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Viglen Viglen has won a £16m contract from Northern Ireland's Department of Education to supply 5,200 computers to primary schools. 31-Oct-2001 Viglen Technology is to change its name to Learning Technologies in order to reflect its new focus on the supply of IT equipment to the educational market. 22-Sep-2000 Viglen Technology is planning to launch an internet investment fund, in order to provide funding and management expertise to start-up companies. 19-Jan-2000 Viglen Technology is forming an alliance with Microsoft to provide subsidised hardware to 100 new Microsoft IT teacher-training centres. 09-Jun-1999 Viglen has agreed a deal in which Microsoft will brand its computers and its products will be sold through Dixons outlets. 02-Oct-1997 Amstrad is to be broken up into two separate companies - Betacom, the consumer electronics business, and Viglen Technology, the personal computer manufacturing and direct sales business. 04-Jun-1997 Amstrad is closing a factory at Shoebury, reducing its UK employees by 150, and merging its Amstrad Direct computer sales business into its Viglen operation. 06-Feb-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007