Tech

By Staff Writer The Zimbabwean government, which set up a $25 million fund for local technology startups, announced yesterday that it’s now accepting applications to the fund. The Zim telecoms regulator, POTRAZ, which is managing the fund, sent out a statement calling for applications: Are you an ICT Innovator, start-up…

By L.S.M Kabweza WhatsApp is that kind of app that just works. Unless some government blocks it ofcourse. So it came as a shock for most people globally a few hours ago, when the app stopped working, that it could stop. In Zimbabwe, like elsewhere in the world, #WhatsAppdown trended…

By Edwin Chabuka Articles appeared first on Techzim;#NetOne launches a wifi service #One-Fi, #CABS finally integrates with #EcoCash Ep28 …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…

By L.S.M Kabweza Brian Mutandiro, NetONe acting CEO, at launch of One-Cliq and One-Fi NetOne today launched a Call User Group product called One-Cliq. Essentially this allows NetOne subscribers to call a group of numbers at discounted rates. To use the service, subscribers will need a minimum of 5 NetOne…

By L.S.M Kabweza NetOne today launched a new home WiFi product called One-FI. The service, targeted at home users and small offices allows NetOne subscribers to buy a WiFi router that has a NetOne sim card. That way they can access NetOne 3G and 4G over WiFi. The company is…

By L.S.M Kabweza Techzim is reliably informed that Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), the media company that owns the Daily News and other titles, has acquired The Financial Gazette, popularly known as just Fingaz. Fingaz is one of Zimbabwe’s most iconic weekly papers and covers mostly business news via a…

By William Chui In last week’s instalment of GOING SOLAR we looked at the various types of the POWER INVERTER available. This week we are going to look at how we select the right inverter to meet our needs. Before selecting an inverter there are three main inverter ratings that…

By Edwin Chabuka Articles appeared first on Techzim;How you can get yourself a Virtual Card Number from EcoCash for those online payments …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…

By L.S.M Kabweza Econet, Zimbabwe’s largest mobile financial services company, has finally integrated its EcoCash platform to that of CABS. CABS is one of the largest and oldest banks in Zimbabwe. The two companies had not come to an agreement to integrate more than four years after Econet started integrating…

By L.S.M Kabweza Remember MTN’s streaming service called Frontrow? We wrote about it here a few times after it launched. It launched at a time when suddenly it seemed everyone had woken up to streaming. MTN introduced Frontrow in December 2014, Naspers followed a few months later with ShowMax ,…