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Zimbabwean man who controlled the development of Microsoft Windows
Zimbabwean-born Paul Maritz discovered his passion for computers at a South African university and became one of Microsoft's core executives, directing much of the early development of Windows....Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 13:04hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Power Sales redefines infrastructure and strategy with market-leading technology
Power Sales, a leading wholesale clothing retail chain in Zimbabwe, had to completely revamp its systems, strategies and infrastructure in 2019. A new management team wanted to use the opportunity to ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 08:14hrs | 151 | by Charlote Hlangwane
Tech billionaire said next one could be man-made
Tech billionaire Bill Gates has warned Australia to be ready for the next pandemic, which could be man-made and far more brutal.Mr Gates told the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney that polit...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 19:39hrs | 35 | by Erick Matotoba
Chamisa's CCC questions Zimbabwe voters' roll credibility but participating in elections
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) of availing an unanalysable voters roll with small fonts and several anomalies.ZEC released t...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe schools go digital
At least 35 percent of the schools in Zimbabwe have been connected to the Learning Passport as the Government and its partners continue to adapt learning to the new digital innovations that ensure no ...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Online Ndebele lessons excite diaspora
AFRICAN parents, Zimbabweans in particular, living in the diaspora are having a hard time passing on their culture to their children through language as each generation passes.This is because ...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mboweni to mentor young business leaders
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe Group CEO Douglas Mboweni, has taken it upon himself to mentor the next generation of young business leaders in the country.Speaking to a group of young entrepreneurs ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Colonialism is not dead, Your Royal Highness
ON June 8 2022, at the start of his "landmark" six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Belgium's King Philippe expressed regret for the countless "violent acts and humiliations" t...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 12 | by Tafi Mhaka
10 tips to boost PPC performance
PPC (Pay Per Click) Marketing is one of the fastest-growing digital marketing channels. With millions of businesses using PPC, competition is high for positions on the search engine results pages (SER...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 12:58hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mass exodus of science teachers hits Bulawayo schools
BULAWAYO schools have been hit by a mass exodus of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers with 145 having left since the beginning of the year.The skills flight by ST...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Nust students worry over lost results
STUDENTS at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) have expressed concern over the removal of results from their student portals following a malware assault on the Nust system (Navis...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lures world's top celebrities
THE most watched man on television in the world, one of the world's richest men and two former United States presidents have all visited Zimbabwe in the last decade, in an endorsement of Zimbabwe as a...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
New Education Minister hits ground running
NEWLY sworn-in Minister of Primary and Secondary Schools Dr Evelyn Ndlovu has vowed to harness ICTs as enabling learning tools in schools to ensure continuous learning for students under the Covid-19 ...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
UBH pharmacy loses critical drugs
NEARLY 400 doses of sedative drugs - pethidine and morphine - were stolen from the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) last week, a development which has forced patients to source their own. ...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bill Gates divorces Melinda
Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world.In i...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by AP
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe can bust sanctions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government could easily circumvent economic sanctions imposed on Harare by the West if the country makes use of its highly-skilled human capital to foster economi...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How your business can benefit from OCR technology
Optical Character Recognition or Optical Character Reader is the electronic and mechanical conversion of the image typed into machine-encoded text. OCR is a field of research in pattern recogn...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:03hrs | 172 | by Staff Writer
British foreign secretary tours Econet facility
BRITISH foreign secretary Mr Dominic Raab last week visited the East African Data Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, during which tour he unveiled his Britain's support for developing countries to shift to cle...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How to lead in the era of remote teams
What can leaders do to support teams working remotely at a time of much uncertainty? Techknow Africa Southern Africa Region Coordinator Hamilton Katsvairo shares concrete steps Managers and Organizati...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 17:23hrs | 2 | by Hamilton Katsvairo
PDFBear: Full Guide On the Quickest PDF to Word Converter Tool
Portable Document Format (PDF) files are an ideal and helpful file format to use. But the problem is, we can't modify anything in its content since it is tamper-proof. What to do? Convert your PDF fil...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 14:26hrs | 34 | by Staff Reporter
Fun online games you can play on your PC
As the weather starts to change and winter is ushered in, the natural reaction is for people to head indoors to stay cosy warm and comfortable. But sitting around indoors is something that many people...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 10:00hrs | 25 | by Staff writer
Zimbabwean journalist wins the 2020 APO Group African Women in Media Award
APO Group yesterday announced Zimbabwean journalist Debra Matabvu (@dmmatabvu) as the winner of the 2020 APO Group African Women in Media Award.The award recognizes, celebrates, and empowers A...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa invited to speak at New Economy global Forum
HARARE - Zimbabwe-born billionaire Strive Masiyiwa is set to participate in the Bloomberg New Economy Forum slated for November 16-19 this year. The Econet Group founder and executive chairman...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 23 | by Agencies
Next-Gen Gaming Shaking Up Platform Exclusivity
In console gaming, exclusive titles per system have always been par for the course. For many gamers, these releases would serve as the ultimate deciding factor of which console out of the crop would g...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 20:34hrs | 17 | by Staff writer
Poll ghost haunts Mnangagwa
