By Leonard Sengere Last Friday CABS and ZB Bank notified their customers that there would be system downtime because of a planned system upgrade. CABS’ system upgrade ended up taking longer than expected. While we could not really fault ZB Bank because they had communicated earlier we were not pleased…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Solar panels ” data-medium-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Solar-Panels-255×128.jpg” data-large-file=”https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Solar-Panels-560×280.jpg”> I don’t know about your area, but we’ve had a considerable number of power cuts this week due to ZESA’s load shedding. As cash and foreign currency continues to be a problem, it is expected for companies like ZESA to be affected…
By Leonard Sengere Zimbabweans do not an introduction to WhatsApp. If you have internet access to be reading this article, there is a very high chance you use the free messaging app. The application has grown in popularity around the world to a point where over 1 billion people use…
By Leonard Sengere The Windows Phone community, though small, is a very passionate group of people. All this talk about Windows Phone being dead because Microsoft announced there will be no features added to the OS won’t sit well with them. That a Microsoft VP mentioned that hardware is not…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Last Friday, we notified CABS and ZB bank customers of some downtime that had been scheduled due to some system upgrade. ZB bank had promised the system upgrade to occur from 14th to the 15th of October while CABS’ upgrade was to take slightly longer that is…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi When you want to book a bus ticket online what do you expect? Last Techzim wrote about National Tickets, a Zimbabwean online booking and ticketing service was in 2015. Back then, plastic money wasn’t as much of a thing as it is now – cash crisis did…
By Guest Author There are many ways that people can make money online. This article is for those who have ideas they want to employ to make more online. This mind set will be useful in getting your project to make money online a success. Last week we discussed some…
By Leonard Sengere Let us start with an assumption that we all are familiar with ZIPIT now, the interbank transfer processor. With the ongoing cash crisis Zimbabwe is facing ZIPIT has grown in importance. The interbank processor connects 20 banks and allows any mobile registered user on any network to…
By Guest Author This is a Guest Post and does not reflect the thoughts and opinions of Techzim. We have a strong filtering process of what makes it to our blog and are confident that you’ll enjoy the article below. I have written before about why you might want to…
By Trycolyn Pikirayi Just after we introduce a Ministry of Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation, our neighbour South Africa gets what seems to be its largest data breach in history; what are the odds? If I didn’t know any better I’d say it’s the Zim government trying to prove…