When Apple released the iPhone 5S and the iPhone SC there was little they could improve from the already acclaimed iPhone 5 but Apple had something up its sleeve and […]
Last month, when Powertel finally implemented its billing system, they promised to release some exciting products soon. Well, that soon has come and it’s exciting. Well, the price point at […]
Here is a fun fact: The Zimbabwe Republic Police has no official website – at least I could not find one and that means if the site exists most people […]
So, this is the first time we’ve actually seen an application by a local company for an internet TV license. The name of the company is Ke Nako Media. You […]
Two USA based entrepreneurs Haji Mupakura and Freeman Chari are looking to compete in the “social shopping” space through a platform called Endosit. Social shopping is described as “a method […]
As we step into a new year, I can’t help but look back on the current year and wonder that there has been a lot of talk in the broadband/internet […]
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe’s latest telecoms statistics show that the country’s total broadband subscriptions climbed 6.45 percentage points in 2013, going up from 33.4% in December […]
Behold, this vision was given unto me by my mind. Listen carefully and bookmark these words. Gigabits will soar on Wings like eagles. I see what appear to be kilo-bits […]
Remember the Econet daily bundles? Of course you do – it’s the promotion Econet launched in last year in August that allows you get free voice minutes when you buy […]
“For me it’s all about team work really. When this solar charger was being developed, there was a lot of input from the hearing impaired. There was a team a […]
In just a couple of hours the year ends and 2014 rolls along with its high expectations from all of us. But before that happens we thought we’d look back […]
On Saturday 14 December Powertel announced that their new billing had gone live with immediate effect. This appears to be part of some ongoing changes at the ZESA subsidiary including […]
Here’s our latest Techzim podcast episode. In there we cover the new DStv Explora (price, competition – or lack of – locally), the EcoCashSave system problem, The ICT Achievers awards […]
In this episode of the Techzim Podcast, we had a guest, Tinashe Nyaruwanga, who is a digital media enthusiast whose social media articles we’ve featured here before. The other regulars […]
For the first time in 2013, we now know for a fact that a lot of governments including the self-righteous ones, spy on innocent users under the guise of national […]
As we continue to review the success and failures local startups, Pay4App is one of those that can’t go unnoticed simply because their product is designed to solve the major […]
Year after year the ICT Achievers Awards have been reduced to a comedy spectacle that seems to grow in magnitude each year. There are always big questions on the awards […]
There are those-conspiracy nuts- who have jokingly said that Valentine was invented by the corporate hegemony of card companies, gift companies as well as flower companies to sell their products. […]
Over the past few days, we have received revelations suggesting that Zimbabwe’s largest MNO, Econet Wireless, is unfairly blocking bulk SMS messages that dont go through a newly Econet-accredited bulk […]
It’s just about the exact same time last year we announced the launch of a web startup called ZimboKitchen.com. At initial contact, we had good hunch on their potential of […]
Those of you that know how Techzim started will tell you it started as an email list of friends in tech. We would mail each other back and forth, discuss […]
So, everytime we post an article about a new Econet value added service, it’s followed complaints from some readers who apparently feel cheated that Econet ended the EcoLife service. Some […]
It’s been common knowledge for some several months now that Econet Services, the division of Econet that’s not hardcore telephony, is working on an ICT for education initiative that uses […]