99% Of You Don't Know This ~ How Famous Companies Got Their Names?

99% Of You Dont Know This ~ How Famous Companies Got Their Names?

Nike: Named for the greek goddess of victory. The swoosh symbolises her flight.

Skype: The original concept was ‘Sky-Peer-to-Peerâ€, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype.

Mercedes: This was actually financier's daughter's name.

Adidas: The company name was taken from its founder Adolf (ADI) Dassler whose first name was shortened to the nickname Adi. 

Toegether with first three letters of his surname it formed ADIDAS.

Adobe: This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers: It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late for 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's 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'. So, instead of returning the cheque for correction, they decided to change the name 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.

Sony: It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound and 'sonny' as lang 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.

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 Jakarta (project from Apache): A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.

Tomcat: The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.

C: Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).

C++: Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'newC'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.

GNU: A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.

Java: Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.

LG: Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.
Linux: Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which here placed by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free+freak+x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called 'Linux' on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax. (Linus parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling).

Mozilla: When Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.

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.

UNIX: When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS. They needed the OS to run the game 'Space War' which was compiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.

SCO (UNIX): From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.

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.

3M: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper. It was changed to 3M when the company changed its focus to Innovative Products.

What is -Google

Facts about google

Larry Page and Sergey Brin The glorious history of Google

starts with two students Larry Page  23  and Sergey Brin 24, who were pursuing their Ph.D. at Stanford University, when they got the  idea to create a new search engine. Supposedly, Larry Page and Sergey Brin did not like each other initially. They thought they have nothing in common, but with time they learned life lessons together, they went on to become best friends for life. This was perhaps a rather strange way of starting a venture as big as Google.




The biggest irony of Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s life is:

that there original goal for these  two enthusiastic PH.D. Students was to to sell their Google search idea for $1 million to whoever was willing to purchase it. However, luckily for them (and us?), nobody turned up ...

Did you know that Google was originally named Googol?

The name failed when Larry Page and Sergey Brin received their first $100,000 paycheck in the name of Google Inc. and they had to run and create a bank account for the name, so that they could cash it. Therefore, the naming ceremony was nothing but an accident.

Google started its hiring process by recruiting Craig Silverstein

as their first employee, without their current sophisticated HR team. Craig was Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s fellow student at Stanford. (Craig was third employee of Google. He has now resigned from Google and has joined Khan Academy, an online learning site offering collaborative videos and projects.)

The famous www.google.com of today was once

google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu, when it was in the testing phase and was working under the website of Stanford university. 

In the year 1997, Yahoo rejected an offer to buy Google for

$1 million and now the company is worth $20 billion, whereas Google has grown up to $200 Billion. This is perhaps one of the most interesting financial losses of the IT industry. (see: google current share price)

By December 1998, Google was named

the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites, as shown by PC Magazine.

 Google Garage: their first office. In the February of 1999, the Google Company

moved out of its garage office to its first mountain-view office, with just eight employees. This number is incomparable to the current staff size of Google.


 Lego Computers: It is hard to believe that

there was a time when the founders of Google were short on funds and used economic ways to save money. The very first Google’s storage rack that stored ten 40 GB hard disks was made up of Lego. Can you believe that the most royal company of the modern times had such a humble start? More info 

 Google Umpa Lumpas  Why is Google is sometimes nicknamed the “Mountain View Chocolate Factory”.


 Thats not because its gives its employees lot of chocolates (although it does) it is used as a comparison of Google to  Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory - because of a similarity in the cultures of Wonka’s factory  and the Googleplex who both employ slightly strange eccentric but dedicated “engineers”.

