Apple Computers

It was the 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.

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

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Wild child Avril Lavigne hit big in summer 2002 with her spiky-fun debut song, “Complicated,” shifting pop music into a different direction. Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, didn’t seem concerned with the glamour of the TRL-dominated pop world and such confidence allowed her star power to soar. The middle of three children in small-town Napanee, Ontario, Lavigne’s rock ambitions were noticeable around age two. By her early teens, she was already writing songs and playing guitar. The church choir, local festivals, and county fairs also allowed Lavigne to get her voice heard, and luckily, Arista Records main man Antonio “L.A.” Reid was listening. He offered her a deal, and at 16, Lavigne’s musical dreams became reality. With Reid’s assistance and a new Manhattan apartment, Lavigne found herself surrounded by prime songwriters and producers, but it wasn’t impressive enough for her to continue. She had always relied on her own ideas to create a musical spark, and things weren’t going as planned. Lavigne wasn’t disillusioned, though. She headed for Los Angeles and Nettwerk grabbed her. Producer/songwriter Clif Magness (Celine Dion, Wilson Phillips, Sheena Easton) tweaked Lavigne’s melodic, edgy sound and her debut, Let Go, was the polished product. Singles such as “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” hit the Top Ten while “I’m with You” and “Losing Grip” did moderately well at radio. Butch Walker of the Marvelous 3, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida, and Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Good Charlotte) signed on to produce Lavigne’s second album, Under My Skin, which appeared in May 2004. The album topped the Billboard charts and produced the number one hit “My Happy Ending.” Other singles like “Nobody’s Home” and “Fall to Pieces” did respectably well also. Settling down a bit from her punk rock wild child persona, Lavigne married her boyfriend of two years, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, in July 2006.

PS: Whenever i feel the need of energy i just give my ears to avril.. She fills me with her songs full of life and electrifying energy !

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Wow! it has been 2 whole years since i came to NITT! As people say - “TIME FLIES” (TRULY an undeniable fact)

Still remember the first day of coll, first step into octa, first visit to juicy, etc..

I was influenced by a lot of factors in coll, and this is how my sems passed :

1st sem : being a fresher, was a sincere student. tried new tricks on octa comps. ended up with an 8.74

2nd sem : coll life seemed to infect me. started to be careless. birdwatching became my hobby. started bunking classes to play cs & dota. became cs addict. screwd up lot of octa comps. hacked lot of nittmail and spider passwords (including cyber’s). shared about 500MB in my aditya account. got only 8.17

3rd sem : Ah, the sweet prod dept welcomed me! Had some hopes of doing some studies this sem. But then was distracted by Delta Inductions and DoTA got my second ‘S’ in coll in Machine Tech. lolz! gpa=8.14 :’-(

4th sem : after gettin a tragic cg i wanted to improve it somehow. fortunately lab2 was closed after 6pm this sem. so, no gaming (hurrah!). devoted that time to learn some neat php stuff and coded prodigy’08 site. conducted delta classes. screwd up Num Tech sem exam properly. hav done other subjs fairly well. hopefully expecting 8.3 or more this sem. well, lets keep the fingers crossed !

Ooh.. there goes all the sweet sems of fun!

Still to come… the 3 most wicked sems of the CPC’s (atleast thats wat i hav inferred from my seniorss) dunno if its gonna be or

First of all, thanks to TechBuzz and GoogleReader.. cuz they told me about this awesome service called JAXTR

I had ignored a lot of emails about jaxtr that i had received before. but i regret for it now…

jaxtr rocks for sure ! Asking why? Well one reason is that it allows you to send unlimited number of sms to any mobile from a group of countries (39 at present). Thankfully, India is on the list too

So, you may ask what makes jaxtr different from other similar sites like it… The thing is, you can only feel the difference when you sign into jaxtr. the whole experience is so rich and fast !

jaxtr’s plus points :

1. you don’t need to verify you email to send free sms
2. its not compulsory to give/verify your phone number
3. u get a phone call from jaxtr asking you to input a verification code when you try to update you profile with a mobile number
4. you can even call your friends thru jaxtr and literally speak to each other !

jaxtr’s negatives :

1. u get to send only 65 characters per sms (but u can always extend ur msg to the next sms)
2. u can call friends @ 6 jax/min (jax being a sort of currency of jaxtr)
3. u get only 100 jax/month for free

Ok then… lets continue our chat on jaxtr.  Click here to call me

This post is dedicated to mytoday.com.

i m sure many of you nittians might know about it and would have even subscribed to its popular freeservices like NEWS, CRICKET UPDATES, WORD, TRAVEL and more

But there are also other features like sending any of your feeds as SMS and bookmarking sites, etc. mytoday will send the feed only upto some 50-60 characters i.e. if u add nittians.com as a feed, all the posts will be trimmed and only the starting line will be shown with a link which can be followed to read the whole article on the net or on gprs

What bothered me to write this post was that i had subscribed nittians as feed and offlate there had been so much activity on nittians that i have been getting about 15 msgs from mytoday on an average in my inbox

so, i discontinued the feed

Even though the feed feature trims the articles it can be used to subsribe to feeds like GRE word of the day and stuff..

PS: even if u dont hav a gf to whom u can msg from time to time… i believe subscribing to all mytoday services will keep you busy to the extent that u can show off to ur frnds that even u are busy msging all day

so, enjoy mytodaying and visit http://mytoday.com/nov/home/my for your dashboard !!! :)