How IT companies got their name?

• 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 1 followed by 100 zeroes. 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".
• Apple Computers : It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filling a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company "Apple Computers" if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name before 5 O clock.
• CISCO : It is short for San Francisco.
• Compaq : This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
• Hotmail : Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from anywhere in the world. When Sabhir Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending with "mail" and finally selected 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.
• Hewlett Packard : Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
• Intel : Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their company as "Moore Noyce" but that was already trademarked by a chain of hotels. So they decided to name as Intel, an acronym for INTegrated ELectronics.
• Microsoft : Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICRO computer SOFTware. It was initially called Micro-Soft and later became popular as MicroSoft.
• Motorola : Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radio for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
• Sony : It originated from the Latin word "Sonus" meaning sound, and "sonny" a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
• SUN : Founded by 4 Stanford University students, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.