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Colour Confidence protects screens with PChOOD
2010-03-10
British-based Colour Confidence has started the distribution in EMEA region of PChOOD monitor hoods.

Actebis to strengthen in value
2010-03-09
Germany : broadliner Actebis has unveiled its intentions to grow in VAD business, potentially through the acquisition in 2010 of a VAD. It has not been precised if such an acquisition would cover necessarily cover all Actebis offices in Europe, or only its German head office, even if only the latter currently has a value-added business.

Netmotion goes two-tier
2010-03-08
American mobile VPN vendor Netmotion Wireless has started a two-tier strategy in order to conquer more rapidly European market. « We entered Europe through an exclusive partnership with a British representative in 2007. Since then, we opened subsidiaries in France to cover Southern Europe and in Germany for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Our British representative covers now UK and Northern Europe through system integrators», explains Mikael Taillepied, Southern Europe director of the company. In these two regions, Netmotion Wireless has started to build a distribution network on local integrators, just like it does in the US. It is now seeking distributors to expand more rapidly.

« Our German office has signed a partnership with Hako Computing, and we just stroke a deal with French Yatoo, which is specialized in mobility in healthcare environment : this market is a tremendous opportunity for us, as a French law has recently been passed, which requires healthcare professionals to encrypt their exchanges when they access patient data», Mikael says. The company is now seeking other distributors in Europe : « we are opened to any profile, but I guess either security VADs or mobility specialists would be the best profiles», Mikael plans.

GNT becomes Also
2010-03-08
Four years after acquiring it, Swiss broadliner Also has decided to change the name of its Scandinavian subsidiary GNT to Also. This change, which should be effective rapidly, will cover all remaining GNT offices, that is Estonia, Finland, Norway, Latvia and Lithuania, as Poland and Sweden have been closed in the last years.

A new head for Trygg Data
2010-03-08
Norway : Egil Løseth, who was the CEO of security VAD Trygg Data, has stepped "down" to chairman on the company. New CEO is Trond Arne Kongsli (source : IT-Bransjen Norge).