Its early successes in the personal computer business caught the eye of Applecorps lawyers, and in 1981 the two companies signed a secret pact giving Apple Computer the right to use the Apple name for computer products, but reserved for Applecorps the right to use it for music-related enterprises.
The computer's name is generally believed to be a play on "pixel, " the smallest element of computer graphics.
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Reportedly, Applecorps has filed a lawsuit in London against the computer firm over a 22-year-old agreement that Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) use the Apple name only for computer products--not music-related enterprises.
To reflect his ambition to transform Apple from a computer maker into a consumer electronics company, Jobs announced a name change from Apple Computer Inc. to simply Apple Inc. in January 2007after introducing the iPhone.
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In case you missed the point about Apple 's new product breadth, the company has dropped "Computer" from its name.
Tim Slater was the driving force behind the project, though ideas were contributed by a number of well-known market technicians, and the programming was done by a computer expert by the name of Jim Schmidt.
"Authorities in California either didn't put his name into the computer or neglected to enter in the fact that he was a fugitive, " Rutledge said.
When she pulls up the doctor's name on her computer, she sees the gross profit she's made off him in parts, service and sales for the eight years he's been coming to her dealership.
HTC's original name was High Tech Computer, which is as anonymous as it gets.
Because in the world I was in, building computer systems, determinism was the name of the game.
His other TV credits include the role of Gamesmaster in the 1990s computer games show of the same name.
Neural networks are computer programs that, as their name suggests, behave rather like nerve cells in an animal's brain.
Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number.
Tencent Holding company owns a number of Tecent name brand internet and computer companies principally engaged in the value-added services markets online and in telecom.
"It will infect your computer and then choose a different name from your address book to send itself on to your contacts, " said Graham Cluley from anti-virus firm Sophos.
That way, if a clerk in Omaha entered a criminal's name incorrectly into the computer, police in Tulsa could still find him by other characteristics, such as his appearance or M.
That way, if a clerk in Omaha, Nebraska, entered a criminal's name incorrectly into the computer, police in Tulsa could still find him by other characteristics, such as his appearance or modus operandi.
Greedy takes its name from a kind of computer algorithm that emphasizes the virtues of the practical over the precise in problem-solving.
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On the hardware side of the tech business, gurus were eager to lock in some profits on some big-name winners such as Dell Computer and Motorola.
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In America he adopted his current name and made his fortune selling computer equipment to Latin America.
That name had been taken by the former Computer Tabulating Recording Corp, which went all the way back to the 1880s.
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"They kept on telling me that my name is common to some name that has popped up on the computer, so they need to follow procedure, " he said.
Before Advanced Micro Devices filed its lawsuit against Intel in June alleging monumental amounts of bullying behavior, the perennially number two computer chip maker tried hard to get a big name in its corner to verify its claims publicly.
"These latest additions to our lineup of products and features demonstrate yet again why the Clickfree name has become synonymous with effort-free computer backup, " said Storage Appliance Corp.
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"There's no computer that's going to spit out a terrorist name, " he said, arguing that the most effective counterterrorism tool is citizens coming forward to police with concerns about individuals.
Back on the riverfront, a computer consultant, who asked to be identified by his English name, Ben, gazes across the border.
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