By Leonard Sengere Earlier this year we carried out research that showed that there are at least 5.2 million users of WhatsApp in Zimbabwe. That means around 33% of the population uses the platform. The proportion is much higher in urban centres and accordingly lower in rural areas. With so…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Just a few weeks to go before Zimbabwe’s first Young Entrepreneurial Women (YEW) all-female hackathon which will be taking place at the National Art Gallery, in Harare. The hackathon is being hosted by Ibuhub; a Pan African incubation and acceleration hub that identifies and brings together young…
By Leonard Sengere In the quest to equip all Zimbabweans with computer skills different strategies have been employed in the past decade by various organisations. Most, because of either laziness or lack of inventiveness simply bought computers and threw them into schools and called it a day. Local man Itai…
By Tinashe Nyahasha This is a different world from that lived by our grandparents or our parents in their childhood either. People no longer expect to only meet their soul mates at church or such and definitely not at the well. There are now several places to ‘hook up’ or…
By Staff Writer If you are big local soccer fan… let me rephrase; If you’re a big fan of the one of Zimbabwe’s top teams called Dembare, then you probably know of a popular Facebook page called Dembare DotComs. You may also know that this past Saturday, that Facebook page…
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By Leonard Sengere Just last week we were here ranting about out-of-bundle browsing. We were angry at mobile operators, Netone and Telecel in particular for not giving users the option to deactivate out-of-bundle browsing. Some pointed out that the anger should have been directed at POTRAZ. With ICASA, the South…
By Rufaro Madamombe Simon to the left in picture with his team member You might be wondering what device… Okay, let’s talk about that first. Portable Cloud is the name of the device. It is a small box packed with some capable tech inside to allow offline distribution of content.…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi The Financial Gazette, a Zimbabwean newspaper which is anchored on business and finance has introduced a mobile news feature. I know for most in this era that translates to an app, but well, it’s not. The mobile news feature is accessible via SMS; so smartphone or not,…
By Leonard Sengere In a visit to Nigeria, at the Google for Nigeria Conference held at the end of July, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other Google executives announced various initiatives they are working on. Google reiterated its dedication to Africa and announced support for African start-ups, new products and…