ’s latest Monetary Policy Statement as an excuse to hike prices and all of them are putting a spin on it. […]
Yesterday the President finally commissioned TelOne’s new Fibre Backbone Link and interestingly, TelOne feels that this new link will go a long way in reducing incidents of vandalism that have […]
I must admit I am one those guys who often scoffs and startup competitions. Here at Techzim we used to be part of the ZOL Startup challenge and one of […]
Deals. Deals. Deals. African tech start-ups dominated headlines for record-breaking fundraise announcements in 2018. Cellulant raised. Tizeti raised. mSurvey raised. Farmcrowdy raised. Piggybank raised. Kobo360 raised. Jumo raised. Zola Electric raised.TradeDepot raised. Africa’s Talking raised And there’s more. Recent reports estimate that tech start-ups have secured $334.5M […]
Back in 2014 Econet launched their own WiFi project in a bid to reduce congestion on its network which was mostly 3G in urban areas back then. Econet being the […]
Telecel has finally introduced a competitor to Wibroniks and One-Fi, and as always more competition = better deals for consumers, so this is obviously welcome. So how does this new […]
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) has recently been a remarkably useful tool in Zimbabwe, owing to the shutting down and throttling of internet by the government amid the #ShutdownZimbabwe protests. […]
Though there was an internet blackout for the last few hours, it seems the internet is now working once again. Yesterday morning service providers start shutting down their networks with […]
We are reliable informed that the government has given another directive that will see the few people in Zimbabwe that still had connectivity being shut from the internet completely. This […]
So it has happened. If you are on Econet or TelOne, you can’t even use a VPN to access social media anymore. You can’t access the internet at all in […]
Of all the Mobile Network Operators (MNO), Netone seems to be feeling the heat, of the economic turmoil, more. Just over a month ago, the state-owned MNO, Netone increased the price of its […]
These days if you want cheap ( below $100) unlimited internet your option are pretty much limited these days. Powertel, Aquiva and Dandemutande are the only providers that I know […]
Kwese-iflix has partnered media company, BusTop TV in coming up with a comedy series, Comic Tick, on the Kwe-iflix platform. Bustop TV has already aired the first season. with 10 […]
So what do iPhones, the P20, laptops, smart watches and Tesla cars have in common? Why, batteries of course and more often than not these are lithium-ion batteries. Naturally those […]
We have said this countless times and everyone who reads this blog probably already knows: if you want to make an international payment most banks will ask you to prefund […]
NetOne has always been consistent when it comes to promotions that are meant to entice subscribers. We’ve had OneFusion in more recent times but before that, there was also Dollar […]
We can all agree that paying for DSTV is quite a hustle these days. The only bank that I know that was accepting bollars/zollars was Nedbank, but even they have […]
Following a spate of recent price hikes that had a 2008 feel and even included price control threats from the government it comes as no surprise that Zimbabwe’s year to […]
Some things in life are certain. The sun will always rise from the East. Without oxygen we are doomed and so forth and so on. It seems another thing that […]
So Kwese satellite TV is the service we all liked to hate but now miss terribly. As they say it only takes the rain to miss the sunshine. The thing […]
As a lot of Zimbabwean music and Spotify lovers know the music streaming business is yet to officially launch in Zimbabwe or in much of Africa really. Like many awesome […]