Comments on: Big Intel News Today – What is it?

By: Put Together Quickly by Michael Biven

Put Together Quickly by Michael Biven — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:13:17 +0000

[...] After posting a response to JoshB’s question on what Intel’s big news announcement was without googling it, I was selected at random as the winner of an aluminum case for a 60GB iPod from CoreCases.com. While it won’t fit the current 4G iPod I have now, it does give me an excellent excuse to get a new one. Thanks Josh! MacZOT has a new deal today, Unsanity’s Chat Transcript Manager for only $8. That is down form the normal $20 and it is now a Universal binary. [...]

By: TinyScreenfuls.com » Blog Archive » Congrats to Michaelb - Winner of the “Big Intel News” contest!

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:08:24 +0000

[...] On the day of the announcement, there wasn’t much buzz in the blogosphere about vPro. I have my speculative reasons for why that might have been, but as an experiment, I challenged TinyScreenfuls readers to post their guess as to what the news was. I wanted to see who had heard of vPro, and I dangled the idea of a prize to get people to post. [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:44:50 +0000

vPro. Engadget.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/intel-launches-vpro-brand-for-business-computing/

By: Nick Starr

Nick Starr — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:28:53 +0000

vPro is the only thing I can think of that i’ve heard about down the pipeline.

By: Mark VandeWettering

Mark VandeWettering — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:22:53 +0000

If a product is announced in the forest, but nobody notices, can it really be considered big news?

By: Robyn Tippins

Robyn Tippins — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:23:19 +0000

I have to admit, I had no clue (though I applaud you for making me dig to find the answer). This is actually pretty big news, why no bigger splash with vPro announcement?

By: Michaelb

Michaelb — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:29:45 +0000

That would be vPro, Intels answer to Apple’s i apps. The Viiv and vPro platforms.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060424-6664.html

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:01:21 +0000

You mean this, Josh?

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20060422corp.htm

I have to disqualify myself for being unable to resist the temptation to search for the answer.

By: Kungfucius

Kungfucius — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:59:34 +0000

I’m gonna guess it’s the vPro branding. I read up on it over here.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1948