Late News

• The final spec for the Net PC will be delivered in time for Cebit on 19 March.
• Tempo has taken on Olivetti?s Xana PCs in all of its outlets.
• Compaq has beefed up its SME marketing team with Adam Denton joining from Motorola and Steve Torbe from Elonex .
• Dave Stokes has been promoted to head of UK national sales at Samsung Electronics just a few months after joining the world?s largest monitor manufacturer from Powell Stokes Communications, the Weybridge-based company which he co-founded in 1989.
• Scottish video and communications dealer McMillan UK has acquired the 25-year-old, Preston-based presentation systems company TWS. It now has branches in 11 cities.
• Lynx Technology, the Derbyshire corporate dealer, has opened a 24-hour helpdesk, giving worldwide cover for remote takeover, diagnostics and management of customer PCs, servers and networks.
• The newly relaunched Commodore Computers has signed Comet as its first UK retailer and appointed Softbank PSC to deliver technical support.
• Midwich Thame has won a contract to distribute Pace networking products.
• Steve Sawkins, a director of Hammer Distribution, has left the company.