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. [ + ]

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

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

At the TETRA World Congress, 11-14 June 2007 in Madrid, the Danish company Zonith A/S will present its solution for indoor positioning of TETRA radio terminals. [ + ]

Telstra Corporation has awarded an eight-year contract to Beam Communications to supply Iridium-based satellite equipment as part of a new interstate communication infrastructure for the Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (ARTC). [ + ]

RF Micro Devices has announced the addition of a research and development (R&D) centre in the company's Shanghai facility. [ + ]

Euro-engineer Keith Armstrong will be in Australia-New Zealand until July 2007 to present a series of up-to-date EMC courses to industry and the public, sponsored by EMC Technologies. [ + ]

The University of Western Australia has welcomed an announcement by Premier Alan Carpenter on the relocation of the site for the proposed $2 billion square kilometre array (SKA) radio astronomy project. [ + ]

Australia’s GME has international approval of its MT410 series of personal locator beacons (PLBs). [ + ]