Modest Subex Q3 Results
Subex, the Indian revenue assurance vendor, has released the figures for the third quarter of FY13; see their press release here. The figures show improvement…
Answer to L.T.T. – 01
The answer to LTT-01 was 4485846895579 but you also deserve an extra point if you considered it could be theoretically possible for 10 additional subscribers…
Staying or Stuck
At a discussion panel at the WeDo user group in 2010, talkRA blogger Eric Priezkalns pointed out the value of imagination in RA. Podcast of…
Centre of Gibberish
I received an interesting email recently. It came from a well known vendor in the RA and Fraud Management space and was titled “Are Fraud…
Anonymous Target Criminalization of TOS Violations
Given the track record of Anonymous, the faceless group of hacker vigilantes, it would be easy to dismiss their latest attack on the US Sentencing…
Underestimating the Internet of Things
The ‘internet of things’ is what we get when we let machines talk to each other. Hoorah! Yippee! Our industry becomes ecstatic at the prospect…
Lunch Time Teaser – 01
Welcome to this month’s lunch time teaser; A practical RA problem, which is solvable within a 30 minute lunch break. So why not see if…
Million-User Android Botnet Found in China
Xinhua has reported the discovery of a trojan that has infected over one million Android smartphones in China. For an English translation of the original…
Big Data is Here (and will change assurance forever)
Duh. That must be stupidest headline I have ever written. Of course big data is here. What I mean is there inevitably comes a time…
Lessons from Ivor Machio Wekesa
As the 2012 came to an end, I am reminded of those we lost along the way. I have lost many relatives and even many more…