Berkeley Varitronics Systems has released a cell tower tester, Squid-PRO, that supports Verizon’s EVDO standard. [ + ]

RFI Wireless has an updated website. [ + ]

Selectric Nachrichten Systeme has been awarded a contract to supply 7200 Sepura TETRA radios. [ + ]

The RadComms 2012 event will be streamed live on the ACMA website from Melbourne. [ + ]

BlueStar appoints president and managing director of EMEA operations. [ + ]

The Australian Radio Communications Industry Association will be hosting an industry dinner in Adelaide in September. [ + ]

4RF has appointed Michael Murray to Australia country manager from Trio Datacom. [ + ]

The UTC Apex Award was granted to Orion NZ Limited. [ + ]

ACMA releases videos to give recreational boaters up-to-date information about using VHF marine radios. [ + ]

Hytera Mobilfunk is developing an LTE-based critical communication system at the company’s R&D centre in Germany. [ + ]

Brigadier Eng Al Salem Al-Henzab, director of Telecommunications and Operations, Ministry of Interior, Qatar, has received Sepura’s 1,000,000th radio. [ + ]

C4i has received a $2.2 million commercialisation grant from the Australian Department of Materiel Organisation (DMO). [ + ]

BVS has released PocketHound, a highly sensitive mobile phone detector to stop illegal and unsecure mobile phone use. [ + ]

The affiliation between the global public safety organisations APCO and TCCA to support communications research is an important step to raise awareness of the need for mission-critical standards for new technologies. [ + ]

Sepura has acquired 3T Communications 'to provide users with end-to-end communications solutions'. [ + ]