Recent Press Coverage

• Now you can charge your mortgage payment with a Visa, Mastercard or Discover card at www.Cardit.com - Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine (2007/12)
• CardIt Aims to Profit by Processing Credit Card Payments for Cash-Strapped Mortgage Borrowers - Inside Mortage Profitability (2007/09/21)
• Putting house payments on plastic gives new meaning to 'credit crunch' - San Francisco Business Times (2007/09/14)
• Is Paying Your Mortgage With a Credit Card a Good Idea? - Housing Wire (2007/09/14)
• MoneyGram Deal And Start-up Eye Cards for Housing - American Banker (2007/09/14)
• CardIt, LLC launches company operations to give consumers more options to pay their mortgage. (2007/09/07)
• Philip Mikal and Alexander Sada announce the only service enabling consumers to pay their mortgage with a Visa or Mastercard - CardIt. (8/4/07)
• Philip is a speaker at Real Estate Connect NYC 2007 conference as part of the "New Kids on The Block" session. He spoke about his new company, BuyerHunt. (1/11/07)
• SanomaWSOY Education, selects one of my photos, Tokyo skyline ["1213_tokyo_skyline.jpg"], for an online child education class on geography and history in the Finnish language. (11/20/06)
• Philip sells his share of Open Source Consulting to co-founder Tony Hansmann. (08/01/06)
• Nina Blackwood's New Wave Nation, a syndicated radio program, selects one of my photos, the Punk Rock Kid, for a promotional postcard. Nina is widely known as the first MTV VJ. (2/22/05)
• Lender Inspection Corporation, a leader in construction-inspection services for mortgage lenders, today announced that upper management has completed a buyout of the company. Donald Giebelhausen, the new owner, takes over from Joseph Adams and Philip Mikal, who started the business three years ago. (2/16/05)
• LINE, AIA San Francisco's quarterly design journal, will be using one of my photos of the 2002 Bay to Breakers race for their next issue. (7/14/04)
• Proud Neighbor™ Magazine is using a photo Philip took of the kitchen at Hibiki Dynamic Kitchen in Shinjuku-ku Tokyo for an upcoming article on "Are You Thinking of a Culinary Career". (07/12/04)
• Sun Microsystems and Philip J. Mikal awarded Patent No. 6,687,652 for Philip's invention, Diagnostic Clearing House. (2/3/04)
• A photo from Philip's coverage of a San Francisco peace protest has been selected for publication in Eton College's The Arts Review. (11/10/03)
• Level Acuity, LLC revealed it's new market positioning as a leader in Perl Programmer Staffing & Projects. (08/06/03)
• Nervepinch, Inc. announced today plans to file a Certificate of Dissolution with the California Secretary of State. President Philip Mikal commented that Nervepinch's board of directors felt the decision was in the best interest of shareholders. When asked about the dissolution, Mr. Mikal joked, "with this announcement, the golden days of the Internet age are officially over." (11/13/2002)
• Philip's San Francisco home will be featured in an upcoming article on amazing city views in Northwestern University's Renew Magazine.
• Ensenda, Inc. and Philip J. Mikal file for patent protection for their invention, Performance and Cost Based Routing for a Courier Services Exchange.
• Philip will be featured in an article on The Sports Club/LA appearing in the November, 2002 issue of Danish fitness magazine iFORM (In Health).
• Ensenda, Inc. and Philip J. Mikal file for patent protection for their invention, A Spot Exchange for Buyers and Sellers of Courier Services.
• An Introduction to WAP Security at the Network Protocol Layer -- WTLS, has been published at Wireless Technology Advisor.
• The title sequence from The C! True Hollywood Story, featuring original music scored by Philip, was profiled on a retrospective edition of E!'s True Hollywood Story.
• Sun Microsystems and Philip J. Mikal file patent application for Philip's invention, Diagnostic Clearing House.
• Philip will be at the 2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, airing on the Fox Network April 11th.
• Philip's comments on the adoption of WAP technology were quoted in the Wired News story WAP or I-Mode: Which Is Better?
• You Are The Brand!, A Consultant's Introduction to Personal Marketing will be published in the Your Turn column of the October 2000 issue of Contract Professional.
• Configuring Apache for Wireless Browsers will be published in the upFRONT section of the July issue of Linux Journal.
• Philip will be at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, airing on the Fox Network June 20th, 2000.
• Jack's Old School Scratch Break, a song Philip scored for an upcoming short film, hits position 13 on the MP3.com Old School Hip Hop chart. (5/6/2000)
• Philip's comments on the use of Linux in the enterprise were videotaped for display at the March 1999 Linux World conference.

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