Friday, March 26, 2004


Fair Isaac Signs Health Care Provider for Fraud Detection Software
Fair Isaac's San Diego-based Healthcare Solutions Division (www.fairisaac.com) announced that healthcare company VISTA Healthplan has selected the company's Payment Optimizer to help detect health care claim fraud. Fair Isaac's software helps to detect fraud and abuse of health care claims, and helps reduce claims losses.
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Ixia Adds Metro Ethernet Test Features
Calabasas-bsaed Ixia (www.ixiacom.com) announced that it has added support for Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) for its OC-48c Packet over SONET test module. The new features is targeted at Metro Ethernet devices. The GFP standard defines a method for transporting different kinds of traffic over SONET network.
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Interview: Colin Wallace, Publex Ventures
Colin Wallace is Managing Director of Publex Ventures LLC, a new public/private equities merger fund which is attempting to put a new twist on reaching liquidity. I spoke with Colin about Publex and what they are trying to do. BK: What's the idea behind Publex? CW: In today's economic environment, the principals believe that many micro and small cap companies are willing to sell their stock and enter into mergers and acquisitions and creative financing arrangements at greatly reduced va (More info...)
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