The Nokia 215: Will it save Nokia and make Microsoft an African brand?
By Nigel Gambanga If you follow tech, missing out on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) highlights is a bit of a downer. There are a lot of things that come from each edition that push the envelope in...
View ArticleZOL hopes to use adverts to keep free WiFi hotspots, free! Separate Premium...
By L.S.M Kabweza So even though doesn’t mention it on their WiFi Hotspots website, their WiFi hotspots (the ones in Harare at least) have been free for months now. Free as in free beer. You connect and...
View ArticleNet neutrality & mobile network operators: Are they startup kingmakers?
By L.S.M Kabweza 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 one...
View ArticleNatiV: The e-learning app that wants to preserve ethnic language heritage
By Nigel Gambanga Every time someone says e-learning in Zimbabwe the talk almost always veers towards the way traditional learning content specific to writing and mathematics has been transferred to...
View ArticleHave you been banned from WhatsApp? Blame it on WhatsApp Plus
By Nigel Gambanga There’s a group of WhatsApp users that have been complaining since yesterday actually. Their favourite instant message has banned them from accessing it. If you have seen this...
View ArticleHere’s Econet new job search service… moving on, 50 cents poorer
By L.S.M Kabweza Remember the USSD & SMS mobile jobs services that local mobile operators have suddenly realised they could offer too. Pressured by the revenue decline caused by the government (new...
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Delta hopes tax cut will halt declining sales
BEVERAGE maker Delta Corporation has sounded alarm over the impact of the poor economic outlook on its financial performance, but hopes the recent reduction in excise duty on lagers and the resumption...
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Relationship between knowledge, faith
Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Life consists of bad and good things. We all like good things and...
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Comfort cakes
JANUARY disease is upon me. Sitting quietly one afternoon, there was a snap, crackle and pop, an alarming smell of electrical burning – and one blown up modem. End of internet. Diagnosis proved that...
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Steward bank appoints acting CEO
STEWARD Bank Limited has announced the appointment of Lance Mambondiani as the acting Chief Executive Officer.Mambondiani has been with Steward Bank Limited since July 2014 working as a Strategy,...
View ArticleWorldremit partners MTN globally. Gets access to some 22mil mobile wallets
By L.S.M Kabweza WorldRemit, the guys that partnered Econet to allow Zimbos globally to remit money direct to EcoCash wallets, have just announced a new partnership with the MTN Group that will see...
View ArticleSolar Power for dummies part 1: Introduction
By Garikai Dzoma I am well aware my esteemed colleague has already written a guide on solar power. This guide is different, penned with dummies in mind by a man who is also, when it comes to solar...
View ArticleSolar Power for dummies part 1: Introduction
By Garikai Dzoma I am well aware my esteemed colleague has already written a guide on solar power. This guide is different, penned with dummies in mind by a man who is also, when it comes to solar...
View ArticleWhere are we now with LTE in Zimbabwe?
By Nigel Gambanga 4G/LTE always gets people in telecoms excited, and for good reason. Faster connections and efficient networks are everything. Even though it has been singled out globally as the...
View ArticleWhere are we now with LTE in Zimbabwe?
By Nigel Gambanga 4G/LTE always gets people in telecoms excited, and for good reason. Faster connections and efficient networks are everything. Even though it has been singled out globally as the...
View ArticleAbout the accuracy and reliability of Zimbabwe’s mobile telecoms stats
By L.S.M Kabweza In Zimbabwe, there’s been a lot of confusion of the the mobile subscriber statistics released regularly by the mobile operators themselves to shareholders, as well as those released by...
View ArticleAll bets are on mobile money & data as SMS declines and telecoms shifts
By Nigel Gambanga 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...
View ArticleFibre internet not a rich peoples’ thing anymore as ZOL introduces $39 package
By Nigel Gambanga ZOL today announced a new fibre internet packaged priced at $39 a month. It’s officially the lowest priced fibre based internet service in Zimbabwe. Before now, Zol’s cheapest fibre...
View ArticleFibre internet not a rich peoples’ thing anymore as ZOL introduces $39 package
By Nigel Gambanga ZOL today announced a new fibre internet packaged priced at $39 a month. It’s officially the lowest priced fibre based internet service in Zimbabwe. Before now, Zol’s cheapest fibre...
View ArticleMama Money to launch SA-to-Zimbabwe money transfers to Textacash wallets
By L.S.M Kabweza You might have heard that a new South Africa to Zimbabwe remittance service called Mama Money is coming in the next couple of weeks. The key problem that Mama Money identified is that...
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