108177 Resource 81704 106130 106130 1132339993790 1132342124241 Controlled Intel's Secret Branding Plans Uncovered

Is this an online branding ploy?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">After reading this </font><a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Branding-Plans-Desconspired-12675.shtml" target="_blank"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">article</font></a><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> written like something out of a Ludlum book I just wondered if this “leak” isn’t a part of an internet branding </font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">strategy.  </font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">According </font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">to the article, a </font><a title="Internet branding" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://x86-secret.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dx86-secret.com%2B%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG" target="_blank"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">French website</font></a><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> recently revealed a new set of logos and a new brand designation for Intel processors; stating “With the occasion of a total recasting of INTEL logos (see below), we could obtain the commercial names of the Yonah futures. Surprised! For the first time since 10 years, Exit the term "Pentium". Yonah will be thus baptized "INTEL Core Solo" and "INTEL Core Duo" according to whether one speaks about Yonah Single Core or Dual Core. The platform "<city /><place />Napa</place /></city />" accomodate Yonah Dual Core will become thus "Centrino Duo".”</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="center"><img alt="Intel logos online branding article" hspace="0" src="http://news.softpedia.com/images//news2/Intel-s-Branding-Plans-Desconspired-2.jpg" align="baseline" border="0" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "><shapetype id="_x0000_t75" stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600" /><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></span></font></p><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Internet branding tactics come in a variety of shapes and sizes…so to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Whether this unofficial look at Intel’s alleged new logos was intentional or not, it certainly drew my attention to their brand.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></p><p><a title="Online Branding" href="http://www.expansionplus.com/index.html" target="_blank"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Online branding</font></a><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> needs to be a part of an overall integrated corporate branding strategy.  </font><a title="Internet Branding" href="http://www.expansionplus.com/impr/index.html" target="_blank"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Internet branding</font></a><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> gets priceless PR mileage for a company when done correctly.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" /><p /></font></font></font> 10 application/xml false Internet Branding Online Branding Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 64.30.211.29 64.30.211.29 pauls false true false false true 177676 false false true false false false true 81704 blog blogsite/Falkow/web