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Countrywide warning: Ex-employee (may have) sold customer, mortgage data

Countrywide warning: Ex-employee may have sold customer, mortgage datanow whatI got the same letter. Took advantage of their monitoring offer but that doesn't make me feel any safer. What security precautions have you taken since receiving this letter?Are their any class action law suits related to this?Time to lobby congress...

Tags: Web site development, Backups, Financial services, Countrywide, mortgage data, Ex-employee, bureau, credit file, fraud alert

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Is WellCare the Countrywide of health care?

Is WellCare the Countrywide of health care?There are outfits that use their own facilites openlyKaiser Permanente is the most obvious and has done this for ages. They invented managed care and that's their model.When managed care started to grow, some companies followed that model, but most abandoned it.The case...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Kaiser Permanente, Countrywide, WellCare, health care

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Why Google, Yahoo and Microsoft should worry about Countrywide's takeover

Why Google, Yahoo and Microsoft should worry about Countrywide's takeoverI do not like BOA,but I guess they will be buying my Mortgage, I know I can refinance but that can cost 3-6 thousand dollars. I know Ditech has a flat fee of $349, but at a much higher interest rate.What...

Tags: Financial services, Countrywide, Google Inc., advertisement, Goog, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Mortgage upheaval could ding online advertising

The mortgage industry is in a shambles as the credit market unravels amid bad subprime mortgages. That's part of the reason why the stock market has been plunging of late. What does that development have to do with online advertising? Potentially a lot. Nielsen/Netratings delivered its July traffic recap on...

Tags: NexTag, Mortgage, Online Advertising, Advertiser, Mortgage Industry, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Countrywide's extended service

Some of the most interesting applications of service-oriented architecture may be those that are extended outwards to create new customer value. Countrywide Global Markets, a division of Countrywide Financial Corp. that specializes in mortgage-processing and -underwriting systems, is providing an array of services for Barclays Bank and other clients. ...

Tags: Countrywide, clientS

Blog posts 2005-01-09

Countrywide Adopts BMC Remedy Solutions as Enterprise Support Standard

Since its inception in 1969, Countrywide Financial Corporation has become a leading provider of consumer and business-to-business financial services in domestic and international markets. Previously, Production Technologies Support had 500 help desk and support analysts handling nearly 275,000 cases a month for the loan origination divisions. The consolidation initiative brings...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Remedy Corp., Countrywide, It Management, Help Desk, It service Management, It Operations

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The biggest threat to social networking: Idiots

Warning: This is a Friday rant that's slightly off the beaten path, but I'm having a bad social networking week.  Perhaps I'm feeling a bit antisocial, but this social networking thing has been quite annoying of late. First, there's the Google Latitude announcement where the big benefit...

Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-06

The biggest threat to social networking: Idiots

Warning: This is a Friday rant that's slightly off the beaten path, but I'm having a bad social networking week. Perhaps I'm feeling a bit antisocial, but this social networking thing has been quite annoying of late. First, there's the Google Latitude announcement where the big benefit...

Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Development of BI Application for One of the World's Leading Pharmaceutical Companies

One of the one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies with close to $22 billion in annual revenues. The company employs over 64,000 people worldwide and has a presence in over 100 countries. The customer used Oracle applications at its corporate office and the countrywide Head Offices and Depots. The...

Tags: Pharmaceutical Company, Decision Support, Datamatics Global Services, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Pricing, Sales Strategy, Business Intelligence, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Sales

Case studies 2009-01-01

SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-21

The IT role in the mortgage meltdown

The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...

Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit

Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...

Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Service, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Hardware, Investment, IPO, Larry Dignan, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Morgan Stanley, Storage, Wall Street

Blog posts 2008-09-15

News to know: Apple updates; Google antitrust; SAP; Countrywide; Patch Tuesday

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Countrywide warning: Ex-employee may have sold customer, mortgage data Apple plugs gaping QuickTime security holes MS Patch Tuesday: 8 critical security holes patched ...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Antitrust, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Countrywide warning: Ex-employee (may have) sold customer, mortgage data

Countrywide Mortgage has started notifying customers that a rogue employee since dismissed may have sold sensitive personal information to an unidentified third party. The company mailed "urgent security notification" letters to customers this week, warning that the customer information involved included names, addresses, social security numbers, mortgage...

Tags: FBI, Customer, Countrywide Mortgage, Mortgage Lead, Mortgages, Social Security, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Finance, Capital Structures, Government, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Average American tips 19% at a restaurant

Although 75% of surveyors cite poor service as their main complaint, Philadelphians are the most generous tippers in the nation, leaving 19.6% versus the countrywide average of 19.0%. In comparison, diners in New York City tip the average 19.0% and in Los Angeles they tip 18.4%, Zagat found. by AM

Tags: Zagat, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-27

FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent

FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedentif comcast is truly guiltythey should be fine and severely monitor and audit for a period of time . so they walk straight. FCC should make a example out of them so other should fear FCC for realRE: FCC slaps Comcast's...

Tags: Federal government, Internet service providers (ISPs), NOW HERE, Comcast Corp., FCC, wrist, network neutrality, Internet Service Provider, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Websites dropped out of top 100 in January 2008

December 2007 Rank January 2008 Rank Website Domain 81 103 HSBC Credit Card Mail Offer www.hsbcapply.com 85 106 Bill Me Later www.bill-me-later.com 95 128 CountryWide loans.countrywide.com 97 102 Arvest www.arvest.com 99 104 American Funds www.americanfunds.com ...

Tags: Hitwise, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Sales Channel, Internet, Sales, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Top US advertisers in December 2007

Advertiser Spending Impressions, 000 1. NexTag $60,955,600 30,080,566 2. Countrywide $38,346,000 18,373,534 3. Sprint $37,340,500 5,467,605 4. AT&T $37,239,800 7,730,829 5. InterActiveCorp $32,841,100 8,864,357 6. Experian $29,245,800 11,472,443 7. Netflix $26,711,600 9,865,749 ...

Tags: Advertiser, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Is WellCare the Countrywide of health care?

Could the problems at a Florida health insurer do to the health insurance market what problems at Countrywide did to mortgages? Enormous losses at Countrywide, leading to its sale to Bank of America, have tanked the mortgage market and perhaps the U.S. economy. Now...

Tags: Problem, Health Care, WellCare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Mortgages, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Capital Structures, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Market crash? What me worry?

I am writing this at midnight, January 21. The DOW Industrials have seen their worst year opening performance ever. Asia and Europe experienced 5-7% declines today. Whatever is in store for the US tomorrow I thought it worthwhile to look at the outlook for IT spending. ...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, IT-spending, Mortgages, Financial Accounting, Finance, Capital Structures, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-21