Technology

By Leonard Sengere Econet Wireless Zimbabwe shared the impressive feat in its recently published annual report. EcoCash has truly taken the country by storm since its launch in 2011. You might recall that they were not the first mobile money solution in Zimbabwe but like Apple did with the iPhone,…

By Leonard Sengere We are all aware of DStv which is under the Naspers group. Naspers is a South African multinational company which owns various brands; Multichoice, SuperSport and MWEB to name a few. That is impressive but not as impressive as the fact that they own one third of…

By William Chui After spending 7 nights in Zimbabwean prison cells, 5 of which were in Harare’s Chikurubi Maximum prison, Martha O’Donovan was this afternoon granted bail by the High Court of Zimbabwe in the matter where she is charged with “subverting a constitutional government through masterminding a social media…

By Leonard Sengere We will not tire talking about security until these kinds of online scams no longer get any takers. Especially when it invloves WhatsApp which is popular in Zimbabwe. In the UK fraudsters have been sending out fake vouchers as if from huge retailers, Marks & Spencer, Tesco…

By Trycolyn Pikirayi Last week Techzim wrote about how three of our own companies; Liquid Telecom, ZOL and Econet Wireless had been nominated for the largest technology, telecoms and media event in Africa, AfricaCom’s awards ceremony. Let’s not mind the technicalities of that “our own companies” statement for now and…

By Leonard Sengere CC Image courtesy of Miyem Supriyati on Flickr Iron Man is a fictional superhero who has an armoured suit which allows him to fly about fighting bad guys. Watching the Iron Man movies one can’t help but drool at the thought of being able to fly like…

By Leonard Sengere It has been a long time coming. The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) won a tender way back in September 2015 to build a a regional Internet Exchange Point (IXP). Originally the IXP was supposed to be established by December 2016 which became May…

By Leonard Sengere Facebook has come up with a solution to tackle revenge porn that seems crazy and counter-intuitive at first but once you settle down you begin to see how it could work. What is revenge pornography? The posting of revealing or sexually explicit images or videos of a…