28 January, 2012

D Most InterestNg & Informative Facts...!!!

MERCEDES



This was actually the financier's daughter's name.



ADOBE




This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of 


founder John Warnock.





APPLE COMPUTERS




It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing 


a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple 


Computers 


if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.



CISCO


It is not an acronym as popularly believed.It is short for San Francisco.



COMPAQ




This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small 


integral object.



COREL




The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands 


for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.



GOOGLE




The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the 


search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word 


for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford 


graduate students Sergey 




Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a 


cheque made out to 'Google'...thus the name.

HOTMAIL





Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a 


computer anywhere in theworld. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business 


plan for themail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally 


settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language 


used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective 


uppercasing.



HEWLETT PACKARDBill


Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they 


founded wouldbe called Hewlett-Packardor Packard-


Hewlett.




INTEL


Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore 


Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain 




so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.



LOTUS (Notes)


Mitch Kapoor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 


'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental 




Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.





MICROSOFT


Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to 


MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, 




the '-' was removed later on.




MOTOROLA




Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started 


manufacturing radios forcars. The popular radio company at 


the time was called Victrola.



ORACLE




Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA 


(Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the 




project was calledOracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all 


questions or something such). The project was 




designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually 


was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish 




what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and 


created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same 




name for the company.





SONY




It originated from the Latin word'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used 


by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.




SUN




Founded by four Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford 


University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a 


microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture 


computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a 




UNIX-based OS for the computer.

YAHOO!





The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's 


Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in 




appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and 


David Filo selected the name because they considered 




themselves yahoos..!!

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