Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Vodacom have been given a deadline to compensate Please Call Me inventor Kenneth Nkosana Makate, as trouble lies ahead.

Vodacom has offered Kenneth Makate R49 million for his involvement in the Please Call Me service the network launched, according to litigation funder Chris Schoeman. Schoeman made the statement during an interview on 702 about the Please Call Me battle. Schoeman said he met Makate in 2011, and helped fund Makate’s legal battle against…

Econet Wireless has chosen the City of Bulawayo as the centre of Distributed Power Africa (DPA), its renewable energy business in Zimbabwe in order to stimulate employment opportunities in the country’s second largest city. DPA primarily focuses on rooftop solar solutions for both commercial and home consumers. As with all things…

While most people are still waiting for the Android 9 Pie update, which got released over six months ago, Google’s likely getting ready to debut Android Q in the near future. We’ll call it Android 10. In fact, the search giant is already hard at work another Android update, and we’re expecting…

The Gmail mail service received new features for striking out text in a letter that can be found on the formatting panel.

The Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro (2019) was recently launched in South Korea, complete with an Infinity-O display, 6GB RAM, 128 GB inbuilt storage, a triple rear camera, 24 MP selfie sensor, 3,400mAh battery, and a rear fingerprint scanner. Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro (2019) has been priced in Korea at KRW 599,500…

Huawei unveiled the world’s first 5G chipset.

Safaricom has moved to diversify its business portfolio with the launch of a cybersecurity solution targeted at Kenyan firms.

The government has shot itself in the foot by shutting down the internet as it will incur huge losses in lost revenue.

It is now confirmed that the Government of Zimbabwe ordered mobile network operators (MNOs) to shut down the internet and social media communication platforms, including WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook, which are widely used by Zimbabweans. This is now public knowledge thanks to Econet, the biggest MNO, which issued a statement…

Susan M’kandawire Mulikita becomes the first female to join Liquid Telecom’s Southern Africa regional executive leadership team as CEO and is also the first female CEO responsible for ICT in Zambia.

Nike unveils first self-lacing and app-controlled ‘smart shoe’

More than a year after its release, the world is still talking about Fortnite — and for good reason. The battle royale video game played by more than 200 million people is free, but it’s generating a ton of money. In 2018 alone, Fortnite blew past $1 billion in revenue,…

Apple and Samsung have put aside their protracted rivalry and signed a deal that will let people access iTunes on their smart Samsung TVs.

The US may be concerned about Chinese government influence embedded in Huawei’s technology because America’s spy agencies have done the same thing in the past.

Wang Weijing, an executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei, has been fired following his charges of espionage in Poland.

In her 25 years of marriage to Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezos has been a loyal ambassador for Amazon, the company that made her and her husband the richest couple in the world.

The world’s richest couple announced in a joint statement Wednesday that they are getting a divorce “after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation.”

2019 is the year the streaming wars get real.

Amazon’s IMDb movie website has launched a free streaming service called Freedive that features dozens of movies and TV shows.