| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | That's why it's called Bluetooth and other surprising tech name origins | | | by Evan Dashevsy, Tech Hive | | | Like most normal people, you probably haven't invested too much of your valuable time pondering the origins of the term "Bluetooth." As it turns out, the ubiquitous wireless technology's name has nothing to do with being blue or tooth-like and has everything to do with medieval Scandinavia. More»
Why This Matters: This is good back-up small talk for your Christmas party. Especially interesting for anyone in product marketing—learn the origins of names including Apple, Nokia, Google, etc.--and that Sony story we never get tired of. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | Microsoft's Apple Investment: The Worst Deal Ever? | | | via Roben Farzad, Business Week | | | The particular butterfly flappings that combined to create Steve Jobs's extraordinary life and career are well-known and oft-recalled; less remembered is the $150 million lifeline Microsoft threw Apple in August 1997, when Apple was within weeks of bankruptcy. More»
Why This Matters: If Microsoft knew what it does now it might have killed Apple in the cradle. –The editors of Twice |
| | #3 | Miniatur Wunderland gets an airport | | | After six years and over $4,440,000, the world's largest model railroad now has the world's largest model airport. The 1,600-square-foot addition is just the latest to Hamburg, Germany's Miniatur Wunderland, which has plans to continue expanding until 2020. More »
Why This Matters: We shared this with you once before but nothing says holiday like the most elaborate toy train in the world, engineered as an act of devotion. It's worth a look if not to marvel at the impressive computer-controlled technological aspects of it, then maybe just for the sheer enjoyment from seeing a train set that includes crimes-in-progress, police chases, a working airport, and a "if this van's a rockin', then don't come a knockin'" vignette. -Jeremy Glowacki
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