Here’s a riddle for you. How do you improve staff morale, productivity and loyalty while enabling your workers to enjoy the summer months and the excitement of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games? Rent computer equipment to enable them to work from home. Hire Intelligence offers everything from laptop rental, tablet rental, iPad and iPhone hire, desktop and printer rental, AV hire - any IT rental solution in London and the UK is possible.

 

Not convinced? A recent flexible-working pilot by O2 for its 3,000-strong workforce at its headquarters in Slough, which is close Eton Dorney, the Rowing and Canoe/Kayak  venue for the London 2012 Games, resulted in 2,000 hours of commuting time saved, an extra 1,000 hours worked and a significant drop in car, water and electricity usage.

 

Still not convinced? It is predicted that the London 2012 Games will see an extra 5.3 million visitors hit the UK, along with 11,000 athletes, 7,000 foreign officials and 24,000 military and police.  Add this to a transport system already near capacity and it looks like a summer of delays and lost working hours for those attempting to navigate the daily commute. Transport for London (TfL) has warned London commuters to make alternative travel arrangements during the 2012 Games and has urged businesses to consolidate their flexible working policies ahead of this summer’s events.

 

Financial services firm Citi has taken the advice to heart and surveyed the 7,00...

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Hire Intelligence has received a black belt of approval from the GB Taekwondo Team, as it is confirmed as the Official Technology Rental Partner for the European Championships and beyond.

The partnership will begin at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester on 3 to 6 May and will continue through to the London Games, where the GB Taekwondo Team will be competing on 9 and 10 August. Hire Intelligence will provide the team with a large number of 40-inch LCD screens to serve as scoreboards, plus IT rental equipment including computers, laptops and printers.

With only 100 days left until the start of London 2012, we’ve been experiencing a huge increase in enquiries for LCD screen and plasma hire for the Olympics and sports events. The scope of interest ranges from Olympic teams; media, broadcast and events agencies, and large corporates through to SMEs, all looking for additional equipment to support events and screen the Games.

Our advice to anyone looking for AV rental and IT hire for the Olympics or sports event is: book early to avoid disappointment.

 



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After endless rumours and fever pitch anticipation, the new iPad has finally been unveiled.  (Its official name isn’t actually iPad3, but how else are we to differentiate it from our existing rental fleet of iPad2s?) So: it’s heavier (49 gms) and thicker (0.6mm) than the iPad2, but it is also faster, cleaner and sharper. It’s the daddy!

Before the US launch of the new iPad on March 7, rumours abounded that it would be called iPad HD. With the stunning Retina display it’s easy to see why. Four times as many pixels as before makes everything jump out of the screen, there’s more colour, more definition. Even websites and text look sharper.

The new iSight camera takes 5MP photos and records video in full HD (1080p) compared with the iPad2’s HD (720p).

But the biggest upgrade is the fact that it’s the first Apple product to connect to 4G mobile networks, promising a speed boost of up to five times that of current networks. It will get you there faster, get you there first.  But while there are currently are some European countries with 4G network coverage, the UK is not one of them.

How appropriate then that the fastest iPad’s launch coincides with the UK’s preparati...

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Like the rest of Britain, at Hire Intelligence we’re excited that the 2012 Olympics is going to be held in London, right on our doorstep. And it got us thinking, how different will London 2012 be to the Sydney Olympics 12 years ago, or those in Beijing just four years ago? In terms of new technology and demand for IT and AV hire, we believe this Olympics will be like no other!

If you look back to 2000 there were no tablets or smartphones… yes there was once a time without Blackberrys and IPhones! Back then popular IT rentals included the state-of-the-art laptop, Sony VAIO PCG-SRX99, which offered an 850MHz Pentium III-M, 256MB of RAM, 802.11b for wireless networking (if you could find a wireless network, that is) and 20GB of storage.


Today, tablets  are just as popular as the laptops of 2000. The Apple iPad 2, has an 850MHZ processor and 512MB of faster RAM  than the Sony VAIO PCG-SRX99. It holds between 16 and 64GB in flash storage and offers faster Wi-Fi networking (802.11g). Equally, Samsung’s latest tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, offers a co...

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It’s the start of a new year and what better way to begin than with our first ever blog!

So, here goes…

With London’s jam-packed 2012 events calendar people are going to flock to England from across the world. London will this year be the home of the Torch Relay and The Olympic and Paralympic Games, plus the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the London 2012 festival, Wimbledon, Royal Ascot – the list goes on. London is definitely the place to be in 2012!

We all watch these major events but have you ever thought about the incredible and vast amount of technology needed to make them a success? High quality, leading audio-visual technology is essential for a smooth operation. Equipment used will include laptops and PCs, servers, MACs and IPads, Plasma and LCD screens, PA and videoconferencing systems and much more.

The latest in technology is also changing how we watch events at home, down the pub or an open-air event, with the opportunity to rent projectors or large LED and plasma TV screens.

Hire Intelligence provides short-term AV hire and IT rentals for any type of event, from small business conferences to huge sporting events… a huge range of our equipment was even used at the 2000 Sydney Olympics!

As one of the UK’s largest players in the short-term IT and audio visual rental market, we guarantee leading technology, top brands, low rates and an efficient and reliable service.

Call Hire Intelligence today to hire the latest in leading audio-visual and...

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