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Questions

1. What is Yahoo's test version of a browser add-on that can help Web users shield their surfing habits from spyware?

2. Which recruitment Web site's tagline is: `today's the day'?

3. Simple one. Who is the first mobile operator in India to offer `push-to-talk' telephone facility?

4. Name the virus that is reckoned to be the first to target PCs running 64-bit versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system.

5. Name the term that is derived from Hawaiian for `quick' and describes Web sites that can be edited by any reader, including anonymous visitors.

6. Expand ATRAC as in Sony's ATRAC format.

7. If Samsung makes Yepp, who makes the `Giga Pavit' range of portable music player?

8. Name Sony's recently launched online music store.

9. What is `exabyte'?

10. In the context of data storage, who is Al Shugart?

Answers

1. Anti-Spy

2. Monster.com

3. Tata Indicom

4. Rugrat.3344.

5. Wikipedia.

6. Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding for MiniDisc.

7. AIWA.

8. Connect.com

9. One billion gigabytes [1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes].

10. He created the hard drive at IBM and later founded Seagate Technology.

V.V. Ramanan

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