Late News

• Multimedia vendor Miro has signed Ideal Hardware to distribute its full range of digital video products.
• Swiss PC components distributor Karma International has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Iomega Corporation.
• UK-owned Pericom software has bought out the largest US distributor of its software products for an undisclosed sum. The company, whose clients include AT&T, will call itself Pericom Software Inc.
• Multimedia distributor Imago Micro has launched a division to concentrate on presentation products. It will be headed by ex-Mitsubishi product sales manager Stuart Harper.
• Olivetti has announced price cuts across its range of Echos and Echos Pro notebook computers. Prices on the Echos Pro range will fall 23 per cent.
• Intel has released a range of Pentium Overdrive chips with MMX technology for upgradable Pentium processor-based systems with speeds of 100MHz, 90MHz and 75MHz.
• A #5,600 fine and 18-month suspended sentence have been meted out to a French hacker Anthony Chris Zbloralski, who robbed the FBI?s Paris bureau of $250,000 worth of international phone calls.
• Great Plains has signed accountancy giant Deloitte & Touche as a Dynamic reseller for accountancy and financial management software applications.