Evaluate My Future is a startup that aims to solve the unemployment problems that have been plaguing countries the world over. They plan to do this through an application that...
A few weeks ago I was at the Zimbo Py Workshop. As I was talking to some of the mentors at the event it became clear that obtaining Raspberry Pi...
Google has just launched Google Go: an app that works as a lighter alternative to the Google app that comes preinstalled on most Android phones. We talked about this application...
Messenger Lite, the Facebook messaging app designed specifically for low-end phones with minimal storage and slower internet connections has been updated to support video calling. The video chat works similarly...
You may have seen the viral video of a woman asking Google Assistant ‘who is Jesus Christ?’ Google failed to respond and this got the Techzim team thinking whether Google...
Microsoft has been scrambling to issue updates which protect PCs against two CPU security flaws Spectre and Meltdown as these affect devices manufactured in the last two decades. The Meltdown...
Tyler Barney, a 17 year old, has exposed Apple for deliberately slowing down older iPhones which could cost the tech-giant billions in lawsuits. Barney, who is currently a high school...
You might be familiar with Microsoft Excel, famous spreadsheet software. You no doubt have seen it used to organise data and to display various graphs from that data. Maybe you...
It was 2012 and I was still in high school beginning to develop my affinity for gadgets and in that era I was the proud owner of a Nokia X2....
If you frequently visit torrent sites for your daily or weekly dose of entertainment, your laptop’s computing power might be used for more than just browsing the website. Pirate Bay,...
SpaceX is preparing to launch its 12th official trip to space as part of the $1.6 billion contract it had with NASA. The rocket (Falcon 9) is transporting a number...
Image credit: Microsoft Blog Today, Microsoft released a post that showed the features that will be removed in the upcoming Autumn Windows Creators update. Among the list were Microsoft Paint and...
Yesterday, HMD Global the company that is now in charge of the Nokia brand and manufacturing phones under that brand launched two new feature phones. The first is called the...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an application from Samsung called Samsung Flow. It allows owners of Samsung galaxy devices with fingerprint scanners to unlock their laptops using the...
Late last night on 11 July 2017, Microsoft announced that it will be ending support for their Window Phone 8.1 mobile operating system. The mobile device software which was launched...
Today, Samsung will start selling the refurbished versions of their Samsung Galaxy Note 7 under the name Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition. The device will be available in South...
Today we got to attend a preliminary competition of the National Engineering Students Awards Competition (NESAC) at Harare Institute of Technology (HIT). NESAC aims to promote practical engineering solutions that...
Zimbabwe’s Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Dr Lazarus Dokora has been sued for US$3.5 million by two Zimbabwean software development firms over the alleged piracy of an online enrolment system....
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Zimbabwe’s opposition parties which belong to the National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) are planning to hold nationwide demonstrations against the government’s move to take over the procurement of the biometric voter...
The future is only but dimmer for the feature phones and smartphones of yesteryear with WhatsApp ending WhatsApp web support for Symbian and Blackberry equipped devices. WhatsApp Web/Desktop: removed the...
The government of Zimbabwe has taken over the acquisition of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits, replacing the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which had stepped in because of Zimbabwe's...
It is going to be quite a big year folks. The titans of the smartphone arena are out for blood and we cannot wait to see the offerings that will...
Enough of the times I have always had overheating issues with a couple of of my smartphones because of the relatively heavy usage I put them through. Once the heat...
The national election body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced that there will be no biometric voting or any form of electronic voting in 2018 and that the Biometric...
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has an outstanding payment of US$4.2 million that’s required to acquire a fingerprint search system. According to Newsday, this information was shared by ZRP’s Finance...
So after a few weeks of complaining about Microsoft and Windows something happened. Quite by accident, I visited the Edraw Max website only to discover that they now have a...
In 2016 The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) did everyone handling taxes a favour by migrating the process for applying for tax clearance certificates (called ITF 263s) online. This was part...
Later I discovered I had to pay $99 a year for the trouble of having One Note on my desktop. Then it got me thinking. Do I really need Office...
eMAP, the online enrolment system for Form 1 boarding school places which was launched by the Ministry of Education earlier this month successfully allocated places to over 63% of applicants...