Where the original names came from ????

Where the original names came from

Mercedes:

This was actually financier's daughter's name.

Adobe:

This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers:

It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobbs. He was three months late for 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.

CISCO:

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. Its short for San Francisco.

Compaq:

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel:

The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland Research Laboratory.

Google:

The name started as a joke boasting 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 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 programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.