Ryanair charge a €5 payment fee per person per flight when you book on their website. They only way to avoid this charge was to pay with Visa Electron. This card type was their free payment method offering. Ryanair  have now dropped Visa Electron in favor of prepaid Mastercards. There are currently no free-to-use prepaid MasterCards so anyone buying a Ryanair flight now will include some type of card payment


Moneybookers following in the footsteps of PayPal have launched a new MasterCard-branded prepaid card. The card will allow customers to access funds in their Moneybookers e-wallet to shop both online and offline. The card also offers parents the possibility to load money on a card for their children.


eBay are predicting that next Monday 7th December will be Irelands busiest online shopping day, with a massive 112,000 people expected to log onto ebay.ie. Based on their research they expect that next Monday a Christmas present will be bought every 30 seconds on ebay.ie.



In our Word on the Web post for 23/10/2009 we mentioned the SquareUp the new business from Twitter founder Jack Doresy. SquareUp has now gone live for trial customers. SquareUp does not require any contracts or monthly fees and card payments can be accepted through a device that connects through the audio jack. Receipts can be sent via email or viewed online.

Dave

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3V Transaction Services, the guys behind the 3V vouchers have launched their pay-as-you-go Visa voucher product in Canada. They have also revealed their plans to offer the 3V pay-as-you-go Visa voucher in European countries through a partnership with Luxembourg Banque Ivik.

Twitter founder Jack Doresy has a new startup project - the Square iPhone Payment System. The system involves an iPhone app and an associated dongle that enables an iPhone or iPod touch to becine a mini credit card reader.

IRISS announce competition details of their Cyber Security Challenge - HackEire. This competition will take place as part of the 2009 IRISS Conference on Cybercrime.

An Apache web server misconfiguration exposes details of all connections and state information for the majority Twitter web servers. Twitter were quick to respond and block all access to the information. No long term harm done just a little embarrassment for Twitter.

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