APPLE 6-AND-6PLUS

DIFFERNCE BETWEEN APPLE 6 AND APPLE 6PLUS

                                          APPLE 6                                                  APPLE6 PLUS

Finish                        Silver, Gold, Space Gray               Silver, Gold, Space Gray

Capacity                  16GB    64GB   128GB                   16GB     64GB    128GB

 PRICE              199$    299$   399$                   299$      399$      499$

 Dimensions        length*width*height                          length*width*height 

                             5.44*2.64*0.27inches                   6.22*3.06*0.28inches

                             138.1*67.0*0.27 mm                               158.1*77.8*0.28 mm

Weight:                       4.55 ounces (129 grams)                       6.07 ounces (172 grams)    

Display                     4.7″retina hd display                         5.5''retina hd display

Retina HD display  4.7-inch(diagonal)                                   5.5-inch(diagonal)

                              LED-backlit widscreen                          LED-backlite widescreen

                              Multiscreen-touch display                    Multiscreen-touch display

                              with IPS technology                              with IPS technology

                             1334-by-750-pixel resolution               1920-by-1080-pixel resolution

                             at 326 ppi 1400:1 constrast ratio           at 401 ppi 1300:1 constrast ratio

Chips              A8chip with 64-bit architecture            A8chip with 64-bit architecture

                       M8 motion coprocessor                         M8 motion coprocessor

            

       

          

BRILLIANT-GADGET-APPS

10 -BRILLIANT -GADGETS



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Think you know all the cool gadgets that are coming out soon? Think again. Thanks to crowd-funding, 3D printing and cheap manufacturing in China, we're seeing a lot more hardware start-ups coming up with interesting new devices.
Several of our favourite products at the DEMO conference in Silicon Valley this month were the kind of hardware you used to need to be an established company to tackle, only coming from tiny new companies.
The hardware will take a few months to make it to the market, but some of these intriguing apps and services should be available much sooner.

1. NuRoast

 

 

The freshest coffee is made with the beans you roast yourself. But that's tricky to do right - and anyway, where do you get good green coffee beans? 

NuRoast is going to make an induction coffee roaster that you pop a sealed can of selected coffee beans into. The can has internal fins that heat and stir the beans in the digitally-controlled roaster.

Each can comes with a list of flavour profiles to get different styles of roast: just tap in the one you like the sound of and the same beans will come out with a different flavor.

Do we want it?

We taste-tested the prototype and you can taste the difference between profiles, but $175 on Indiegogo makes this one for coffee afficionados

2. Picrition

 

Need some encouragement to eat more healthily? Snap a photo of everything you eat and let this social network rate you (anonymously) as a junk food junkie or a smart snacker.

Do we want it?

Food diaries are a great tool, but unless you pay extra, the people looking at your photos won't be nutrition experts (and a photo doesn't give you a calorie count). You'll have to do most of the work yourself, but Pictrition could still give you a boost.

 

Xolo LT2000 - 4G LTE

Lava’s sub-brand XOLO has further expanded its range of devices

Xolo has launched a new 4G LTE-enabled budget smartphone under its range of 'LT' devices - the Xolo LT2000 at Rs. 9,999. It is worth mentioning that the company had launched the Xolo LT900 in December 2013. The smartphone is available to buy from leading e-commerce websites.

The smartphone running Android 4.4 KitKat. The company has however, promised to release an Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the smartphone in the future. It features a 5.5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) resolution display protected with Dragontrail glass. Powered by a quad-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, the LT2000 sports 1GB of RAM and Adreno 306 GPU clocked at 400MHz.

The phablet features a 5.5 inch HD touchscreen display (1280×720 pixels resolution) with 267 ppi pixel density and is powered by a 1.2 GHz MSM 8916 Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor. It runs on the Android 4.4 KitKat OS and has 1GB of RAM. The internal memory of the device is 8GB that can be further expanded up to 32GB with a microSD card.

Measuring 115x74.8x7.8 mm, the LT2000's connectivity features include 4G TDD and FDD LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Micro-USB with OTG, and A-GPS. A 2920mAh battery backs the handset, which is available only in a Black colour variant.

Xolo has also introduced a self-updating phone book app called 6degrees. The app offers a suite of features dealing with calling, messaging and managing connections. The app also updates the phone book on the device whenever contacts change their details. Searching for shops and restaurants, apart from requesting friends for their contact details, is also possible through the app.