IBM will establish a world-first global research and development laboratory at the University of Melbourne.

ABB has been awarded a contract worth $4.5 million to supply power technology for the Collagar wind farm project, 25 km south-east of Merredin in Western Australia.

After only a 4% growth in 2009, the mobile phone display market is set to grow by 14% in 2010, with shipments forecast to reach 1.68 billion units, according to the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile Phone Shipment and Forecast Report.

M2M Connectivity has become a distributor in Australia and New Zealand for Opengear’s ACM50004-G, a 3G device server and secure remote management appliance.

Despite a challenging domestic economic environment, the US solar market grew 36% in 2009, according to the United States PV Market 2010 from Solarbuzz, part of the NPD Group.

Farnell has given about $20,000 worth of electronics products to the University of NSW to assist the university’s electrical and electronics engineering program.

Design engineers and purchasers in China, India, Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region can now conduct business with Digi-Key wirelessly with the availability of an application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users. The iPhone application is currently available in English and allows customers to make purchases in local, company-supported currencies.

Harting Hong Kong has won the Brand Conscience Award for 2009 organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Marketing.

Eaton is to acquire Wright Line Holding, subject to regulatory approvals and other conditions.

CrispTech has moved to Brisbane.

According to NanoMarkets, OLED lighting will generate US$6.0 billion in revenues by 2015 driven by the need for cost-efficient lighting in a number of different applications, including general illumination, architectural lighting, backlighting, vehicle lighting and signage.

Cisco and Hong Ngoc hospital in Vietnam have collaborated to make the hospital the first private hospital in Vietnam to commit to a technologically advanced health care system.

Cisco and Citrix Systems are working together to deliver a new combined desktop virtualisation solution that will make it easier and more cost effective for businesses to deploy high-definition virtual desktops and applications to all users across the enterprise.

Flying, it is claimed, will be a lot safer and more efficient thanks to collision avoidance, emergency landing and separation management technologies being developed at a new joint Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO aerospace research centre.

Emerson has completed its acquisition of the Chloride Group, which now joins global product brands within Emerson Network Power.