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By Nigel Gambanga Another revenue stream for Zimbabwean music can’t hurt, right? That’s what everyone has said over and over again. It’s just that the options that have been working elsewhere aren’t catching on in this market fast enough to disrupt our flourishing illegal music distribution circuit. As part of…

By L.S.M Kabweza You’ve probably heard that Facebook is continually becoming better at being YouTube than Youtube itself. It started back in September when Facebook started allowing you to see how many times a video had been viewed. And after that, if you run a page that you post videos…

By Garikai Dzoma There is a saying doing rounds in the capital when referring to “Gold digging” people: “Anodya mari kunge Android.” The simile, among other things, suggests that Android phones will burn a hole through your pocket which although not strictly speaking true is certainly understandable. Most Android devices…

By Nigel Gambanga This is going to sound pretty obvious to a lot of people who don’t see anything positive coming from our country but Zimbabwe has a lot of pathetic government websites. Yes, that’s right, I said it. The moment you mention something remotely critical about the government some…

By Nigel Gambanga Long before social media received a global definition from Mark Zuckerburg’s Harvard dormitory experiment, a lot of people had been experiencing the opportunity of the internet as huge meeting place for potential partners and social connections through online dating. The phenomenon has changed dramatically (to think it…

By L.S.M Kabweza Last week, just a few days into the new year, HumanIPO, one of the few blogs focusing on the wider Africa, announced it was shutting down. It’s supposed to shut down today actually unless someone has bought it. When we posted an article on it, we sought…

By Garikai Dzoma Over the past couple of years candidates sitting for the public examinations administered by the local examination board: ZIMSEC have increasingly been dismayed by the number of leaks that often results in re-sitting of examinations: a traumatic event which was very rare in my time. These leaks…

By Nigel Gambanga Let’s take a second to look at what the Zimbabwean broadband internet landscape was like around 2009 and 2010. We didn’t have as many options as we have now for internet access, largely because of the limited infrastructure developments. Home internet packages hadn’t been snapped up by…

By L.S.M Kabweza Remember the BiNu app? Essentially they were a free SMS app. The app could run on any feature phone, so essentially, biNu became a very popular “messaging” app. Because SMS was still very much in use, a free alternative achieving the same was very welcome. The app’s…

By L.S.M Kabweza Say a company sells you – on paper that is – a very fast internet package. But when you connect, all you get is internet so slow you can swear it’s worse than dial-up. In Zimbabwe you could do one of two things: you could call them…