Smartphone makers don’t make all their components in-house. They buy some from companies like Samsung and Sony
Did you know that Samsung makes the displays on iPhones and Sony makes the cameras used by most top-tier smartphones? Heck, the Snapdragon 8 Gen-1 series of processors, the most…
The LastPass hacking is VERY big. What’s the best way to manage passwords?
Lastpass, one of the most popular password manager providers suffered a data breach that exposed data for their 33 million customers. A scary amount of data! To date, we have…
EcoSure to stop providing funeral services to NSSA members
EcoSure has come out announcing that it will be ending its Umbrella funeral cover for all its NSSA members. This move will be taking effect on 31 December 2022 and…
Thinking of asking the Ministry of Finance some questions? They gave us their number
I’m not going to lie these are interesting times. Just last week the RBZ was crowdsourcing thoughts and ideas on a Central Bank Digital Currency that they are working on.…
FBC, another Zim Financial services firm to branch out to Botswana
Just last week ZB Financial Holdings officially launched a reinsurance company in Botswana and now FBC has joined the party as well launching their own reinsurance company in the neighboring…
WhatsApp adds polls and communities. I have some thoughts.
WhatsApp has been busy these past couple of months adding feature after feature to the chat app. They are all pretty interesting with the latest ones being Polls, Communities, and…
An ‘Official’ badge for that US$8 Twitter subscription? [Updated]
Things are moving quickly on Twitter since Elon Musk bought the company. Employees got fired then got called back again and the US$8 payments have started rolling in. The result,…
Liquid Home’s LIT USD bundles. Are they any good?
Liquid Home has been offering USD packages on their FibroniX and WibroniX services, a bit of convenience for those of you that prefer paying in USD. These packages are running…
Utande LTE now available in Harare West
Utande has been pushing LTE expansion pretty aggressively, beating Liquid Home to the punch in Mutare. The LTE service will use Sim cards and an outdoor unit kit. Also, these…
RBZ needs your help with the development of a cryptocurrency. Just 33 questions
Remember a time when a number of cryptocurrency startups in Zimbabwe were banished from existence? And it was by the RBZ. Okay to be fair some of them were not…