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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference To Kick Off June 5, 2023

May 31, 2023

Apple unveiled the lineup for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, including the timing of the keynote and Platforms State of the Union presentations, and…

Zambia’s ready for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning

April 19, 2019

The world is now living in the 4th Industrial Revolution where solutions to the many socio-economic challenges we are facing are now powered by…

Apple announces annual Worldwide Developers Conference June 3-7 in San Jose

March 15, 2019

Apple has announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose from June 3 through June 7 at the McEnery Convention…

Orange Digital Ventures invests in Africa’s Talking, helping it raise $8.6m

April 30, 2018

Orange Digital Ventures Africa, the Orange investment fund’s new initiative for Africa launched last June, is proud to announce its first investment, helping Africa’s Talking…

MTN and BongoHive Telecom Application Developer Hackathon set for 14th October 2015

August 22, 2016

MTN Zambia and BongoHive are partnering to host the Telecom Application Developer (TAD) Hackathon from 14 – 16 October 2016, which will run parallel to…

Progressive Web Apps

July 26, 2016

This piece on progressive web apps was written by Micho Ngoma, a software developer at Wrisasoft. What are Progressive Web Apps? These are applications…

Opinion: The acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft, why should you and I care?

June 16, 2016

By now, you have heard about Satya Nadella’s largest acquisition since he took the helm at Microsoft, that Microsoft will be buying LinkedIn for…

Android Studio 2.0 Preview

February 15, 2016

Around November last year (2015), Google had announced a preview of Android Studio 2.0, the newest version of the official integrated development environment (IDE) for…

Safaricom opens up M-Pesa API to developers

September 8, 2015

If there was ever a mobile money transfer service platform that comes to mind when speaking of successful ones, it’s Safaricom’s M-Pesa which was…

Gartner, Inc forecasts 59% mobile data growth globally in 2015

July 22, 2015

Everyone is getting a smartphone lately, cheap or expensive, we are all connected to the internet almost 24/7. The price of data bundles is…

If you’re an application developer, Apple’s Swift technology is for you

June 10, 2014

Apple has come up with an incentive for both young and less experienced app developers to be a part of developing Apple’s apps. They…

April Startup Hour Review

April 3, 2014

It’s already April and we are almost in the middle of the year. For businesses, this is also almost the end of Q1 (in…

Kwacha on Google Play Store: Now You Can Buy/Rent Movies

March 18, 2014

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for… to rent or buy movies from Google Play Store in Kwacha!!! Well,…

F8 Facebook 2014: Registration is Open for Developer Conference on April 30

March 17, 2014

Don’t be discouraged just because the conference is being held in San Francisco and you are in Zambia. It is actually possible to attend…