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Quiz

V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. Name the revolutionary 3D spatial audio technology developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Media Technology, the place where MP3 was conceived.

2. Whose next generation of AV notebooks, to be launched early next month, is called `Qosimo'?

3. Expand CSV as in .csv files.

4. Who or what has been dubbed `Duts'?

5. If `blog' is short for web log, what is a `plog'?

6. Name Microsoft's eight-year old online publication that it wants to sell off?

7. What `very happening' search facility has been founded by Kathy Rittweger and Suranga Chandratillake?

8. Todd Hollenshead is the CEO of the company that makes DOOM. Name the company.

9. In which year did Time magazine name the computer its `Man of the Year'?

10. Who recently announced in what is believed to be the largest cash dividend in US corporate history, a staggering $32 billion?

Answers

1. Iosono.

2. Toshiba.

3. Comma Separated Value.

4. It's the first detected PocketPC virus and has been written by Ratter, of the 29A virus-writing group.

5. Project log.

6. Slate.

7. Blinkx (www.blinkx.com)

8. id Software and Activision

9. 1982.

10. Microsoft, who else!

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