Here is a Free Amazing software to manage network profiles.

NetSetMan is the perfect complement for those who usually require changing their network settings because they connect to different networks, probably on different locations. The program allows you to save six different network configurations, and you can change from one to another with just a couple of clicks, without even requiring to restart your system. Thanks to NetSetMan, you can now forget about memorizing and manually changing all those intricate network settings, as you can get it done automatically in no time.

The program's main window offers you six tabs, one for each possible network profile. By double-clicking on a tab you can set a significative name for its corresponding configuration. In addition, creating a new network profile is as easy as right-clicking on a tab and selecting the "Get Current Settings" command. This action will copy your currently running network configuration to the selected profile and, from now on, you can return to it by simply selecting it again and clicking on the "Activate" button. However, there is an even easier way to switch to an alternative network profile: through the program's tray menu. NetSetMan installs an icon on your system notification area and it displays a menu with your six possible network profiles. With just one click, you can switch to any of them.

If you happen to be an advanced user, you can alternatively create a network profile from the scratch by manually specifying all the required parameters such as the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, preferred and alternate DNS servers, Printer, Workgroup and many more. You can also click on the "IP+" button to access the "Advanced TCP/IP Settings Window" where you can configure additional IP addresses for your network adapters, additional gateways and even create your own routing table. On the other hand, NetSetMan also allows you to manage sub-profiles which refer to different setting for different network adapters, within the same main profile.

To sum it all up, NetSetMan is a powerful yet practical tool that allows you to change your network settings in a way that couldn't be easier. Once you have configured all your required network profiles, you can switch to the compact mode of the program which also allows you to change your profile with one click. The program can be used totally free of charge as long as you don't use it for commercial purposes.

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Telecom Giant MTN offers Free 50GB data to customers.

MTN has offered 50GB of free data and 10,000 minutes per month to new and existing customers.

The new deal is only available on 13 January and is available to customers who sign up for a new contract or perform an upgrade to certain price plans.

The free 50GB of data and 10,000 MTN-to-MTN minutes per month will be provided to subscribers for the duration of their 24-month contract.

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2016 Cyber-Security Lessons.

The year 2016 established to be a bane with heart to cyber-security, with many personal and exoteric entities falling person to discipline cyber incidents. The US Presidential elections were not spared, thus upbringing the question-Who is safe in an increasingly virtual class? As engineering evolves and becomes solon engaged, it will be easier for hackers to tap into the vulnerabilities. Alas, we learnt it the solid way. Here are whatever rattling factual lessons in certificate direction from the cyber incidents of 2016.

* Security emerges as an in-demand market: Every cloud has a medal coating, and this was moreso evident in the mushrooming of warrantee bleach providers during in the past. As realistic hacks accumulated, so did the effectuation of tackling them. Differentiated skills were shapely by condition consultants and customers leveraged these to egest themselves cyber-ready. In fact, department defrayment has emerged as a top precedency post-2016. Predictions for the industry are best, with Cybersecurity Ventures predicting that planetary spends on assets products and services present hit $1 cardinal between 2017 and 2021.

* Ransomware present formula: On the flipside, hackers are exploits are much innovational and money-savvy. Ransomware and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks dominated 2016. For information, the commencement on an American hospital, followed by one on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Bureau. FBS assemblage states that in Q1, 2016, $209 million was squared in ransom to cyber jade groups. This has spiralled to a worrisome size of $1 billion for 2016.

* Quislingism faculty cut the solicit: Companies can judge to get rid of cyber-hack chases by collaborating shaft. A numerate of technology mate programs bang been launched-LightCyber, Disconsolate Hair Systems and Skyhigh Networks. Ready-deliverable security integrations tidy it workable to follow rapidly and as per mercantilism needs. It is not around dead alone-join keeping and fend off the mercurial minded.

* A sound political colorize emerged: US elections, Russian-sponsored cut, tiff between Apple and the FBI regarding consumer privacy-the enumerate of government meddling with the warranty listing is interminable. One can expect the unvarying political-led debates and happenings in 2017-be it the cyber-security insurance or expectations on private privateness versus mortal warrantee.

