Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

MTN has launched a WhatsApp channel to let its customers buy airtime and data bundles through the messaging app. The largest mobile operator in Africa has begun the service in its home country, South Africa, using the Facebook-owned app. Gareth Murphy, MTN South Africa’s online channel GM, says it wants…

Apple also updated macOS today to support its news and magazine service.

Apple’s iPhone is already home to some of the most popular games ever. It’s got puzzlers like Candy Crush Saga and Words With Friends, the battle game Cash of Clans, and even the cultural phenom Fortnite. Now Apple is hoping to level up those games with Apple Arcade, a new service, announced Monday, that’s set to go…

Apple unveiled its new streaming platform, Apple TV+, at an event Monday. The tech giant will produce original content to compete with sites like Netflix and Hulu. Updates to Apple services including the App Store, Apple Pay and iNews were also announced. Apple is putting a lot of weight behind…

Yesterday, Apple at its special event announced… a credit card. The Apple Card is designed for the iPhone and will work with the Wallet app. You sign up from your iPhone and you can use it with Apple Pay in just a few minutes. Before introducing the card, Apple CEO Tim Cook…

The ultimate unsend button has been born.

Meng Wanzhou, the Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Technologies Co. appears to have had a penchant for products by Apple Inc., one of the Chinese giant’s biggest rivals. Meng Wanzhou, was carrying a bunch of devices made by one of her company’s biggest rivals when she was arrested in Canada in December. Huawei…

Apple may be moving forward with a polarizing iPhone redesign and several unusual (and somewhat creepy) tech upgrades, but now the company has accidentally revealed a long-awaited iPhone upgrade everyone does want… Thanks to a tip-off, 9to5Mac has discovered new imagery on Apple’s Australian website showing the company’s exciting and long-overdue AirPower wireless charging system. The propriety technology…

The long-awaited AirPods 2 are finally here, and according to Apple, they will deliver “faster connect times, more talk time, and the convenience of hands-free Siri.” AirPods revolutionized the wireless audio experience with a breakthrough design and the new AirPods build on the magical experience customers love. The new Apple-designed…

Zimbabwe’s mobile network operators recorded a 36% increase in revenue to $1,1 billion in the full year to December 2018 despite a 25% increase in operating costs, POTRAZ reported. The country has three licensed operators, two of which are State-owned — NetOne and Telecel and a third which is privately-run,…

The app was first released on Android last year.

Washington Mkombodzi Creates a Free Online Shopping Application, ZimexApp

Samsung’s newest mobile tech innovation could make the need to slip a MicroSD card in your phone to boost the internal memory a thing of the past. It’s ready to begin production of a new universal flash storage chip with 1TB — yes, one terabyte — of space inside. This is twice the maximum…

MTN South Africa spent more than R400 million ($27.7 million) last year on investments in battery backup systems and generators. Despite the spend, its mobile sites continue to face significant threats, due to Eskom’s ongoing stage three and stage four load shedding. Excluding the amount spent on new batteries for…

MySpace, the pioneering but faded website that helped kick off the social-media era during the dot-com boom, says all the music uploaded to the platform between 2003 and 2015 is, well, history. “As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than…

It looks like the four-figure price tag is here to stay when it comes to new iPhones from Apple. The $1,000 price tag that shocked us in late 2017 when Apple unveiled the iPhone X became practically normal a year later after Samsung and Huawei followed suit. Now, foldable phones like the Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X and others…

Tech giant Google is getting into gaming in a big way with a direct challenge to the giants of console and PC gaming. It’s called Stadia. Former Sony and Xbox executive and current Google gaming boss Phil Harrison detailed the platform today at an event in San Francisco during the…

ICASA announced that Kwese has successfully applied for a free-to-air television broadcasting licence. This means the company will be allowed to launch free-to-air TV services, like those operated by the SABC and Etv, in South Africa. ICASA previously issued an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for free-to-air TV licences in 2014,…

This LG G8 release date guide will tell you everything you need to know about LG’s latest phone. Following months of leaks and rumors, LG officially announced the new LG G8 and upcoming V50. Here are all the release date and pre-order details, pricing, shipping information and more for potential buyers. On…

The price ceiling on phones just keeps getting higher.