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THE INCREASING complexity of mobile telecommunications networks and the companies that operate them highlights why telcos should leverage their user and performance data to optimise service. But with companies having to operate second and third generation services while rolling-out LTE 4G systems, this optimisation planning is no simple task, especially as it also has to include boosting monetisation while keeping customers happy with core services.…

THE DIRECTOR of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) has said continued pathogen contamination involving meat traded across Europe underlines the need to fight opposition to European Commission proposals to modernise meat inspection systems.

Stephen Rossides called on meat inspectors not to block future progress: “The current meat inspection system is focused on old risks,” Rossides said.…

EUROPEAN AND Canadian meat traders are looking to boost overseas sales after today’s formal announcement of the widely anticipated Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

Speaking in Brussels, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said: “We were able to strike a very good balance between our offensive and defensive interests [in agriculture],” while noting that this area was particularly sensitive during the negotiations.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has unveiled a study that signals huge losses directly caused by corruption in public procurement. It identified how in 2010, between Euro EUR1.4 and 2.2 billion was lost in tenders within just five sectors in eight EU member states.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) scientific committee on consumer safety has concluded that henna is safe as a hair dye, probably thwarting a request from French health authorities that henna be tested on animals. This is now generally illegal in the EU under the revised cosmetics directive, and such tests must be approved by the European Commission, when alternative methods are not available and there is a real health risk.…

IT has been regarded as a hidden commercial crime – the losses to governments caused by corruption in public procurement. An OLAF report suggests its scale in Europe could be huge. Keith Nuthall reports.

THERE is no sugar coating these numbers: the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has unveiled a study that claimed in 2010 alone, between Euro EUR1.4 and 2.7 billion was lost to corruption in public procurement tenders within just five sectors in eight EU member states.…

DIGITAL innovation and exports dominated discussion at the 31st edition of Liber 2013, Spain’s leading book fair, which ended on Sunday (October 6) in Madrid after drawing 10,000 visitors, compared with 6,000 last year in Barcelona.

And while 450 exhibitors and 300-plus international buyers almost universally framed their comments in terms of recession, robust overseas sales and advances in e-publishing made for a slightly more positive mood than last year.…

TECHNICAL and security experts have gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to consider how to roll-out developing automated border control (ABC) systems, which offer hard-pressed airports the ability to better process surging passenger numbers.

Staged at ICAO’s headquarters, in Montréal, Canada, from October 22 to 24, the agency’s ninth symposium and exhibition on MRTDs [machine readable travel documents] biometrics and border security debated ABC developments such as newly-emerging technologies; trust issues; reliability; non-intrusiveness; biometrics; effective inspections tools; trusted traveller programmes; challenges to border integrity and ways to address them.…

ACCORDING to World Bank data on Brazil, air transport measured in passengers carried jumped from 32.3 million in 2003 to 94.6 million passengers in 2012. And airport infrastructure has failed to keep up with this rapid growth in demand. Adding the extra 600,000 tourists which the Brazilian Institute of Tourism expects to visit the country during the 2014 FIFA World Cup and Brazil’s creaking airports could struggle to cope.…

IF further evidence was needed that Asian outsourcing is becoming increasingly mature, with a reliance on international supply chains, then the FOB division of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s Nha Be Garment Corporation Joint Stock Company (NBC) is a case in point.…