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Google security alert: Universal Search scarier than Google Maps

Google security alert: Universal Search scarier than Google MapsPrivacy Issues...Check out this huge list of Google Street View Findings. This is definitely going to upset a few folks!http:\www.laudontech.comStreetViewstreetview.htmlWhat About LexisNexis?If you are not aware of how much information there is about you that is available to suscribers of LexisNexis,...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, SECURITY, Recruitment & Selection, Google Inc., LexisNexis, security alert, Google Maps

Discussion threads 2007-06-02

Security breach laws become state's rights issue

Security breach laws become state's rights issueThe inherently anti-consumer nature of monied corporationsThis article doesn't really touch on the issue of customer abuse. ChoicePoint evidently see Joe and Jane Public as nothing more than the raw data which funds their revenue. They are insultingly dismissive in their proven responses to...

Tags: Identity theft, Sales channel, Hammurabi, LexisNexis, Arlen Specter, ChoicePoint Inc., security

Discussion threads 2005-04-14

LexisNexis flap draws outcry from Congress

LexisNexis flap draws outcry from CongressWell, DUH!This time the data that leaked was about [b]lawyers[/b] -- not just peons like you and me. This time it was from lesser members of the same social class (and often enough, the same graduating class as well.)Same congress that just passed FACTA...

Tags: Identity theft, Operational accounting, offense, Personal Identification Number, Social Security, LexisNexis, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2005-04-12

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people feared stolen

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people feared stolenThe one comment says it allThe Lexis-Nexis company spokesperson said:"Reed Elsevier moved to soothe investors' fears by reaffirming its earnings forecasts, saying the financial implications of the breach were expected to be manageable within the context of LexisNexis' overall growth."That tells you EXACTLY how...

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Financial services, LexisNexis, SSN

Discussion threads 2005-04-12

Infra Software Enables LexisNexis Butterworths' Blueprint for IT Best Practice

With three main offices in the UK, LexisNexis Butterworths publishes information in online, print and CD-ROM formats. The company's incumbent helpdesk software, which provided basic call logging functionality, was increasingly unable to meet the company's needs. Analysts could not easily prioritize or track the status of open calls, or share...

Tags: Information Technology, LexisNexis, Infra Software, Help Desk, Call Centers, Asset Management, It Operations, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Case studies

LexisNexis Searches for Improved Customer Relationships

In previous years, LexisNexis outsourced the mailing of more than 12 million pieces of mail supporting more than 2,000 campaigns. To reduce the costs associated with this process, LexisNexis needed to create a concise, accurate and up-to-date marketing database from a wide range of sources, including internal databases, state attorney...

Tags: LexisNexis, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Marketing Research, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies

Additional Resources

Microsoft bolsters enterprise search with Fast Search

Microsoft is bolstering its enterprise-search product line-up via the acquisition of Norway-based Fast Search and Transfer for $1.23 billion, the Redmond software vendor announced January 8. Fast Search offers a number of products in search, e-commerce, mobile and compliance/risk-management services. It sells its products through a...

Tags: Enterprise Search, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Fast Search, Search, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?

Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?You tell me and we'll both know."The question is, what will be that next evolutionary step that resets things so that we have the final word on such sensitive information."You tell me and we'll both know.It's the golden rule...Those...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, henhouse, Chartered, FTC, fox, telemarketing, ZIP code

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

AltLaw offers a legal research alternative for federal courts

AltLaw, a free legal database created by Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, has officially launched, Ars Technica reports. Ars describes the service: The database currently provides full-text search of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions from the last decade or so. It also allows for...

Tags: Ars Technica, Database, Goal, U.S. Supreme Court, Service, AltLaw, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-02

SaaS invades enterprise software markets

SaaS invades enterprise software marketsIf Gartner says it...it has to be wrong.SaaS should get Gartner to retract their statement then SaaS may stand a chance.Read CarefullyAdoption isn't strong in traditional enterprise applications.It's strong for content providers that happen to use software to deliver their content over the internet.On numerous occasions...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, enterprise software

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

SaaS in 2007: It's about services, doh!

In my trio of predictions for SaaS in 2007, Ive saved the biggest trend till last. The coming year will see a growing acknowledgement that SaaS is just part of a wider move towards Internet-based automated services. This is such an all-embracing trend that it will drive several other sub-trends,...

Tags: basics, Ecosystems, Business applications, Saas

Blog posts 2007-01-02

State conviction records fuel a burgeoning industry

Local governments routinely sell records of criminal and motor vehicle convictions to a range of businesses. In Connecticut, for example, the court system charges $1,400 a year for such records, the Waterbury CT Republican-American notes. Thats small potatoes. The newspaper reports that huge database companies like ChoicePoint...

Tags: Databases, industry, Waterbury

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Should Google rule the world's information?

Should Google rule the world's information?The right question, is should more of the worlds information be archivedand indexed. They answer is a resounding YES!. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and many others are doing just that.Another related question: Should congress make sure that our privacy is respected. YES.The right question:Should Microsoft be...

Tags: SHOCKED, Google Inc., privacy, apathy

Discussion threads 2006-11-27

Business services powered by SaaS

One of the unspoken convergences of current times is the joining together of business service providers with on-demand application vendors. ADP's recent acquisitions of on-demand vendors Employease and VirtualEdge is a notable example, but it's far from being an isolated case. Last week I noted CRM provider RightNow's work with...

Tags: business service, on-demand, Saas, software

Blog posts 2006-10-24

Is Google News Archive Search really the latest Google information revolution?

Google's expansion of its news search index to include "old" news stories is being announced by Google with its usual bluster claiming benevolent knowledge creation and access for users and no-fee customer generation for content owners.Google puts forth any incremental product or service enhancement as just one more step in...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-06

Universities join coalition to stop ID theft

Coming on the heels of a flurry of breaches of sensitive databases, a coalition of high-tech companies and universities have created the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection at Utica NY College, Campus Technology reports.Sponsors said the Center will drive research into causes, detection, and prevention of identity...

Tags: cyber criminal, identity fraud

Blog posts 2006-07-06

Combating ID theft with research

LexisNexis, IBM, the United States Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute's CERT/CC, Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and Syracuse University's CASE Center, and Utica College in New York have joined forces to create a research center to combat identity theft....

Tags: SECURITY, identity theft

Blog posts 2006-07-05

Veterans' data theft may cost $500 million

Veterans' data theft may cost $500 millionOKSo this guy has a staff member that screws up big time, basically giving out critical information on 26.5 million vets and he uses it as a reason to spend another half a billion dollars. Needless to say they will need to increase...

Tags: identity theft, vet

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Forget the NSA. Here's another very scary list. Are you included?

Forget the NSA. Here's another very scary list. Are you included?Ridiculous! When do these people get sued?That list basically says everyone has been compromised and they don't know it. I also read somewhere where the Social Security Administration has a "secondary" list of SSNs because so...

Tags: Sales channel, PRODUCTIVITY, Financial services, personal data, credit card, security, computer

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

The anxious new dawn of cybersnooping

The anxious new dawn of cybersnoopingLexis Is BadHey,Nice to know that you can't even opt out of LexisNexis unless the following condidtions are met so "Joe Average" is screwed.[b]An individual may request opt-out if one of these conditions exists:* You are a state, local or federal law enforcement officer or...

Tags: Lexis

Discussion threads 2006-05-03