Re: Why not use Free and Open Source Software
No body has ever been fired for choosing IBM. Its called managing risk. The free software support base in Zim is staffed largely young and intelligent geeks who have no idea of boardroom politics,...
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The corporate world does love propriety software. As an implementer or developer, it is rewarding to be knowledgeable of proprietary systems(in addition to FOSS). Too true about .Net. I cant say I am a...
View ArticleRe: TN Bank to finance smartphones and tablets for Econet subscribers
As long as Econet is involved, expect to sell your kidney or something. They havent quite understood the tradeoff for contracts, what more financing. To those who can, do so in droves...you are...
View ArticleRe: Learn programming APIs with Code Academy
Only that they charge for some "major" courses. Beginner ones are generally free. Code Academy is free through and through
View ArticleRe: Fellow Africans, if you want to be called developers, start writing code
Think "Offline GMail", at least for basic functionality. If client loses connectivity, clicking link to your homepage should still work, for instance. You can go fancy and allow client changes to be...
View ArticleRe: Press Release: Econet reaches 8 Million customers
Thanks for the clarification. That's a huge piece of the marketshare pie, especially when considering the recently-released population census results and accounting for age demographics
View ArticleRe: Why not use Free and Open Source Software
Agree with you. FOSS has place in the ISP and other tech oriented market like mobiles, payments and even web development. In the plain vanilla enterprise market of MBA/accounting/King III aware Zim...
View ArticleRe: Fellow Africans, if you want to be called developers, start writing code
We developers (me included) need to also be more active in contributing to the open source community...and this needs to start at home too
View ArticleRe: TN Bank to finance smartphones and tablets for Econet subscribers
You've got to hand it to these guys...they know what they want and they are going for it. I feel in many ways it could be as great an idea as TN MALL which has brought new furniture in many homes.
View ArticleRe: Aaron Swartz tragic suicide reignites the call for Open Access Publication
We live in a capitalist world
View ArticleRe: TN Bank to finance smartphones and tablets for Econet subscribers
i like the ideas behind Econet, they always aim high and with TN thay are aiming higher. Beware Telecel and Netone this is the opportunity we had been waiting for years now
View ArticleRe: Software Piracy: Going clean in 2013
No man, most people complained to me. I am sure that has been fixed. Now the tone and nature of the language has been changed to a more direct one.
View ArticleRe: Is Flash dead?
I had to adjust the depth of the article to suit all type of readers. It was not easy but after the process I ended up with the current version. Something between a white paper and a tabloid publication.
View ArticleRe: TN Bank to finance smartphones and tablets for Econet subscribers
Let's hope whatever deal you get it is not just for Econet
View ArticleRe: As banks acquire its property we ask, what went wrong at Spiritage?
What did you Econet did hear? I think Spirit age they overestimated their capacity to deliver. If they bought non-compatible base station.....I am sorry he was surrounded by wrong technical people!
View ArticleRe: Why not use Free and Open Source Software
FOSS is for everyone it is the software is not ready for mass adoption.here are a quick list of things most people get computers for.1) office2) internet and email3) games and mediaand not much elsein...
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TCO is BS made up by m$ readhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
View ArticleRe: Telecel’s current stats: 2.5m mobile subscribers, 552k internet...
Well, telecel's internet service is working fine for me so far, after having said bye-bye to africom. In this day-and-age data consumption is where telcos are raking in most of their profits. However,...
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