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Questions

1. Name the `Baby Bell' that has acquired `Ma Bell' i.e. AT&T for $ 16 billion?

2. Which Web site with a very `URL-ish' name was created by Rob Malda in September 1997?

3. Which very popular P2P file distribution tool was written by programmer Bram Cohen?

4. Name the rendering engine used by Firefox, Mozilla and other browsers such as Camino.

5. According to the popular Brandchannel.com ranking of favourite brands, who/what has displaced Google from the top?

6. What is common to AfterStep, Ratpoison and Sawfish?

7. Who is working on a new storage technology called `Honeycomb'?

8. What is the name of the latest Bagle worm creating havoc from January?

9. Name the current lead developer of Firefox snapped up by Google.

10. What now very common term in software was suggested by Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute?

Answers

1. SBC Communications.

2. Slashdot.org

3. BitTorrent

4. Gecko.

5. Apple.

6. All are open source `Windows managers'

7. Sun Microsystems

8. Bagle.AZ

9. Ben Goodger.

10. `Open Source'

V.V. Ramanan

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