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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…

An article in the New Scientist offers an innovative alternative to an on-going problem for home automations systems - occupancy detection.  Reliably sensing if a room is occupied, or trying to locate which room a particular person is in, is invaluable information for a Smart Home system. While this new approach is interesting, we don't think it’s quite accurate enough to be the answer...

Looks like we missed this last week! Our favourite Media Centre add-in - WebGuide4 - has been bought by Microsoft and is now FREE.  Its developer Doug Berrett has also been hired to work in the Media Center team. Congratulations to Doug, and to Microsoft for recognising Doug's great work.  Here's some words from Doug from his forums...