Thursday, June 5, 2008

INTEL

‘Intel Inside’ or ‘Leap ahead’! When has that ever stopped anyone from buying a PC or laptop?

If youINTEL ever had to name a brand that you never see, yet swear by it then it has to be Intel. Intel’s long standing slogan has been ‘Intel Inside’, but last year the comp any changed tack and changed its tagline to ‘Leap ahead’. Of late, Intel has benefited from its strong line of innovative processors too. The first was the entire Core 2 Duo processor family. The fanfare and the fact that it was being bundled as the Microsoft Vista ready chip, created enough hype to keep its brand value intact in the top 100. However, the lack of any of the usually visible and aggressive advertising, did affect the user recall to some extent. Intel slipped from Rank 10 on the 4Ps B&M list of Valuable Brands last year to Rank 21 this time.

However, Intel rarely if ever lets inactivity on advertising front, affect it. It has just recently released the Santa Rosa platform for mobile computing, that builds on its famous mobile Centrino platform for laptops. In early 2006, it entered the rural market with its community PC programme unveiling its ruggedised PC platform. “Even though there is no direct contact, Intel has very strong OEM relationships. We do not choose Intel, it just comes with your laptops,” elaborates Akshun Gulati, Analyst, IndusView Advisors, on the key strategy that keeps Intel so firmly entrenched in Indian market. Fighting tooth and nail with arch rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to keep its market share intact (in India and globally), Intel has certainly been mulling strategies to ‘Leap ahead’!

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Monday, April 24, 2006

Garuda customers to fly Boeing-IIPM News

PT Garuda Indonesia, the In­donesian national flag carrier and US jet maker Boeing Co., have entered into an agree­ment to upgrade Garuda’sfleet. Under the deal, worth $2 billion, the Indonesian carrier will replace its five 737-400s, by operating 18 Boeing 737-800s by 2006, and 10 Boeing 787 Dreamliners by 2013. The move is a result of large operational losses that Garuda has accumulated over the years, due to a continuing surge in global oil prices and increased competition from budget airlines…

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Can Bush spell ‘self-defense’

With its mount­ing magni­tude of con­tribution to the global economy, Asia can no longer be accorded lesser focus in military resolutions. The most intimidating of such resolutions is probably about to unfurl in the form of open militari­sation (or remilitarisa­tion) of Japan, with the US ostensibly ‘forcing’ Japan to amend article nine of its Constitution (to ensure that Japan would show aggres­sion only for self-defense). Though this move seemingly places US as a peace mongering nation, this singular event has the power to put the already vulner­able triangular relations amongst China, Japan and Taiwan in turmoil.

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