fati 0 Posted February 7, 2004 mostly related with computers.. thats y posting here >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'. 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). 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 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NaDaN 0 Posted February 11, 2004 Hey Fati well we all are very home wid these names!.. well yeah thay have strange reasons behind! but good too know!.. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
