trivia moment - scroll down...
voda stands for ....
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voice + data. invented some time before data was on the radar of most =
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bonus round:
VAIO comes from
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analog (VA waves) and digital (IO)
or is it BIO?
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david [dc] collier
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// Vodafone live!
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// On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 w-ando@cb.jp.nec.com wrote:
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// > Even though the average J-PHONE customer knows or has heard about
// > 'Vodafone', I wonder all of them can spell it correctly. Some may
// > type 'bodafone', while the others may do 'vodaphone'. All of the
// > three(vodafone/bodafone/vodaphone) listed above sound same in
// > Japanese! I personally think it may cause a lot of confusion among
// > J-PHONE users unless J-PHONE launches a heavy ad campaign for =
this.
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// I think they may be in big trouble. I just went to use whois to
// see if they had perhaps registered "bodafone.ne.jp" as well as
// "vodafone.ne.jp," and before I discovered that they hadn't, I =
misspelled
// "vodafone" twice! (Once as "vodophone" and once as "vodaphone.")
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// Or maybe the average Japanese can spell better than I can. :-)
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