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ASBIS to launch its own smartphones
2012-05-22
Cyprus-based broadliner ASBIS, which also owns offices in Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dubai, Egypt, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine, is planning to launch its own offer of smartphones by the end of the year, under its Prestigio brand.

Afcom distributes Terratec
2012-05-22
Switzerland : network specialist Afcom has expanded its accessory portfolio with Terratec tuners and music accessories.

Avnet Memec announces new technical marketing structure
2012-05-22
Semiconductor specialist Avnet Memec has unveiled a new focussed technical marketing strategy for Europe, headed by the company's regional vice president for Northern Europe, Bill Walker. As part of a broader restructure, Walker will absorb the role of vice president, technical marketing, in addition to his existing role. From 2004 to July 2005 Walker was president of demand creation for the Memec Group in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to that, he held the position of CEO Insight Memec EMEA. During 20 years with Memec, Walker held a range of senior sales, marketing and management positions. In addition, he served as the Memec representative for the Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA executive team on the successful integration process of Memec into Avnet Electronics Marketing. With his appointment as technical marketing vice president, the current management structure will remain largely unchanged regarding supplier ownership. However, Walker will initiate a new and more streamlined approach to technical marketing activities, which will primarily focus on major vertical markets and key technologies such as low power devices and power management, convertors, energy harvesting, wireless and wired technologies.

Optimus fights viruses with Bitdefender
2012-05-22
Dubai based storage and telecom VAD Optimus Technology and Telecommunications has signed a distribution agreement with Romanian antivirus editor Bitdefender for the Middle East and North Africa region, including Pakistan and Afghanistan. As per the agreement, Optimus will promote and distribute Bitdefender's range of end point, gateway and servers security products and will create and establish Bitdefender's value channel network by conducting channel development activities for its value added resellers, systems integrators and distributors. It is although doubtful that the company will be very efficient in French-speaking North Africa, which demands French versions of the software it uses, and thus should be covered more efficiently from French-speaking distributors and VADs.

Imago displays on Procolor
2012-05-22
France : IP video VAD Imago has added Procolor projection screen solutions to its portfolio.