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PayPal: Service Fully Restored
PayPal on Thursday reported that it had restored its online payment services after facing intermittent outages for more than five days. PayPal, owned by eBay Inc., said its full functionality had returned to normal for all users. A day earlier, the service began to improve, though the company said delays persisted for some users. The…
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Sellers Deal with Fallout from PayPal Outage
PayPal’s international Columbus Day weekend meltdown appears to be over. The site is up and responding to most visitors. Money is flowing and shipments are rolling again. But like Mount St. Helens in 1980, the fallout from PayPal’s cratering will continue for a long time. Sellers are still digging themselves out from the ashes, seeking…
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Microsoft Eases Rules on Selling Media Center
At least one reseller has been quick to act now that Microsoft has relaxed the rules about how its Windows XP Media Center can be sold. Michael Chang, president of Houston, Texas-based Directron.com, said his company has worked with Microsoft to make Media Center available to end-users in single-unit quantities. “It was never distributed that…
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Google Delves into the Desktop
Google Inc. upped the ante Thursday in the growing desktop search battle, introducing an application that combines Web results with those from a user’s hard drive. In its beta release, Google Desktop Search supports only the most common file formats and applications. But Google plans in future releases to open access to application developers through…
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Intel Cancels 4-GHz Pentium 4
Intel has decided not to bring to market a 4-GHz single-core Pentium 4 after all, following a July decision to push the chip out to the first quarter of 2005. As Intel executives explained previously, the decision is based on the company’s desire to accelerate the ramp of its various microprocessor technologies, including Vanderpool, its…
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Red Hat Launches New Embedded Partnership Plan
Red Hat Inc. announced on Wednesday a new channel program, the Red Hat Runtime Partner Program, that will enable embedded system vendors to replace proprietary embedded operating systems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. According to the Linux distributor, the Red Hat Runtime Partner Program is part of its Red Hat Partner Community, which is designed…
