Sep
2
While I think about it…
Why the chuff did Apple license the “Ping” trademark from the clothing manufacturer? The use of the term “Ping” in computer networking (and, as a follow-on, social networking) is as old as the hills. So much so that MBA-laden salesdroids use it with such disturbing incongruent regularity that many of us have an instinctive nervous twitch encountering the word whenever it’s used to refer to people (rather than devices) communicating.
