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By Nigel Gambanga We’ve all had that bad Zimbabwean telecoms experience before – a poor connection over a voice call, disappearing airtime and data or even delayed responses for requests made for assistance. Instead of just complaining about this and other types of bad service on Twitter or venting in…

By Nigel Gambanga Recently we learnt that POTRAZ, Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulator drafted a new set of floor prices for mobile data bundles and voice calls – 2 cents per Megabyte (MB) and 12 cents per minute. These new prices, justified by POTRAZ as a way of protecting the telecoms operators,…

By Garikai Dzoma A year ago if you wanted a simple SSL certificate for your site or application you had to part with your hard earned dollars to get it. Granted that the cash shortages were still not known to most of us, liquidity was already a problem. On 12…

By Nigel Gambanga In mid-2016 Yahoo, the web and search giant was acquired by United States telecoms giant Verizon for US$4.83 billion. According to the latest news regarding the acquisition shared by the Wall Street Journal, there will be a new entity that will exist after the deal is concluded.…

By Nigel Gambanga The Stunner and Olinda drama that grabbed the attention of every Zimbabwean on social media recently isn’t over yet and while it has just shone some light on the opportunity for content creation it’s also exposed another avenue for media. Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa, the journalist and radio/TV personality…

By Nigel Gambanga If you are one of the millions of Zimbabweans who use EcoCash regularly to make payments or move money then you’ve already noticed the mobile money service’s latest feature, SelfCare. You’ll see it when you enter your EcoCash PIN code and are asked to respond to 3…

By Nigel Gambanga Depending on which Bitcoin exchange you are using, it’s currently worth between $885 (that’s Coindesk’s latest rate for it) and $924 (that’s the value you’ll get for it on Bitcoinfundi, a Zimbabwean Bitcoin exchange). Articles appeared first on Techzim;Bitcoin value continues to fluctuate, price fails to go…

By Edwin Chabuka A while back WhatsApp introduced end-to-end encryption to insure no one taps your data before it gets to the destined individual. As a measure to beef up its security it has recently introduced a two step verification procedure summoned every time you register your number with WhatsApp.…

By Edwin Chabuka Nokia has unveiled its long anticipated Android Nougat powered Nokia 6 which has been launched exclusively in China. The smartphone is a proper midranger which looks fantastic from the press images (or I’m just too nostalgic from the news). A few words from the press release. Our…

By William Chui In the spirit of the New Year and a number of people having made ‘resolutions’ to get their lives back on track, we’d like to offer 5 people an opportunity to get started using these 5 online courses (valued at over $800!) that are on offer over…