By Tinashe Nyahasha Last month my colleague shared a bit about our trip to Nyanga, to The Troutbeck School particularly. He then launched a series to discuss the Montessori system as an alternative approach to education. There is a lot to explore on the Montessori method in general and The…
By Rufaro Madamombe Google has just announced that it their in-house startup incubator, Area 120, is now open to the public. You can visit the website to sign up for you to be able to test and access some of the experimental products that they come up with. The company…
By Rufaro Madamombe 8 days ago, the Harare Institute of Technology website was hacked and the hacker had some demands which we posted in that article. Since then, public relations officer from the university has responded and they released a statement in the newspapers and online on 22 June. However,…
By Tinashe Nyahasha The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) otherwise known as the voice of business is holding it’s annual congress in Victoria Falls from today up to Friday. Techzim is a proud sponsor and partner because we understand that forums like these are important to the development of…
By Rufaro Madamombe Facebook has recently reached 2 Billion monthly users. This is more than any other social network today and the one that remotely comes close to that is YouTube with 1.5 Billion. Even-though Facebook has always had a large responsibility, it is now serving almost twice the population…
By Staff Writer Image credit Pixabay The WannaCry ransomware attack seems to have triggered a lot of cybercrime around the world – including in Zimbabwe. We notice how since then we’ve been hearing of ransomware attacks every now and again. Frankly speaking, it’s beginning to sound like some cybercrime movie…
By Staff Writer Image credit Pixabay The WannaCry ransomware attack seems to have triggered a lot of cybercrime around the world – including in Zimbabwe. We notice how since then we’ve been hearing of ransomware attacks every now and again. Frankly speaking, it’s beginning to sound like some cybercrime movie…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Yes, I haven’t forgotten that I owe you such information. I am bound to tell you of any techie and/or business related event or activity that goes on in the City of Kings and Queens (by that, I mean the ones I actually get to hear of).…
By Rufaro Madamombe The search engine giant, Google, has been fined €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion, or £2.1 billion) by the European Commission for violating the EU antitrust rules. This is more than twice the expected amount of roughly €1.1 billion. It is also a record-breaking fine as the previous largest…
By Rufaro Madamombe Econet has announced that their mobile payment solution, EcoCash, has processed $23 billion in the last 5 years. EcoCash was launched in 2011, back there was no cash crisis and no banks had integrated with it. So it was just used by very few people to send…