Did you know that Cisco is not an acronymn but a short name for San Francisco or that the name LG is infact a combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar or that Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from The Lotus Position or Padmasana. You may find a list of company names with explanation of the origin of their names at Wikipedia?
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
Company name etymologies
World's first Hindi blogzine
I feel elated in presenting Nirantar , World's first Hindi blogzine. It has been the result of untiring efforts of so many Hindi blogger...
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Jivha thanked Bhutan for its military action against the insurgents including the ULFA outfits. As I commented on his blog, diplomatically...
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Vir Sanghvi must be having a premonition that led him to jot very similar views in his column Indian Muslims and Pakistan that I expressed ...
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Code Analyzers During my search for Profilers I stumbled upon some good Java code checkers or Code Analyzers and though most of you may be a...