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Having Multiple SIM cards may land you in trouble Telecom companies have been directed to disconnect services of subscribers who have more than nine SIM cards in their names. The move comes in the wake of the government making stricter rules on owning SIMs following surge in cases where criminals misuse them. How to par The new norms came into effect on Friday with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) amending the customer verification norms for mobile phone users. Scores of subscribers have multiple SIMs with several owning more than 100, a government official said. Telecom companies, desperate to add subscribers, have been lenient in checking multiple connections and do not verify credentials of such users. Earlier, operators were offering free and pre-activated prepaid connections with SIMs at their company-managed outlets or franchise across the country. According to new customer verification norms, activated prepaid SIMs have been banned as reported by Mail Today

The demonetization of high currency notes by the government has led to a big surge in digital payments, with more and more people realizing the convenience that comes with it. As India progresses towards a cashless economy, we take a look at how different digital payment systems work and fare against each other: Mobile wallet  Mobile Wallet is a virtual digital wallet where you can keep your money to use it when you need without swiping you debit/credit cards. From grocery items to flight tickets, everything can be purchased by using e-wallets. No minimum deposit amount is needed, and is one of the fastest mediums for a transaction. The ewallets can be downloaded from your smartphone’s app store. In order to use these mobile wallets, you need to have a smart phone with active internet connection. Fill up the basic details such as your name and mobile number for signing up for the wallet. Once you log into the e-wallet account, you can transfer money into it through your credit c

NEW DELHI: A  laptop with a SIM card -- after smartphones and the 4G feature phone -- could be the next big bet for  Reliance Jio in its bid to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU). The Mukesh Ambani-led Jio has held talks with US chip major  Qualcomm  to bring out laptops running the Windows 10 operating system with built-in cellular connections for the Indian market. Qualcomm is already closely working with Jio and Reliance Retail for the 4G feature phone. “…we have talked to Jio. They could take the device and bundle it with data and content,”  Miguel Nunes , senior director, product management, Qualcomm Technologies, told ET. The chipmaker is also talking to home-bred Internet of Things (IoT) brand  Smartron  to bring the Snapdragon 835-powered laptops with cellular connectivity. Smartron confirmed the talks. Globally, Qualcomm is already working with players such as HP, Asus and Lenovo for the so-called “Always Connected PCs”. Besides, Nunes said that there are now 14

In the last couple of years,  Rajesh Jha , who was the executive vice president, Microsoft,  Office  Product Group, has climbed up the ranks in the organisation. In 2016, he joined the Senior Leadership Team at  Microsoft and now he has been elevated into a new role. In what can be termed as one of the biggest restructuring in the organisation, Microsoft seems set to herald a new era. If CEO Satya Nadella’s 1300-words plus email to employees is to go by then the Seattle-based tech giant is gung-ho about  Artificial Intelligence , Machine Learning and  Cloud computing . Nadella outlined critical things about how Microsoft will venture ahead. “With all this new technology and opportunity comes a responsibility to ensure technology’s benefits reach people more broadly across society,” Nadella wrote. Nadella also mentioned at length the new roles several top-level executives would undertake. Jha, under the role will now lead a team focused on Experiences & Devices. Here are si

A recent report claims that a new app dubbed Chatwatch is reportedly tracking a user’s chat activity on Facebook-owned WhatsApp. This can be a coincidence. At the time when Facebook has been in the news for gathering its users’ data, growing privacy concern. A recent report claims that a new app dubbed Chatwatch is reportedly tracking a user’s chat activity on Facebook-owned WhatsApp. This app lets people peep into a user’s contact list using WhatsApp’s online or offline status feature. The report asserts that it informs users how often their friends check the micro-blogging platform and can also estimate when they go to bed every day — potentially making it an invasive app. In simpler terms, this new creepy app takes advantage of WhatsApp’s public online/offline status, which lets your friends know when you’re readily available to talk and if you have read the message, even if you have disabled read receipts and last seen. “Using this data, the app can tell you how often y

WhatsApp, the popular messaging application has a new update for its users that will make the life very easy. WhatsApp , the popular messaging application has a new update for its users that will make the life easier. WhatsApp is coming up with a new update that will allow the users to lock audio recordings on Android devices. This new feature can be seen in the update v2.18.102 reports WaBetaInfo, a watchdog that keeps a track on latest updates on WhatsApp. Earlier, voice recording on WhatsApp made you hold on to the recording button. That means, one of your hand was busy and you could not use the app. However, with this update, you can use the app while recording a voice message. To get to the locked audio recordings feature, you will have to tap and hold the “mic” icon in the chat. The option of a ‘lock’ will appear after 0.5 seconds. After you make a note of the ‘lock microphone button’ you should be able to slide your finger up to start the lock recording. If you have

National Anomaly Committee (NAC) was formed regarding the pay related anomalies that arose out of the implementation of the recommendations of the 7 th Pay Commission. It would recommend a hike in minimum pay soon and fitment factor beyond the recommendations of the 7 th CPC. The government has modified the definition of pay anomaly in a major development, which allows the NAC to take any decision of pay anomaly that was not taken by the 7 th CPC. However, on March 6, P Radhakrishnan, Minister of State Finance, made a mention that the government was not considering a hike in minimum pay of the central government employees and fitment factor beyond the 7 th  CPC’s recommendations. On October 30, 2017, a letter was issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) stating that the demand for increasing the minimum pay and fitment factor has not been treated as an anomaly, and therefore does not come under NAC’s purview. According to the reports, NAC had recommended a hike of

Representational image. CNN-News18 image. The VID number can be generated on  UIDAI's website . According to a tweet from the UIDAI, the VID will be soon accepted to avail services. However, it does not mention how it intends to launch a VID who do not have access to the internet. To generate the VID, existing Aadhaar holders can visit the  UIDAI website , locate 'Aadhaar services' in the 'Aadhaar Online Services' section and click on the option 'Virtual Identification (VID) Generator'. Next, the users need to fill in their Aadhaar number and write the given security code. On submitting the details, an OTP is sent to the user for authentication. After authentication, the user receives his or her virtual identification number on their registered mobile number or emails. The virtual identification number can be generated multiple times, and each time it generates a new VID, the previous one becomes invalid. According  to  The Economic Times , a beta