The audited figures for Subex, the Indian assurance vendor, show modest improvement. Turnover, EBITDA and profits are all up, though Subex is weighed down by finance costs.

In this video, Phillip Radley, BT's Chief Data Architect, gives a short talk explaining how BT used Hadoop to gain a 15-fold increase in the velocity of processing customer data.

The final version of the EU's Single Digital Market Strategy says less about how it will reform Europe's communications market than the previously leaked draft.

Customers of 123-reg, the UK's largest web domain name registrar, have received phoney emails with a malware-laden 'invoice' attached.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Spring meeting of the Revenue Assurance Group (RAG). For those who missed it, four presentations can now be downloaded from the RAG website.

Stratecast seemingly ignored information which contradicts their recent assertions about margin assurance.

The US government was defeated when an appeal court ruled the NSA did not have the authority to collect CDRs en masse.

Watch the video of futurist Gerd Leonhard speaking to fraud and assurance managers at Subex's user conference, giving his views on the evolution of business and how comms providers should respond to uncertainty.

Ryan Guthrie of ATS explains how they use cloud computing to harness Hadoop and run scalable, reliable and cost-effective Big Data analytical queries on behalf of their customers.

In Lunch Time Teaser 14, quizmaster Lee Scargall has delivered his most devilishly difficult puzzle yet. Nobody has submitted a correct answer. Can you find the solution, and claim the prize?

The Spring meeting of the Revenue Assurance Group was packed, but if people do simple things to show interest, then RAG could benefit an even larger number of people.

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