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17Dec/090

Rivermine Acquires MBG: mindWireless is the Wild Card

On December 15th 2009, Rivermine acquired MBG, continuing a trend of consolidation in the Telecom Lifecycle Management industry. With this acquisition, Rivermine gained several strong capabilities that have differentiated MBG from the market in recent years.

26Feb/080

Never Fail, My Blackberry!

This isn't really a TEM entry per se, but why am I being so melodramatic? As you may know, RIM had a serious outage earlier this month. In response, Vodafone took the wise step of hiring Neverfail to insure availability when the Blackberry network has further problems. This is great, except that I thought the Blackberry outage was because of a system failure at the single point of failure at Waterloo. I'm not sure how Neverfail can get away from routing emails through Waterloo.