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well it seems like naming tech products is like finding a dot-com address the good ones are all taken and I've got proof I'm Brian Cooley with the top 5 worst named tech products part to the list has actually grown since the last time we did this number 5 is the Cisco seus it's kind of clever in a cloyingly cute sort of way that eventually makes you mad the third or fourth time someone asks you oh what's that you're caring and you have to say it it's a tablet that is centered around Cisco TelePresence get it see us WebEx meetings and transformative business software applications and software management which sounds awfully boring for something called see us number four is George now if you're of a certain age or familiar with rat-pack slang you think I'm talking about your bird in fact it's something considerably bigger a really good iPod dock music system from the also clumsily named chestnut hill sound that's a company I'm told that George was chosen because this was their first product like Washington was our first president clever no not really number three is the Casio oh is that G's own gz1 gus' own I honestly don't know and whatever I say I'm probably wrong and it probably doesn't matter since nobody's in the market for a phone that looks like a GI Joe reject number two is the Tivoli audio iê iê iê iê i and i'm not kidding these guys usually make some nice-looking well named understated gear this is not one of those our review calls it attractive but that's back when we had a blind guy doing audio reviews and it has no bass or treble controls Anglos for four hundred bucks that's how they got the name number one is of course quickster netflix overnight debacle first of all why would you take the slowest of your two video platforms DVD and call it quickster second why would you name a DVD video service something which has no reference to movies DVDs video television or your existing globally known brand name and third why would you not check first if the Twitter account of the same name isn't already owned by some dude who uses a pot-smoking Elmo as his avatar fail for more top fives like this if you can stand them go to top 5 dot cnet.com I'm Brian Cooley thanks for watching