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WEB OCT 13, 6:00 PM

8 Things We Still Hate About the Web

The Web has evolved dramatically since its beginnings, but we still see sites pulling the same obnoxious stunts that annoyed us in 1994. Here are some of the main offenders.
GAMING OCT 15, 4:46 AM

New PS3 Netflix Version Leapfrogs Xbox 360, Best Version Yet

Native Netflix support arrives for Sony's PS3 next week, as well as 1080p streaming, Dolby Digital Plus 5.1-channel, and a completely revamped user interface.
PCW OCT 15, 2:00 PM

The Top 10 Stories in IT This Week

Mobile news dominated this week's headlines. Microsoft entered the increasingly crowded mobile OS space when it launched Windows Phone 7, which the company hopes...
WEB OCT 14, 2:31 PM

Yahoo! Goes Down [Updated]

Yahoo! went down around 2:15 PM Pacific on Thursday afternoon. The site appears to be back up as of 3:00PM Pacific.
PRODUCTIVITY OCT 14, 1:02 PM

Why Is Microsoft So Scared of OpenOffice?

If Office is so much better than its free and open source competitors, then why the desperate attack ad?
SEARCH OCT 15, 10:52 AM

Bing vs. Google: The Content Wars

Both services want to move beyond search to be your everything; here's what's wrong with that picture.
GAMING OCT 14, 6:00 PM

Inside the Nintendo Entertainment System

Some 25 years after the NES transformed gaming, we peek inside this legendary console.
CELL PHONES OCT 14, 6:51 AM

Windows Phone 7 Looks Good for Consumers and Businesses

The success of the Windows Phone 7 platform as a business smartphone depends on Microsoft capturing the attention of the consumer market.
APPLE OCT 14, 2:19 PM

Apple: No Sex or Drugs With Your Rock 'n' Roll

Hot off the heels of a controversial sext-censoring patent, Apple is extending its smut-squashing authority into the realm of music.
TABLETS OCT 14, 8:12 AM

The iPad -- I'm Only Sort-Of Impressed

Anyone who was worried that the iPad might replace a notebook or netbook needn't be so concerned - at least for now. The iPad is, first and foremost, an iPod - leaving a big zone of opportunity for business-oriented tablets.
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. 


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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).



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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.  

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