C4i has commissioned into service the first of 20 fire control centre switchplus systems being delivered to Aviation Rescue & Fire Fighting of Airservices Australia.

Australia’s latest company handling public safety and emergency communications networks, Airwave Solutions Australia, introduced its portfolio of services at the Radio Comms Connect exhibition and conference in Melbourne.

Telstra will upgrade its national fleetcoms trunked radio network, enhancing the quality and reliability of the service.

Laird Technologies has expanded its global distribution product portfolio with Mouser Electronics to include its thermal management product range.

LPRS, a European supplier of short-range radio devices, has been selected by MRI Services to provide wireless communications for wheelchair users.

The National Park Service (NPS) has installed Zetron’s P25 VoIP radio dispatch system at two NPS dispatch centres: one at the Midwest Regional Ozark Communication Centre (MROCC) in Harrison, Arkansas, and the other at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Dispatch Centre, near Keystone, South Dakota.

IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre have unveiled a miniaturised and wireless eight-channel EEG system suitable for remotely monitoring patients in their daily environment, resulting in more natural readings and greatly increasing the patients' comfort.

Testadvance has become the ditributor for Thiesen radio-over-IP products in the Asia-Pacific region.

M2M Connectivity has become the distributor for Australia and New Zealand for Maxtena, a GPS antenna manufacturing company.

Advantech has partnered with u-blox, a supplier of embedded positioning and wireless communications products, to provide in-vehicle computing solutions for fleet management.

The GSMA 2010 Mobile World Congress will be held from 15-18 February 2010 at the Fira de Barcelona at Montjuic in Barcelona, Spain.

Magellan Technology and Creative Electronics and Software have completed an agreement for CES to develop, manufacture and market Magellan's radio frequency identification (RFID) reader products.

Richardson Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Sarantel, manufacturer of filtering antennas for mobile and wireless devices.

A free service providing person locator beacons to bushwalkers in the Blue Mountaints may already have saved a life and assisted the rescue of two other bushwalkers.

ETSI has launched a Wireless Factory Starter Group, aimed at identifying standardisation needs and opportunities in the expanding domain of wireless factory automation.