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. [ + ]

Airwave Solutions Australia has been formed in a partnership between Airwave Solutions (UK), a private mobile radio network operator, and Broadcast Australia, an independent national wireless communications network operator. [ + ]

Aeroflex and w2bi (Wireless to Business Integration) have agreed to pool their test expertise and technology to jointly develop a network certification platform for LTE mobile devices. [ + ]