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    Post by roshini Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:14 pm

    It's amazing how these famous companies were christened!!!
    AWESOME!!!

    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


    Xerox
    The
    Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his
    product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then
    prevailing wet copying.


    Sun Microsystems
    Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

    Sony
    From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

    SAP
    Systems,
    Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM
    employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group
    of IBM.


    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!


    Oracle
    Larry
    Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the
    Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 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).


    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.


    Microsoft
    It
    was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
    MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was
    removed later on.


    Lotus
    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.


    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.


    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.


    Hotmail
    Founder
    Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email 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 casings.


    Google
    The name
    started as a jockey 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 graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page
    presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque
    made out to 'Google


    Apple Computers
    Favourite 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...

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