Technology

By Edwin Chabuka I just came across a flier sent in one of the WhatsApp groups that I’m in and I found it interesting. The flier was advertising a workshop on “Mobile Reporting For Community Journalism In Zimbabwe”. I remember during the coup-not-coup, Techzim wrote on how technology particularly smartphones,…

By Leonard Sengere It is sometimes easy to think of tech as smartphones. This is because the pocket computer has totally transformed our lives even as it continues to get better and better. In the non-smartphone tech space strides were made in 2017 and we best be excited for what…

By Vendetta Mtunzi Trigger warning: this article contains language about suicide that some readers may find disturbing. A 15-year old girl died following reports that the teenager committed suicide which the father believes was under the influence of Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” and wants the show cancelled as soon as…

By Leonard Sengere While innovation as it pertains to smartphones has slowed down, 2017 has still been an interesting year for the handheld computers. In the past couple of years it has been a case of refinement rather than leaps in technology. We saw Samsung go from being the laughingstock…

By Edwin Chabuka If you are in Harare and you frequent the 1st street/George Silundika section of the city you might have seen a nice looking green sign with OPPO written in white. I totally beamed with excitement seeing that brand in Harare streets I mean these guys own OnePlus…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi It’s almost the end of the year; while some celebrate, some are wishing they could slow down time just a little bit more. Yes, imagining life without WhatsApp can be motivation enough for one to want the year to last a little longer than it should. Hopefully,…

By Leonard Sengere We have Apple to thank for the current app lifestyle we have. That is despite the Android Market coming before Apple’s App Store. The iPhone made it so that everyone was talking about the best app, the coolest new app and so on. Smartphones made it seem…

By Leonard Sengere Looking at the smartphones that came out in 2017 you can clearly see how the manufacturers are inspiring or copying each other. The phones coming are more similar than they are different. You can still tell them apart as manufactures still have their own unique design choices…

By Leonard Sengere You read that right, 23 more channels are to be added to the Kwese TV bouquet in the next three months to take the grand total available to 100 channels. Kwese TV launched with about 66 channels and since that time more channels have been added bringing…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi So the first time we wrote about collaborating with Steward Bank we described a bit about the bank. Needed to just give you a better feel of what they are about so you can better decide if that’s what you’re interested in. Last time we discussed who…