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Questions

1. Which site has the text `I am everywhere you are, but never in the way'?

2. Name the pioneering Net politico, the Libertarian Party's nominee for president in 1996 and 2000 and co-founder of DownsizeDC.org, who passed away recently.

3. What could have been Calex, Calecom, Tronicom or Ectek?

4. Name the first virus implemented in the Microsoft C# and Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL).

5. Name the two parties that have agreed to settle the patent dispute over the BlackBerry device for $612.5 million?

6. In the context of eBay,

what is Mpulse?

7. In return for what did Xerox grant Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in 1979?

8. A figure eight turned on its side and made out of speckles is to be used by HP for what?

9. What's special about the article about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland?

10. From which language developed in the mid-1950s by Grace Murray Hopper did COBOL stem from?

Answers

1. Microsoft's Origami Project site.

2. Harry Browne.

3. Intel. These were the names thought up.

4. W32.Donut.

5. Research In Motion and NTP.

6. A resource to monitor up-to-the-minute listing trends for items on the site.

7. Selling them $1 million in pre-IPO Apple stock (approximately $18 million net).

8. As a symbol to show the potential of its Itanium-based Integrity server line.

9. It became the millionth article on the English-language version of Wikipedia.

10. FLOWMATIC.

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