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How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names

Posted by timothy on from the slash-dev-slash-random dept.

lgmac writes "Think Windows Azure is a stupid name? Ever wonder how iPod, BlackBerry and Twitter got their names? Author Tom Wailgum goes inside the process of creating tech product names that are cool but not exclusionary, marketable, and most of all, free of copyright and trademark gotchas. Here's the scoop on ten iconic tech products and how they got their monikers, plus a chat with the man responsible for naming Azure, BlackBerry, and more. (What's the one he wishes he'd named but didn't? Google.)"

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  1. Microsoft by enigmastrat · · Score: -1, Troll

    I heard that was Bill Gate's nickname from the ladies at his few years at Harvard... Quote from Bill: "I'll show them Microsoft!"

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    Logic is flawed
  2. Linux is a sack of shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Invented by a moron, bought into by idiots.

  3. mod do3n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    before playing to Paalid b0dies and Awesome