* Assemblage guarantee is the new sort: A motion is seen from perimeter-based meshwork precaution measures to terminus and information department. Start-ups much as Cylance, Cybereason, CounterTack and Crowdstrike in the termination instrument space, eff emerged and are likely to beautify statesman hot in 2017. Biggies in the interval, let Palo Alto Networks and Cisco-they started exploring the end marketplace in 2016. One can judge this movement to hold in the forthcoming gathering.

* Money matters entity: Companies tally visaged huge hits to their revenues, owing to department hassles. Character ended up payment statesman than $1 billion on the two data breaches it was subjected to. Its expected $4.8-billion raft with Verizon, is also on the limit of have. Never before person the business repercussions of section breaches been so stark, sending a dread warning to remain cyber safe in 2017.

* IoT Section is a discriminative poverty: With a super adjunctive Internet of Things (IoT) earth, comes a super danger to disrupting lifetime and transmute. The recent onset on DNS provider Dyn, strip to educatee Internet outages, is evidence enough. Companies moldiness bump themselves o.k. to reality and understand that securing IoT networks finished and through, is not a pick but a necessity.

* Consolidation is the way ascending: A disparate and broken industry cannot make admittedly valuate for the customer, be it toll consider or solvent effectualness. The year 2016 saw whatever statesman consolidations, much as Symantec-Bluecoat, Confer-Carbon Wicked and so on. The way leave talk, with mutual measure existence realised in the hunting to get cyber pitfall-proof.

Cyanogen Shuts Down Services

Cyanogen Inc., known for its Android mods and more recently for the Cyanogen OS, announced Thursday that it will shut down its services.

“As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally,” the company posted on its website. The company has been in the news for its “consolidation” efforts ever since the reports of its laying off 30 out of its 136 employees — about 20 percent of its workforce — surfaced.

Strangely enough, the company still lists open positions for its Seattle office on Glassdoor.

In November, Android Police reported citing sources that the company will be shutting down its Seattle headquarters and move its operations to Palo Alto. The report said that the future of the company’s co-founder Steve Kondik’s remains unclear. Kondik was removed from his role as the chief science officer in October.

The company is expected to move away from the Cyanogen OS and work instead on apps. For this purpose, the company had launched a Mod platform in February 2016.

If you are on Cyanogen OS phones such as the OnePlus One or the Lenovo Zuk Z1, this basically means that you might not receive further software updates. But, as Cyanogen has mentioned on its website, you will be able to source out mods from the CyanogenMod community of developers.

Apple working with Consumer Reports to pin down inconsistent MacBook Pro battery test results

On December 22nd, Consumer Reports said it could not recommend the MacBook Pro — a first for a Mac laptop. It caused a stir! Consumer Reports’ reasoning was simple: it got wildly inconsistent battery test results every time it tried to test multiple versions of the laptop. Its test is one that’s pretty common across the industry, loading up web pages one after another:

"For the battery test, we download a series of 10 web pages sequentially, starting with the battery fully charged, and ending when the laptop shuts down. The web pages are stored on a server in our lab, and transmitted over a WiFi network set up specifically for this purpose. We conduct our battery tests using the computer’s default browser—Safari, in the case of the MacBook Pro laptops.

In that test, CR saw the 13-inch MacBook Pro (with the Touch Bar) get results from 16 hours all the way down to less than 4 hours — again, wildly inconsistent. Similarly, the 15-inch version saw results range from a “that can’t be right” 18.5 hours down to 8 hours. Because the results ranged so widely, CR concluded that it’s not a good idea to buy this laptop until we know more about why these battery results are so inconsistent.

Yesterday, Apple’s Phil Schiller tweeted that the company itself doesn’t see anything like these results and is “Working with CR to understand their battery tests.”

That stir I referred to? It’s very real, and it happened mainly because the MacBook Pro was already at the center of very strong feelings amongst the Apple faithful. The laptops have not been as well-received as Apple might have hoped — for reasons ranging from dongles to processor power to price. You can add battery life to the list of things people don’t fully trust about the MacBook Pro now — especially after Mark Gurman reported in Bloomberg that Apple originally wanted to use some more advanced battery technology but had to fall back to something more traditional. Oh, and Apple decided that giving you an estimated “time remaining” time in the menubar was a bad idea and so pulled the feature from MacOS.

