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By Nigel Gambanga Social media giant Facebook just made yet another attempt to become everything in new age communication – it has launched a new feature on its Messenger platform – Group Video Chat. As the name suggest this allows you to make a video with people in a group…
By Batsirai Chikadaya In the last decade, 2006-2016, tech has developed at a phenomenally rapid pace. Even in 3rd world countries like Zimbabwe, it has become slightly easier for people to access smartphones, computers and the internet. TechZim recently came across a list of technologies we didn’t have a decade…
By Batsirai Chikadaya Techzim was recently awarded the most consistent online publication prize at the recent YATA awards (Young Achievers in Technology Awards) and as part of the award, we were handed a brand new GTel Tablet we would like to give away to one of our readers! The GTel…
By Batsirai Chikadaya On Monday 12 December 2016, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe decreased all local banks cash withdrawal charges with immediate effect to 1% for ATM withdrawals and 1.25% for Over-the-Counter withdrawals. According to the RBZ, the new charges are part of its financial inclusion drive which allows previously…
By Nigel Gambanga With reports of other schools abandoning the system altogether and some (unverified) feedback on social media from parents who claim to have secured places without the system the best thing at this point is to make other arrangements using the system that has been in place all…
By Garikai Dzoma When you delete your files the regular way in Windows and Linux they are not really gone and if someone came along soon enough they can recover them. Even the rm -rf command does not really delete files. When you “delete” the file the file deleting utility…
By Nigel Gambanga Zimall, one of the few online retailing startups that have been operating consistently in Zimbabwe just sent out a message to its stakeholders announcing that it would be shutting down its online retail business. According to its announcement and a notice on the site, Zimall will no…
By Nigel Gambanga Econet Media, the entertainment subsidiary of African telecoms group Econet Wireless recently announced the conclusion of a deal that will see it take over Viasat 1 a Ghanaian free-to-air (FTA) terrestrial channel. Viasat 1 is owned by Modern Times Group (MTG) a Swedish digital entertainment outfit that…
By Nigel Gambanga DStv, the most prominent pay TV service in Africa which is owned by MulitChoice (a subsidiary of corporate giant Naspers) ran a customer earlier this year and based on feedback has promised to show fewer repeats and offer fresher content. This is a followup to promises made…
By Batsirai Chikadaya Co-founder of popular Tanzanian website Jamii Forums has been arrested under their Cyber Crime Law for not disclosing members personal data following requests from the police. Their offices were raided on the 14 of December 2016 where the co-founder, Maxence Melo, was picked up by police while…