BancABC is going to be down for an entire weekend
BancABC announced on Twitter that it is going to be doing some work on its system from the 4th to the 6th of February 2022. The outage is going to…
Right now it is easy to track you through WhatsApp, that is being rectified
Love or hate it, if you’re reading this, you probably use WhatsApp as your main chat app. The masses decided and there will be no convincing the over 2 billion…
Zimbos! Here’s your chance to give Wikipedia that local flavour
On the 2nd and 3rd February 2022, the AfroCuration event in Zimbabwe, in partnership with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe will bring together young participants from colleges and universities in…
Zim startups! Apply to pitch your ideas at Africa Tech Summit 2022!!
Africa Tech Summit has opened applications to the 2022 edition of Pitch Live at the fourth Africa Startup Summit. Ten start-ups will be selected to present their company’s solution and…
Aspiring Filmmakers! Apply for Netflix’s US$1 mil scholarship
Netflix, the world’s biggest streaming service, has pledged US$1 million to film and television students in Sub Saharan Africa. The endowment is being done through Netflix’s Creative Equity Scholarship Fund…
It only took Econet 24 days into 2022 to raise bundle prices
I think this one might be on me. A few articles ago I said that it was surprising that none of Zimbabwe’s mobile network operators (MNOs) had raised data bundle…
Applications open for Open Parly’s US$1,000 Murewa Hackathon
Magamba Network (Open Parly ZW) is looking for young people, community activists, citizen journalists and developers to promote progressive new civic tech within Zimbabwe’s civic space through finding offline solutions…
Google appoints Zimbabwean as Senior Vice President
Google has appointed James Manyika as the company’s first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society. Manyika will report directly to Alphabet’s (Google’s parent company) CEO Sundar Pichai and will…
Court hearings via video call in Zim? Yes. That and more tech coming to judicial system in 2022
You know the saying, ‘justice delayed is justice denied.’ The Zimbabwe judicial system will be taking that slogan to heart this year. The theme for 2022, as announced by the…
Innovator develops cordless television set
Gifted innovator Maxwell Chikumbutso has set his eyes firmly in revolutionarising the information technology (IT) gadgets sector by developing a radio frequency (RF) powered television set without a plug in.…