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Connectiva – No News is Not Good Enough

I have not written much about Connectiva's seeming collapse because... well, what can I write? The Indian revenue assurance vendor has gone radio...

A History of RA, Part 2

Last week I posted the first podcast of this two-part series. Here is the concluding part, where the panel from WeDo's 7th Worldwide...

Subex Restructures

For a second time, Subex has cut a deal to restructure its financing. Subex's problems have stemmed from using convertible bonds denominated in...

A History of RA, Part 1

This May I was asked back to WeDo's Worldwide User Group (WWUG) event, held at a beautiful resort near Óbidos, Portugal. WWUG is...

Information Risk Forecast: Raining Nonsense

It is possible that Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, formerly an officer in India's Internal Revenue Service, wants to explain information risks using some pretty odd...

Google Takes a Stand on State Cyberattacks

Can private enterprise step into the digital crossfire when agents of a state conduct cyberattacks? Per Google, the answer is yes. Google...

The Leakage Hump

With reference to Moinak Banerjee’s blog post regarding “Scary numbers! Or is it?” I thought I would share some insight based on empirical data...

Superb Overview of International Gateway Monitoring in Ghana

Once in a while you find a needle in the interweb haystack of news, information, misinformation and comment. Recently talkRA has been highlighting...

Fear and Loathing in Revenue Assurance

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.Samuel JohnsonScene: Long after everyone else has left the...

Telco Offers $25k Reward in Response to Copper Theft

Customers of Windstream Communications were left without service for hours after copper thieves stole cables in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA. The rising number...

Long Prison Sentences for $20M Fraudsters

Prosecutors have succeeded in obtaining long prison sentences for criminals engaged in a USD20M fraud of US telcos including AT&T, Verizon, XO Communications, Excel...

Xintec Raises 900k Euros

Xintec, the Dublin-based vendor of RA solutions, has raised EUR900k in finance; see the press release here. EUR350k comes from the Bank of...

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