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Dual WhatsApp: How to Run Two WhatsApp Accounts on One Phone If you’ve got a dual-SIM phone, you can use the different SIM cards to make calls using separate numbers, and send texts using different numbers. But did you know that you can set up dual WhatsApp accounts, and use them both on the same phone? If you’ve ever wondered how to install two WhatsApp accounts on one phone, then you’ve come to the right place. There are a few different ways to do this, and some phone-makers are offering this as a built in feature. In other cases, you’ll have to resort to third-party apps instead, but it’s actually pretty easy to run two WhatsApp accounts on one Android phone. Sorry iPhone users, you are out of luck without resorting to the kind of methods we wouldn’t recommend. Obviously, this method of running two WhatsApp accounts on one phone requires a dual-SIM phone – WhatsApp uses the phone number as your identity, and detects this via an SMS or call, so it has to be a ph...

NEW PASSPORT RULES YOU NEED TO KNOW Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs declared new rules for applying for a passport. And here we have rounded up some of the major changes that these new rules have bought in. DOCUMENTATION FOR PROOF OF BIRTH As per old rules, submission of a birth certificate was compulsory for all applicants born on or after 26th January 1989. But the new rules have bought in some relaxation in this regards. Now, any of the following documents containing the Date of Birth (DOB) of the applicant will suffice: Birth Certificate (BC) issued by the Registrar of births and deaths or the Municipal Corporation or any other approved authority to register the birth of a child born in India Transfer/school leaving/matriculation certificate issued by the school last attended/recognized educational board PAN card Aadhar card/E-aadhar The copy of the service record of the applicant’s (of govt. servants) or the pay pension order (of ret...

Locky Ransomware Attacking Chrome and Firefox Users Eight companies already hit in the capital, New Delhi After the return of Locky in India via spam emails, ransomware now targeting Chrome, Firefox and IE users. Eight organisations in the capital are already said to be infected! "Locky" is a deadly ransomware that encrypts all the files in a system and renames them to a .locky extension. The decryption key to the encrypted files is held only by the creator of the malware. When a system gets infected with Locky ransomware, all of the victim's files gets encrypted and a pop-up appears on the screen which ask the victim to pay the demanded ransom if he/she wants the files back else all of the files will get deleted. Locky ransomware was first released in 2016, and was delivered via email. The victims received an email masquerading as a company's invoice and contained a Microsoft Word file. On opening the file, the user would get some scrambled text and a message ...

The Sun sets on Solaris and Sparc Oracle cut 2,500 Solaris and Sparc engineers, marking the end of the Unix operating system and RISC processor.   After years of struggle and fading recognition, it seems the end is finally here for Solaris and Sparc, the Unix operating system and RISC processor designed and championed by Sun Microsystems and inherited by Oracle in 2010. In a move that will win it no PR points, Oracle sent out recorded telephone messages to employees who were let go on the Friday before the Labor Day weekend. Yes, firing by voice mail. Classy. The exact number is being debated, but talk on one message board puts it at 2,500 positions cut . That’s both Solaris and Sparc engineers. The workers affected are primarily in the Santa Clara area, in a former Sun office not even a mile from Intel’s headquarters, but they are in three other states and India as well. Then on Monday, former Sun executive Bryan Cantrill wrote a blog post called “ The Sudden...