Saturday, October 23, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
How Companies Got Their Names
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Unlimited phone calls (Nokia)
Nokia's new mobile where you can make unlimited calls.
Only limited editions are released for beta test.
Get your edition quickly and make unlimited calls and henceforth forget paying phone bills.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Funny full forms of Big Companies
1. NIIT : Not Interested in IT
2. WIPRO : Weak Input, Poor & Rubbish Output
3. HCL : Hidden Costs & Losses
4. TCS : Totally Confusing Solutions
5. INFOSYS :Inferior Offline Systems
6. HUGHES : Highly Useless Graduates Hired for Eating and Sleeping
7. BAAN : Beggars Association and Nerds
8. IBM : Implicitly Boring Machines
9. SATYAM : Sad And Tired Yelling Away Madly
10. PARAM : Puzzled And Ridiculous Array of Microprocessors
11. C-DOT : Coffee During Office Timings
12. AT&T : All Troubles & Terrible
13. CMC : Coffee, Meals and Comfort
14. DEC : Drifting & Exhausted Computers
15. BFL : Brainwash First and Let them go
17. TISL : Totally Inconsistent Systems Ltd.
18. PSI : Peculiar Symptoms of India
19. ORACLE : On-line Romance And Chatting with Lady Employees.
20. MASTEK: Mad And Stupid Technitians Enroute to Kabaarkhana
21.PATNI : Pathetic Appraisal Techniques, No Increments
2. WIPRO : Weak Input, Poor & Rubbish Output
3. HCL : Hidden Costs & Losses
4. TCS : Totally Confusing Solutions
5. INFOSYS :Inferior Offline Systems
6. HUGHES : Highly Useless Graduates Hired for Eating and Sleeping
7. BAAN : Beggars Association and Nerds
8. IBM : Implicitly Boring Machines
9. SATYAM : Sad And Tired Yelling Away Madly
10. PARAM : Puzzled And Ridiculous Array of Microprocessors
11. C-DOT : Coffee During Office Timings
12. AT&T : All Troubles & Terrible
13. CMC : Coffee, Meals and Comfort
14. DEC : Drifting & Exhausted Computers
15. BFL : Brainwash First and Let them go
17. TISL : Totally Inconsistent Systems Ltd.
18. PSI : Peculiar Symptoms of India
19. ORACLE : On-line Romance And Chatting with Lady Employees.
20. MASTEK: Mad And Stupid Technitians Enroute to Kabaarkhana
21.PATNI : Pathetic Appraisal Techniques, No Increments
Why Dogs Are Man’s Best Friend
Of course there are many reasons why dogs are man’s best friend, here’s but one of them: Faithful Beer Holder.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Send it to your boss
People who do lots of work...
make lots of mistakes
People who do less work...
make less mistakes
People who do no work...
make no mistakes
People who make no mistakes...
gets promoted
That's why I spend most of my time
Sending e-mails & playing games at work , I need a promotion.
make lots of mistakes
People who do less work...
make less mistakes
People who do no work...
make no mistakes
People who make no mistakes...
gets promoted
That's why I spend most of my time
Sending e-mails & playing games at work , I need a promotion.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
ICICI Vs HSBC Vs Barclays - Must Read
Who is the BEST - ICICI , HSBC or Barclays?
One day, three bankers, one from HSBC, one from ICICI and one from Barclays, went out for a walk.
"Why don't we prove who is the best among ourselves?"
Why not, said the other two.
The ICICIian said "Let's have a test. Whoever makes this monkey laugh, works for the best firm".
Being a pure logical strategist, the person from Barclays tried to make the monkey Laugh by telling jokes. The monkey stayed still.
As a more practical banker, the HSBC guy tried to make funny gestures... No good, the monkey stayed put...
Now, comes the ICICIian. Being the practical guy he was always trained to be, he whispered something into the monkey's ear, and it burst out laughing at him..
The other two were astonished. So the HSBC guy said "OK, let's take another test. Let's make this monkey cry!!"
So there they went again, applying the same methods as before. The Barclays guy narrated sad stories, the HSBC guy made sad gestures, and they failed again...
Then, the ICICIian again whispered something into the monkey's ear and oh! It started crying, patting the ICICIian's shoulder!
The other two just could not believe their eyes! So the Barclays guy said "OK, you've won twice. If you can win just this one, we will bow to you. Let's make this monkey run".
And he barked at the monkey and ordered him to run. Of course, it stayed where it was.. The HSBC guy, true to his type, pushed and prodded the monkey- still No go.
So...here comes ICICIian, again, and whispers into the monkey's ear. The Monkey just takes off! It runs and runs as fast as it can, as if it was scared to death!
