Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, has come up with a nationwide program that is aimed at sourcing IoT solutions in smart logistics and smart cities to help grow its digital economy. The ICT sector in Egypt is taking steps to capitalise on the African IoT…

Only a few years ago, Opera Max was the rising star in the browser maker’s portfolio. The service offered a system-wide data-saving proxy that funnelled all app data through Opera’s servers to compress images and videos. Now, however, Max is heading for the deadpool. The company, which is now owned by a consortium of…

Zimbabwean born mathematician and former Acting Group Chief Executive Officer of ABC Holdings, Dr Blessing Mudavanhu has been appointed as non-executive director for the Development Bank of Southern Africa for a three year term. Dr Mudavanhu said he was humbled by his appointment announced by Finance Minister Melusi Gigaba and…

What’s also contributing in driving a digital revolution in Africa is lower smartphone prices, that’s allowing mobile phone users to access the internet at unprecedented levels. Operators and developers are also leveraging the power of mobile networks to transform services in health, agriculture, education, energy and water management. With such…

Some more distinctions are to come from Nigerian University students, and again, no more using ‘need some extra pocket money’ scapegoat for internet access to their parents for research and so forth, as there will now be offered free Wi-Fi access in their institutions, browsing will be absolutely free of…

Smile Communications’ Chief Corporate Services Officer Tobechukwu Nkemdilim Okigbo has joined MTN Nigeria as the company’s new Corporate Relations Executive. MTN said Okigbo would provide insight on strategy and drive targeted engagement with critical stakeholders. Funso Aina, public relations and protocol manager at MTN Nigeria said: “Reputed for his exemplary…

Making reference to a 2016 network coverage report by the Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) established that, “314 Wards, hosting 354 000 households and a total population of two million people have no access to basic telecom services.” Therefore, in a bid to curb such disparities between urban and rural dwellers,…

Globacom Limited – the Nigerian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Lagos is privately owned by Mike Adenuga Jr, who is the Chairman of Globacom. Globacom started operation in Nigeria on August 29, 2003, and currently operates in three other West African countries including Republic of Benin, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Globacom has declared today, Friday,…

Now Facebook is saying, out loud, that it doesn’t just want to compete with TV. It wants to be your TV. Social media giant Facebook has made a move into dedicated video, pitting it against YouTube and TV networks. Users will soon see a new Watch tab that will offer a range…

Walt Disney Co. – the world’s biggest entertainment company – recently said that they had plans to launch two online streaming services: an ESPN and a family film service that will be sold directly to their consumers. With such an announcement, Netflix has just gotten a hard reality check as…

Opportunity dances with those already on the dancing floor. Bozoma Saint John is an inspiration to mostly women that there is also room for them in the tech industry. A source of motivation for single mothers that they can as well make it big on their own. When she was…

We’ve all seen the rise of USB sticks that have made it possible to store a whopping amount of data in a tiny, easy-to-carry device. The latest stride in this department was taken by scientists at the IBM. In a new world record, scientists at IBM have captured 330 terabytes…

Servers holding upcoming episodes and scripts for Game of Thrones are apparently so much swiss cheese for some hackers, and they’re crawling in through holes like happy mice and making away with big chunks of intellectual property. Last week the fourth episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones season seven was leaked online. The episode, titled The Spoils of War…

DStv subscribers in Zimbabwe are becoming really anxious as each day that passes proves to be even a lot more of the digital television service provided by MultiChoice Zimbabwe as banks stifle payment platforms, especially for non-account holders. You also realize that even independent agents no longer facilitate payments due…

The allegations are unrelated to the WannaCry attack he was credited with halting. The young computer expert, Marcus Hutchins, who stopped the WannaCry global cyber attack early this year could face decades in a US prison following accusations that he helped create and sell a malicious software that targeted bank accounts.…

It’s no secret that the smartphone market is a brutally cutthroat one, but it’s generally assumed that smartphone makers take a roughly equitable — if disproportional — share of profits. That assumption, however, appears to be far from the truth, as Samsung continues to dominate the global smartphone market. Despite the…

This must be really a cause for concern for Apple as the latest results may reflect on the future. The latest results show that the gap in global phone sales between Apple and Huawei is smaller than ever. Apple sold 41 million iPhones in the second quarter, while Huawei’s shipments were…

After receiving so much pressure from the developer community, Safaricom finally gave in and has announced that it will be releasing the MPESA API. The MPESA API platform comes as a result of a recent upgrade that Safaricom conducted on its MPESA platform. The old system, which the company described as…

Next week in Kenya there will be elections, people will be choosing their new leaders and there is already a considerable amount of negative conversations people having and sharing on the Social Media i.e Facebook, Twitter and so forth, that may influence the elections. According to the latest statistics from…

According to a statement filed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), today, Thursday, 3 August, MTN will announce that it has returned to profit for the first six months of the year ending June 2017, The company said in a statement filed with the JSE on 27 July: “MTN expects to…