Technology

Payment Gateways

Posted by on July 18, 2010 at 12:42 pm

Living in a country where getting a credit card is as easy as buying out a local news daily from the nearby grocery store one would easily be able to capture a market of plastic money holders. The power of plastic money extends beyond boundaries of nations and is indeed the most closest step to […]

Web Hosting Industry

Posted by on July 17, 2010 at 2:30 pm

It has been almost 10 years, a few months to go since I was really acquainted with the web-hosting industry. I had a passion for remote connectivity and that was really what led me into getting a VPS account in a Singapore based firm. The company had a good record and the customer support people […]

Credit Cards and the risks involved

Posted by on July 13, 2010 at 11:38 am

A vendor might need your signature over a bill generated from a card swipe for claiming the payment but why do they need the credit card details. Since everything is electronically executed why don’t the banks introduce the use of some unique ID printed on the bill instead of the details. A bar-code maybe. With this unique ID the bank can simply trace the electronic swipe and execute the payments as well as ensure their customers’ safety.

Posting Arabic in WordPress

Posted by on July 9, 2010 at 1:38 pm

Since a few days shifting from Blogger to WordPress, I have been trying out all sorts of ways to publish Arabic script within my posts. Have tried the best friend on the net “Google” to get some answers but none helped. My database uses the the charset UTF-8 as some people pointed out as needed […]