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Dixons Stores Group, the owners of UK technology chains PC World, Currys and Dixons, has agreed to sell its stake in high street communications chain The Link to O2

Harlow distributor Gem has acquired the assets and brands of the Exspect range of accessories.

Microsoft has teamed up with distributor VIP to bring attention to its Genuine Advantage anti-piracy initiative.

Antivirus and maintenance software package is offered to the US market for a cool $50 a year

To celebrate becoming an official partner of Acer notebooks, distributor VIP is offering retailers a boost by offering an Acer Travelmate 2423WXMi Notebook for £324.00.

Telco giant swoops for etailer as part of its “strategy to strengthen its online sales and service capabilities.”

VIP hopes to capture the imagination of football fans in the run up to the World Cup with an HDTV/Media Center PC spring bundle.

Dixons is to become an exclusively online brand with 190 Dixons retail outlets being rebranded ‘Currys.digital’.

Clive Bishop, known to all in the industry as CEO of the trade body for computer retailers - NASCR - has resigned, citing irreconcilable differences with the NASCR committee.

To be sold as going concern.

Chancellor Gordon Brown has shocked and dismayed the PC industry by cancelling tax relief for the Home Computing Initiative (HCI).

Beta soon, business version in November, nothing for consumers until Jan 07