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Amstrad Prepares Next-gen E-m@iler
News The price of the e-m@iler phone is being cut yet again, as Amstrad tries to get more people to embrace its device ahead of the launch of a third-generation model. Amstrad announced on Monday that it is slashing the price of the existing e-m@iler to...
[January 5, 2004, 14:49]
Amstrad Still Losing Money On The E-m@iler
News The e-m@iler is still taking a chunk out of Amstrad's wallet, more than three years after the Internet phone first went on sale -- but profitability may finally be close. Amstrad announced on Thursday that its Amserve business, which is responsible...
[September 25, 2003, 13:25]
Amstrad Slashes Price Of E-m@iler
News UK consumer electronics manufacturer Amstrad is halving the price of its e-m@iler Plus in an attempt to boost uptake of the device. Amstrad announced on Thursday that it has cut the cost of an e-m@iler Plus -- which currently retails for around £99...
[January 2, 2003, 14:34]
Amstrad To Try Again With Next-gen E-m@iler
News Consumer electronics firm Amstrad is planning to launch a new version of its e-m@iler device. Amstrad announced the impending launch of the new product in its financial results for the year to 30 June 2001.
[September 27, 2001, 14:59]
Exclusive: Amstrad To Launch "smart" Mobile
News On Wednesday, Amstrad (quote: AMT) will take the wrappers of its much-rumoured communications device for business and consumers. Amstrad made its name in PCs and word processors by coming out with a cheaper product, and we reckon this is going to...
[March 23, 2000, 14:24]
Amstrad Brings Email To The Masses
News Amstrad Wednesday launched a device it believes will revolutionise how the UK's masses use email. Sir Alan Sugar, Amstrad's irrepressible director, said: "In true Amstrad tradition, the e-m@iler brings email to the mass market for the first time in...
[March 29, 2000, 10:00]
Amstrad Takes A Hit From Its E-m@iler
News Consumer electronics group Amstrad announced Thursday that its e-m@iler product cost it almost £4m in 2000. It is sold by Amserve, a joint venture between Amstrad and high street retailer Dixons, which recorded a loss of £4.9m in 2000.
[February 15, 2001, 11:43]
Amstrad Resurrects Classic Games For Mobiles
News Two great names from the prehistory of video games are set for revival, as ailing consumer electronics manufacturer Amstrad seeks to buy the copyright to Sinclair Spectrum games. Amstrad bought Sinclair Research's computer interests in 1986...
[December 4, 2001, 14:38]
Amstrad Doesn't Expect Seagate Award Reverse
News An Amstrad spokesman said today that its legal staff don't expect any major changes in the case. The payment relates to a lawsuit Amstrad has been pursuing since 1998 and relates to faulty disk drives the UK company claims caused sales of its PCs...
[May 13, 1997, 11:57]
Amstrad Adds Video To Revamped E-m@iler
News Consumer electronics manufacturer Amstrad announced on Wednesday that it is targeting small businesses, home workers and consumers with the launch of a fixed-line videophone. Amstrad plans to market the E3 as a simple, cost-effective method of...
[September 15, 2004, 14:25]
Amstrad E-m@iler Makes A Profit
News A steep price cut and new revenue-generating features have combined to bring Amserve, the unit of Amstrad which sells the e-m@iler Web/email device, into profit for the first time, the company said on Thursday.
[February 19, 2004, 12:40]
Viglen To Float After Amstrad Break Up
News Sugar said yesterday he plans to break up the Amstrad group and remove it from the London Stock Exchange. Amstrad shares rose five per cent on the news. A new holding company will be named Viglen Technology and will seek to float in London from...
[June 4, 1997, 15:49]
Five Years Ago: UK Firms Most Loyal To IBM, Amstrad, Tosh, Dell
News UK companies spend most on IBM, Compaq and Amstrad PCs, said a survey today, and show the most brand loyalty to Toshiba for portables and Dell in general. First published 28 February, 1997 The report from IT marketing company Banner & Co found 18...
[February 23, 2002, 6:01]
Amstrad Prepares Next-gen E-m@iler
Talkback Please Amstrad, stop spoiling your clever technology by using, what I suspect are, inferior peripherals. I have a 'Mk 1' e-mailer which is a great device spoilt by a poor telephone handset. I changed the original handset which had a continuous...
[January 6, 2004, 9:20]
BSkyB To Buy Amstrad For £125m
News Broadcaster BSkyB is buying Amstrad, the venerable computing name that once made up to a quarter of the European PC business — but the deal is all about set-top boxes, including the popular Sky+ digital video recorder.
[July 31, 2007, 13:15]
Five Years Ago: Psion Adds Up Cost Of Failed Amstrad Buy
News Potter also declined to comment on reasons for the collapse of the Amstrad purchase but said that it would still confident of having wireless communications in its handheld systems by 1998, after boosting its research and design budget by almost...
[August 7, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Mystery Over Psion/Amstrad Merger Collapse
News Amstrad was surprised by the collapse, saying it hadn't expected any last-minute hitches. Amstrad's official announcement stated that "it was not possible to reach agreement on the price at which such an offer should be made.
[July 28, 2001, 7:30]
Mystery Over Psion/Amstrad Merger Collapse
News Amstrad was surprised by the collapse, saying it hadn't expected any last-minute hitches. Amstrad's official announcement stated that "it was not possible to reach agreement on the price at which such an offer should be made.
[July 29, 1996, 13:13]
Amstrad Prepares Next-gen E-m@iler
Talkback Tell your Em@iler you are on a pabx line & prefix your number with eg a 9 so it won't be able to dial out to get your (non existant) emails at 12p a go. You then have a good phone at low cost but no email but then you should be using the net to do...
[February 19, 2004, 14:30]
Psion/Amstrad - Ex-Dataflex Exec Pans Amstrad's 'can Of Worms'
News Not everybody was surprised by the sudden death of the Amstrad/Psion deal last Friday. Philip Benge, former marketing director of Amstrad-owned modem maker Dataflex, yesterday lashed out at the structure of the once-impregnable electronics vendor...
[July 30, 1996, 12:39]
