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We all know that systems integration is the single biggest hurdle in building complex smart home systems today.  The Amigo Challenge is putting up thousand of Euro in prize money to encourage submissions to their project.  Watch the video after the jump for Amigos glimpse of an integrated, truly intelligent smart home future...

We've just updated our main news page RSS feed to include images.  You now get special low-bandwidth versions of the images from the intro text of each of our stories. Images are a great addition to news feed browsing, and we recommend Google Reader if you'd like to give it a try...

The iPhone is the best mobile browsing experience we’ve ever encountered, it’s the first phone where you really can navigate normal, proper, full graphical versions of your favourite websites.  However, for the times where you aren’t on Edge or Wi-Fi its also nice to have a fast loading easy to read iPhone formatted version of a site, which is why today we are launching the beta of our own iPhone formatted pages …

We are delighted to welcome Keene Electronics as the new Sponsor of the Automated Home Wiring Guide .  Keene have been featured here many times already, with their huge range of products for the Smart Home enthusiast.  For example Keene now stock over 20 different AV wall outlet plates and have many solutions for AV and IR distribution over CAT5.  Read on for the link to get your own free Catalogue from Keene...

Well, it looks like Apple are set to make the UK iPhone announcement tomorrow in their Regent Street store in London.  I was lucky enough to play with the iPhone for a couple of hours on the day after its launch back in June in the US as I was there on holiday at the time.  While there are still well documented issues with the device, I have to admit to being completely blown away with it and so I’ll probably be buying one.  But what’s the iPhone got interest the Home Automator…