Technology

By Trycolyn Pikirayi The Nokia story sounds like one of the “the greats have fallen” type of stories. Question is, will HMD Global be able to turn the story into a “we rise again”??? Nokia was probably the boss of Symbian phones but once the iOS and android OS ‘got…

By Rufaro Madamombe Yesterday, RED announced their new device which is a smartphone that promises to be a holographic media machine. The camera manufacturing company which is well known among cinematographers has decided to take a try at providing a device which allows people to view 3D images in addition…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi I find pop-up ads highly annoying and not so useful because I tend to close the ad even before I get to read it. In fact, it has become a reflex action but an unhealthy one I must say. I mean who knows what helpful information I’ve…

By Rufaro Madamombe Today, Snapchat released an update to their application for both iOS and Android. The update brings new features that were previously unavailable or limited to specific people. Now people can add backdrops, links and voice filters. Let’s start of with backdrops. The feature allows a user to…

By Tinashe Nyahasha When I was in Victoria Falls on Tuesday, I heard the Ghanaian Deputy Minister of Communications speak. He didn’t speak much, he was not really in the programme but I guess it was a respectful gesture to give him the podium since he was there (the only…

By Tinashe Nyahasha I was in Victoria Falls on Tuesday (4 July 2017) to attend an African Telecommunications Union event. The event was two events in one which were individually a mouthful so bear with me. The first was the African Preparatory Meeting for World Telecommunications Day 2017. At first…

By Rufaro Madamombe Facebook recently announced that it is expanding it’s Find Wi-Fi feature worldwide. The feature was available last year on iOS and in selected countries as a test to see whether it would be useful and if people would respond well. Given how that it’s now available globally,…

By Rufaro Madamombe This week, NMB bank announced through an SMS to their customers that they will now be charging extra fees for any DStv payments made in their banking halls. For manual payments, people will incur a $5 charge while subscription payments made via their NMB Mobile app and…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi Potraz reports continue to indicate a decline in voice calls while mobile internet data usage increases. The 2017’s 1st Quarter report reveals a 7.1% drop in voice calls from the previous Quarter (2016) while a 4.7% increase of mobile internet data usage from the last Quarter was…

By Rufaro Madamombe Last month we talked about the programming communities in Zimbabwe. After doing that article, it left me wondering which programming languages are used the most by developers in Zimbabwe. So I created a google form survey and then shared it on different tech related groups, Facebook, Twitter…