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Questions

1. What is common to Windows 98, SQL Server 7 and Office XP developer as regards this month?

2. Pradeep Singh's company was first to put an Indian product on Microsoft's Site Builder Network site. Name the company.

3. One for the Windows fans. In which year was Windows 1.0 released?

4. Name the pioneer of `electronic exhibitionism', and a big favourite amongst Netizens, who is turning off the camera after seven years.

5. Who now makes the classic video arcade game `Space Invaders'?

6. What is `bluejacking'?

7. In computing, the use of remote computers to surreptitiously perform calculations that are part of a larger computational problem is called... ?

8. Name the new software that Yahoo! is planning to launch next year which will combat and stop e-mail spam.

9. NM Electronics founded in 1968 is now known as...?

10. Emoticon trivia. What does (:-& stand for?

Answers

1. They are some products Microsoft proposes to drop after December 23.

2. Talisma Corporation.

3. November, 1985.

4. Jennifer Ringley of JenniCam fame.

5. Taito.

6. Temporary hijacking of another person's cell-phone by sending anonymous SMS using Bluetooth system.

7. Parasitic Computing.

8. Domain Keys.

9. Intel.

10. Being angry.

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