Why they are named so...?

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.

 

Cisco

 

The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.

 

Apple Computers

 

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.

 

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.

 

Adobe

 

The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind.

 

 

Funny Story - Mischievous Brothers ;-)

Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous. They are always getting into trouble and their parents know all about it. If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved.

 

The boys' mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The preacher agreed, but he asked to see them individually.

 

So the mother sent the 8 year old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see the preacher in the afternoon. The preacher, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Do you know where God is, son?"

 

The boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response, sitting there wide-eyed with his mouth hanging open. So the preacher repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God?!"

 

Again, the boy made no attempt to answer. The preacher raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and bellowed, "Where is God?!"

 

The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him. When his older brother found him in the closet, he asked, "what happened?" The younger brother, gasping for breath,replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time.

 

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You Are Everything For Me :-)

A girl asked a guy if he thought she was pretty, he said...No.
She asked him if he would want to be with her forever....and he said No.

 

She then asked him if she were to leave would he cry, and once again he replied with a No.

She had heard enough.

 

As she walked away, tears streaming down her face the boy grabbed her arm and said....

 

You're not pretty you're beautiful.

 

I don't want to be with you forever. I NEED to be with you forever.

 

And I wouldn't cry if you walked away...I'd die...

 

You are Everything To Somebody
Right now at this Very Minute.........!!!

Steps to Inner Happiness

Steps to Inner Happiness...!!!

• You can't be all things to all people.
• You can't do all things at once.
• You can't do all things equally well.
• You can't do all things better than everyone else.
• Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.

So:

• You have to find out who you are, and be that.
• You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
• You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
• You have to learn not to compete with others,

Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*.

 

Then:

• You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
• You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
• You will have learned to live with your limitations.
• You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.

And you'll be a most vital mortal.

 

Dare To Believe:

• That you are a wonderful, unique person.
• That you are a once-in-all-history event.
• That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are.
• That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.

And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.

 

- (Author Unknown)

Taking Risks Is a Life

Remember that Risks must be taken because the greatest tragedy in life is to risk nothing.

 

The person who risks nothing, do nothing, and has nothing to look forward to.
He is nothing.

 

By avoiding risks, you may avoid some suffering and sorrow,
but you can't learn, feel, change, grow and love.

 

Only a person who risks is free.
He Dreams. He takes Risks. He Succeeds.

Love Makes Your Heart Most Beautiful...

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.

 

A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

 

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, "Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine." The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.

 

The people stared - "How can he say his heart is more beautiful?" they thought.

 

The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."

 

"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared.

 

Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges - giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"

 

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.

 

The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.

 

They embraced and walked away side by side.

 

- Author Unknown