A NEW case study done by exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher Ibbo Mandaza, under his Southern African Political Economy Trust (...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's book to expose ZEC
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has finished writing a book which details how the 2018 presidential election was systematically rigged by state institutions for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 16:03hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
How to repair WMI provider host's high CPU usage
The WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) Provider Host is a vital aspect of Windows that often courses in the background. This service permits other applications on your device to request informat...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 13:07hrs | 173 | by Staff Writer
Epson to set up office in Zimbabwe
Swedish information communication technologies (ICTs) giant Epson Europe BV will set up office in Harare next week in response to President Mnangagwa's pro-investment reforms under the New Dispensatio...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism
One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Best/ top data transfer apps from iPhone to Android
At some point in our lives, we all might have to switch from a device to another, whether for luxury purpose or to meet other needs. However, this decision comes with another demand, which often gets ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 14:32hrs | 173 | by Staff Writer
Strive Masiyiwa competes with Lumumba's partner
Fresh in a box Founder and William Mutumanje's business partner Kuda Musasiwa has lamented that Strive Masiyiwa's Econet has launched through its Eco Farmer venture a service that is copy pasted from ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 11:15hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe looks to Estonia for technology cooperation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday met Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid and the two leaders discussed economic cooperation. Estonia is arguably the most digital society in the world as the former Soviet...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo industry needs remodelling'
BULAWAYO needs to transform its industrial focus through adoption of an agile approach and investing more on new business lines consistent with global demands, the Project Management of Zimbabwe (PMZ)...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo tears into Murwira
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has accused his successor Amon Murwira of misleading legislators by claiming in Parliament last week that the Science, Technology, Engineeri...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 13:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Liquid Telecom to invest $400m USD in Egyptian network infrastructure and data centres following completion of 'Cape to Cairo'
Harare, Zimbabwe. December 10, 2018 - Leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has announced that it is investing 8 billion Egyptian Pounds ($400m US Dollars) in Egypt over t...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 09:33hrs | 3 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Zimbabwe to digitalise 3 500 schools
GOVERNMENT targets to fully digitalise about 3 500 schools countrywide within five years in an effort to enhance e-learning and quality education, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Professor Pa...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Passing the Microsoft MCSA Windows 2012 Certification Exams with PrepAway Exam Dumps & Practice Test Questions
Anyone can have the interest to earn a Microsoft certification, but not everyone can take the risk and go through the challenging process of gaining one. By all means, the challenging part being refer...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 11:48hrs | 158 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Igomombe
Two AI Systems may be better than one
Voice assistants are built on artificial intelligence technology, machine learning and voice recognition technology. As the user interacts with the digital assistant, algorithms learn from data input ...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 18:27hrs | 21 | by Agencies
#Zimdecides: Fictitious addresses, missing names raise eyebrows
Eight people who are registered under one address will vote in five different constituencies in Harare in one of the eye-popping discoveries during an analysis of the voters roll recently released by ...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Blessed Mhlanga
#ChamisaChallenge launched
Social Media users in Zimbabwe are pocking fun on allegation that Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa told a rally last week that he met Kagame in Geneva and the East African nation's...Published: 30 May 2018 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born billionaire firm lists on New York Stock Exchange
A Zimbabwean-born billionaire owned technology company, Pivotal Software, has listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company's chief executive Mr Rob Mee said listing as a public company was a maj...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe partners Microsoft Corporation
The government has partnered software giant, Microsoft Corporation to drive the digital transformation of the country's education sector in line with global trends and the demands of the new curriculu...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to achieve 100% digitalization of schools in 3 years
Primary and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavhima said the Zimbabwe government is working with Microsoft to achieve 100% digitalization of schools in 3 years time....Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 17:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's STEM route abandoned
Government has abandoned the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) drive as previously adopted by the regime of former president Robert Mugabe.Higher and Tertiary Education, ...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 06:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
First Lady joins philanthropist bandwagon; robbing the needy blind - her river of crocodile tears fooled me!
It is one thing when people like Bill Gates of Microsoft or Richard Branson of Virgin Planes and Trains, whose source of wealth has a traceable paper trail, become generous philanthropists. It is quit...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 21:17hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Why there is a rush for bitcoins in Zimbabwe
APPLE Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak recently declared that bitcoin is "better than gold and the United States dollar".Wozniak even went a step further to compare having a bitcoin to owning a ho...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe most hackable country'
ZIMBABWE was listed as the most hackable country in the world out of 183 countries on the back of having many internet protocol (IP) addresses that are still using an outdated protocol leaving firms s...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 17:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Parking tickets scam at BCC unearthed
A syndicate in Bulawayo City Council's traffic section is allegedly clamping cars in the city and then soliciting for bribes from owners before they even pay at the local authority's revenue office, i...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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