Technology

By Rufaro Madamombe The day before yesterday, Techzim wrote about how Steward Bank had gone exclusive with mobile and online banking and was no longer processing manual RTGS or Internal transfers. When that article was written, we were using the information that we had obtained ourselves. One of the Techzim…

By Edwin Chabuka Netflix just announced that it is bumping up its subscription fees for the standard and the premium packages. The Standard Package will be asking for an extra dollar making it $10.99 and the Premium package will be asking for an extra $2 to make it $12.99. These…

By Rufaro Madamombe The mobile banking of CABS Bank went offline today and people were not able to use the mobile banking platform to make transactions. CABS has sent out a notice to people who use the bank notifying them that the technical challenges that the mobile banking platform is…

By Leonard Sengere Last month in Zimbabwe messages of doom spread on WhatsApp, a popular social media application in the country. The messages foretold an imminent shortage of basic goods in the country and in response Zimbabweans rushed in droves to stock up. This led to an artificial and temporary…

By Rufaro Madamombe Snapchat recently introduced a new feature which uses augmented reality (AR) to showcase art from various creative people. You’ve probably seen augmented reality working in Snapchat when you select the dog ears face filter or any other face filter. Now, with Snapchat’s new implementation of AR, you…

By Edwin Chabuka EcoCash has finally grown enough to move out of the Econet website. It now has its own clean website with a few perks here and there. Lets dive in and see what it has. Articles appeared first on Techzim;EcoCash has its own website now promising more utility…

By Rufaro Madamombe Kwese TV recently got permission from the High Court to continue broadcasting after 2 weeks of suspended operations. Before the suspension, a Technite would come to your house to install Kwese TV and you managed to get a taste of new entertainment service while it broadcasted but…

By Leonard Sengere Here in Zimbabwe as Kwese was relaunched for the third time, comparison of the pay-TV service to DStv was inevitable. In the conversation one thing kept coming up, for a good number of people it doesn’t matter what Kwese brings to the table, if they can’t provide…

By Rufaro Madamombe So three banks have gone exclusive with internet banking or mobile banking when it comes to processing RTGS and internal transfers. First, it was NMB when they switched to just internet and mobile banking then ZB Bank followed along in early September and for them, transfers are…

By Edwin Chabuka Kwese TV has activated 5 free channels that any of their subscribers can view even without an active subscription. As consolation to early adopters of Kwese in Zimbabwe inconvenienced by the court case an extra 30 days has been added for free. EcoCash was down and they…