By Trycolyn Pikirayi This evening, Techzim attended a NetOne event in which they launched the OneMoney ZimSwitch enabled debit card. You might be asking yourself what OneMoney is because last you checked their mobile money platform was called OneWallet. Well, OneMoney is a ‘OneWallet come back’ (hopefully). In more formal…
By William Chui Techzim attended the ‘Swipe Into Ecocash’ launch this morning where Ecocash were sharing their new service offering that allows users to swipe their ZimSwitch bank card at any Steward Bank POS machine and have that money credited to their mobile money wallet. This is an awesome solution…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Earlier on,Techzim wrote an article on the new service EcoCash launched this morning called the Swipe into EcoCash. You probably have a number of questions around the product and EcoCash has attempted to answer them below. We would have loved to call them Frequently Answered Questions (FAQs)…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi You one of those who’s been inconvenienced because your bank hadn’t integrated with EcoCash (or it’s EcoCash hadn’t integrated with your bank)? Well, no more worries. So instead of integrating with banks, EcoCash has decided to integrate with Zimswitch… smart huh? Now you can swipe your money…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi It’s easy to make assumptions based on the people around you (or even based on just yourself) and believe them to apply to “everyone”. In fact this such a common practice with us humans hence the birth of statements like “everyone is doing it”. But you and…
By William Chui Natalie Jabangwe-Morris ” data-medium-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Natalie-Jabangwe-255×170.jpg” data-large-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Natalie-Jabangwe-560×373.jpg”> Earlier this year Techzim attended the launch of the partnership between EcoCash and ZINARA. The partnership enabled Ecocash users to pay for their toll gate fees using their mobile money account, a service that proves to be invaluable in an economy that…
By Staff Writer Not so long ago, Opera’s ultra-lightweight browser, Opera Mini, used to be the top mobile browser in Africa. Not anymore. The company has lost that top spot to Google’s Chrome. According to renowned global analytics company, StatCounter, in September 2016 Opera Mini had 57% market share in…
By Edwin Chabuka Second hand phones are the way to go for a flagship smartphone for a lot of people. But it does come with its own host of risks. Lets take a look at the most common ones and how to be prepared for them Articles appeared first on…
By L.S.M Kabweza Last year, Techzim wrote an article titled “WhatsApp IS the internet in Zimbabwe, accounts for 34% of mobile internet traffic“. It was after the local telecoms regulator in the country, POTRAZ, had provided statistics showing the apps dominance. That dominance is only increasing. This week POTRAZ released…
By William Chui Just picked myself up from the floor when I read this article on a Zimbabwean daily print newspaper that states that Zimbabwean banks have resolved not to issue cash to non-exporting customers. So the Head of the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe came out and said this at…