RedHotAnt raided

The offices of defunct ISP RedHotAnt have been raided by Kent County Council over suspicions of malpractice. The unmetered ISP finally shut up shop last week, leaving customers who had each paid ?120 for a yearly subscription high and dry. The council obtained a warrant to search the firm's premises and took away several pieces of equipment. ...more

Intel waving not drowning, in new digital wave

The "next wave of computing" is upon us, according to one of Intel's main men, and Intel is positioning itself to ride the huge "digital wave" of increasingly smart media. Speaking at his first European press briefing for a couple of years, the Intel Executive Vice President and the General Manager of Intel's Architecture Group was spelling out the chip giant's view of how it is and how it should be. Digital wave Stressing commitment to developing the PC platform - "we are not in a post-PC world" - Otellini identified three major stages to the growth of PCs over the last twenty years. ...more

File-sharing Brits push music industry losses north of ?1bn

File-sharing has cost the UK music industry ?1.1bn over the past three years, according to the industry's main trade group, the BPI. The BPI said that independent research by TNS Worldpanel estimates that in 2005, p2p sharing resulted in lost sales worth ?414mn, an increase on ?278mn in 2003 and ?376mn in 2004. ...more

China shoots down computer game for blackening its image

China chucks out 'I'm Going' In computer game Reports in China's People's Daily say that the country's State Press and Publication Administration (SPPA) 'issued an order Wednesday to investigate and recover all copies' of Project IGI2 because it intentionally blackened the image of both China and its army. Published over here by Codemasters, Project IGI2 (I'm Going In): Covert Strike is a first person shooter in which the protagonist must complete a series of undercover missions in the former Soviet Union, Libya and China, involving sabotage and the latter of which includes shooting at Chinese soldiers. The game has been pronounced illegal and SPPA has said it will use the law to punish the publishers, makers and sellers of Project IGI2. ...more

World's first holographic disc drive unveiled

Colorado-based start up InPhase Technologies has announced a prototype of what it says is the world's first holographic disc drive. The company says that it intends to develop a family of WORM drives under the name 'Tapestry' with capacities ranging from 200Gb up to a whopping 1.6Tbytes. ...more