What happens when one of the biggest payment systems in Paypal goes down for maintenance?
Well, browsing to Paypal to make a payment to a client today I noticed that the site is “down for maintenance”. Paypal is the biggest payment processor on the internet today and when something that big goes down a lot of people notice.
Here is the exact message from the Paypal site:
“****Scheduled Maintenance Notification****
We are performing maintenance on the PayPal site from 11:00 PM to 12:00 AM PDT. The PayPal site and a majority of our features will be unavailable during that time.
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your business. Once the maintenance has been completed we will return to normal functionality.
Thank you,
PayPal Operations”
No website can be up 100 percent of the time. But, when a site many people rely on goes down for maintenance or for any other reason it is a huge inconvenience. I am not sure how many people Paypal services in an hour but think about how much money they will be loosing because someone gets pissed off that the service isn’t available and uses another payment processor.
Has Paypal being down tonight affected you in any way?
In today’s world business mergers seem to be the norm. Large companies or corporations usually scoop up smaller businesses to expand their portfolios. Today there is big news in the wireless industry. Verizon Wireless is in negotiations to buyout Alltel Wireless.
What would a merger of this size do to the wireless industry?
If this deal ends up going through this new wireless giant would boast about 80 million wireless subscribers. The nearest competition would be AT&T with about 72 million. Now, deals like this don’t happen overnight and have to go through the hoops of an FCC approval. This can take months to happen. Read the rest of this entry »
Fox29 news out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania caught a group of police brutaly beating 3 suspects late Monday night. The police in Philadelphia are on edge after a botched robbery took the life of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski.
The news crew caught about eleven minutes of the beating and the video shows about a minute of the conflict. The 3 suspects were reportedly involved in an unrelated shooting on Saturday. Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey plan to launch a full investigation into the beatings. They both stated the killing of Liczbinski was a precursor to the beatings and used this as an excuse for the officers actions.
Ramsey will identify the officers in the video and then will take them all of of street duty in an effort to calm the situation in Philadelphia.
Scott Perrine, a defense lawyer said he would represent the 3 suspects at their bail hearings and stated these beatings are, “police conduct that should have stopped in the 1970s.” Perrine also stated that “This was one of the most reprehensible displays of police brutality I have ever seen.”
The 3 suspects may have been identified as Dwayne Dyches, Brian Hall and Pete Hopkins. All 3 men needed hospitalization over this incident, but police did not comment on their injuries or conditions. Read the rest of this entry »