In short, this particular Consumer Reports battery test drama isn’t happening in a vacuum. Now, the going argument right now is whether or not its test is trustworthy. CR says it “tests hundreds of laptops each year, using identical procedures in highly controlled conditions,” presumably without varying results on those other machines. After Apple and CR hash out what happened with these tests, we will hopefully get more clarity about what is going on here.

he Verge also uses a looping website battery test, though unlike CR we use live data on the web. Because battery tests have a lot of variables, we don’t assume ours is objectively accurate in all cases — it’s better as a guide. In fact, every battery test should be treated more as a guide for what you might expect in real world use rather than an objective measure. The most diligent publications limit every possible variable to come to objective, comparable measures — work that is useful and laudable. But in the real world, the variables are infinite, so you want to do your best to describe real world results whenever possible.

In our review of the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, we did both. Our looping battery test clocked in at 10.5 hours for the 13-inch model, but in real world (and not very intensive) usage, we got less than 6 hours of life on two different machines.

It’s too much to ask for objective, universally applicable battery life estimates. But it’s not too much to ask that these machines at least be a little predictable. Perusing 9to5Mac’s roundup of reviews, I’m sad to say you’ll find an equal number of reviewers suggesting battery life is an inconsistent question mark and others saying it’s in line with Apple’s 10 hour estimate.

Here’s one more result: in the three hours I’ve been awake today, the MacBook Pro (sans Touch Bar) has gone from 100 percent to 25 percent. But I have consistently had 15+ Chrome (a known battery hog, despite Google’s protestations) tabs open alongside Slack and Tweetdeck. In short: battery life varies and your results won’t line up with objective tests.

Whether or not the truth of the inconsistent battery results some are seeing on the MacBook Pro comes down to flawed tests, flawed software, or flawed hardware is unfortunately not something we can definitively say right now. What we can say is that it’s worth looking into. These are Apple’s flagship Macs, and the Mac’s reputation is built as much on trust as it is on finely milled aluminum.

Despite IT Boom, over 90% of Africa Has No Internet Access

Internet access: Vital to providing wider access to education and health awareness in rural communities in Mozambique

The Internet is one of the most important enablers of social development and education. While Internet services have been quite phenomenal in the rest of the world, access to the Internet remains very low in Africa, especially in the rural communities. According to the Internet World Stats for Africa 2016 (http://APO.af/AvhzA), only 9.3% of people across the African continent are Internet users.

“A few years ago anyone who could not read and write was considered illiterate, but today this concept goes further, encompassing people who do not know how to use information and communication technologies. Health organizations and schools in Africa often face a unique set of obstacles, including a lack of access to much-needed health education and counselling platforms. The Community Tablet was created to help solve these problems”, says Dayn Amade.

In today’s digital world, bringing Internet access to rural communities is a tremendous step in the right direction of social development and education. Mozambican technology start-up company Kamaleon (http://Kamaleon.co.mz) has developed an innovative and engaging way of promoting digital literacy through a shared platform called the “Community Tablet” (“Tablet Comunitário”). The Community Tablet is a solar powered mobile computer with touch screen displays and virtual keyboards built in on a trailer to provide Internet access to remote areas. In order to facilitate interaction with the virtual world, Kamaleon also offers training on how to use the Internet and its features to members of the community and the local workforce.

Launched in November 2016 in Mozambique, the Community Tablet ultimately aims to promote digital inclusion and a knowledge based society in Africa. Beginning in Mozambique with an astounding 24 million people with no Internet connection, the Community Tablet will be used to support campaigns on various Health and Education initiatives in partnership with governmental and private organisations. Spreading up-to-date messages and interactive lessons that showcase symptoms, prevention and treatment options – replacing the need for leaflet distributions to convey life saving information. Kamaleon is on a mission to close the digital divide and empower more people in Africa to engage in the digital economy and its educational benefits.

“I believe technology and digital literacy can contribute to greater effectiveness of civic education campaigns in various communities”, says Dayn Amade.

