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Questions

1. What is `Eurid'?

2. Name the supercomputer that recently doubled its own performance record by performing 135.5 trillion calculations per second.

3. Where is the now very popular Skype Net phone upstart based?

4. Name the Firefox extension that lets one add bits of DHTML to any webpage to change its behaviour.

5. What is FairUCE?

6. Which instant messaging application is made by Cerulean Studios?

7. Who is called the `father of hand-held computing'?

8. Which was the first fault-tolerant computer for online transaction processing, designed to run during repair or expansion?

9. Name the river flowing southwest from Oregon, through northern California, to the Pacific Ocean that gave its name to an Intel codename for a processor.

10. Name the first practical stored-program computer, made by Maurice Wilkes, in 1948.

Answers

1. The consortium chosen by the European Commission as official caretaker of the new domain name .eu

2. IBM's Blue Gene/L

3. Luxembourg

4. Greasemonkey

5. IBM's new spam assailant tool

6. Trillian

7. Jeff Hawkins (founder of Palm)

8. Tandem Computers' Tandem-16

9. Klamath

10. EDSAC

V.V. Ramanan

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