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As of 17th April, eBay will be enforcing Paypal payments (and cash on delivery) as the only forms of payment for all listings. Paypal, which is subsequently owned by eBay charges a fee to its sellers in accepting Paypal payments from buyers. This is on top of the eBay listing as well as final auction fee eBay charges.

ACCC has stepped in to investigate the changes which has angered many professional sellers.

Ebay has defended its change as an “improvement to safety”. Payment protection insurance for unreceived goods that can be claimed from eBay has also increased from $3000 to $20,000.

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that they have come up with the fastest Satellite Internet in the world boasting 155Mbps downstream to homes and 1.2Gbps to businesses and corporate users. While here in Australia we are getting excited over our painfully slow 20Mbps while paying in the proximate of $80+ per month. It seems the term “broadband” gets thrown around too loosely. Australia’s level of “broadband Internet” is going at crippling speeds when compared to the rest of the developed nations. The JUS$342mil JAXA project is expected to go live in July.

Full story here - Gizmodo

China has decided to lift its ban once more after a year long ban on its local citizens from accessing the english only version of the popular website wikipedia. However, “sensitive” issues such as Tiananmen square and Tibet will still be inaccessible. A regulated Internet has always been a norm in China and this is not the first incident of a ban on the Wikipedia site. Bans on the Wikipedia website spans all the way back in 2004 and had a series of other bans and lifting of its banning status since then.

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