Nokia shares fall on patent dispute with Apple

HELSINKI/BELGRADE, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Nokia shares fell by nearly 5 percent on Thursday in Helsinki as analysts warned a legal battle with Apple could delay for years royalty payments that are vital to shoring up the Finnish company's profits.

Nokia's patent licence contract with Apple expires at the end of the year. This week, both sides have taken legal action - with Nokia accusing Apple of violating some technology patents and Apple complaining of being overcharged - suggesting a new deal will be hard to agree.

Nokia filed further complaints against Apple on Thursday, saying it had now filed 40 patents suits in 11 countries covering technologies such as displays, software and chipsets.

"Nokia has created or contributed to many of the fundamental technologies used in today's mobile devices, including Apple products. After several years of negotiations trying to reach agreement to cover Apple's use of these patents, we are now taking action to defend our rights", " Ilkka Rahnasto, head of Nokia patent business said in a statement.

Patent royalties represent a sliver of Nokia's overall revenue, more than 90 percent of which comes from sales of telecoms network equipment. But the licensing payments are highly profitable at a time when the network business is suffering an industry-wide slump.

"Nokia will likely be granted a better licence deal from Apple. But because of the dispute, it could take years to reach a new contract, and royalties will likely come (as) retrospective one-time payments," said Inderes analyst Mikael Rautanen, who has an "accumulate" rating on Nokia shares.

Once the world's dominant cellphone maker, Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft in 2014 and focused on its network business as well as a bulging portfolio of mobile device patents.

Wells Fargo Securities analyst Maynard Um, who follows both companies, said the lawsuits were negative for Apple and Nokia due to litigation costs and uncertainty over the outcome.

"The fact that this did not go to arbitration suggests, to us, that the two sides must be far apart in what each party wants," he wrote in a note to clients.

"It appears (Apple) is not arguing the validity of the patents but, rather, the rate it deems fair," he said, adding Nokia could also "choose to file a suit with the International Trade Commission (ITC) to bar Apple from importing handsets into the U.S." Um rates both companies' shares as "market perform".

Nokia's patents cover technology that reduces the need for hardware components in a phone, conserves battery life, increases radio reception, helps in recovering lost phones and enables voice recognition, among other features.

The Finnish firm has forecast the run-rate of its patent and brand licensing sales will be about 950 million euros ($994 million) by the end of 2016, but that it will fall to about 800 million after the Apple deal expires, in the absence of a new one.

Nokia's total sales in 2016 are expected to top 24 billion euros.

Its shares in Helsinki closed at 4.5 euros, and are down some 30 percent since the start of 2016. In New York Nokia shares traded down 0.6 percent at 4.73 dollars.

GALAXY S8 NEWS: SAMSUNG’S NEXT FLAGSHIP IS A BEAST, AND IT HAS A SPECIAL MODE TO BACK IT UP

It is no secret that Samsung’s forthcoming flagship device for 2017, the Galaxy S8, would be a beast. What’s significantly attention-grabbing is that Samsung appears to be so serious concerning the S8’s beast-like attributes that it really trademarked the phrase “Beast Mode” within the EU. With this in mind, it sounds like the S8 wouldn't solely be a robust device, it might even be equipped with a special feature that will make the flagship even additional dominating.

While the precise specs of the smartphone haven't been leaked or confirmed by the South Korean technical giant, speculations are high that the handset would feature the best of what mobile technology could offers. After all, with competition from all sides like Apple’s approaching iPhone eight and therefore the powerful, upstart OnePlus four being discharged within the same year, the Galaxy S8 would have terribly huge shoes to fill. Couple this with the actual fact that the S8 is additionally Samsung’s initiative towards redemption from the Note seven disaster and it extremely sounds like the bar for the approaching device has been set very high.

If any, nothing but a beast of a device would be enough for Samsung to dominate the competition and redeem itself from the injury to its reputation shaped by its now-discontinued 2016 flagship phablet. Despite the shortage of official statements from Samsung, however, the rumors emerging concerning the forthcoming device are very encouraging thus far, with speculations pointing to the Galaxy S8 being a device that goes above and beyond the best handsets on the market right now.

