Technology

By L.S.M Kabweza Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is trialing the broadcasting of its content on Facebook Live. The government owned broadcaster started going live on Facebook with regular TV broadcast two days ago on 16 August. Yesterday, the 8PM news bulletin as well as some regular tv shows were broadcast…

By Leonard Sengere The excitement is building up. The wait is agonising now. Does Kwese have a licence yet? It looks like they have it or at least are about to get it. It is just a matter of time before they announce but that’s not good enough for some…

By Rufaro Madamombe So NetOne recently launched a new service called OneTech which will allow people to buy phones on monthly terms. The service will offer a range of smartphones and each smartphone you purchase will come with free OneFusion data package depending on what price range the device is…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi We came across a Microsoft Dream.Build.Play challenge we thought you’d need a heads-up on, particularly y’all game devs. The Dream.Build.Play challenge is looking for people who are 18 years old and above, legally staying in the eligible regions (of course Zimbabwe is one of them otherwise this…

By L.S.M Kabweza In a move seemingly aimed at competing with NetOne’s launch of financed smartphones today, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has just announced a smartphone financing offer. Econet reached out with a press release close to the end of the day announcing “huge credit scheme that will empower civil servants…

By Leonard Sengere E-commerce is not as huge as it should be in Zimbabwe. Just last month Choppies announced a deal with Kamelee, a ‘click and collect’ platform. This allows the purchase of groceries online and collection ‘offline,’ that is in person. Choppies is mainly targeting those in the Diaspora,…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi Google Allo, a messaging app like WhatsApp; has like WhatsApp, introduced a web version. Well, before you judge just remember that there’s nothing new under the sun. We wrote about Google Allo sometime back in September last year, just after it was launched. But to be honest,…

By Staff Writer Fayaz King, Econet COO Mobile telecommunications market leader Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has announced a huge credit scheme that will empower civil servants and all eligible government employees to get new smart phones for free, and then pay as little as $12 per month. According to the company,…

By Leonard Sengere The new service was announced at an event held today at Meikles Hotel. OneCover is a micro mobile insurance that offers funeral insurance to subscribers. The service is in collaboration with First Mutual Life Assurance, who are the underwriters. This means there is no medical underwriting required…