Iomart sells Madasafish

Scottish ISP Iomart has bailed from the consumer market by selling Madasafish for ?3m. The firm will now concentrate on providing business services. The identity of the investors who bought Madasafish remains unclear, but according to Iomart's financial director David Harrison, they are buying a "viable business". ...more

Comment: The fall and rapid rise of PC firms

It hasn't been a good year for the Watfords of this world. The football team looks a dead cert for relegation, while PC maker Watford Electronics recently went into administration. Yet, while the Premiership dishes out a hefty punishment to under-performing teams (namely, millions in lost TV revenue and, cruelly, Tuesday night away trips to Stoke), certain executives behind Watford Electronics have shown remarkable 'bouncebackability'. ...more

Pathe publishes to the Net

British Pathe makes all 2,000 hours of published newsreel available online In a project funded by the National Lottery, British Pathe has put all the newsreels and cinemagazines online as digital videos. The archive offers 2,000 hours of footage, more than 90,000 individual items, spanning 60 years from 1910 to 1970. What is available now is everything that was shown in cinemas, which includes the the Wright brothers' first flight and footage of the Titanic. ...more

FSP releases Silent Solution Kit for PC processors

One for modders. FPS has released its Silent Solution Kit for the quiet cooling of Intel and AMD-based systems. The kits address the problem of high-specced computers that generate a lot of heat and thus require a lot of cooling. ...more

Negroponte defends One Laptop Per Child project

MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte took on critics of his One Laptop Per Child project, outlining a roadmap during his keynote at LinuxWorld Boston that could see machines in distribution for $50 by 2010. Both Intel and Microsoft made stinging remarks about the hardware powered by a crank handle: Intel has its own designs on getting its technology to developing nations and Microsoft may be riled by the choice of Linux as the operating system. Negroponte quipped that with Intel and Microsoft nay-saying his efforts, he was more convinced than ever he was on to something. ...more