Tech

By Nigel Gambanga We are glad to have made it into the new year and just two days into 2015 a lot has already started happening on the tech scene. Here’s the first weekly podcast for 2015 and in this episode we talk about the recent MNO tariff reductions effected…

By Nigel Gambanga Sometime last year we wrote about Webnames, a new online domain registry service, that had entered the market with the cheapest service. These were the guys behind hosting service uHostAfrica. With services priced at $5 for each domain, Webnames gave existing providers like Google and name.co.zw a…

By Nigel Gambanga It had to happen sooner or later; After more than a year Econet is finally retiring its Buddie Bundles of Joy promotion, hot on the heels of a reduction in voice tariffs. Despite their ridiculous terms and conditions and the fact that they weren’t as nearly as…

By L.S.M Kabweza So yesterday while looking back at the year’s tech success, failures and gaffes we found ourselves coming up with stuff we couldn’t quite consider failures, because these haven’t been done. Done here means caring enough to commit to it. These possibilities just sit there waiting for the…

By Tendai Mupaso Back in June I had an opportunity to meet a Tel Aviv based entrepreneur whilst covering PIVOTEast in Nairobi. During his presentation at PIVOTEast he spoke a lot on the different two startup ecosystems he had been exposed to, namely Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv and the…

By Nigel Gambanga Before we do the countdown to the new year and start living through those New Year’s resolutions, we’ve decided to take a look at not only the winners and losers but also the embarrassing moments from the Zimbabwe technology space that we’ll gladly leave behind this year.…

By Tendai Mupaso 2015 will be important as far as digital media is concerned. This year has already set a solid foundation for digital media so 2015 will be the year that we will see more products and traction on already existing digital media products. There are some things that…

By Nigel Gambanga No, It’s not rebranding again but ZESA Holdings’ IAP Powertel was in the Herald today for “getting a fibre connectivity via Botswana”. Not that this should be taken as anything new really, considering that this fibre backbone that runs though Botswana has been around for years and…

By Nigel Gambanga Bigger is better, but emerging markets matter the most. This doesn’t entirely sum up mobile devices in 2014 but it speaks volumes about what we saw in the market this year. For the high end market the focus was on how Apple (finally) took the leap and…

By Garikai Dzoma Recently during the holiday season my primary internet connection started acting up. It seems there is a signal problem affecting my upload speed, so it takes an inordinately long time to complete simple tasks such as processing the GET request although the download is a breeze once…