By Rufaro Madamombe Internet of Things has become big in 1st world countries but when we come to Africa, it’s a whole different discussion. Most people would think of a toaster connected to the Internet that knows when to make the toast upon receiving instructions. However, such connected devices and…
By Rufaro Madamombe We recently added a page on Techzim that shows some upcoming events that we would have come across. The events don’t necessarily have to be tech focused like all about coding or Bitcoin. So if you know of an event that you think others should know about,…
By Rufaro Madamombe EcoCash Tariffs have been reduced. The changes will be effective from today 1 August 2017. Here are the details of the new tariffs in the image below. Articles appeared first on Techzim;EcoCash tariffs reduced effective 1 August 2017 …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…
By L.S.M Kabweza As you may know, Asia’s richest man and founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, visited Africa for the first time about two weeks ago as part of his role as a special adviser on youth entrepreneurship to the UN. There he spoke about about building Alibaba and the…
By Tafadzwa Mundida These days I get almost all my non-tech news from Twitter. I have come to trust that if something significant is happening in sports, politics or any other area I care about is happening or has recently happened, at least one person I follow will be tweeting…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi We wrote an article last week on how TelOne has introduced a new feature which enables its clients to monitor their internet usage. I slightly described my own ordeal with a different ISP (Internet Service Provider) which I thought was just ‘one of those’ but it was…
By L.S.M Kabweza There are all kinds of shady digital marketing methods in Zimbabwe involving email. It ranges from the outright digital tsotsis who sell so called “email databases”, essentially making businesses pay to get their hands on a list of email addresses to spam, to milder spammers who make…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi The other time we wrote about how to solve the chicken and egg problem citing examples of how other startups and businesses have solved it. You might want to read the initial article here to get how we defined the concept and where it applies. After reading…
By Edwin Chabuka Probably just from the title quite a handful of the readers are screaming and yelling NOO! Hold up people let me explain. Now before I get to the part where it makes sense or not, I just want to give a petrol head’s view of things, seeing…
By Rufaro Madamombe Huawei recently announced that they will soon not be manufacturing low-end smartphones anymore. This is because the category of smartphones is not making them that much money and the company would also like focus more premium devices. The company is now the 3rd largest smartphone manufacturer in…