Paypal primerWritten by Jakob Jelling
By Jakob Jelling http://www.sitetube.comTo conduct business on Internet, whether informal, one-time only transactions between two friends, or a full-fledged business selling products or services, payment arrangements have to be made. Before 1998, this often meant either checks sent through snail-mail, or very expensive, and often hard-to-obtain, merchant accounts for online credit card processing. In 1998, PayPal was introduced to fill payment processing gap. PayPal now has about 50 million members, but was originally introduced to provide a payment processing service for online auction buyers and sellers, in particular, eBay. Since then, PayPal has grown into premier third-party payment processing service. In fact, PayPal was so successful that eBay bought company in 2002, replacing their own Billpoint service with far superior PayPal service. PayPal is free to join, although buyers are no longer required to join in order to pay for goods and services from seller members. Many people are still afraid to do business online, and won't provide their credit card information. Scams certainly abound in cyberspace, but PayPal is a solid, reputable company, and there is little to fear.
| | The Use and Abuse of the InternetWritten by Jesse S. Somer
One small change made a huge impact in a day in life of Zardinia Zaffas.I can see you right now. You’re sitting at your desk staring into computer screen, Internet is connected and information is flowing like a river. If you are at work, you are randomly checking email, News sites and interesting topics in between your necessary tasks. There’s a woman like you out there, her name is Zardinia Zaffas and this is an interesting tale about a recent day in life of her world. Monday morning was like any other to Zardinia: waking up to sound of 60’s music on her clock radio, breakfast of usual oatmeal with maple syrup, grapefruit with a little brown sugar, peppermint tea and of course her favorite food-the sacred Pink Lady apple. This is followed by 20 minutes of yoga and a nice hot shower, then jump in car and down highway to her job as a software programmer. However when Zardinia walked into office on this particular Monday she could sense something was wrong. It was like an anxious buzzing cloud of confusion was raining weirdness in air. As she sat down her supervisor walked up and gave her news. The company’s Internet connection was temporarily ‘out of order’ and would be fixed at an indeterminate time. Well, life sure is unpredictable. After logging in she realized she no longer had her usual access to daily News information. Deciding to go down to lobby where newspapers were sold she took a ride down elevator and grabbed a copy. Back at her desk as she perused through International section she heard sound of a throat being cleared. Looking up over paper she saw face of her supervisor once again, although this time his demeanor had gone through an obvious transformation. “We don’t pay our staff to read newspapers here Miss Zaffas. If you want to read Newspaper please do it on your own time at lunch or at home.” he said obviously agitated. Zardinia’s face contorted with obvious surprise, “I’m sorry Mr. Stevenson.” A red sunset spread across her cheeks. “I’ll get back to work sir.”
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