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[The Story Behind These Company Names]
Adobe - Came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server -– thus, the name Apache.
Apple Computers - Steve Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn’t get any better name for his new company. So one day he told to the staff: “If I’ll not get better name by 5 o’clock today, our company’s name will be anything he likes…” So at 5 o’clcok nobody come up with better name, and he was eating Apple that time… so he keep the name of the company ‘Apple Computers’.
CISCO - Its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.
Google - The name started as a jokey boast 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 grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page resented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’
Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail 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 upper casing.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett, and the winner was NOT Bill…the winner was Dave.
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 = INTEL
Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor 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 for cars. 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 called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). Acronym for: One Real A****** Called Larry Ellison??
Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!
SAP - “Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing”, formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the ‘Systems/Applications/Projects’ group of IBM.
Sony - From the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN - Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.
Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say dry’ (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer‘ means dry.
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.

[klyt]

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very informative...
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[info_art2007]

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[[ugly_cat]]

Have you ever wondered what all those numbers mean when you go to buy a CD burner?
For example..12x2x24
(three numbers separated by the letter "x"), these numbers indicate the drive speeds of the CD drive. The "x" stands for the transfer of 150 KB of data per second, and each number represents a different action that the CD drive can take. A CD-R drive has two actions -- recording onto and reading from compact discs. A CD-RW drive has three actions -- recording, rewriting (erasing and recording over) and reading. When looking at the drive speeds, the first number ("12" in the above example) indicates the speed at which the CD drive will record data onto a CD-R compact disc. So, in the above example, the CD drive will record data at 12 times 150 KB/second. The second number ("2" in the above example) indicates the speed at which the CD drive will rewrite data onto a CD-RW compact disc. So in the above example, the CD drive will rewrite data onto the compact disc at 2 times 150 KB/second. Typically, the second number, the rewrite speed, is lower than the first number, the write speed, because rewriting is a slower process than writing. The last number ("24" in the above example) indicates the speed at which the drive will read data from a compact disc. So in the above example, the CD drive will read data from a compact disc at 24 times 150 KB/second.

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11. Sandy Jen : the evolution of software,"thin clients" (your browser) are replacing those multi-megabyte installations with applications accessible from virtually anywhere.the pack is meebo. Founded by Sandy Jen, 25, meebo has packaged four popular instant messaging services into one web interface that looks and feels like a traditional desktop application.
oreillynet


10. Wendy Cheng : [Xiaxue] – has the exotic job title “blogger.” She’s made it full-time thanks to her blog sponsors, and with a readership in the ten thousands has become a small celebrity in Singapore.
interview | official


9. Blair Butler : (born June 28, 1978 in Fairway, Kansas) is a dedicated comic book aficionado, a stand-up comic,Blair Butler’s background as a stand-up comedian has certainly served her well thus far into her career, as she has managed to establish herself as one of the most naturally funny (and flat-out gorgeous) tech pundits of her generation.
wiki | official


8. Kristin Holt (born August 17, 1981 in Plano, TX) is a television personality and entertainment news correspondent.She is most noted as the current host of G4's Cheat!, a television show dedicated to video game cheats and strategies; she also substitutes hosting roles for the network's other shows. On GSN,The last thing one expects from a former cheerleader and American Idol contestant is anything even resembling tech-savvy, but Kristen Holt has long-since proven her credibility and prowess within the industry.Holt is now the vocalist of the band Stranger Days, and is currently in the studio recording an album.
wiki | un-official


7. Amanda Congdon : (born 1981 in New York City) is an actress, writer and video blogger who is the former host of ABC's weekly vidcast,on ABC. She is best known for her work on daily news show Rocketboom (which Salon described as “one of the most popular video blogs on the Web.”), which she hosted and produced until 23 June 2006.
wiki | official


6. Veronica Belmont : (born July 21, 1982) is a video host for Mahalo and a host for the Mahalo daily podcast Mahalo Daily. She is a former producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc. She produced, engineered, and co-hosted the CNET podcast Buzz Out Loud.
wiki | official


Luria Petrucci called 5. Cali Lewis : (born January 25, 1981) is an American podcaster and Internet personality best known for her video podcast, Geek Brief, and her guest host role on Call for Help. She is also the International Director of the fictional Geek Intelligence Agency (the G.I.A)
wiki | official


4. Olivia Munn : (born July 2, 1982) is an American actress, model and television personality. She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. However, since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn professionally.Also since 2006, Munn has been one of the faces of the cable network G4, hosting a number of shows for the network, the most prominent being Attack of the Show!, with co-host Kevin Pereira.
wiki | official blog | picture gallery


3. Jessica Chobot : When a coy modeling photo of Jessica Chobot licking the Sony PSP appeared online, she became an overnight internet sensation.
official | IGN


2. Morgan Webb : (born October 5,1978 ) is a host for the WebbAlert podcast, a co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play, and was a monthly columnist for the United States edition of FHM, where she contributed a monthly video game column called "The Gaming Goddess". She holds dual citizenship from Canada and the United States.
wiki | profile myspace


1. Amber MacArthur : (June 27, 1976(1976-06-27) in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian television and podcasting personality.she creates a vidcast called commandN and co-hosts TWiT podcast net.She is well known for the series Call for Help, but has also hosted on Torrent, Gadgets and Gizmos, and Inside the Net.
wiki | official blog

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[IamTheKing9]

Cool info, mate!
You know, Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore didn't name Intel as Moore Noyce also because they thought it sounded too much like more noise ('noise' as in 'electronic interference').

[andrewdawson]

Hey Ugly_cat !!!
You are very informative person yaar. I had never been heard about all these things. I would like to thanx you specially for disclosing various informations related to womens in technology field.!!!

[MarieJoy]

add thse

abacus - very first computer
in binary 1+1= 10

[[ugly_cat]]

Originally Posted by MarieJoy

add this
abacus - very first computer
in binary 1+1= 10

thanks contribution..

[MarieJoy]

Your welcome