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Forward Technologies is an IT consulting and internet marketing firm that brings years of experience with large businesses to the small business owner. It is our philosophy that small businesses with 40 or fewer employees have traditionally been under-served by IT support firms. Many small companies allow themselves to become overly dependent on an internal staff member or a small consulting organ
05/22/2026
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The AI Free Ride Is Starting to End
AI Pricing Shock Hits Microsoft, GitHub and Enterprise Budgets - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies AI’s subsidy era is ending as Microsoft, GitHub and Uber face rising usage-based costs that challenge enterprise AI budgets.
05/14/2026
A new class action lawsuit filed in California alleges that OpenAI shared ChatGPT user data, including query topics, user IDs, and email addresses, with Google and Meta through tracking tools embedded on the ChatGPT website. 
The lawsuit specifically claims OpenAI used technologies such as Meta Pixel and Google Analytics that may have transmitted user interaction data for analytics and advertising purposes without proper consent. 
04/14/2026
Two giants, now mostly forgotten.
Back in 1996, Netscape Navigator owned nearly 90% of the browser market. For a lot of people, it was the internet. Around that same time, AltaVista dominated search, handling roughly 100 million queries a day, which was massive for that era.
Today, both are gone. Netscape was crushed by Internet Explorer bundled with Windows. AltaVista was wiped out by Google.
From total dominance to a footnote in a single generation. Brutal.
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