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AfricaCom 2014

I had the opportunity to man the Mozilla Booth at Africacom 2014 with fellow Mozillian Oarabile Mudongo. This was the largest Tech show I’d ever attended. Our job was to demo Firefox OS phones made by Alcatel and to get people excited before the launch. Africacom was hosted in the beautiful city of Cape Town …

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Another unit conversion app?

I’ve always had a challenge in understanding the meaning of data transfer rates I hear whenever I’m asking about an ISP package. What does 15Mbps even mean? I think better in terms of how many megabytes of data I can download per second, so I’ve always had to use an online converter to convert the …

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Mozilla Zimbabwe Community

Yesterday was the date set for the first Mozilla Zimbabwe Community meetup. It was very unfortunate that most of those could not make it and only one person showed up. The contributors did not let me know in advance that they would not be able to make it, so I didn’t cancel the meeting. I …

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Mozilla Community Zimbabwe Meetup

The Mozilla Community will have it’s first meeting this month on the 24th of March. Expected attendance is 1-10 people. The number is small, but it’s a start. This event will introduce the attendees to the Mozilla project, the community guidelines and contribution opportunities. Contributors will be assigned tasks to give them more responsibility. Relevant …

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Africom, My second love

I’ve been using Africom for a week now and well all i can say is that i’m not complaining.I’ll tell you what i think of their service. I have 3 things against Africom: 1) Coverage is patchy if you live more than 10km from the base station (N.R.Z Building) 2) When you subscribe, you only …

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The Web and me

What mobile internet means for me? I’m sitting at the infamous hunger square at the college under the shade of the tall tree near the admin office, my eyes fixed intently on my 2.5” Nokia screen. My class mates are in the same place as I am, but they are engaged in varied, conversations about …

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