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By Victor Mukandatsama Powertel has unveiled CSR plans to bring internet connectivity to more than 50 Zimbabwean schools for free in a bid to compliment government e-services projects and in the process activate communities to fend for themselves. …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…

By Victor Mukandatsama Windows 10 has been received with open arms even in Africa but after using it a couple of days you begin to understand how it is hungry for your bandwidth especially as it comes with forced security updates and P2P sharing among other features. …read more Read…

By L.S.M Kabweza Following the launch of Tengai.co.zw, we made clear our stance on how it flies in the face of net-neutrality by taking away the thing that makes the internet so huge an opportunity for anyone and everyone. The point of this article is the hacking of the Econet…

By Victor Mukandatsama Anonymous Zimbabwe has claimed responsibility for hacking the Tengai.co.zw e-commerce website while lobbying for net neutrality. It has also threatened Tengai and the mobile operator Econet, giving both parties until the 8th of August to issue a press statement or face unspecified action. …read more Read more…

By Victor Mukandatsama The Nettcash app offers a simple user interface and brings the ability to purchase ZESA tokens to mobile better than the NetOne OneWallet utilities. Except for it being a data consuming app, it is handy tool especially for vending. …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…

By Victor Mukandatsama We have been contacted by individual(s) purporting to be behind the tengai.co.zw hack. We unfortunately could not get the press release to confirm whether this is true or a simple prank from someone seeking attention. …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…

By Nigel Gambanga The Minister of ICT, Supa Mandiwanzira, has raised concerns over the security risk that the country was being exposed by giving Twenty Third Century Systems, which now has partial foreign ownership, access to sensitive economic data. This is stemming from the fact that the company is one…

By Victor Mukandatsama We attended the RoboFEST 2015 edition which ran from the 31st of July to the 1st of August. Themed Agriculture in the 21st Century”, the event’s challenge was to simulate the planting and harvesting in agriculture using miniature robots assembled from a prepared toolkit. …read more Read…

By Victor Mukandatsama The RoboFEST Challenge’s 2nd Edition held in Harare recently brought together 8 different teams of students to compete in creating a robot that solved a real problem in agriculture. …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…

By Nigel Gambanga Tengai, a new classifieds platform that is partly owned by Strive Masiyiwa, was hacked four days ago by net neutrality proponents. While the technical circumstances of the attack haven’t been made clear, the extended downtime isn’t what most would expect from the e-commerce platform. …read more Read…