This morning I went to access my paypal, and noticed when I visited paypal.com, I got a “page could not be found” error. That’s a bit weird… a big huge site like Paypal, which carries tons of secure data and has a lot of people that need to use it ASAP, is rarely down. So [...]
The legacy is over… The huge torrent site known as The Pirate Bay has been shut down on and off over the day as their largest ISP was required to pull the plug on the webserving or face a large fine. The Pirate Bay is negotiating with companies to acquire licenses to distribute software legally, [...]
Twitter, the latest internet microblogging Phenom, continues its problems this morning with outages from a denial of service attack which has kept the website out of comission on and off since 6am Pacific Time. As many have said before me.. if Twitter intends to continue to be a big player in this game, they will [...]
Breaking news on Vancouver Sun’s website tells us that eBay has provided seller information and sales records to the Canada Revenue Agency to assess whether or not sellers have been declaring income that they have been generating from the website. This is pretty big, and it looks like the CRA is going to be sending [...]
Google’s dominating 65% of the search market share is nothing to shake a stick at, and Microsoft and Yahoo have finally ironed out a deal today to work together in tackling the giant that is Google. Combined they have a 28% search market share, which could be easily bolstered and improved with Microsofts new search [...]
Ebay’s sites, both the ebay.com and ebay.ca (and possibly more) websites have been inaccessible for the past 30 minutes. Has ebay again been hacked? Inquiring minds would like to know!
Battle of the Tweets. Stars and Celebs are using Twitter now to communicate with fans because it’s easy, and it allows them to respond with their side of the story. Social media has completely revolutionalized the way we communicate and the speed at which communication happens. Perez Hilton tweeted that Will.i.Am assaulted him in from [...]
Microsoft is suing a trio of Vancouver Fraudsters: Eric Lam, Gordon Lam and Melanie Suen. Click-Fraud is rampant in the pay-per-click advertising industry, as anything that people can do to rip others off for money easily will be. The lawsuit is for $750,000, though it allegedly cost Microsoft $1.5 Million in repayment to advertisers. Vancouver [...]
Well, another reason for me to HATE APPLE. See.. for about 3-4 months, I’ve been blaming my PC and network connection issues with TCP/IP and doing all sorts of things to try and fix the network problems I have been having. Basically my problem was this: Any sort of FTP or HTTP Browser window or [...]
I used to use IX Webhosting, but have since switched to MediaTemple. I kept up an IX Webhosting account just to keep my backup sites on it and to use it for developing websites for some clients, but even with the limited use, I have found that IX Webhosting is down what seems like 50% [...]