Install Automation featured on the BBC’s ‘Midlands Today’ programme
August 18th, 2008Install Automation was recently featured on BBC Midlands Today for “bucking the trend” - being successful despite the credit crunch.
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Install Automation was recently featured on BBC Midlands Today for “bucking the trend” - being successful despite the credit crunch.
More here
“West Midlands company Install Automation says it has notched up 30 per cent year
on year growth – more than doubling its turnover in two years.
The firm is also predicting a rosy future, expecting to again double its turnover in the
next two years, and triple the size of the company by 2011…”
Read the full article here.
“Installing a control system for the lighting of your venue delivers many immediate benefits. A control system makes lighting control more intelligent, convenient, green and cost-effective…”
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Install Automation article in Housebuilder and Developer magazine.
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From BBC News
Construction of the world’s first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin.
The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments, spinning independently of one another.
“It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape,” said David Fisher, the tower’s architect.
“This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime,” he added.
The innovative, 420-metre (1,378-foot) building’s apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor… [read]
Not the Nine O’Clock News - Gramophone Sketch
This is how you can expect not to be treated when dealing with us 
From Engadget
Apple just announced that iTunes UK will finally make films available to British punters. Studios include 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK. At kickoff, about 700 films will be available to purchase or rent. Films cost £6.99 for purchased library titles and £10.99 for new releases. Rentals start at £2.49 for library titles and £3.49 for new releases — “HD” titles for £4.49 without with an Apple TV prerequisite, apparently. [read]
From The Guardian
The DVD is only 10 years old and yet the doom merchants are predicting it could join the likes of VHS tapes - vanishing from high-street stores and household shelves. With reports that Apple is poised to launch full-length film downloads in Britain and other companies offering their own video-on-demand services, even DVD industry insiders admit the format may eventually die out…[more]
Microsoft is signalling the end of the mouse with its latest operating system, which aims to build on the success of its rival Apple’s iPhone touch screen.
Windows 7 will allow PC users to touch, rather than point and click, in a move which indicates that the world’s most influential software company believes that the days of the keyboard-mouse combination are coming to an end. But some critics claim that Microsoft is a long way from replacing what has been the dominant human-computer interface since its invention by Xerox researchers in the 1970s… [more]
The company intends to unveil agreements with Disney, the studio behind the Pirates of the Caribbean series and Paramount, the company behind the Indiana Jones picture… [more]