Peacock Bros, in conjunction with Intermec, Alpha Warehouse Solutions and Cascade, has completed construction of what claims to be Australia’s first fully integrated RFID forklift now available for sale as a complete unit. [ + ]

Nortel has claimed to achieve the industry’s first live call over an Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) network delivering high definition video and VoIP. [ + ]

IMEC and IMEC-Nederland at the Holst Centre created two body-monitoring wireless sensor nodes which collect and process data from human body sensors and wirelessly transmit the data to a central monitoring system. [ + ]

IMEC and IMEC-Nederland at the Holst Centre created two body-monitoring wireless sensor nodes which collect and process data from human body sensors and wirelessly transmit the data to a central monitoring system. [ + ]

An advertising/information display that can change its content to suit its audience at any particular moment has been created in Britain using interactive Bluetooth communications technology. [ + ]

QinetiQ and Thorcom have signed an agreement that will enable emergency services to tackle a number of current data communications issues. [ + ]

A recent investment boom in the Chinese city of Macau has seen a number of local and international casino chains open luxurious hotel and casino resorts. These developments incorporate high-rise hotels, gaming floors, shopping arcades, exhibition centres and even indoor sports stadiums. [ + ]

Richardson Electronics has announced a worldwide partnership to distribute a frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) embedded wireless module developed by Radiotronix. [ + ]

Aeroflex and the Beijing StarPoint Telecommunication Software Company have announced an agreement to jointly develop the first full TD-SCDMA protocol conformance test system. [ + ]

ST Electronics’ satellite business unit unveiled its Agilis brand ultra compact 1.2 m stabilised C-band VSAT (very small aperture terminal) antenna, at the CommunicAsia 2007 exhibition. [ + ]

Wireless networking expert Ross Chiswell has become sales director for Colubris Networks to lead a major push into the Australian enterprise networking market. [ + ]

Green Hills Software and Objective Interface Systems have collaborated on a technique that reduces the memory footprint of the software used to build software-defined radios (SDRs). [ + ]

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has chosen to use Tait radios and has committed to a new two-year multi-million dollar contract. [ + ]

Bearcom has received the 2006 Motorola Australasian Dealer of the Year Award for the 12th consecutive year at the annual Motorola Dealer Conference in Melbourne last month. [ + ]

Scientists in Japan have developed a technique for detecting explosives using radio waves. [ + ]