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Questions

1. What is the significance of the following: "{lcub}first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e{rcub}.com."

2. If it's Larry Ellison for Oracle, who is it for SAP?

3. What does NW stand for in Sony's new Walkman NW-HD1, seen as a competitor to iPod?

4. What is the `Cram and Jam' deal now popular amongst college students in the US?

5. Expand ATRAC.

6. If it was Willamette for Pentium 4, what was it for Pentium II?

7. `Where Technology Means Business' is the tagline for which portal, a favourite for downloads and reviews?

8. What is a `membrane keyboard'?

9. What is JOOTT an acronym for?

10. Who developed `Python', the scripting language?

Answers

1. Seen on a billboard at the Ralston exit leading to Santa Clara in California, it's supposed to be Google's way of attracting talent into its fold.

2. Henning Kagermann.

3. Network Walkman.

4. It's Apple's new promotion that offers students a $200 rebate when they buy an Apple notebook computer along with an iPod.

5. Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding.

6. Klamath and Deschutes.

7. ZDNet.

8. A type of keyboard in which the keys are covered by a transparent, plastic shell.

9. Just One Of Those Things. It refers to any unexplained cyber snafu that either gets solved by itself over a period of time or by rebooting the machine.

10. Guido van Rossum.

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