The Australian inventor of the black box aviation flight recorder has been honoured with the naming of a Defence building in Canberra. [ + ]

Bureau of Meteorology expert Dr Ray Canterford will speak at the Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference. [ + ]

Aeronautical Radio of Thailand Limited (AEROTHAI) has chosen Hytera to supply TETRA radios for Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports in Bangkok, Thailand. [ + ]

CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has won two of the seven prestigious International TETRA awards for 2014. [ + ]

Zetron's Advanced Communication (AcomEVO) system has completed successful testing with Hytera's Tier II DMR-based radio system. [ + ]

Hytera's DMR conventional IP Multi-Site Connect Interfaces now support Omnitronics' RediTALK dispatch consoles. [ + ]

Thousands of wireless microphones which are set to be sent to the scrap heap on 31 December due to new government regulations may now be saved. [ + ]

NASA's administrator, Charles Bolden, has visited Canberra to mark 50 years of partnership between Australia and the USA in deep space communications. [ + ]

The Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference will be held from 5-7 May at the QT Gold Coast Hotel. Attendees who register for the conference before 28 March will receive the early bird registration discount. [ + ]

New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is reviewing the acquisition limits ('spectrum caps') on spectrum holdings in the 2.1 GHz band used for 3G mobile. [ + ]

TrustComm, a provider of satellite communications solutions, has signed a service provider agreement with Boeing Commercial Satellite Services (BCSS) to distribute the Inmarsat Global Xpress (GX) high-speed mobile broadband service. [ + ]

The United Kingdom Government has announced that it will invest more than £100 million ($185 million) in the construction phase of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). [ + ]

Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) in Jordan has selected Sepura TETRA radios for all its digital communications requirements. [ + ]

MTR Corporation, a Hytera client, won 'Best Use of TETRA for Transport' in the recently announced 2014 International TETRA Awards. [ + ]

M2M wireless network provider KORE Wireless has established a global partnership with Taiwanese telematics hardware manufacturer ATrack. The partnership will provide ATrack customers access to KORE M2M network services in over 150 countries worldwide. [ + ]