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The Econet broadband website has been hacked
The Econet Wireless broadband website www.econetbroadband.co.zw has been hacked. We just discovered this right now while working on a story for the new Econet Email system, which we will post later.
If you visit the site right now, you will see it’s been defaced with the following banner:
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Econet engages SA consultants to review broadband prices downwards
We’re getting information that Econet has engaged consultants from neighboring South Africa to work on the mobile broadband prices.
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Telco working on a mobile broadband offering for early 2011
In a response to an email we sent them, Telco (Telecontract) revealed that they’re working on a mobile broadband service to be launched in 2011. Telco says “deployment of the first base stations is underway and commissioning of the commercial services is scheduled for early in 2011.”
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Econet to switch on fibre as early as next week
On Tuesday this week, Econet announced that it has connected the Seacom optic fibre cable and is ready to switch on once the green light is given by the regulators. Well, we have more news on that today.
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Details on the winners of Zimbabwe ICT 2010 Achievers Awards
On Sunday, we posted the winners of the inaugural Zimbabwe ICT Achievers Awards. We had just come from the event the previous night and didn't have the full details of the achievements of the winners. I know it took a whole week to get these, and we're sorry for that. But let's focus on the positive: Courtesy of our friends at Just ICT, we now have the details.
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ICT 2010 Achievers Awards Journalist of the Year: Mqhele Tshuma
Tshuma is a radio Journalist who has a keen interest in the field of Information, Communication Technology and has done stories along this sector in need of seeing the development of ICTs.
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ICT 2010 Achievers Awards Businesswoman of the Year: Rudo Mudavanhu
Rudo Mudavanhu went into ICT straight from school and started as a programmer. She has grown in the industry since MS Dos was the thing as an operating system.
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ICT 2010 Achievers Awards Company of the Year: Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
Econet has been introducing innovative communication products and services since it commenced operations. During the current year Econet launched two ground breaking services - mobile broadband and EcoLife insurance
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ICT 2010 Achievers Awards Businessman of the Year: Douglas Mboweni
Mr Mboweni is an exemplary Zimbabwean businessman that has shown strong entrepreneurial orientation in finding creative solutions to the challenges of operating and developing a business that delivers convenience to the people of Zimbabwe during a time of considerable economic challenges.
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ICT 2010 Achievers Awards Young Innovator of the year: Verengai Mabika
Young Verengai Mabika is the Director of the ICT based NGO – Development Reality Institute (DRI) and his volunteering skills has earned the organisation a prestigious World Summit Youth Award Best Innovative and Creative e-Content Addressing the MDGs.
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ICT 2010 Achievers Awards Project of the Year Public Sector: NetOne
This project had a positive impact to society in that NetOne bridged the communication divide in all ten provinces of Zimbabwe were power outages are frequent. NetOne set up solar powered base stations in hard hit areas such that there is constant connectivity for the masses in the affected areas.
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ICT 2010 Achievers Awards ICT Civil Society/ NGO: Childline Zimbabwe
Childline Zimbabwe's core function is to provide children with counselling services via the telephone. This ICT basis forms the foundation on which all awareness raising is conducted. Through promoting the toll-free 116 crisis line, Childline is promoting the use and access to ICT for all children across the country.
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Zimbabwe’s Google Top Searches of 2010
Today, Google posted this year’s Zeitgeist, an interactive visual tool showing what the world searched on Google in 2010. Google’s version of the world’s list of 2010’s most trending topics. We should be getting a Twitter one and possibly a Facebook one as well before the year closes.
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Yes, Africom too is connected to international fibre
Following Tuesday’s post about TelOne’s connection to the Mozambican fibre cable, there have been some questions about a statement in the story that Africom has already connected to the TDM fibre cable in Mozambique.
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Full text of keynote address by Zimbabwe ICT Minister at 2010 ICT Achievers Awards
We managed to get the keynote address delivered by Zimbabwe’s ICT Minister, Nelson Chamisa at the inaugural Zimbabwe ICT 2010 Achievers Awards. We post it here as it contains information relevant to Zimbabwe’s ICT entrepreneurs and the general non-ICT business community
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Econet connects to SEACOM undersea fibre cable
Econet just announced some 3 milestones today. The first and most significant is that Econet has established a direct connection to the SEACOM undersea optic fibre cable in Durban and is ready to connect customers once given the green light by the regulatory authorities.
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TelOne connects to international optic fibre cable through Mozambique
The Herald reports this morning that TelOne, the state owned fixed telephone operator, has completed the fibre backbone project to connect Harare directly to an Internet fibre cable coming out of Mozambique.
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Candid Consumerism, a Zimbabwe platform to complain.. and praise
If you are reading this post from Zimbabwe or you have been in Zim these past 2 years then you’ve probably had your change held back at a supermarket a number of times. If you’re like me, this has happened so many times you have lost count. Typically, you’re offered a credit note or asked to buy lollipops, choc, a box of matches, or some other small item to use up your change.
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The Winners of Zimbabwe’s ICT 2010 Achievers Awards
Some 3 weeks ago, we posted that nominations were underway for the inaugural Zimbabwe ICT Achievers Awards. The awards ceremony was held last night at a hotel in Harare. This year’s ICT achievers were announced and recognized for their shining contribution to the country’s ICT sector.
