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Questions

1. Which Net legend is the chairman of ICANN?

2. Which company is the registrar for the main database that tracks owners of names in the .com and .net top-level domains?

3. On the above theme, who is the CEO of the company?

4. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recently donated $13.5 million to fund which institute's ET research?

5. Which letter is not part of the Yahoo name in its Nasdaq symbol?

6. Which chip was code-named Astro?

7. In the context of computer games/movies, who or what is a `synthespian'?

8. What is the `Liberty Alliance Project'?

9. Where is Electronic Data Systems, the No. 2 US technology services provider, headquartered?

10. Whose tagline is "The Mother of All Search Engines"?

Answers

1. Vinton Cerf

2. Verisign

3. Stratton Sclavos

4. SETI Institute

5. A. It's listed as YHOO on Nasdaq.

6. Transmeta's Efficeon

7. A simulated character (thespian). E.g.: Woody and Buzz Lightyear in `Toy Story.'

8. It's an initiative "to develop open standards for federated network identity management and identity-based services."

9. Plano, Texas.

10. Mamma.com (obviously!)

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