The 2019 holiday shopping season has kicked off with record-breaking sales numbers. According to Adobe Analytics, Black Friday sales were up 20% to $7.4 billion and Cyber Monday grew 17% over last year...
Many of you know that Service Objects was founded in 2001 to support environmental conservation, specifically by reducing the massive waste stream of misdirected and unwanted direct mail. Today we have...
On April 22 we celebrate Earth Day, a day of learning and action that marks its 50th anniversary next year. It has been quite a movement. According to its official website EarthDay.org, the original...
2018 was a tough year for our home state of California. According to a recent CNN report, an estimated 18 million trees died here from issues such as drought, disease, invasive insect species and...
The bomb threat hoax from Thursday, December 13, 2018 was easily detectable as fraud. There were several smoking guns that could have quickly identified the bomb threats as bogus. The leading indicator of...
With 2018 coming to a close in just a few short weeks, we enter our busiest time of year validating millions of deliveries for our customers every day. Just like Santa’s elves, we’ve been preparing for...
If you do business in Europe, you are probably quite familiar by now with the acronym GDPR – the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. In May 2018, companies that handle personal...
Thanksgiving in the United States is about much more than taking a couple of days off from work, eating too much turkey, or starting your holiday shopping. This holiday has always had a higher purpose: to...
Service Objects recently celebrated our 15th year in business and it made me reflect on something that is important to me and is an underappreciated reason for improving your data quality: protecting our...
The great migration from traditional landline continues. After all, nearly everyone has a cell phone, and many families have multiple cell phones. In addition to competition from wireless phones, the...
We understand that your information is your livelihood and it must be kept secure. We maintain a strict privacy policy and contact data sent to us via our web service interface is never recorded to...
Smart bakers agree, fresh ingredients are the key to success. If the ingredients are bad, no baker, no matter how skilled, can make a great pie. The same is true with data services. No matter how good the...
An Open Letter to Businesses, Last week we learned of an extremely unfortunate event where a Fortune 500 company unintentionally mislabeled a piece of promotional mail with a very hurtful personal...
19% of email addresses provided in free offers are bogus. I recently did a study for a client who had a large number of email addresses that they collected on their free-sweepstakes form. Entrants were...
The Most Popular Names in Social Networks What's the most "social" name in the networks? It may not be what you think it is because of many factors, the first being that many popular social networks...
Last night I was having dinner with my wife's friends and they asked what I did for a living. Normally I just brush those requests off and say 'Internet Security' or 'Contact Validation' and change the...
Recently, Facebook announced a new email service that allows Facebook users to seamlessly integrate personalized Facebook e-mail accounts with their Facebook profiles. This "social inbox" concept links...
