By Nigel Gambanga After all the preparations and build up, the second edition of Startup Weekend Harare is finally here. It kicks off tomorrow at 6 pm at Hypercube Hub and ends with the final pitches scheduled for Sunday afternoon. This second edition is set to bigger than the previous…
By Nigel Gambanga ITWebAfrica reported that yesterday Safaricom launched a new Android application called M-Ledger for their mobile money service, M-Pesa. M-Ledger is an easily accessible mobile money accounting service which lets users to monitor and manage past transactions on a single view from mobile phone. It also gives options…
By Nigel Gambanga The latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report was recently released, providing analysis of the latest mobile data and predictions on mobility and live networks for the global markets. A lot of the information shared in the report points largely to global trends but the highlights do…
By Nigel Gambanga After four months of free Tweeting the Econet free Twitter promotion extended to all Econet subscribers is set to come to an end on the 20th of November, tomorrow. Judging from the #Tweet4Free trend that Econet has started on Twitter to gauge interest in the promotion, it…
By Nigel Gambanga Yesterday it was reported that WhatsApp had announced its implementation of end-to-end encryption of its messages. This is still in its initial phase and has been enacted on Android only. It also hasn’t been extended to group messages, videos and photos. This development is an improvement of…
By Nigel Gambanga Entrepreneurs always have a huge appetite for success which is fueled by different thoughts, beliefs and circumstances. Tech startups, or rather, the people behind them are no different. To stoke this drive and ambition, it’s always good to pick the minds of others who have walked the…
By Nigel Gambanga It has been reported by Biztech Africa that TECNO, a device manufacturer that has a strong focus on the the African mobile space is set to introduce a smartphone priced at a under $30 next year. This comes after an executive from TECNO made the remarks in…
By Nigel Gambanga I still think that one of the best things to come from EcoCash is their EcoCash app. Although launched for Android only, after a bit of controversy around a previous version from another developer, it makes transacting easier and faster. In the absence of USSD long codes…
By Garikai Dzoma Not so long ago, LCD screens were the stuff of legends whose availability was limited to the sets of Sci-Fi movies which we enjoyed through our cathode-ray TV devices.Monitors were bulky monochromes that spewed out green text. Nowadays with the rise of the Chinese phone, LED TVs,…
By Nigel Gambanga Last Saturday, Zimbabwe took part in the global TED movement once again as we witnessed TEDxHarare 2014 which was held at local tech hub Hypercube Hub. Several perspectives on a proactive Zimbabwean thought process were raised through very inspiring talks and insights shared by the different speakers…