By Staff Writer It seems Zimbabwe’s leading mobile service provider has been having problems with their network delivery throughout the day. At the time of writing the network is not working at all, which will be of great inconvenience to subscribers all over the country. No Internet, No calls…Nothing! All…
By Farai Mudzingwa We talked about ZimboPy and their coding initiatives; some of which are specifically for girls only. They have worked hand-in-hand with Pycon to bring to bring Django girls –a free workshop that was aimed at empowering girls through Python- at last year’s Pycon conference. This week ZimboPY…
By Alvine Chaparadza WhatsApp has added a new feature that lets you choose who to inform when you have changed your WhatsApp number. Currently, when a user changes their phone number they can migrate all their contacts, groups and chats to their new number and everyone will see it that…
By Alvine Chaparadza Post Telecom Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has drawn up a draft Bill that is intended to repeal The Postal and Telecommunications ACT {Chapter 12:05}. The telecoms regulator said this is driven by regulatory deficiencies which have risen as a result of drastic changes in the Information and…
By Guest Author We have no shortage of talent in Zimbabwe, in fact we have some of the smartest people in Africa, but when it comes to proving it with results, we fall short. The solutions we are rolling out of our development houses are not of the standard one…
By Farai Mudzingwa A UK-based Zimbabwean Lawyer, Prosper Mwedzi has created the first ‘tourism-focused’ cryptocurrency in the country. VicFalls Coin is a crypto that he hopes will be used in the tourism sector, particularly in the Victoria Falls Community (both in Zimbabwe and Zambia). Though the coin seems like a…
By Staff Writer South-Asia’s largest Blockchain conference – World Satoshi Summit on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, issued a statement stating that it has successfully inked a strategic partnership with NASSCOM, the apex body of the USD 154B IT-BPM industry, through its NASSCOM Blockchain SIG. The vision is to move towards…
By Farai Mudzingwa For the uninitiated, Anonymous is a decentralized international ‘hacktivist group’ that is widely known for its various DDOS cyberattacks against several governments. You may remember their hack on Donald Trump’s website back in 2015. Here are some of their more popular hacks. Locally they have also targeted…
By Alvine Chaparadza The founder of Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox notoriously known as MMM, Sergei Mavrodi died last week as a result of a heart attack. Mavrodi was a pioneer of MMM, a pyramid scheme that stretched back to the early 90s and introduced the scheme in Zimbabwe by 2015. MMM…
By Tinashe Nyahasha Hey, it’s amazing to us that there are over a billion WhatsApp groups out there. A few years ago there was a popular saying on the streets: handiite zvema group (I don’t do groups). It looks like the opposite is true: tinoita zvema group, tozviita rough. We…