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Questions

1. Name the author of "Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made," a book by one of the main authors of the Macintosh system.

2. Which Asian country introduced a biometric passport or e-passport, called `BioPass', on March 31?

3. Which company launched the world's first HD DVD player recently?

4. Name the other top Google executive, apart from the co-founders, who has decided to receive $1 each in annual salary and forgo bonuses in 2006.

5. Who is Francisco D'Souza in the context of the Indian IT world?

6. Who is the publisher of the popular virtual world Second Life?

7. Expand WLMD, a free Windows program that will let users manage multiple e-mail accounts.

8. Who launched Shaadi.com, `the world's largest matrimonial service' as the Web site claims, in 1997?

9. Where was Grace Hopper working when she designed COBOL?

10. In Unix, what is the act of expanding special characters in a wildcarded name called?

Answers

1. Andy Hertzfeld

2. Singapore

3. Toshiba

4. The company's CEO, Eric Schmidt

5. The COO of Cognizant Technology Solutions

6. Linden Lab

7. Windows Live Media Desktop

8. Anupam Mittal

9. Rand

10. Globbing

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