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Questions

1. Which media moghul's company owns MySpace.com, the popular online music and dating site?

2. Why was Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan, in the news on February 23 as far as Apple Computer goes?

3. What's the jargon for the archetypal hacker nerd that has its origins in MIT in the 1960s?

4. Name the company that has now attempted to weave an episodic, multimedia game into the fabric of the garments.

5. What's the common name given to a game or puzzle that is put up online but requires players to get clues in the real world?

6. Robert Swan is to be the next CFO of which online giant?

7. Related to the above question, name the Indian Swan replaces as CFO.

8. Sun's chief researcher John Gage is credited with which very popular moniker?

9. Razorback2, the biggest server of a popular P2P network, was shut down recently. Name the P2P network.

10. Which multimedia player was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997?

Answers

1. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

2. He was the customer who bought the one-billionth track from iTunes.

3. J. Random Hacker.

4. Edoc Laundry.

5. ARG or Alternate-Reality Games.

6. eBay.

7. Rajiv Datta.

8. `The network is the computer'.

9. eDonkey.

10. Winamp.

V.V. Ramanan

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