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Sandisk sues 25 companies...

In a massive legal move, storage and portable media player developer SanDisk has filed three patent infringement lawsuits alleging some 25 companies that manufacture, import, or sell everything from USB flash drives to multimedia cards to portable media players infringe on SanDisk patents. The suits...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-25-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
G.I. Joe Starts Casting for a February Start

Reports are out that Paramount Pictures has begun casting for G.I.Joe to start filming in February 2008. Don't know about you, but I loved G.I. Joe growing up. Filming will be in Prague and Los Angeles. Release Date: TBA 2009 Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: Stephen Sommers Screenwriter: Stuart...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-25-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
What's up with the news today?

First there's this: Pep rally tug-of-war results in severed hands Then there's this: Girl Dies in Tragic Homecoming Parade Accident Both are "Homecoming" events that should be happy times for high school kids, both in Colorado. Thoughts and prayers go out to all the families.

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-14-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
Priest "only pretending"

This is the last I'll post on this one. I blogged earlier this morning about a priest being suspended for his um, extracurricular activities, and well, guess what? In an interview with La Repubblica newspaper, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico said he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-14-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
Nothing like a scandal at the Vatican with my morning coffee...

Vatican suspends Italian monsignor over gay sex VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican said Saturday it has suspended a monsignor from a senior post at the Holy See after an Italian TV program using a hidden camera recorded him making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful. The Vatican...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-14-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
$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
About half of IT workers admit sleeping on the job, kissing co-workers

Say what? Does your job wear you out? You're not alone. More than half of IT workers say they've fallen asleep at work, according to a new online survey. And, nearly half of techies also are apparently in the mood for love. Forty-seven percent of tech pros admit they've kissed a co-worker...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-30-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
More truth to "Don't believe everything you read..."

Did you catch this one? A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn't authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others. The consultant, Alexis Debat, quit the Nixon Center...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-16-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
HP issues customer advisory on Intel Processors

SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - CUSTOMER ADVISORY Document ID: c01039162 Version: 1 HP Compaq Notebook PCs - SYSTEM ROM UPGRADE REQUIRED: Certain Intel Processors May Cause Unpredictable System Behavior NOTICE: The information in this document, including products and software versions, is current as of the Release...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 05-10-2007
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News
Interesting news.com Workplace blog

Attention all bloggers. You’ve probably seen the warnings before if you blog. From the workplace blog , Laina Dawes and Elaine Liner are pretty sure they were fired for blogging. It's not 100 percent certain, of course, because no one ever told them so officially, but the evidence seems solid....

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-13-2006
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News

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