Monthly Archives: July 2010

Within 3days of stopping the bank transfer or rather electronic withdrawal process, Paypal once again restores the online withdrawal service for Indian users.

In an email notification sent to all its Indian users paypal said,

Dear xxxx xxx,

We’ve received good news. You can continue to enjoy electronic withdrawals just as you did before.

While we have received your appreciation for the advanced notice and the refund of the cheque processing fee, we also have heard loud and clear that you highly value the ease-of-use of our electronic withdrawal service. Our customers are our number one priority and we are working tirelessly to improve our service.

Thank you for your patience and in appreciation for your continued support, we will still provide the $5 USD processing fee refund for any cheque withdrawals made from July 29, 2010 until further notice.

For any enquiries, please contact PayPal customer support by logging into your PayPal account and clicking on ‘contact us’ at the bottom of the page.

Thank you,
The PayPal Asia Team

As promised earlier, they would also refund the cheque processing fee of USD5, if any one in this time frame have requested for any cheque withdrawal.

Although, till date WP is one of those software which supports almost all platforms and runs with minimum of support but it seems developers of WordPress are now targeting to drop support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4. As per WP stats, only 11% of WP installations are in PHP 4 or MySQL 4 platform, where as most of those web servers are PHP5 compatible.

WordPress 3.1 which is due in late 2010 would be the last version to support the PHP 4 and MySQL 4, where as users are in PHP/MySQL 4 platform wont be able to upgrade to WordPress 3.2 (due in first half of 2011) since minimum requirement for WordPress 3.2 would be PHP 5.2 and MySQl 5.0.15.

Common users are advised not to worry, as little they know, most of them are all ready running PHP 5 platform and those who would still stay in PHP 4, the built in feature of WordPress auto updater will warn the about the issue.

Infact WordPress is providing a plug-in to help all users determine which version (PHP/MySQL) they are running on.

RBI vs Paypal continues as from 1st August Paypal to stop the bank / wire / electronic money transfer / withdrawal for Indian users.

From July 29th, Indian users will only be able to withdraw money via cheque. However the good news is according to Paypal, its a temporary issue which they are working to solve as soon as possible and as a good will gesture, they will refund the USD 5, which is usual fee for any Indian users to withdraw via cheque during this problem period.

Paypal Notification to all Indian users :

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Couple of months ago, the Internet governing body ICANN, decided to make the ccTLD .CO to be opened up for public registration, which was only available for Colombian residence and businesses.

July 20 was the said deadline and it is here. .CO domains are now opened up for public. So select your favorite registrar and get your one registered soon, before some one else grabs it..

Its been a month since WordPress 3.0 is released and Finally Choto Cheeta Online shifts to WP 3.0.

The installation or rather up-gradation was simple enough with WordPress auto updater. One just has to make sure that everything else (like plugin and themes) is WP 3.0 compatible and that’s it, rest is upto the WP auto updater. One single click and the platform is now running WP 3.0.

Earlier this month Google bought a travel data analysis firm ITA for 700 million cash. At first glance, it may be seen as a normal business deal, how ever of a closer look, ITA powers data service for hundreds of web based air line booking service along with the decision maker Microsoft BING.

Google taking control over the source from which BING gets powered about its travel search would certainly a worrying factor for Bing officials. Bing till now having better performance, where users can enter travel quarries and Bing engine predicts the best possible deal both considering time and fare.

Google plans to use ITA data to power travel / flight search and ticket booking directly from their search engine.

One more example of India is getting online and social networking websites are part of our everyday life.

Capital’s traffic department is now taking help of the good side of social networking websites as just before the 2010 Common Wealth Games, Delhi traffic police is now armed with over 8000 Facebook fans, who have already posted pictures of more than 400 traffic rules violation in which over 100 have been successfully prosecuted.

So if you are a Delhi residence, regular in breaking traffic rule, beware, its not only cops who are watching but also 8000 citizens with their Cell phone camera. ready to nab the offenders. NDTV has more on this story.