The VPRO (originally an acronym for Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep, or "free-thinking protestant radio broadcasting company", but since long the acronym has been kept but its meaning dropped) was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization, linked to the protestant pillar. However, in the 1950s and 1960s it became more free-thinking than protestant. It was the first to show a naked woman on Dutch television, Phil Bloom in 1967 [1]. 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients (listeners or viewers) that belong to a large group. ... Pillarization is a term used to describe the way their dutch and belgians dealt with the multicultural societies. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It is still the most radical group on Dutch television.
It often collaborates with other broadcasting organisations such as the WDR, the BBC, and Arte. The Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) is a public broadcaster in the German Bundesland North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office is in Köln. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Arte is a French-German TV network, whose facilities are located in Strasbourg (headquarters) and Baden-Baden, that aims to promote quality programming related to the world of arts and culture. ...
Like all Dutch public broadcasters the VPRO doesn't have its own channel. It shares the third Dutch public net.
Conroe is not due out until the third quarter, but Intel, of Santa Clara, California, announced vPro now to give vendors time to build it into their PCs.
The vPro package will deliver three benefits: low IT maintenance costs, high security and better energy efficiency, said Intel President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini, at a press conference in San Francisco.
Intel plans to deliver vPro in 2006, with a road map to add three improvements by 2007: spread it from desktops to notebooks; upgrade the processor from a dual-core to quad-core chip; and extend virtualization from the processor to the hard drive and I/O channels.
VPro is designed for IT managers who are trying to squeeze costs out of their organizations, Otellini said.
VPro takes advantage of the Core architecture's power efficiency to improve the performance per watt of power consumed by up to four times over Intel's Pentium 4 processor, he said.
VPro will receive a characteristically heavy marketing push from Intel, but the effort won't be nearly as big as Centrino, said Tom Kilroy, vice president and general manager of the digital enterprise group.
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