The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Apache
Apple Computers
Cisco Systems
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'
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.
Hewlett Packard
Intel
Lotus Notes
Motorola
Microsoft
ORACLE
Red Hat
Sony
Xerox
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