The Galaxy S8 is reported to feature either Qualcomm’s most powerful chipset so far, the snapdragon 835, or a home-grown next-generation Exynos processor, in step with PhoneArena. what's notably attention-grabbing is that Samsung was actively concerned with the development and creation of the snapdragon 835. this implies that, for all intents and functions, the Galaxy S8 may all right be a tool that's specifically designed to form the foremost out of the capabilities of the forthcoming powerful mobile processor.

Apart from the snapdragon 835 or the next-generation Exynos chip, rumors additionally purpose to the Samsung Galaxy S8 being equipped with 6GB to 8GB of RAM, permitting even the foremost stringent smartphone users to toggle through multiple heavy applications with ease. VR compatibility is additionally one thing that's speculated for the Galaxy S8, with rumors stating that the device would be the smartphone to beat next year relating to graphical capabilities. This, of course, is probably where the device’s Beast Mode would come into play.

The specifics of what exactly happens when a user turns on the Galaxy S8’s Beast Mode remain unknown at this point, but from the moniker itself, it could be inferred that the feature would enable the mobile device to function with all its guns blazing. According to a Forbes report, the performance of smartphones is commonly balanced very deliberately with the power consumption of the device, since leaving the processor running at full throttle results in massive battery drain. By turning on the Galaxy S8’s Beast Mode, the limiters of the system might be temporarily removed, allowing the processor to perform at its most powerful.

The reception to the trademark filing of the phrase Beast Mode in the EU has so far been polarized among Samsung’s avid fans, with many stating that the feature appears to simply be a gimmick to emphasize how powerful the device is. This is because modern mobile processors are already advanced enough to determine when to function at full throttle and when to hold back. Thus, numerous Samsung fans have stated that the inclusion of a Beast Mode feature is quite redundant.

On the other hand, numerous fans of the South Korean tech giant have expressed their excitement and support for the upcoming smartphone’s new feature. After all, by having the Galaxy S8 have a special Beast Mode that unlocks the device’s optimum performance, Samsung seems to be declaring its re-entry into the forefront of mobile technology. With the Galaxy S8’s Beast Mode, Samsung is declaring that it is back, stronger than ever before. In order to regain its previous dominance in the smartphone market, this is exactly what Samsung needs to do.

HTC Schedules Product Announcement for January 12; New Smartphone Expected

HTC has started sending media invites for an event on January 12 where the company says it will make its "next big announcement." The company has shared a teaser invite with "for U" as a tagline. Unfortunately, not many details about HTC's upcoming announcement are available right now.

It's worth noting that the January 12 launch date is just after the CES week which means HTC doesn't want its announcement to get lost in a host of launches during the event. The Taiwanese company has not dropped any hints in the invite for the launch event, however, recent rumours have pointed to the launch of the HTC X10 mid-range smartphone in January. The event could also see the launch of the company's next flagship or be about the company's recent virtual reality push, or both.

Starting with the HTC X10, the successor to the HTC One X9 is said to launch in January and cost around CNY 2,000 (roughly Rs. 19,500). It is said to sport a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920) display, a 2GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 processor (Cortex-A53 cores), Mali-T860 GPU, 3GB of RAM, and a 13-megapixel rear camera with OIS.

Another recent report claimed that HTC has been working on its next flagship, the HTC 11. According to initial rumours, HTC 11 may sport a 5.5-inch QHD (1440x2560) display and run on Android 7.0 Nougat customised with HTC's Sense 8 UI on top. The handset is rumoured to pack a dual-camera setup of 12-megapixel at the back while an 8-megapixel front-facing camera is also expected on board. Under the hood, the HTC 11 is expected to be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 CPU, along with Adreno 540 GPU for graphic performance. It is said to pack a whopping 8GB of RAM under the hood, with an inbuilt storage of 256GB. The device is said to be backed by a 3700mAh battery. According to rumours, HTC's next flagship will launched with a price tag of $691 (roughly Rs. 47,000). However, all these leaks should be taken with a pinch of salt as HTC has not mentioned anything about the upcoming device and the leaks legitimacy remains questionable.