| Chase Paymentech Debuts Website for Small and Medium Businesses
DALLAS, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Chase Paymentech Solutions, LLC, has launched a new website designed to help small and medium sized businesses affordably accept credit card payments. The new site, http://merchantaccount.chasepaymentech.com, provides business owners with a simple, easy to use guide to access the latest Chase Paymentech payment processing tools. The site allows businesses to research payment products that fit their needs and offers quick access to experts who can customize a program to each business' requirements. These programs feature reliable terminals, low interchange rates to process credit card transactions and even custom gift card programs. Solutions can be designed for merchants who need secure payment solutions over the Internet, point-of- sale, telephone, or mail order.
Keeping track of online passwords is wise to do
Dear Abby: Allow me to draw your readers' attention to the importance of keeping track of their online log-in information. We all know it's smart to keep photocopies of our driver's license, credit cards, etc. With as much time as some of us spend online, in addition to the billions of dollars we spend there as a nation, it's wise to keep track of sundry log-in details as well. I keep track of the various Web sites from which I make purchases -- the Web site name, user name and my password -- because various Web sites require different information. Please suggest that your readers compile this information in a single document and print it out from time to time. Keep a hard copy in a safe place with other important papers. That way, if anything should happen to them, family members will be able to access these Web sites, delete saved credit card information and close the accounts.
Dear Abby: Keeping track of passwords is word to the wise online
Dear Abby: Allow me to draw your readers' attention to the importance of keeping track of their online log-in information. We all know it's smart to keep photocopies of our driver's license, credit cards, etc. With as much time as some of us spend online, in addition to the billions of dollars we spend there as a nation, it's wise to keep track of sundry log-in details as well. I keep track of the various Web sites from which I make purchases — the Web site name, user name and my password — because various Web sites require different information. Please suggest that your readers compile this information in a single document and print it out from time to time. Keep a hard copy in a safe place with other important papers. That way, if anything should happen to them, family members will be able to access these Web sites, delete saved credit card information and close the accounts.
I-Team Investigation: Social Security Crisis
Thousands of people in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana are waiting right now for benefits they earned, but can't get. We're talking about Social Security disability benefits, something you pay for in taxes deducted from every paycheck. The I-Team's Hagit Limor has been looking into a huge backlog that's costing some people their lifelong savings. She found delays of up to four years from the time people apply. They can't work due to their disabilities but are too young for social security, so they need disability pay. Hagit first reported last year that Uncle Sam hasn't hired enough judges to hear these cases. Since our report, the government's taken some action, but Tri-Staters desperate for help tell us, it's not nearly enough. Paul Stegeman survived a TWA plane crash in Cincinnati in 1966, a tour in the Navy during Vietnam, and three decades working for corporations like Cincinnati Bell and CG&E.
Donald Newell, retired firefighter, dies at 86
After serving in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, he spent 37 years as a firefighter out of Orient Heights in East Boston for Ladder 21 and Engine 56. "He just felt so honored that he could do a job that would save people's lives," said his daughter, Julie Covey of Saugus. "That meant a lot to him." Mr. Newell also was commander of the American Legion in Saugus for five years in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was active with Shriners Aleppo Temple Fire Brigade during his retirement. In addition to his daughter, Mr. Newell leaves a son, Robert of Danvers; three sisters, Beulah Kanarkiewicz of Saugus, Phyllis Leston of Danvers, and Fern Ruble of Woburn; and four grandchildren. Services have been held. Burial was at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, in Peabody.
FBI Focusing On Rash Of Mortgage Fraud In Central Florida
Agents are also investigating lenders accused of taking advantage of homeowners. Daniel Jackson says he was duped out of thousands of dollars by Countrywide Mortgage Company. "It's just been one big headache," Jackson told Eyewitness News. Jackson says Countrywide kept charging him late fees even though he was paying on time. "It was basically legalized extortion," Jackson said. Florida's attorney general thinks it may be illegal. After getting 150 complaints, he's launched a full investigation into Countrywide's practices. Unsuspecting home buyers are targets, too. Orange County detectives said a family of four stole people's personal information and then used it to get mortgages worth millions of dollars. Mortgage fraud is growing so fast, the FBI is now focusing on Central Florida.
Snow Moves Through Parts Of North Texas
The heaviest snow moved through the metro area between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. and then headed east. "It's like a mixture of snow and hail at the same time," said North Texas resident Wes Brown."Someone was saying earlier, they had a sunburn on Saturday and now this," said Weatherford resident Kim Cherryhomes. "It's typical crazy Texas weather." Early Monday morning, high winds managed to topple trees and power lines in Mineral Wells, Canton and Athens. "The wind feels like a knife," said North Texas resident Todd Howard. DFW Airport officials canceled 111 flights for Monday evening in anticipation of the weather. "It's strange," said Weatherford resident Penny Means. "We were under a tornado watch just last night, and now it's going to snow today." (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) .
Jamey Heary
Migrating from one firewall vendor to another can be a huge undertaking requiring hours of tedious access and NAT rule rewriting. Wouldn't it be nice if someone came up with a FREE tool that converted one vendor's firewall configuration files into another vendor's format? Think of the tens or hundreds of man hours that it could save you. Well you're in luck. That is exactly what Cisco has created with its free SCT tool. The bummer is it only works for converting Check Point firewall configs to Cisco ASA, PIX or FWSM configs. It currently works with Check Point 4.x, NG, UTM, and NGX. It won't work with any other vendors yet. But if you're doing a Check Point to Cisco firewall conversion, the SCT tool is a godsend. Read more .
888 ups its game with doubling of revenues
888, the online gaming group, said yesterday that net gaming revenue rose 55 per cent in the fourth quarter, despite being the first full year since the company was forced out of the US market. The gaming group, which has set itself a target of tripling profits and doubling revenues by the end of 2010, said that net gaming revenue in the last three months of 2007 was $63 million (£32.4 million), with its casino games bringing in $35 million and $21 million coming from its poker sites. The group said that 2008 trading had "started strongly", as it reported a jump in revenue from non-US internet gamblers. 888 was forced to withdraw from the US in 2006 after Congress passed a law outlawing online gambling. .
ORU timeline
Parties in the ORU lawsuit choose former Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Daniel Boudreau as their mediator. Tulsa County District Judge Rebecca Nightengale had granted an earlier request by ORU and the administrators to require mediation.
Dec. 18: ORU announces that another evangelist, Jesse Duplantis, has resigned from the board of regents.
Dec. 19: The Tulsa World reports that Green has proposed a “shared governance" structure for ORU, in which faculty, staff and others would participate with regents in important decisions involving the university. ORU declines comment on Green's proposal.
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