The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’ cellular telephone”.…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Your Housing Group begins local brand roll out
Your Housing Group was formed in April 2012 following the merger of Manchester based Harvest Housing Group with Liverpool based Arena Housing Group. It is one of the UK’s largest social housing providers with over 32,000 homes across the North…
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Weather causing disruption to services.
Due to the extreme weather we are experiencing today, certain installations are having to be postponed due to Health & Safety Reasons. Its unfortunate that we have had to do this, but the safety of our engineering team is paramount. The weather can effect…
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Organisation launches to help combat 4G interference
The organisation set up to help households experiencing interference from 4G signals has launched. Called at800, it has been given £180m by the UK’s mobile operators to ensure that next-generation services do not cause interference with TV services. Ofcom has…
Working on sensitive electronics in poor weather? – Not a problem!
Of all the things that we can control in the workplace, the weather is not one of them. Our engineers can guarantee that it will be a glorious sunny day when they have to work in cramped loft spaces, and they can also guarantee…
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Samsung HD Ready Roadshow
Today, a member of our team has been to the Samsung HD Ready Roadshow in Leeds, getting some hands on time with some fantastic Hardware and Software courtesy of the friendly bods at Samsung. More details will follow soon….
WiFi Connected Lighting Systems – whats next?
Philips has created an official developer program for its Wi-Fi connected Hue home lighting system, which includes an SDK for iOS and APIs to allow hardware and software developers to integrate Hue into their products. Hue, which is exclusive to iOS, allows users…
Recent Email and Website outages.
Following multiple errors with our hosts, our new website (this one) went off line last Tuesday. After lots of investigations it transpired that a DNS routing problem was the cause of the errors, resulting in visitors being redirected to a…
New Charter – Droylsden IRS+ Upgrade Progress.
The engineering team are progressing well with the upgrades of the old TV distribution systems for New Charter Homes. This upgrade will give each resident in the affected blocks a single socket with Dual Satellite feeds, Analogue and Digital Radio,…
