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Will the secrets of the Knights Templar finally be revealed?

The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years. A reproduction of the minutes of trials against the Templars, "'Processus Contra...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-14-2007
Filed under: News, Internet
$8m illegal software haul from online auctions

Online auctions selling illegal software worth more than $8m have been detected and closed down during the first half of 2007. Anti-software piracy body the Business Software Alliance, which represents the likes of Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Symantec, said it has prevented more than 36,000 illegal software...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-02-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Microsoft, News, Internet
eBay claims a loss for Skype

eBay has reassessed the value of Skype that it bought for $2.6 billion 2 years ago and will claim a $9 million "impairment write-down" against its value. This means eBay has been forced to reassess the value of the internet telephony company relative to its overall business today. By recording...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-02-2007
Filed under: News, Internet
Apple is at the core of a music rip-off

The Times UK writes, Steve Jobs was in London this week promoting the wildly exciting but colossally overpriced iPhone – yours for £900 in the first year – with the phone alone costing £69 more than you would pay in the US. Apparently, the Apple boss believes that the costs of business are much higher...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-21-2007
Filed under: News, Internet
17-year old makes millions from Myspace

Southgate (MI) – 17-year-old Ashley Qualls isn’t old enough to vote, but she sure knows a thing or two about business. The young entrepreneur runs a very successful company that sells customized MySpace pages to teenagers. Qualls’ website, www.whateverlife.com, receives approximately seven to nine million...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-18-2007
Filed under: News, Internet
Apple the new Microsoft, and not in a good way...

According to PC World, Apple has become the new bully. Is Apple the New Microsoft? Don't look now, but the role of the industry's biggest bully is increasingly played by Apple, not Microsoft. Mike Elgan, Computerworld Ten years ago, Microsoft was the company everyone loved to hate. The most vociferous...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-08-2007
Filed under: News, Internet
Did you see the lawsuit involving GMail?

Have you read closely GMail’s privacy policy? Check this out. I will add however that I’ve looked through GMail’s Privacy policy and can’t find any references to what is recorded below. From the Police Blotter : What happened, according to the court: In November 2003, the Federal...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-18-2006
Filed under: News, Internet
Google stock sinks lower

Quite honestly, this is what happens when a company that has been successful for so long as a private company doesn’t manage the public well. You can’t keep secrets, unfortunately. Google Inc.'s shares fell to their lowest levels in 4-1/2 months on Friday as analysts bemoaned recent communication...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-11-2006
Filed under: News, Internet
Google pays 90 million to settle lawsuit

Google agreed to pay as much as $90 million in legal fees and advertising credits to settle a lawsuit filed against it and other Internet companies last year alleging that the companies knowingly overcharged for online advertisements and conspired to continue doing so. An attorney for the plaintiffs...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-09-2006
Filed under: News, Internet
Have you heard of WiGLE?

WiGLE is the “Wireless Geographic Logging Engine", and they “consolidate location and information of wireless networks world-wide to a central database, and have user-friendly java, windows, and web applications that can map, query and update the database via the web,” according to...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 05-03-2005
Filed under: Pocket PC, News, Internet, Mobile News

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