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By Nigel Gambanga Go ahead, Tell Someone, scratching is now a thing of the past! Well, that’s the message from Telecel. Earlier this week the Telecel e-Juice platform was launched as an electronic way to top up airtime credit for any Telecel prepaid subscriber. Selected airtime vendors can now sell…
By L.S.M Kabweza So, Business Partna is out. In its place comes Econet’s new “contract” (postpaid) service called “Premium”. The Business Partna brand, according to Stan Henning at the launch of Premium yesterday, sounded too much like at an enterprise package, so they needed to bring out the sense it…
By L.S.M Kabweza Today I was reminded of Inbox by this Reddit AMA. Inbox is an app I should find time to learn and start using; something I’ve meant to do for about a month now. It’s Google’s latest cure for one of the internet’s biggest pain – email. I…
By Nigel Gambanga When Safaricom launched a $1 million venture fund for Kenyan startups, it was applauded by everyone who follows the sort of relationships African mobile network operators have with the startups in their countries. This was the story of the big player in the tech ecosystem reaching out…
By Nigel Gambanga There were a lot of winners today as the FIRST LEGO League Zimbabwe tournament came to an end this afternoon in Harare. After a full day of displaying their skills and challenging each other to do a lot with their imagination the Dragons team from St George’s…
By Nigel Gambanga A couple of months ago we attended a schools robotics festival that was held at Hypercube Hub and was organised by the guys from TEST. This wasn’t the last activity for TEST in 2014 as the team has gone on to organise a FIRST LEGO League Zimbabwe…
By Nigel Gambanga Nearly 9 months after the first case of Ebola triggered panic in parts of Africa the virus is still raising concerns from people throughout the continent and even on a global scale. As a result there are efforts that are being kicked off even outside the affected…
By Nigel Gambanga Dream Big Technologies, a local startup that some of you might remember as a runner up at the ZOL Startup Challenge is not stopping at that one great startup idea. It’s already getting its hands involved in another project. This time its a countrywide initiative which involves…
By Nigel Gambanga The last time we wrote about local startup Mazwi, they were clearing misconceptions around EcoSchool’s alleged “theft” of their concept. They went to great lengths to explain how they had a different model from what Econet was driving at. Months later, we managed to catch up with…
By Nigel Gambanga For most people who buy tech gadgets from the US the past few days have been the highlight of their calendar. Last week we had Black Friday(Friday after Thanksgiving) which comes with a massive discount on a lot of retail merchandise. Today is Cyber Monday, where various…