Technology

By Leonard Sengere You know the deal. Someone sends you a link to a fire video, something like the viral Man’s Not Hot video. You click on the link and your’e either taken to the YouTube app or the YouTube website. Not a big deal but what if that experience…

By Edwin Chabuka At time of publishing the international price of Bitcoin was $6400 which is almost half of Zimbabwe’s price of $12000. The struggle to perform online payments as well as a desperate search for alternative stores of value is driving the demand for this digital cryptocurrency in Zimbabwe.…

By Leonard Sengere Econet recently launched Kwesé video bundles as the pay-TV fight heats up. By now we are aware what ‘bundle’ means. These bundles are similar to the WhatsApp and Facebook bundles we are used to except that they give access to Kwesé. Bundling is important because the data…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi Since yesterday, we’ve been seeing a lot of complains on how the Electronic Ministry Application Platform (eMAP) site is down or malfunctional rather. While some are attesting to having used the platform successfully, the majority’s efforts seem to be futile. What’s interesting is that people seem to…

By Leonard Sengere Do you remember that time Facebook forced everyone onto their Messenger app? How? They made it impossible to view direct messages without the Messenger app, which some got around by using the mobile browser. Most people just simply downloaded the Messenger though. Now it’s a little clearer…

By Garikai Dzoma The internet has always been about transcending boundaries and providing unfettered access to information in ways that traditional media and information sources such as libraries could not. For the most part, this has remained true. A person in Zimbabwe can read the New York Times as soon…

By Leonard Sengere As we looked at Econet’s latest annual report we noted that there had been no change in the downward trend of their voice revenue. For years voice revenue has been falling industry-wide as cheaper online alternatives like WhatsApp have grown in popularity. For all the MNOs voice…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi Despite all the challenges that the Electronic Ministry Application Platform (eMAP) has faced, it’s finally is up and ready to be used by prospective form 1 candidates. eMAP is a platform which was first introduced in December 2016 by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in…

By William Chui There has been a craze for Bitcoin over the last few months with interest in the cryptocurrency being driven higher by the cash crisis in Zimbabwe worsens. There has been a lot of international interest in how much bitcoin trades for in Zimbabwe, premiums reaching as high…

By Leonard Sengere If you needed further proof that the Zimbabwean economy is harsh, well, here it is. Not only is Econet announcing their lowest profits in 5 years, those revenues and profits have been falling for three years running. The last time there was growth in revenue and profits…