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22 February, 2013

How these tech giant got their iconic brand name

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How these tech giant got their famous brand name

1. Wipro:
From Western India Palm Refined Oil Ltd Wipro Technologies. The company started as a modest Vanaspati and laundry soap producer and is now also an IT services giant.


2. HCL:
HCL is the short form of Hindustan Computers Ltd, Indian Software Company founded by Shiv Nadar.



3. Infosys:
Short form of ‘Information Systems’.


4. Intel:
Intel was originally founded in Mountain View, California in 1968 by Gordon E. Moore (of "Moore's Law" fame, a chemist and physicist), Robert Noyce (a physicist and co-inventor of the integrated circuit). Moore and Noyce initially wanted to name the company "Moore Noyce". Instead they used the name NM Electronics for almost a year, before deciding to call their company Integrated Electronics or "Intel" for short. New name was of course - INTegrated ELectronics, or Intel for short. The fact that "intel" was the term for intelligence information was also quite suitable, but "Intel" was already trademarked by the hotel chain Intelco in the mid-west. In the end, Moore & Noyce Electronics bought the rights for the name and renamed itself Intel Corporation.




5. Apple:
According to Steve Jobs, Apple was so named because Jobs was coming back from an apple farm, and he was on a fruitarian diet. He thought the name was "fun, spirited and not intimidating".


6. 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 markup language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

7. Facebook:
Name stems from the colloquial name of books given to newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.


8. Amazon.com:
Founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar) bookstore.



9. Dell:
Named after its founder, Michael Dell. The company changed its name from Dell Computer in 2003.


10. Cisco:
Short for San Francisco.


11. Microsoft :
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to microcomputer software. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' disappeared on 3/2/1987 with the introduction of a new corporate identity and logo.


12. HP:Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.




13. IBM: 
Named by Tom (Thomas John) Watson Sr, an ex-employee of National Cash Register (NCR Corporation). To one-up them in all respects, he called his company International Business Machines.



14. Google: 
An originally accidental misspelling of the word googol and settled upon because google.com was unregistered. Googol was proposed to reflect the company's mission.



15. Twitter: 
Having rejected the name Twitch for their social networking service, co-founder Jack Dorsey says: "we looked in the dictionary for words around it and we came across the word 'twitter' and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential.






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06 February, 2013

How to Check your password - is it strong?

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Do you know that the password you are using are strong enough to fight with hacker. if not then you may become victim of online hacking.

Your password is the only way from where hackers can access your data and a strong password is the per-requisite to mitigate the chances of hacking.

in below application, you can check that the password your are using is strong or not.

Just put your password in text box and it will show you the strength of password.

There are 04 parameter; Weak, Medium, Strong, Best.
Put below your password to check it's strength.


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03 February, 2013

Get Phone Alerts for Activities on your Google account

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Get Phone Aerts for Activities on your Google account
The end-user is at the mercy of the service creator when it comes to how secure their data will be online. Google, fortunately, offers extra opt-in features to help ensure than no one other than you will be able to log-in and access your information. One of these security measures is the two-step authentication process.

With two-step, the user decides if they want to enter a randomly generated code each time they log in from a specific place, or if they want to enter it only every 30 days. The benefit is that if you try to log in from elsewhere, Google will ask you for the code again, thus preventing unwanted users from accessing the account. In the past, Google offered to e-mail you when an unauthorized person was attempting to log in to your two-step secured account, but now there's a new option: phone notifications.

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