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Kabweza

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    Comment #39929244

    In a country choked by high internet costs and limited options, Zimbabweans are turning to remarkable ingenuity. Facing arrest and equipment seizure for using Starlink, tech-savvy …

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    "...it is very difficult not to extend trust in the same way as we would with a human." a lot of research has shown that trust in each other, as humans, is quite misplaced because …

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    South African government charged US $10 million for a WordPress theme job

    South African tech blogs reported that a web development company actually charged the South African government at least R97 million for a website. The website is basically just Wor…

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    Microsoft wakes up to new Africa, reacts with youth empowerment initiative

    In short, while Microsoft was concerned with selling more licenses through its corporate channel partners, unconcerned about the punitive pricing (which had many resorting to pirat…

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    Someone should make a platform independent message search tool

    I’m as excited about the potential of Facebook’s Graph Search as I’m sure most people are, so I’ve signed up and await my turn in the queue. And like most people, even with its bla…

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    Google’s Gmail SMS for Africa, a case of coming too late with too little

    When last week I read on the internet that Google had launched Gmail SMS in Africa, I mostly ignored the news. I remembered reading something along the same lines some several mont…

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    Comment #4012421

    I'm the author. Indeed Zimbabwe is not representative of all Africa. However, Zimbabwe actually has better internet that most African countries. At least it's in the top 10 of 54 c…

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    Why it's hard to love Google Plus in Africa

    I don’t use Google+ much. It’s not that Google plus is a ghost town. No. There’s a flurry of activity from the people I follow - Zimbabweans, Kenyans, Googlers in Africa, and Rober…

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    An Internet business working backwards: building a web start-up in Zimbabwe

    We wanted to be online but the Zimbabwean people wanted to pick up the phone. What was amazing was that the reservations number on the website was just above the booking form but t…