Technology

By Staff Writer We seem to be getting more and more alteration notifications from our banks or mobile money platforms; most, if not all bearing bad news. Just this morning we got a blow from EcoCash, informing us that they have suspended their MasterCard online payments service. Now, here is…

By Leonard Sengere iflix has been described as the Asian Netflix. Their target market is the emerging world and after conquering the Asias and North Africa the focus is now on sub-Saharan Africa. As of March 2017 there were over 5 million subscribers to the Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD)…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi SpaceX is preparing to launch its 12th official trip to space as part of the $1.6 billion contract it had with NASA. The rocket (Falcon 9) is transporting a number of supplies including health research materials for Parkinson’s disease and lung tissues. However, I’m mainly interested in…

By Staff Writer EcoCash announced just before the Heroes Holiday long weekend that they will be carrying out a scheduled maintenance exercise from Saturday 12 August 2017 at 2200 to Sunday the 13th at 1400. We tested the service yesterday and it was back up and running. Econet themselves issued…

By Rufaro Madamombe Today, Opera announced that they will be discontinuing support for their mobile data saving application Opera Max. In the announcement, they also stated that the app has been removed from the Google Play Store and will no longer receive upgrades. Opera says “The product had a substantially…

By Rufaro Madamombe Tales from Pitch Drive is a series of daily videos documenting the tour across Europe of 14 African tech entrepreneurs. We recently talked about this tour called Pitch Drive and how 2 Zimbabwean start-ups BitFinance and Real Food will be taking part as they qualified out of…

By Leonard Sengere Old Mutual Zimbabwe Limited (OMZIL) and its subsidiaries announced their half year financial results which showed a revenue growth of 175%. This in turn led to an 11% growth in the adjusted operating profit. The remarkable feat was attributable to life assurance and asset management profits. The…

By Staff Writer The demand for DStv is always high during the school holidays (cartoon season!), so it’s no wonder that many people are getting in touch to find out how they can pay for their DStv subscription. The long term solution that seems to make sense, though some especially…