Emerson Process Management has announced a name change for the company’s TankRadar gauging systems from Saab Rosemount to Rosemount. [ + ]

New technology that will eliminate the communication black spots which trouble emergency service officers has been launched by Telstra. [ + ]

WorkSafe Victoria announced this week that nominations for its 2007 WorkSafe Awards are open. [ + ]

Globalstar, an Australian dual mode mobile satellite and cellular mobile telephone service provider, has announced its official sponsorship of this year’s television broadcast of the start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. [ + ]

Globalstar has launched its Mobile everywhere product at the ATUG (Australian Telecommunications Users Group) 2004 Regional Conference being held this month. [ + ]

The operation of radio local area networks (RLANs) in the 5 GHz frequency range in Australia may soon be expanded under proposals being considered by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA). [ + ]

The University of South Australia has joined forces with the SciVentures Pre-Seed Fund to take on the world's digital wireless communications market. [ + ]

In the future, mobile phone calls and television pictures could become a lot clearer thanks to tiny antennas thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair. At least that's the speculation of a University of Southern California researcher who has been investigating nanotube transistors. [ + ]

British company ERA Technology has received a grant from the UK Department of Trade and Industry under its Aeronautics Research Program to help fund research into new communications technology for the aerospace industry. [ + ]

The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has launched a project to provide strategic insights into the future of communications regulation. [ + ]

The building community soon may have radio vision - a new way to 'see' moisture inside walls. Building researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US have joined forces with Intelligent Automation Inc. to develop a way to use ultra wide-band radio waves to non-destructively detect moisture within the walls of a building. [ + ]

Wireless technology may put doctors who don't rely on desktop computers and paper charts in a better position to treat their patients. [ + ]

The Philippines' largest mobile carrier, SMART Communications, has selected to commercially deploy Mobilitec's prominent solution for Over-the-Air content delivery and management, mPower. SMART is Mobilitec's eleventh carrier grade commercial deployment. With this deployment, Mobilitec's customer base now represents a potential base of over 70 million users. [ + ]

Wi-Fi clearinghouse, Hotspot Global has announced a key partnership to deliver 'Broadband for Boats' around Australia. [ + ]

Research carried out by NCR Corporation in co-operation with the University of Dundee in Scotland may be the key to automated teller machine (ATM) deployment in some of the more remote corners of the globe. The Dundee research has demonstrated how an ATM could run on DC current from batteries powered by a solar panel. [ + ]