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Questions

1. What did Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom found?

2. What is `Rock's Law'?

3. What is Microsoft's new digital rights management (DRM) technology code-named?

4. Name the former CFO of Compaq named the CFO of Computer Associates.

5. What does `Skype' claim to be?

6. Who is Yusuf Mehdi?

7. What is `moblog'?

8. A computer hacker hired to legally infiltrate corporate computer systems for legitimate reasons is called a... ?

9. The problem of `spim' is on the rise. What is it?

10. Trigo, Candle and Green Pastures have been taken over by their long-standing partner recently. Name the acquirer.

Answers

1. Kazaa

2. Named after a venture capitalist Arthur Rock, the `law' holds that the costs of building a semiconductor fab will double every four years.

3. Janus

4. Jeff Clarke

5. The first Internet phone service to use peer-to-peer software.

6. Chief of MSN

7. Mobile web log

8. Samurai

9. Spam that targets instant-messaging users.

10. IBM

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