• ZOL Start-up Challenge: Predict and win competition winner

    Thank you for the overwhelming entries to everyone who participated in the ZOL Startup Challenge – Predict and Win competition. The winner of the 1.5GB ZOLspot voucher is Simbarashe D.

  • ZOL Startup Challenge: Predict and win competition!

    As you probably know, tomorrow is the big day; Five finalists in the ZOL Start-up Challenge will battle it out for the top prize at the finals. The top start-up will be awarded US $5,000 cash and US $5,000 worth of internet services from ZOL. Two runner-ups will each get US $2,500 cash and US…

  • Internet provider emerges to offer 4G services

    Valley Technologies, one of Zimbabwe’s 15 licensed IAPs, has started an ad campaign to launch its 4G internet services. A local teaser ad titled “What would you expect from a […]

  • ZOL giving away 35 Gigabytes of traffic at HIFA

    Zimbabwe’s largest ISP, ZOL, will be giving away 35 Gigabytes of traffic at this year’s Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA). The festival will be held from the 26th of April to the 1st of May.

  • Weekend event: gaming cafe LAN tournament in Harare

    Zimbabwe Cyber Games is hosting another gaming cafe LAN tournament this Sunday in Harare. If you’re a gaming enthusiast, this is of course good news and you won’t miss it. For the rest of you, it’s a great opportunity to network with gamers and the geeks that attend events like these.

  • Hey Google, Rhodesia doesn’t exist anymore. The country is called Zimbabwe

    Today, we woke up to an opinion piece in a local daily newspaper that made us stop. It’s titled “Google is bidding return of Rhodesia”. And no, it’s not just link bait, read the article and visit Google news right now to see that Google seems to think Harare is in Rhodesia and obviously that…

  • The Apple iPad officially launched in South Africa

    2010’s game changing tablet, Apple’s iPad, officially launched in South Africa today. As expected, this didn’t generate the usual excitement Apple products attract at launch. It’s really for the simple reason that Apple launched the same gadget in the US almost 10 months ago and is readying the launch of the second iPad generation.

  • VoIP: The future of voice communication in Zimbabwe

    IP Telephony has been around since as early as 1973 and has over the past decade been enhanced to attain telephone (PSTN) voice quality. Today VoIP services are offered internationally by traditional telecom operators (e.g. BT in the UK) and dedicated IP phone networks like Skype.

  • Cyber Gaming LAN Tourney This Sunday

    We just got an email from the organizers of the Zim cyber gaming LAN events. There’s going to be a tournament this Sunday, 7th of November. The organizers, Yo Africa, try to hold a tournament almost every month. Last one was on 3 October.

  • Ecoweb Embraces Social Media With New Website

    Early this week, Ecoweb replaced their old (and kind of stale) website with a fresh, bright and actually nice looking one. It was long overdue and Ecoweb’s parent company, Econet, should consider doing something about theirs too. Besides the fresh look, what is really interesting about the new Ecoweb website is that it brings with…

  • An Overview Of Zimbabwe’s Telecommunications – POTRAZ Presentation Download

    We got this presentation here from a function we attended last week. The presentation was made by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) and generally covers the current state of telecoms industry in Zimbabwe. Coming from them, we’re sure it’s pretty accurate.

  • Africom To Launch CDMA2000 Mobile Network

    Word has it that Africom is in the advanced stages of implementing a CDMA 2000 mobile network. The new mobile network will ride on its already established metro fibre networks in Harare and Bulawayo. According to our source, Africom is taking advantage of the anything-goes class A operator license they hold to spread into the…

  • The Zim Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party In Pictures

    See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Technology Zimbabwe

  • 2009 ICT Africa: Day 2

    Tomorrow we have a speech/presentation by the Minister of ICT, Nelson Chamisa and the ministry’s permanent secretary. Hopefully I can post a video or audio of it here. Will also […]

  • 2009 ICT Africa: Day 1

    See the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Technology Zimbabwe

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