The Bluetooth Special Interest Group - the global body overseeing and developing the bluetooth short range wireless technology has created a new working group to enhance interoperability between Bluetooth-enabled sports and fitness sensor products and other Bluetooth enabled devices.

The well known hands-free and unified comms company has crafted a new “education and sales program” to offer “greater support” for its 300 partners across the Aust and NZ region.

Nokia's first Windows Phone smartphone, the Lumia 800, is scheduled to go on sale in Australia in March. The three carriers and all major retailers will be offering the Nokia Lumia 800.

Telstra and HTC will start selling Australia's first 4G smartphone next Tuesday.

The Dell XPS 13 appears to be the company's answer to Apple's MacBook Air.

Samsung's CES announcements include a raft of new products heading for Australia this year. Heading the list are TVs with voice and motion control plus face recognition, somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, but there's a lot more in the company's latest home entertainment ranges.

The latest addition to Asus' Zenbook family features a 1.4GHz Core i3 processor.

The ZenBook, Asus' entry in the burgeoning ultrabook category, goes on sale in Australia tomorrow.

  Noise-cancelling headphones have become a common sight on airline passengers. Jabra has added this technology to its latest Bluetooth headset.  

Headset specialist Jabra has announced a pair of entry-level professional wireless headsets. One is intended for use with conventional desk phones, the other with unified communications applications, softphones, and applications such as Skype.