One of the advantages that was and is still given for Cloud Computing is that it allows home and business computer users to operate freely without the need to be […]
Earth Hour is an event that was started in Australia in 2007. When confronted with increasingly overwhelming evidence of climate change, the Australian World Wide Fund for Nature came up […]
Earlier on, we managed to catch the first few hours of the F8 Facebook Developer Conference. Even though this was just the start of Day 1, a lot was shared by […]
While the bulk of manufacturers and suppliers are focusing on Android devices, local company GTel has once again opted to be unique. It has done this by giving customers a […]
So yesterday we wrote about a South Africa messaging startup called Zing. To understand what it is, just think of WhatsApp, but with the other stuff you’ve wished it had, like marketing capabilities […]
In a world where every other examination body is busy updating their syllabus so as to stay relevant in an ever changing business world, ZIMSEC would be best advised to […]
Numbers don’t lie, especially in business, and when the right sort of numbers are going up it becomes a celebrated truth. From the surface the Zimbabwean mobile telecoms scene is in […]
Last year, when I wrote that we should all be worried about the path we’re going down when mobile operators start to have influence what internet subscribers can have access and no […]
It’s only a few days into the new year and a lot of things have started to change in the Zimbabwean technology space. From tariff reductions to promotions being ended […]
So yesterday while looking back at the year’s tech success, failures and gaffes we found ourselves coming up with stuff we couldn’t quite consider failures, because these haven’t been done. Done […]
In just one week we are going to be counting down to the end of 2014 and ushering in another year that will hopefully be better than this one. Everyone […]
2014 has been a fairly exciting year in the ISP arena, with some interesting developments from the different providers. We decided to look at some of the highlights in […]
Recently, Video On Demand has been making some moves across the continent and you would think it’s the next big thing in Africa after the Telecoms revolution. In just […]
So now you have quit your job and finally gotten around to actually starting your dream startup. Maybe it’s that irresistible website, the app that is going to be the […]
With internet out-of-bundle prices ranging from US 7 cents (NetOne) to 15 cents (Econet) per megabyte, Zimbabwe’s data tariffs are considered relatively – to the average incomes that is – high. This however, […]
I am beginning to realise that there is a massive gap in the IT industry in Zimbabwe. Everywhere I look I see people churning out mobile apps and business related […]
There’s something that a lot of Econet broadband subscribers have noticed in the past couple days. Econet has been advertising its latest service that was launched at midnight– An unlimited […]
Econet has launched a voice promotion that gives its subscribers unlimited voice calls to other Econet numbers for just $1. According to an SMS being circulated to subscribers this limited […]
I have been a member of the Powertel mobile family since 2010. My three friends and I were fourth year Accounting students at the University of Zimbabwe. Econet had […]
A lot has changed since the crisis of 2008. Things are better now. I should know since back then I spend most of my time rationing my food supplies and […]
Anyone who is part of a startup will tell you that the road is hardly easy. There’s a need to put on many hats to get the job done as startups […]
We all remember the Y2K bug. Otherwise known as the Millennium bug or the Year 2000 problem. It arose because most computer storage devices of that time had a proclivity of, […]