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Sumeer's Buzz April 07

Written by Sumeer Kumar

Tuesday, 30 October 2007

Adolf Hitler, a keen car enthusiast, demanded that Ferdinand Porsche, an Austrian automotive engineer, make changes to his original 1931 car design to make it more suited for the working man. Hence was born the "people's car" or Volswagen (in German). Ferdinand was the founder or the Porsche sports car company which was awarded top place as the most prestigious automobile brand by Luxury Institute, New York after a May 2006 survey

In 1959 Haloid corporation, which later became Xerox, introduced the Model 914, the first fully automated photocopier that became the company's first commercial success. It was it was called the 914 because it could handle paper up to 9" x 14" in legal size.

Blaupunkt, meaning "Blue Dot", was founded in 1923 under the name "Ideal" for manufacturing of headphones. The headphones that passed the quality tests, were given a blue dot and quickly symbol become a trademark and the trademark become the company name in 1938.

Nokia was established in 1865 as a paper pulp mill on the banks of the Nokiavirta river in Finland. The Nokia Corporation was created in the 1967 fusion of Finnish Rubber Works and Finnish Cable Works and was involved in many sectors - paper products, bicycle cables, televisions, electricity production, etc. The seeds of the current incarnation of Nokia were planted with the founding of the electronics section fo teh cable division in the 1960s by manufacturing telecommunications equipment.

Yahoo! a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a word invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang jokingly considered themselves yahoos. It's also an interjection sometimes associated with American Southerners' and Westerners' expression of joy, as alluded to in Yahoo.com commercials that ends with someone yoddling "yahooooo".