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Sub-brand 'abducted' in favour of Alienware division

Firm blames partners for ignoring instruction on loading Intel XP images onto AMD machines

Microsoft set to host public preview of bundles as it seeks to increase SMB penetration

Communications arm of double PC Retail Award winner Enta set for win

Swedish vendor buys its UK distributor as part of UK expansion drive

Will invest ?30m over next two years and grow non-food floor space off back of 28.4 per cent rise in sales

In the wake of the Intel Solutions Summit, Andrew Wooden talks to UK and Ireland channel sales manager Gerald Grattoni about Intel's plans for the channel, and takes a look at its in house graphics operation Larrabee and the huge potential that has to change the whole landscape forever?

The independent PC retail sector has remained defiant in the face of impressive consumer electronic and laptop sales growth at the UK's largest supermarket.

The rhetoric employed to paint a picture of hugely powerful supermarkets swallowing up everyone else in the retail sector is certainly evocative enough to bring the plight of smaller retailers to the public's attention.

With Tesco?s consumer electronics division rocketing 31 per cent last year, Andrew Wooden speaks to IT buyer Matthew Leeser about the grocery giant?s positioning in the PC sector, and takes a wider look at just how threatened independent retailers really are?