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Viglen First To Offer Video Phone
News Video Phone is optionally available on Viglen's new Pentium II-based Genie 2 desktops. Viglen can be contacted by telephone on 0181-758 7000. Prices start at £1,794 for a Genie 2 with 233MHz Pentium II, 32Mb RAM, 2.1Gb hard disk,, 12-speed CD-ROM...
[May 12, 1997, 11:41]
One Year Ago: Viglen Get Aggressive
News UK direct seller Viglen is flying the Union Jack as it guns for Dell and Gateway 2000. Direct sales is the healthiest part of the PC business and there is opportunity to focus on the activities of Dell and Gateway to make sure they don't get too...
[June 4, 1998, 6:00]
Viglen Sees Field Of Dreams As Shares Fail To Soar
News Viglen shares failed to soar on the UK PC vendor's first day of trading as a separate entity to Amstrad. Viglen was trading at about 65 pence towards the end of the day, down from its listing at 72.5 pence.
[August 4, 1997, 17:08]
Five Years Ago: Sugar Not Sweet On Viglen Sale
News While matchmakers link Amstrad's successful direct sales PC division Viglen with any number of vendors, a spokesman for the firm said the rumours were mischievous "nonsense". Steve Bennett, managing director of Warks.based mail-order giant Software...
[April 22, 2002, 7:01]
Viglen To Float After Amstrad Break Up
News A new holding company will be named Viglen Technology and will seek to float in London from early in August. Sugar will be a non-executive member of the Viglen board but his main role will be as chairman of the Betacom consumer electronics wing.
[June 4, 1997, 15:49]
Networks '97: Viglen The Biggest Net PC Fan Of All
News "We're already getting quite a few enquiries; the idea of a fully managed PC that 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 to move to Net...
[June 26, 1997, 10:48]
Return Of Sugar May Mean Buying For Viglen
News Alan Sugar's legendary deal-making expertise is being called on to steady the Viglen ship. The source said that Sugar could help broker a purchase in the next fortnight that would give Viglen more strength in networking and services.
[February 12, 1998, 10:30]
Viglen-MS PC Deal Raises Ire, Suspicion
News Dixons, which has stores under several names, is the dominant supplier of PCs in the retail channel in the UK; Viglen has previously sold almost exclusively through the direct channel. Although Viglen stressed that the HomePro systems support the...
[October 2, 1997, 17:31]
Sugar Not Sweet On Viglen Sale
News While matchmakers link Amstrad's successful direct sales PC division Viglen with any number of vendors, a spokesman for the firm said the rumours were mischievous "nonsense". Steve Bennett, managing director of Warks.based mail-order giant Software...
[April 21, 1997, 16:14]
New Viglen To Get Aggressive Against Dell, Gateway
News "Direct sales is the healthiest part of the PC business and there is opportunity to focus on the activities of Dell and Gateway to make sure they don't get too far away," said Bordan Tkachuk, a 10-year veteran of Amstrad who will hold the chief...
[June 4, 1997, 16:18]
Transmeta Gets Tablet Deal
News Viglen will use Transmeta's Crusoe processor in its new eXaro tablet PC, which is on sale now in the UK. A subsidiary of Learning Technology, Viglen sells PCs under its own brand name, as well as ones from Toshiba.
[February 19, 2003, 15:25]
Mystery Over Psion/Amstrad Merger Collapse
News A spokeswoman at Viglen, the direct sales PC operation, owned by Amstrad, said that it was "business as usual" and claimed there had been no disturbance to sales while sale negotiations were going on.
[July 29, 1996, 13:13]
PC Buyers Could Get Cheapest Xmas Ever
News A desktop sure to garner a lot of attention is Viglen's HomePro, the first PC to be co-branded with the Microsoft logo. Viglen: 0990-944944 Backing the trend towards sub-£1,000 PCs, makers are offering an unprecedented number of systems that aim...
[December 2, 1997, 15:40]
A Year Ago: PC Buyers Could Get Cheapest Xmas Ever
News A desktop sure to garner a lot of attention is Viglen's HomePro, the first PC to be co-branded with the Microsoft logo. Viglen: 0990-944944 PC vendors are taking the low-cost road to prising cash from Christmas consumer buyers.
[December 1, 1998, 5:15]
1997 In Review
News Viglen floated. Microsoft and Viglen said they will jointly badge a home PC. The first Pentium MMX PCs began to appear. Macro viruses were on the rampage. DRAM prices were jumping up. Troubled Italian giant Olivetti sold its PC operation.
[December 31, 1997, 7:00]
A Year Ago: 1997 In Review
News Viglen floated. Microsoft and Viglen said they will jointly badge a home PC. The year began with huge merger news: after being linked with startup Be, Apple said it planned to buy Steve Jobs' Next. The first Pentium MMX PCs began to appear.
[December 24, 1998, 5:38]
Review Of The Week, April 21-25
News Speaking of odd bedfellows, Software Warehouse head honcho Steve Bennett was one of the many who said he didn't have the cash for Viglen. The same week he kicked off his own Northwood PC company with a press conference at Regents Park Zoo.
[April 25, 1997, 17:07]
Sugar Buys Learning Technology
News Learning Technology, formerly known as Viglen, went public in 1997 and its share price peaked at 270p in 2000. Sir Alan Sugar, the entrepreneur best known for creating the Amstrad consumer electronics giant, has succeeded in buying back Amstrad's...
[August 8, 2002, 16:02]
Psion/Amstrad - Ex-Dataflex Exec Pans Amstrad's 'can Of Worms'
News Amstrad is a can of worms apart from Viglen [the direct sales PC subsidiary]. Viglen is the jewel in the crown, a lovely company. Not everybody was surprised by the sudden death of the Amstrad/Psion deal last Friday.
[July 30, 1996, 12:39]
Building A School For The Future
White Papers After an in-depth consultation with Capgemini, OGV&O opted to install a fleet of Intel technology-based Viglen PCs. A collective educational organisation, OGV&O operates three schools in the eastern Netherlands town of Venlo, employing 750 staff...
[May 17, 2007, 1:00]
