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Makers of these 10 tech products—the iPod, BlackBerry, Firefox, Twitter, Windows 7, ThinkPad, Android, Wikipedia, Mac OS X and the "Big Cats," and Red Hat Linux—all have displayed certain amounts marketing savvy, common sense and fun-loving spirit in settling on their products' names. Here are the intriguing, surprising and sometimes predictable accounts of their creation.
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How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:54 AM EST
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{"commentId":4151736,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}
Run the slideshow. Any that surprised you? How about other brands you are aware of and how they came to be named?
Let's talk...
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#1 - Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:56 AM EST{"commentId":4152773,"authorDomain":"newsguru"}
I loved the Red Hat and Blackberry histories. Good seed!
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{"commentId":4152973,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}
Thanks 'guru. Those two were also the only two where I had often wondered why the names. Red Hat's reason is just so - well, just is.
Had never seen that Firefox visual till now. Didn't register if it was part of their brand or imagery to support the slideshow. But highly visual and striking imagery.
And not being a Mac follower, I had never realised that X marked the Roman numeral. I think I would still plead ignorance and just announce it as X.
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{"commentId":4153634,"authorDomain":"susibv"}
......on a personal note.......My first job when I moved to St. Petersburg 2 years ago was working for Wikimedia where all the magic of Wikipedia happend.
Now they up and move to my hometown of SF 2 years later lol.
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#2 - Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:05 AM EST{"commentId":4153970,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}
What goes around comes around. Nice one Susi.
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{"commentId":4154295,"authorDomain":"susibv"}
Well I hope that their 'campus' back home is a little bit more fitting to it's stature....and that's all I'm going to say.
:)
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{"commentId":4154325,"authorDomain":"sobriquet"}
They didn't mention that Firefox was once Phoenix before it became Firebird!
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#3 - Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:51 AM EST{"commentId":4155367,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}
Thanks for that nugget.
Getting Smarter Here™
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":4164885,"authorDomain":"SthPacific"}
HA 7th release of windoze my arse, its still 95SE with just a different GUI. Notice they are not even daring to claim 64 bit this time, Because they know that they cant do it without abandoning the 16 bit subsystem, and that would mean the death of windoze. No one would ever buy it again. Just another piece of obsolete junk with a badly written core, from an OS that was never meant to go online.
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#4 - Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:44 AM EST{"commentId":4164930,"authorDomain":"raatkiraani"}
Aha. Another Windows fan:-)
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