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Questions

1.What is `Harmony Technology'?

2. Alviso's launch, scheduled for autumn of 2004, has been delayed. What is Alviso?

3. Which global cyber legend had a successful surgery for pancreatic cancer very recently?

4. Who is President of the animated film studio, Pixar?

5. Name the Indian CEO of a computer major who was forced to return over $8 million in restricted stock and other forms of compensation when he exited the company last month.

6. What is `Mega Root Fu' set to debut next year?

7. Name the American varsity that has received the largest gift in the school's history, a $60 million donation from Netscape co-founder Jim Clark and Yahoo co-founder David Filo.

8. Which popular cartoon series' theme song was used by America Online in its promos?

9. Sites with nothing but a title and button to enter are called... ?

10. A computer used a weather forecaster during the Atlanta Olympics achieved fame for a pioneering sporting encounter. What?

Answers

1. It's RealNetworks' new venture that will let people securely transfer music bought using its music download services to an iPod or most any other portable music player.

2. It's Intel's second major new notebook chip, after Dothan.

3. Steve Jobs.

4. Ed Catmull.

5. Sanjay Kumar of Computer Associates.

6. It will be the first large-scale hacking contest game played over the public Internet globally.

7. Tulane University.

8. The Jetsons.

9. Doorway pages.

10. It was the first computer ever to beat a world chess champion in a tournament match.

V.V. Ramanan

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