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Sand Hill Engineering have released the new v6.0 of their Mac home automation software - XTension.  With many new features including the X2Web web interface, a new database and graphic charting package XTdb plus new Video Pitcher...

The speed of development for the open source media centre Plex continues a pace.  This weeks surprise announcement sees a partnership formed between Plex and the beautiful skinning engine from CenterStage.  Check out the Flash Demo of the graphics after the jump...

We've updated the iPhone to V2.0 and installed a few apps to play with.  Of most interest to Home Automators will be the new free Apple "Remote" application.  Here's a quick two minute video tour showing just how quick and easy it is to install and use...

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Yes, it's another iPhone remote do-hicky, but this one is really interesting.  Created in the UK by Steve Moore the system comprises of two parts.  An iPhone / iPod touch application and a hardware base station that recevies the commands from the iPhone app and converts them to IR and Serial commands allowing you to control anything from a TV to an entire AMX home automation system...

The wait is over, some rumours smashed, others proven true.  The next generation Phone was announced a few minutes ago by Steve Jobs in his keynote at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.  Of course the iPhone is now a 3G device as expected and it now features a built in GPS.  Read on for all the other juicy details...

UPDATE - UK Tariffs just published