Abbey online banking takes 24-hour lie down
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Money marooned Abbey, the banking group, has been having problems with its website, which has left customers unable to administer their accounts for more than 24 hours.â¦
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Gosh, this email looks official UK punters are still failing to take basic precautions when banking online despite a wealth of available advice, according to a recent survey by banking association APACS.â¦
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Northern Rock customers complain of difficulty in accessing their money in online accounts.
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SEATTLE - Next time you write a check, be prepared for the money to come out of your account in record time. A new law gives banks access to your money within hours.
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Â· Consumer revolt on hold while court case is heard  Â· Ruling may lead to refunds but also end free banking
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Under a federal law that will take effect Thursday, the grace period between the time the check is written and when the money is debited from the account.
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People have until midnight on 22 June to say they owe tax on money in offshore accounts or face penalties.
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Abbey unexpectedly withdraws a top mortgage shortly before new rules come into force which are designed to protect consumers.
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Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers have been granted an additional 24 hours to file their self-assessment tax returns after the HM Revenue and Customs website crashed hours before the annual deadline.
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Business: 21 October 2004, Thursday. There has been a slowdown in the increase of bank deposits in Bulgaria, according to a fresh survey of the Industry Watch agency.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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LONDON, August 23 (New Ratings) - Abbey National (AYN.ETR) is likely to witness a maximum of 4,500 job losses over the next three years, following its proposed Â£8 billion takeover by Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH).
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Ailing supermarket chain Kwik Save is expected to go into administration at midday BST.
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Abbey National's long-suffering shareholders meet today to lay the bank to rest by approving a 9 billion pound takeover by Spain's Santander Central Hispano.
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ULSTER BANK CLOSES Ulster Bank is to close its Isle of Man operation a ' a move which will affect 11 of its staff.
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I love Twitter, but there have been a lot of problems, and this is too much. They're taking it down tonight, for two hours, and we're hot on a big story, and it's developing -- on Twitter. This seems like a bad night for Twitter to go to sleep. (But there probably never is a good night.) I don't think the Twitter guys really understand how much we're doing with their service.  It's been going down a lot lately. And while other people have been complaining about it losing posts, I had never seen it lose one, until yesterday, and now it's losing them regularly, for me too. Read the first three words of this post again.  They raised $5 million, it seems now it's time for them to get the bugs out, hire some people who really understand scaling, if necessary re-implement the system from the ground up. Do whatever is needed to make it as reliable as the other tools we depend on. We need Twitter to work. It's not a fun experiment for us, we're using it.  Jack, Ev, Biz, Fred -- please take note. Postscript: The announcement changed, now they're saying it'll be down on Sunday night. Much better. Thanks!
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Abbey National admitted today that progress in recent months had been disrupted as a result of its planned takeover by Spain&#39;s largest bank.