Sharing for those interested:.Computer Society of Zimbabwe is hosting a Golf & Networking Day on 22 Aug at Newlands Country Club. 11AM tee-off. 💵 $60/person | $200/team.🗓 Reg closes: 16 Aug. More info:

Smartphone sales dipped globally last quarter, but not in Africa. TRANSSION (Tecno, Infinix, itel) is still holding it down on the continent, Samsung grew impressively globally. Here’s what the latest Canalys report says about smartphone shipments in Q2.

ZimSwitch & KidzCan are hosting a run to support kids fighting cancer. 📍 Belgravia Sports Club.🗓 7 Sept | 🕕 6AM.🏃 1km (kids), 5km, 10km, 21km.💵 $15 Adults | $10 Kids. More info:

Samsung’s $2,000 Fold 7 is selling like hot bhanzi. Pre-orders broke records globally, even outselling the Flip in South Korea. Over 210K units moved in 48hrs in India. Foldables go mainstream, all while we're trying to save up for that $120 phone.

Mark Zuckerberg says smart glasses will replace your phone. Talking about 'those without AI-powered smart glasses will be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage."'. But if they don't understand spoken Shona or Ndebele, are we doomed to fall behind?.

RT @WillarShoko: @Techzim Started with Regulation fees and taxes so that we can attract investment. There is no Digital economy that can b….

Remember the man who came up with Please Call Me? He’s still waiting for his payout. Vodacom has won a legal round, delaying what could’ve been a US$1.5–2.8 billion payout. The Court said the previous order was too vague, sending the case back for review.

What should people in tech do to change this? . Surely by now technology services should be contributing something significant. Or is it the data just not dis-aggregated enough?

Samsung users, your Android updates are about to get faster, but in a different way. It’s no longer about Android 17 or 18. It’s One UI 8.1, 8.5 etc that matter now. Find out what this means for your Galaxy device, and why other Android brands will follow.

RT @noel_tkay: Free market capitalism yakanaka.

And considering Starlink is not available in Harare right now, this is a pretty big deal. Of course, the fibre network coverage is quite small and ADSL is slow, but still, this sets a new price benchmark for unlimited fixed internet packages in Zimbabwe.

By comparison Liquid's lowest priced unlimited fibre package is $99 a month. Utande's is $95 a month. Telco's fibre starts at $90 per month.

TelOne has introduced rally great unlimited packages on Fibre, DSL and LTE. - DSL unlimited: $30 /month at 5mbps.- Fibre unlimited: $40 /month at 50mbps.- LTE unlimited: $75 /month at 25mbps.The new packages are priced significantly lower than the competition.

RT @tekno_Designs: Used to be happy seeing such pictures, not anymore. These guys (@MICTPCS_ZW @Potraz_zw should focus on things that move….

from our inbox:.Has anyone else experienced this?

Samsung is locking the bootloader worldwide. The Good: Stolen phones will be harder to reset and resell.The Bad: No more rooting or upgrading past official support.

Google just opened Africa’s first AI Community Center in Ghana and dropped $37M into AI training, food security, and local language tech. 🇿🇼 James Manyika, Google’s SVP for Research, Technology & Society, was there. Now come on James, get this to Zim too.

Two petitions. Thousands of signatures. Econet’s SmartBiz customers are pushing back against data caps and throttled speeds. They’re calling on both Econet and POTRAZ to fix it. We break down what these petitions say and why they matter: .

Only 15% of users said ZIMRA’s systems always work when needed. Now, ZIMRA is going 100% digital for COMESA certificates (exporters in the region need these). Deadline: 1 August .What could go wrong?.

After years of complaints, MultiChoice is seriously considering unbundling SuperSport from bloated DStv packages. Sports lovers, your prayers may finally be answered. I know many people who would go back to DStv for a SuperSport-only package.