Visible Assets says that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved RuBee, a long-wavelength, packet-based, magnetic transceiver protocol, as a new international standard designated IEEE 1902.1. [ + ]

IMEC has presented a 60 GHz front-end receive chain and phase-locked loop. [ + ]

New imaging and high-capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimetre wave amplifier invented at the University of California. [ + ]

The relentless march of next-generation wireless data services is beginning to strain backhaul infrastructure, as high data throughputs — and subscriber demand — consume network capacity. [ + ]

Daniels Electronics has won a $2m contract with the Canadian government for coastal radio stations to be used by the Canadian coast guard at its marine communications and traffic services centres and associated remote sites in the Pacific region. [ + ]

AWR and Mentor Graphics have announced AWR Connected for Mentor Graphics. [ + ]

Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry wireless solution, has opened a regional headquarters in Sydney to serve customers in Australia. [ + ]

Berkeley Varitronics and EDX Wireless are providing compatibility between the YellowFin Mobile WiMAX analyser and EDX SignalPro software. [ + ]

Beijing's latest landmark building and the workplace for implementation and management of the international environmental protection treaty in China is now supported by an indoor wireless communications network featuring Heliax FXL aluminium transmission cable from Andrew. [ + ]

LPRS has provided ITV technical services with easy-Radio wireless modules to monitor the movements of cats for a US-based program maker. [ + ]

ES&S has been awarded a major contract with the Defence Acquisition Program Administration of Korea. [ + ]

Rohde & Schwarz (Australia) and the Ground Telecommunications Equipment Systems Program Office have signed a contract to supply three transportable air operations towers for use by the RAAF. [ + ]

Octasic has formed a Software Defined Radio (SDR) development group to provide wireless solutions based on its low-power, OpusDSP technology. [ + ]

Connectivity Lab researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are delving deeper into the channel characteristics of vehicles in motion communicating via dedicated short-range communications based on IEEE 802.11p. [ + ]

Tait Electronics has named Frank Owen as its new Managing Director to replace Michael Chick when he retires from the company in 2009. [ + ]