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QUESTIONS

1. High-profile Purple Yogi, which shut down its Bangalore office

recently, was promoted by Jeff Bezos and two others. Name them.

2. Name the program that combines object modules to form an executable program.

3. Louis Gerstner is the Chairman of which computer major?

4. Ericsson subsidiary Telefon LM AB is the licensing authority for which revolutionary technology?

5. Microsoft is planning an innovation for park strollers at Bury St Edmund in S.E. England. What is it?

6. Genio is the brand name of a soon-to-be introduced hand-held computer from a leading Japanese corporation. Name it.

7. Which public sector giant announced a record dividend of 500 per cent recently?

8. The president of the Free Software Foundation came calling to India recently. Name him.

9. Broadly which two programs make up the Mac OS?

10. Expand XGA (released by IBM in 1990)

Answers

1. Rakesh Mathur and Intel Corporation

2. Linker (also called link editor or binder)

3. IBM

4. Bluetooth

5. The world's first park bench with Internet access.

6. Toshiba

7. VSNL

8. Richard Stallman

9. System and Finder programs

10. Extended Graphics Array

V.V. Ramanan, Quizzer@letsquiz.com, www.letsquiz.com

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