AMTA’s Chair, Louise Sexton (VHA), gave the following address to the 2009 Annual General Meeting in Sydney yesterday: Our industry has faced challenging and uncertain international economic conditions during this year. We have met this uncertainty to record a robust performance under difficult market conditions.

AMTA has welcomed a new Board Member, Kalevi Kostiainen of Nokia Siemens Networks, following yesterday’s 2009 Annual General Meeting in Sydney.

The mobile telecommunications industry was starting to get the rising level of consumer complaints “under control” and the connect.resolve was “making a difference”, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, Deirdre O’Donnell, told AMTA’s Members Forum in Sydney last night.

A new national telephone-based warning system that will alert Australians in the event of a life-threatening emergency will begin operating next week.

People who received daily text messages reminding them to apply sunscreen were nearly twice as likely to use it as those who did not receive such messages, a new study led by a UC Davis Health System dermatologist has found. Researchers hope their findings, which appear in the November issue of the Archives of Dermatology, will inspire other health-care providers to use text messaging to encourage healthy habits in their patients, such as taking prescribed medications properly.

Mobile phones could soon be used to fight noise pollution - an irony that won't be lost on those driven to distraction by mobile phones' ringtones, the New Scientist reports.

A study to identify any rare side effects of the swine flu vaccination is being launched by scientists in Scotland, the BBC reports from the UK.

The Israel Trade Commission (ITC) together with the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) invites you to attend another seminar of the series IT from the ITC dealing with Telecommunication Infrastructure from Israel. This event will highlight Technology for the Telecom Sector, and give you a chance to understand what is coming out of Israel today. Israel is known to be one of the technology hubs of the world.