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Lord Sugar trial tweet was censored by court

Amstrad and Viglen founder Alan Sugar was ordered by a judge to take down a... Read more

27 May, 2011

Becta strikes IT framework agreement with suppliers

...Solutions; Mass Consultants; Misco; Mouchel; Northgate; Redstone; RM; Tribal; Tribune Business Systems; Viglen; Virtue Technologies; XMA; Zentek Solutions; Bovis Lend Lease; Pearson Education; and Babcock... Read more

1 December, 2010 by Kable

Freezers, hot water and hard work: Could you handle IT in Antarctica?

...wherever you go you'll find the same PCs. We use primarily Viglen PCs - not so we support Alan Sugar but so that if somebody... Read more

16 August, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Return of Sugar may mean buying for Viglen

...s legendary deal-making expertise is being called on to steady the Viglen ship. The London-based direct seller said yesterday that Sugar is assuming... Read more

12 February, 1998 by Martin Veitch

Viglen-MS PC deal raises ire, suspicion

...the dominant supplier of PCs in the retail channel in the UK; Viglen has previously sold almost exclusively through the direct channel. The move is... Read more

2 October, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Viglen sees Field Of Dreams as shares fail to soar

Viglen shares failed to soar on the UK PC vendor's first day... Read more

4 August, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Networks '97: Viglen the biggest Net PC fan of all

...users can't do anything to is very powerful," said Diran Kazandjian, Viglen technical and marketing director. "One public sector buyer told me he wants... Read more

26 June, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Viglen first to offer Video Phone

Video Phone is optionally available on Viglen's new Pentium II-based Genie 2 desktops. Prices start at £1... Read more

12 May, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Sugar buys Learning Technology

...70 percent of Learning Technology's shares. Learning Technology, formerly known as Viglen, went public in 1997 and its share price peaked at 270p in... Read more

8 August, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

One Year Ago: Viglen get aggressive

UK direct seller Viglen is flying the Union Jack as it guns for Dell and Gateway... Read more

4 June, 1998 by Martin Veitch

BSkyB to buy Amstrad for £125m

...from 1986. Now, however, the PC business has been hived off to Viglen, and the vast bulk (75 percent) of Amstrad revenue comes from selling... Read more

31 July, 2007 by Peter Judge

University computer cluster boosts Cern research

...at Queen Mary is backed by Sir Alan Sugar, the chairman of Viglen. Sir Alan, the technology entrepreneur who founded Amstrad, unveiled the cluster at... Read more

8 May, 2007 by Colin Barker
Alan Sugar and the secrets of the universe

Alan Sugar and the secrets of the universe

...Ninety percent of the cluster is built from servers from Amstrad's Viglen subsidiary, with the latest hardware bringing 280 dual-processor dual-core AMD... Read more

8 May, 2007 by Leader

1997 In Review

...was building. A guy shot a PC. Nat Semi bought Cyrix. August Viglen floated. Tosh went into desktops. Intel shipped the 440LX chipset. September Apple... Read more

31 December, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Compaq rugby deal latest of many IT sporting hooks

...and previously Southend Football Club), plus televised snooker, cricket and rallying, and Viglen, the main sponsor of Charlton Athletic Football Club. In software, Corel Systems... Read more

4 February, 1997 by Martin Veitch

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