Intel’s lies lead to investigation!

Om Malik | Monday, November 24, 2003 | 12:11 PM PT | 0 comments

A week ago, my Cheap Centrino Tricks post went online and a week later there is a big brouhaha around the topic. For instance, the Guardian is reporting that there is Intel is being investigated for misleading Mt. Everest advertisement. “The Independent Television Commission has already received 92 complaints. Most people complained that you wouldn’t be able to do what the ad shows if you were half-way up Everest,” said a spokesman for the TV watchdog,” reports the Guardian. Apparently Alan Stevens, a writer for NetworkIT UK got the whole thing jump started. The culprit ad is here can be viewed using either the Real Playeror Windows Media Player.

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