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Friday, October 04, 2002

How and Why the Internet Broke. A series of circumstances and human errors at network communications firm UUNet on Thursday created a huge Internet slowdown throughout the world. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
2:23:44 PM

PayPal Shareholders Approve EBay Merger. PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- PayPal Inc. shareholders approved a $1.3 billion merger with eBay on Thursday, brushing aside legal challenges to the deal with the online auction giant. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
2:19:33 PM

It's official: eBay weds PayPal. update eBay announces that it has completed its acquisition of the online payments company--and that PayPal's CEO, who led the merger, has resigned. [CNET News.com]
2:19:08 PM

ZDNet: Tech Update: Platforms/OS / Has Apache peaked?:"The 1.x generation of Apache has been out for many years, so it should have been a big deal when version 2.0 shipped. But early adoption of Apache version 2.0 was minimal according to Netcraft, the authorities on what people are running on the Internet. Over 11 million active sites are running Apache, but about six months after its release, fewer than 100,000 of them are running 2.0. Why? "
2:18:32 PM

E-Mail Hits Snail-Mail Pace - Slow e-mail delivery and sluggish Internet connections on Thursday are due to a technical problem at WorldCom's UUNet division.

UUNet is a vast, high-speed network that handles about half of the world's Internet traffic -- including about 70 percent of all e-mails sent within the United States and half of all e-mails sent in the world. - Wired

2:15:05 PM