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Impress Media Australia has completed the $100,000 “green” renovation of its office building in Norwood by installing 26 solar panels on its northern roof.

The 4.94-kilowatt system, comprising an array of 26 190-watt Suntech photovoltaic panels and an SMA SunnyBoy 5000TL inverter, is expected to pay for itself through reduced power costs within five years.

As well as producing power for offices in the 120-year old, six-room Norwood villa, the solar system will feed electricity to the South Australian grid during weekends and public holidays.

Impress Media Australia is an Adelaide-based public relations agency that specialises in providing media communication services for technology companies and fast-growing businesses.

Impress Media Australia founder and managing director John Harris said the solar panels were the final stage of a renovation project that started when he bought the property in 1999. “We’ve turned a drafty old building into a state-of-the-art office,” he said.

Matthew Franceschini When Entity Solutions recognised that it had outgrown its accounting software, the multi-award-winning professional engagement (contractor management) services company turned to Evolution Business Systems (EBS) and the Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise management software to meet its needs.

With turnover growth of nearly 50 per cent in 2010-11, Entity Solutions choose Microsoft Dynamics NAV because it offered the ability to immediately meet its current needs and the flexibility to meet all requirements for the foreseeable future. For Entity Solutions CEO Matthew Franceschini, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV project was “the single most successful technology implementation I have ever seen” – on time, within budget and delivering more than EBS initially promised.

Anna Solding signs her best-selling book Hum of ConcreteSwedish-born Adelaide author Anna Solding, whose debut novel has received rave reviews, will sign copies of her best-selling book, The Hum of Concrete, in Norwood this weekend.

Although English is not Anna’s mother tongue, the style of her writing in The Hum of Concrete has been praised as ‘enchanting’, ‘engagingly different’, ‘sensuous and heartfelt’ by book critics at newspapers including The Advertiser, The Canberra Times and The Age.
 
Readers agree! Right now, The Hum of Concrete is on the bestsellers’ shelf in Dillons Norwood Bookshop, where Anna will sign copies from midday, on Saturday, April 28.
 
“I couldn’t be happier,” says Anna. “After all these years of writing, it feels like everything has fallen into place. It is wonderful to see so many people enjoy my work.”
 
The Hum of Concrete is set in the Swedish city of Malmö, where Anna grew up, and deals with issues of love, longing, sexuality, motherhood and community. According to The Canberra Times, Anna writes about her characters with ‘unadorned honesty and humanity 
 

John ConvillAustralian security specialist Vision Security Services has announced an iPhone app that provides easy access to its Mobotix range of remote monitoring IP cameras.

Called Q-Cam Professional, the Australian-developed application is designed primarily for the remote monitoring and control of Mobotix cameras.

QCam Pro makes use of the Mobotix MXPEG protocol which allows live audio and video directly from the camera. It also provides a simple “Speak” function for two-way voice communications directly with speaker-equipped cameras. QCamPro is developed by SA-based QIMS (http://www.qims.net.au/qcampro.html).

Vision Security Services managing director John Convill describes QCam Pro as “fantastic”. “I’ve have already loaded it with more than 50 cameras, multiple sites with multiple views,” he said.