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YoAfrica webmail security flaw exposes customer emails
Earlier today, a guy sent us an email on our tips@techzim.co.zw address with the subject “Security Flaw – yo.co.zw” Here are the contents of that email:
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23rd Century Systems: Lessons on building a Pan African ICT company
At the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce symposium held last week, Twenty Third Century Systems(TTCS) Group Business Development Manager, Thandi Ngwenya presented on an interesting topic: Building a Pan African ICT Company. In the presentation Ngwenya says she shares some “5 key lessons that we have learnt in our journey to establish TTCS as a…
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The Econet backbone optic fibre map
We saw the map below in Econet’s financial results briefings for 2011 and thought to post it here. It shows the progress of the fibre backbone project that the largest mobile operators is working. As you can see, the section running from Harare through Bulawayo to Beitbridge is now fully operational. It also shows the…
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Econet’s promotional broadband prices not that promotional
As Telecel announced the opening of its mobile broadband test to all subscribers yesterday, Econet posted colorful adverts in the newspapers declaring “Up to 50% off on broadband tariffs. Now you can enjoy more broadband for less.”
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Press release: Telecel gives all customers pilot project data access
Telecel customers with data capable handsets are now able to access data services as part of a new phase of Telecel’s data services preparatory pilot project. The latest phase, which began on Friday (May 13), is intended to enable Telecel to test its data services billing system and the national reach of its data services…
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Zimbos: Stake your claim in the startup goldrush
I believe that Zimbabwe and Kenya are similar in many ways albeit Kenya’s coastal advantage with regards to bandwidth access. As such the future is almost predictable provided the local infrastructure shapes up. We have a much higher literacy rate than Kenya with their only difference being that they have embraced tech in a huge…
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About spam and Dipleague archives on the internet
It’s clear that Dipleague is one of the most useful classifieds services in Zimbabwe. We’ve covered Dipleague here before. It’s a basic mailing list; simple but very effective. The list generates close to 500 adverts a day! There’s something we don’t like about Dipleague: the vulnerability of members (posting ones) to spam, phishing and all…
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Econet fixes website access issue. Our thoughts on customer support
Last week, we complained that we couldn’t connect to the Econet websites unless we used an Econet Internet connection. We don’t use Econet for Internet at the office and we write about the mobile operator regularly so you can understand how it affected us. We were also not happy that this had gone on for…
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Telecoms subscribers as guinea pigs – exiting the infinite loop
Subscribers have played a major role in the establishment of mobile voice and data service in the last decade, through the experiments of all the existing mobile operators, subscribers have been made to pay for services that most of the time did not offer them good service. Subscribers involuntarily became guinea pigs for the mobile…
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Press Release: Telecel wins ZIM Customer Service Excellence Award
Telecel Zimbabwe has been presented with the Zimbabwe Institute of Management’s 2010 Customer Service Excellence Award, in recognition of its leadership in customer care. Managing director Aimable Mpore was presented with the award at the institute’s Manager of the Year Awards ceremony in Harare on Friday last week (29 April).
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Econet websites unavailable unless you’re using an Econet connection
We use Mweb (now iWayAfrica) for our primary internet connection at the office. I have 3 mobile broadband dongles from Africom, Telecel and Econet, which I use in order of the most affordable and usable at any given time. Now the problem with Econet sites is that, unless I’m using the Econet dongle, I cannot…
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Canonical releases new Ubuntu version named Natty Narwhal
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, released a new version of the popular open source operating system last week. This latest version, named ‘Natty Narwhal’, comes with some changes including a move from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice as the default office suite and a new desktop environment called Unity which, until now, was only…
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Telecel ends free broadband test, to start charging 10 cents a megabyte
It’s official, the Telecel free mobile broadband test is over. Today, Telecel advised mobile broadband users through SMS that the test period has been finalized and starting Monday 1 May (2011), all internet usage will be charged at US 10 cents per megabyte. Here’s the text of the SMS:
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Econet posts mega profits, grows subscribers base to 5.5 million
Econet has just released its financial results for the full year to February 2011. It’s another mega profits year for Zimbabwe’s largest telecoms firm; profits after tax for the period stand at US$140.9 million this year, up 24% from last year’s results.
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23rd Century Systems subsidiary developing VAS platform
Uniswitch, a Twenty Third Century Systems Group (TTCS) subsidiary, is working on a VAS platform to be launched in the coming months. According to Uniswitch Managing Director, Reginald Gumbo, this is part of Uniswitch’s long terms strategic direction of developing mobile commerce solutions for the market.
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Telecel introduces convenient way for subscribers to register disconnected lines
As you may know, the POTRAZ deadline for mobile phone subscribers to register sim cards expired (for the third and final time) at the end of March. Some subscribers have already reported disconnections and some, despite being given a whole year to register, are not amused at all. Most are claiming they registered but still…
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Create the web you want!
There is an Nokia Advert that I loved and the tagline was something to the effect that the “new internet” was being created by hand, alluding to the fact that the social media phenomenon was contingent on a plethora of user submitted content experiences, be they YouTube videos or location service meta-data.
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Press Release: Latest version of Sage ERP X3 benefits mining companies
Sage has added new features to its latest release of Sage ERP X3, version 6.2, which are particularly useful for the mining sector, mining companies attending a seminar held recently in Harare by Chips Computing Services were told.
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How cheap can a voice call get? Valley Technologies might set new standard
Last week we ran an article titled “Africom and Valley Technologies to launch mobile phone networks”. In it we said that the two Internet Access Providers will be launching networks in the coming months and that they are currently conducting tests and finalizing interconnection with other telecoms providers.
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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.