Melbourne Library Service has celebrated a historic milestone, after implementing technology to enhance the efficiency of user transactions.

Electronics design house Aiotec has acquired embedded systems and ARM technology company Bluewater Systems. It enables husband-and-wife team Shayne and Jeanne Crimp to extend their business with specialist skills, complementary technology and a more diverse and international user base.

Low Power Radio Solutions (LPRS), a European supplier of short-range radio devices, has provided a high-sensitivity, omnidirectional Yagi antenna to four amateur space enthusiasts who have now managed five successful high-altitude balloon flights into near space.

Auckland University of Technology’s Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at Curtin University in Perth have made a contribution to Australia-New Zealand square kilometre array development with a high-speed data transfer trial.

The Bermuda Regiment has selected Sepura TETRA radios for its communication needs and joins the growing number of armed forces around the world equipped with Sepura TETRA terminals. This is the first use of a TETRA-based system by any government agency on the Island of Bermuda.

The DMR Association and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute have signed a letter of intent to work together in the area of digital mobile radio.

KiwiRail and Xworks Radio Interoperability Systems won the Information, Communication Electrical and Electronic Technology category at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards in Wellington.

Radiometrix is strengthening its position within the Indian market by collaborating with the distribution firm APC Technologies.

Berkeley Varitronics Systems has won an award for the Wolfhound family of security products at the 2010 Innovation Awards.

The ACMA has completed licensing for spectrum for mobile telecommunications services at more than 2000 sites throughout regional and remote Australia.

Garmin and ASUSTeK will alter their current co-branded business model for location-centric mobile handsets.

Wireless Telecom Group has signed a service agreement with Electroservices, Telford in Britain to become a fully authorised Wireless Telecom Service centre for the EMEA region.

The ACMA is replanning part of the 2.5 GHz band to facilitate new uses such as wireless access services while retaining parts of the band used by current licensees for electronic news gathering.

Marc Colborne is the new general manager of Airwave Solutions Australia.

The ACMA is seeking views on the configuration and allocation of ‘digital dividend’ spectrum. It has released a discussion paper seeking comment on technical and policy issues associated with the reallocations of this spectrum.