Monday, August 3, 2009
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 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! 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). 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. 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. 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 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. 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 the house of founder John Warnock .How Famous Companies were Named???
Do take time out and read this. It's amazing how these famous companies were christened!!!
Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.
Oracle
Motorola
Microsoft
Google
Heather Harris, left, dressed as Snow White and Becky Young, as Tinkerbell, walk the convention floor at Comic Con 2009 in San Diego, California.
To welcome the advent of monsoon season, women in Amritsar, India, decorate their hands with henna paste.
Laborers work in a shipyard in Karachi, Pakistan.
A truck dangles off the destroyed Chediguan Bridge near the epicenter of last year's earthquake in Wenchuan County, China.
A sunbather and an elephant enjoy the sunshine in Frankfurt, Germany.
Finishing touches are placed on a sand sculpture of the Jackson Five in a shopping center in Berlin, Germany.
BBC News website reader Carolina Odman snapped this shot in the town of Sutherland in South Africa where a community programme saw children being given kites. Before long, Carolina said, "everyone was looking up at the kites, the sky and beyond."
Protesters in Manila display portraits of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Protesters in Manila display portraits of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Wondering how someone makes a Heart, Arrow or even a TM trademark symbol with their Keyboard?
All you need to do is Hold down your "ALT" key and press another key on the keyboard to create a symbol. Here is a list of some you can make. Try out...Alt + 0153..... ™... trademark symbolAlt + 0169.... ©.... copyright symbolAlt + 0174..... ®... .registered trademark symbolAlt + 0176 ...°....... .degree symbolAlt + 0177 ...± ... .plus-or-minus signAlt + 0182 ...¶....... paragraph markAlt + 0190 ...¾...... fraction, three-fourthsAlt + 0215 .... ×..... multiplication signAlt + 0162... ¢...... the cent signAlt + 0161..... ¡...... upside down exclamation pointAlt + 0191..... ¿..... upside down question markAlt + 1.......... ☺... smiley fsceAlt + 2 ......... ☻... black smiley faceAlt + 15........ ☼... sunAlt + 12........ ♀.... female signAlt + 11....... ♂.... male signAlt + 6......... �™ ..... spade signAlt + 5.......... ♣.... Club symbolAlt + 3.......... ♥.... HeartAlt + 4.......... ♦..... DiamondAlt + 13........ ♪..... eighth noteAlt + 14........ ♫.... beamed eighth noteAlt + 8721.... ∑.... N-ary summation (auto sum)Alt + 251...... √..... square root check markAlt + 8236..... ∞.... infinityAlt + 24........ ↑..... up arrowAlt + 25........ ↓..... down arrowAlt + 26........ →... right pointing arrowAlt + 27........ ←... left arrowAlt + 18........ ↕..... up/down arrowAlt + 29........ ↔... left right arrow
So you are completely broke, the work has stopped but the bills haven't. One question is on your mind; "How To Get a Job Fast". Here's 6 tips on how to get yourself off of the couch wondering and out into the street achieving. 1. Looking for a job IS a job - Just because you are not employed doesn't mean you get to start your day at 11am. If you do, you have wasted three hours per day, times five/six days a week, and presto! You have managed to throw out 10-20 hours of peak job searching time. 2. Always be "Selling Yourself" - How many people do you talk to over the course of the day? OK, now how many of those people know you are looking for a job? If everyone who you talk to knows you need work, talk to more. 3. It's Not Called "How to Get a Career Fast" - It is called how to get a job fast, as in "Just take something". You are not too good for that job. You are unemployed and broke. Suck it up and clean some toilets if need be. 4. Get Involved in the Community - Go out and do something. Attend some free events. Go to church. Walk the dog. 5. Make Your Resume "Pop" - Don't use templates. But do go online and find out how to tailor resumes to their jobs. Look for a list of "action" words, and use industry key words. 6. Have Hope! - If you are down on your luck, it shows. People like to be surrounded with happy vibrant personalities. If you feel like crap, force a smile. "Fake it 'till You Make It" ;-) PS- How to Get a Job Fast only works if you apply it. Print this out and post it on the door of your apartment/house. Don't forget to get up early!!
Indian Humour 1. SSC + HSC + BCOM + MBA/ MCA = UNEMPLYOMENT 2. An Idea + An Idiot = A Dot com. 4. Sushmita Sen - 1.2 feet = Salman Khan. 5. Special Effects in Shampoo ads = Special effects in Jurassic park. 6. 4 weeks in Switzerland + London + New Zealand + Canada = a 4 minute song in Hindi movie. 7. Ajay Devgan + cosmetic surgery + acting ability + personality + own production company = Kajol 8. Rona dhona x Bewafai x Badle ki aag = Your mum's favourite serials. 10. Amitabh Bachchan + Jaya Bachchan - Talent = Abhishek Bachchan 11. Any actor + Any actress + many movies = David Dhawan 12. 1 smile + 32 teeth = Govinda 13. 1 person - shirt = Salman Khan 14. 1 person + straight hair + un-straight walk = Sanjay Dutt 15. 1 hand + 10 kg weight = Sunny Deol 16. One engagement + Two weddings + Three wedding songs + Four hundred Relatives + A house bigger than Buckingham Palace = One sooraj Barjataya Film ********** & the winner is ......... One S/W engineer + No work = Many forwards...........!!!!
The Bangalore Fashion Week 09 held in Bangalore, India kicked off on July 23, 2009. The first edition of the 4-day Bangalore Fashion Week will feature 30 designers..
Models walk on the catwalk as they display creations by Lina Tipnis. – AP Photo
A model displays an ethnic creation by Parvesh and Jai. – AP Photo
Indian models walk the runway wearing designs by Parvesh and Jai during the first day. – AFP Photo
Indian models walk the ramp as they present the creation of designer Zubin Vakil. – AFP Photo
An Indian model walks the ramp as she presents the creation of designer Neelam Ashley. – AFP Photo
A model displays a creation by Bhumika and Hiral. – AP Photo
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