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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- 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,...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-02
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
- Real IE7 Beta 2 released tonight
- Real IE7 Beta 2 released tonightStreamlined?Simple is good. A redesigned, streamlined interface gives you more of what you need and less of what you don't. The new look maximizes the area of the screen that displays the webpage while reducing intrusive toolbars.If this what Microsoft calls "streamlined", I'd hate to...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Privacy groups attack IRS rules on sale of tax data
- Privacy groups attack IRS rules on sale of tax dataSnakes in the Grass, Alas!So, the IRS is having NON-americans preparing OUR income tax statements? People who have no vested interest in preserving the ideals of the land of the free and the home of the brave? Somehow I...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- The red herring of data protection
- The numbers lately have been staggering: 145,000; 13.9 million; 40 million. I'm speaking, of course, of the recent rash of "data loss" -- the innocuous term for "millions of accounts containing personal data being exposed to the wrong eyes." Whether it's MasterCard, ChoicePoint, LexisNexis, Bank of America, Wachovia, Stanford or...
- Blog posts 2005-06-21
- Middleware as application defense?
- It is educational to sit in on a presentation at a Gartner conference on a topic you know nothing about. The big theme of this year's Spring Symposium is Managing Complexity which just makes my eyes glaze over. There are other phrases that are plastered all over vendor booths...
- Blog posts 2005-05-18
- New phishing attack uses real ID hooks
- New phishing attack uses real ID hooksThis would require REAL data to succeedThe real question should be who the culprit is inside the bank that released the information to the wild.Thank you LexisNexis, DSW, and others......for making this possible.How much identity theft do we, as consumers, have to suffer before...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
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