Technology

By Alvine Chaparadza In Kenya, it is now illegal to import mobile phones that do not offer a battery life of at least eight hours talk time or lacks a physical manual. The law is Kenya’s government new plan to curb counterfeits which in the recent past have been on…

By Farai Mudzingwa FundoLinker, the student-focused startup that tries to connect students with bigger companies in order to offer entrepreneurs with more opportunities, is entering their second phase. They are now seeking to partner with organisations since they already had a user base ready to receive. You may have heard…

By Alvine Chaparadza Yesterday’s proposed ban of the ‘Swipe-into-Ecocash’ service went didn’t go without Netone’s notice. This morning Netone posted pictures on their social media platforms (kind of) mocking the ‘Swipe-into-Ecocash’ service and simultaneously promoting their OneMoney (OneMoney Card to be specific) as some kind of an alternative to ‘Swipe-into-Ecocash’…

By Farai Mudzingwa Tis the season for robotics courses! A week ago we wrote about a startup called Vested Interests who are planning on introducing a robotics course later this year. A few weeks earlier we had written about The Maker Club another startup that focuses on teaching kids a…

By Rosaline Masayile We owe a great deal of gratitude to Mark Zuckeburg for introducing us to one of the widely used social media platforms. We also owe the same amount of gratitude to our local MNOs for enabling us in more ways that one to connect to the internet…

By Alvine Chaparadza Steward Bank has issued a notice warning its customers about the increased risk of transactions involving credit and debit card cloning (card cloning). The Customer Notice is asking customers to be vigilant when using their cards and it went to great lengths prescribing habits customers can take…

By Farai Mudzingwa It seems ‘swipe into EcoCash’ continues to garner headlines for the wrong reasons. Since the turn of the year, the service has descended into chaos and in February EcoCash came out and stated that the problems that customers were facing whilst trying to transact using the platform…

By Staff Writer So this is an update to the article. Earlier on I rushed to publish the press release from Ecocash without any context (and I was out of the office for most of the day at that). So now I am told that there was a squabble between…

By Guest Author If you have started noticing some performance issues on your Mac recently which you cannot clearly explain then it could be a virus that is negatively affecting your system performance. While virus threat is not new to the cyber world, it has caused serious data loss and…

By Staff Writer If you are a ZOL subscriber and you depend on their fibre services you may be experiencing some challenges with your speeds. We got a tip from a reader informing us of this issue and surely when we checked ZOL’s website and support number this is the…