Info-bytes for Students.
> There are many companies / brands / products whose
> names were derived from strange
> circumstances.
>
> 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 .
>
> 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 REsearch
> Laboratory.
>
> 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'
>
> 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
> uppercasing.
>
> Hewlett Packard
> Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard
> tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called
> Hewlett-Packard or
> 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 Kapor 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 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). 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' meaningsound, 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. 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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