The other two surrendered.
They Said: "OK, we give up.
You're the best among us, and you work for the Best firm of the three. But please, please tell us your secret," they begged him.
"Well", said the ICICIian , "The first time I made it laugh, I told I work for ICICI . The next time, I told the monkey how much I get paid ...so it started crying.
And then I told that I was here for recruitment !!!
One day, three bankers, one from HSBC, one from ICICI and one from Barclays, went out for a walk.
"Why don't we prove who is the best among ourselves?"
Why not, said the other two.
The ICICIian said "Let's have a test. Whoever makes this monkey laugh, works for the best firm".
Being a pure logical strategist, the person from Barclays tried to make the monkey Laugh by telling jokes. The monkey stayed still.
As a more practical banker, the HSBC guy tried to make funny gestures... No good, the monkey stayed put...
Now, comes the ICICIian. Being the practical guy he was always trained to be, he whispered something into the monkey's ear, and it burst out laughing at him..
The other two were astonished. So the HSBC guy said "OK, let's take another test. Let's make this monkey cry!!"
So there they went again, applying the same methods as before. The Barclays guy narrated sad stories, the HSBC guy made sad gestures, and they failed again...
Then, the ICICIian again whispered something into the monkey's ear and oh! It started crying, patting the ICICIian's shoulder!
The other two just could not believe their eyes! So the Barclays guy said "OK, you've won twice. If you can win just this one, we will bow to you. Let's make this monkey run".
And he barked at the monkey and ordered him to run. Of course, it stayed where it was.. The HSBC guy, true to his type, pushed and prodded the monkey- still No go.
So...here comes ICICIian, again, and whispers into the monkey's ear. The Monkey just takes off! It runs and runs as fast as it can, as if it was scared to death!
The other two surrendered.
They Said: "OK, we give up.
You're the best among us, and you work for the Best firm of the three. But please, please tell us your secret," they begged him.
"Well", said the ICICIian , "The first time I made it laugh, I told I work for ICICI . The next time, I told the monkey how much I get paid ...so it started crying.
And then I told that I was here for recruitment !!!
College life...
Every New semester:
After 1st week:
After the 2nd week:
Before the mid-term test:
During the mid-term test:
After the mid-term test:
Before the final exam:
Once get to know the final exam schedule:
7 days before the final exam:
6 days before the final exam:
5 days before the final exam:
4 days before the final exam:
3 days before the final exam:
2 days before the final exam:
1 day before the final exam:
The night before the final exam:
1 hour before the final exam:
During the final exam:
Once walk out from the examination hall:
After the final exam, during the holiday:
That's college!! JJ
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
One of the best...
A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy" at Microsoft.
The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a
test. "You are employed."He said." Give me your e-mail address and I'll
send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start."The man
replied "But I don't have a computer, neither an email."I'm sorry", said
the HR manager, "If you don't have an email, that means you do not
exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job."
The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only
$10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a
10Kg tomato crate.He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In
less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated
the Operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized
that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier,
and return late Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he
bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery
vehicles.
5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US .
He started to plan his family's future. He called an insurance broker,
and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the
broker asked him his email. The man replied, "I don't have an email".
The broker answered curiously, "You don't have an email, and yet have
succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if
you had an email?!!"
The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at
Microsoft!"
Moral of the story: M1 - Internet is not the solution to your life.
M2 - If you don't have internet, and work hard, you can be a
millionaire.
M3 - If you received this message by email, you are closer to being an
office boy, than a millionaire....!
the true moral: whatever happens, happens for good. its upto you to
make to make the best of it [:)]
ok bye bye-- go sell tomatoes now ;)
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a
test. "You are employed."He said." Give me your e-mail address and I'll
send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start."The man
replied "But I don't have a computer, neither an email."I'm sorry", said
the HR manager, "If you don't have an email, that means you do not
exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job."
The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only
$10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a
10Kg tomato crate.He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In
less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated
the Operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized
that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier,
and return late Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he
bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery
vehicles.
5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US .
He started to plan his family's future. He called an insurance broker,
and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the
broker asked him his email. The man replied, "I don't have an email".
The broker answered curiously, "You don't have an email, and yet have
succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if
you had an email?!!"
The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at
Microsoft!"
Moral of the story: M1 - Internet is not the solution to your life.
M2 - If you don't have internet, and work hard, you can be a
millionaire.
M3 - If you received this message by email, you are closer to being an
office boy, than a millionaire....!
the true moral: whatever happens, happens for good. its upto you to
make to make the best of it [:)]
ok bye bye-- go sell tomatoes now ;)
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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