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By L.S.M Kabweza A report yesterday in the government owned newspapers The Sunday Mail, says the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is intent on introducing Chinese style internet restrictions to the country to put a stop the “abuse” of the internet. According to the article, the president was addressing his…

By L.S.M Kabweza Here’s how our blogging has worked here at Techzim: we pick up news (we discover, are tipped, or our interest grows in some issue we think should be discussed) and we blog it. The news and our opinion of course. Usually these are quick on the surface…

By Nigel Gambanga The Stimulus Africa Entrepreneurship Symposium which kicked off earlier this week in Harare came to a close on Friday following a two-day exploration of ideas, existing solutions and potential growth areas in Zimbabwe’s ICT4D (ICT for Development) space. The major theme for the symposium was the identification…

By L.S.M Kabweza In a significant upgrade of their capped fibroniks packages, ZOL has raised the cap on its $39 package from 15GB to 25GB and the $89 package from 30GB to 50GB. The upgrade seems to have gone into effect last night as some customers of the provider “complained”…

By Staff Writer Zimbabwe’s telecommunications regulator, POTRAZ, has announced that it will be banning all over the top service bundles for applications like WhatsApp, Facebook and Opera Mini. Articles appeared first on Techzim;Local telecoms regulator POTRAZ bans WhatsApp bundles, operators given 7 days to comply …read more Read more here::…

By L.S.M Kabweza Econet group is preparing to launch its Connected Lifestyle products in the Zambian market. A source tells us the the Cumii CEO, Norman Moyo, was in the country recently and intimated at an event that he’d be bringing the Cumii products to the market soon. Such products,…

By L.S.M Kabweza Buying ZESA prepaid electricity tokens on the internet is nothing new. For about a year now it’s been possible, with the noteworthy solution being TelOne’s Telpay website which we wrote about last year. There’s a new interesting addition though and this new service solves a key problem…

By Nigel Gambanga Kwesé TV, the internet TV service owned by Econet and targetted at Sub Saharan Africa will be going live before the start of the 2016-2017 English Premier League season which kicks off in August this year. Articles appeared first on Techzim;Econet’s Kwesé TV to launch by August…

By Nigel Gambanga Looking at its recent 1 billion user milestone and the latest flood of improvements like document sending or group limit adjustments there appears to be a bit of app development wisdom from the WhatsApp team. Articles appeared first on Techzim;WhatsApp scores more points on user feedback, adds…

By Tapiwa Munzwa Bulawayo-born programmer and drug lord Paul Le Roux is allegedly the brains behind TrueCrypt, an encryption application made famous by Edward Snowden. In what reads like a script for a Hollywood action-thriller movie, the long form piece of investigative journalism that chronicles Le Roux’s life from his…