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Submission + - How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names (cio.com)

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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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Submission + - How NASA Brings the Phoenix Mars Mission to Web (cio.com) 1

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lgmac writes: ""On May 25, NASA's Phoenix Mars lander will enter the Martian atmosphere at nearly 13,000 miles per hour, complete a complex seven-minute series of events, then land on the red planet to begin a three-month mission to explore Martian soil and ice. Some 500,000 people are expected to watch this on the Web: Few will be more interested than Jeanne Holm, chief knowledge architect for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and one of the IT leaders responsible for making sure all the images and video from this high-profile mission get managed and delivered to NASA staffers and the public without a hitch." Take a look at her content management challenges and what she's using to solve them."
User Journal

Submission + - The Trouble with Virtualization: Cranky IT Staffs (cio.com) 3

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lgmac writes: "A new survey on enterprises' results from virtualization to date shows that the ROI is spreading a lot of love. What's killing the party? Political squabbles among IT staffers, fighting for turf after being forced to work together in new ways. Seems some people still don't know how to play nicely with others."

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