We’ve just received a press release from Telecel on the developments of their now almost two months old mobile money service Telecash. In the press release Telecel is basically saying […]
On Thursday last week, a new promising initiative in the country tech ecosystem called The Tech Lair organized its inaugural event called The Tech Lair Meetup, The Opening at Harare […]
Thank your for completing the #GetSocial Zimbabwe 2014 survey. We really appreciate you taking the time to do this. As promised, we will be giving away a Samsung Galaxy smartphone […]
Facebook CEO has once again astonished the world by claiming that he called the most powerful person in the world, President Barack Obama, to express his frustration over alleged […]
From all those movies and TV shows that I watch, I have always wondered what a real world hacker looks like and inevitably, every-time I attempt the exercise an image […]
Telecel launched Telecash with interoperability as their main trump card and that promise seems to taking shape gradually. . Today Telecel announced via their Facebook page that Telecash users could […]
Update: We have since tested Econet Zero again and Wikipedia is now working. Econet has also advised that they have fixed the minor glitch. Econet yesterday announced a ground-breaking product […]
Roaming tariffs are quite frankly ridiculous! The world over. For example, a story is told of a teenager who came back from an overseas trip to a phone bill of […]
Naija MNOs fined for poor service (Mybroadband) The Nigerian Communication Commission has fined all the mobile operators in that country a combined $4 million for poor service. The operators are […]
Today’s online media was awash recycling the story in the Herald on Africom’s extended Crossover promotion which now has an added 100mb for $1. Africom is now offering 100mb of […]
This is a special Techzim podcast covering the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona Spain. Techzim writer Tendai Mupaso made a Skype call to William Chui who is currently […]
So mobile operators are reeling under dumb pipe threat the internet is permanently visiting upon them. Some have cleverly accepted this inevitability and have gone the app bundles route. The […]
Speaking at the Mobile World Congress today as part of his keynote presentation, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that WhatsApp is actually worth much more than $19 billion. Asked how […]
We’re trying to live blog Mark Zuckerberg’s live keynote at the Mobile World Congress, so we’re just going to post information in our not so structured fashion. If you have […]
Through an article in The Sunday Mail today, Payway announced the launch of its electronic payment service which uses self service kiosks, an Android application, and standard electronic vending devices (the […]
Steward Bank announced via Tweeter and Facebook a new product line that they are calling Diaspora Banking. The service is targeting Zimbabwean in the Diaspora to open any of the […]
It is truth generally accepted that Harare is the most technologically advanced city in the country with access to all the new and latest shiny toys that technology has to […]
So we finally got a response from Econet PR on the issue of them automatically registering Econet voice subscribers to the EcoCash mobile money service. It’s basically a, “no we […]
Seeing WhatsApp’s seemingly extremely high valuation that came with the announcement today by Facebook that they are acquiring it. We thought we could bring the figures home a bit and […]
A tip that came to us via Twitter today suggest Econet is now registering EcoCash users automatically. Meaning, in short, that if you’re an Econet subscriber, you’ll now automatically – […]
People and device makers these days are all possessed by an obsession with “smart” devices and the desire to stay connected. We have smart-watches, smart TVs, smart cars, smart brassieres, […]
Apart from the free dumb phone, there’s one other thing that Econet did these past several months that really impressed me; the Facebook Bundles. But you and I know Facebook […]
Recently I have had a chance to go hands on with first, the iPhone 5S and most recently iPad Air which represent my first real experience with Apple products. The […]
This may not been news to affected GOtv users but we got word that the DStvs low income pay tv service, GOtv, has been off air since 31 January leaving […]