PayDotCom has recently introduced an widget which you can use to promote PayDotCom products on your website. The widget is definitely eye-catching so I thought I would give it a try. I tried it for a week on this blog and here are the results. Read more (193 words) »

StatCounter sent a somewhat emotional email yesterday to all customers (paying or non-paying) telling us about the problems it is facing with PayPal. To summarize the two major issues affecting StatCounter Paypal subscribers are:
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I have been trying for the last 6 hours to access ICICI PayPal alternative, PaySeal (203.27.235.72). Unfortunately the site is unreachable from India as well as USA. Even the server cannot be pinged.

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PayPal provides an API to automate transaction processing. This is great for businesses selling electronic products. Automated transaction processing speeds up order processing and is somewhat expected from a large section of internet savvy buyers. However it has some caveats as we found yesterday.

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We are tweaking our postfix servers to offer maximum spam protection upfront with helo checks, header checks, blacklist checks, RBL's and more. So far my daily spam count has dropped from about 3000-7000 spams / day to about 15-35 spams per day. It should drop even more as I added more RBL to my list (see below for updates).

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When Google Checkout came out I was very excited to have a viable alternative to PayPal from a reputed company despite its limitation to US only market. Since its launch I have heard several complaints from my readers, with zero positive experiences.

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PayPal support page isn't visible even for logged in users. Any email to support@paypal.com is automatically bounced. The support page is a hidden page in PayPal (nice way to ensure good customer support, isn't it?).

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UATP, the airline-owned global corporate travel payment network, is helping to enable PayPal payments for online airline ticket purchases and has successfully launched PayPal payment for Southwest Airlines.

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I am unable to login to PayPal this morning (evening my time). On proper login it gives the message:
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