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Questions

1. Kevin Kettler is the CTO of which cyber-major?

2. What is the name for a software bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when researched?

3. Wilber the coyote is the official mascot of... ?

4. What is HP's internal name for its Pen-based Interface for Filling Out Forms, which was tested out by its Labs in India recently?

5. What is the term used for the mobile device version of the Blue Screen of Death?

6. The first-ever literary award for books based on blogs or Web sites was given away recently. Name the award.

7. Which popular blog, with a bouncy name, has the tagline `A Directory of Wonderful Things'?

8. What term is commonly used for a message displayed by an OS on detecting an internal system error from which it cannot recover?

9. Why was OS/2 so called?

10. Which visionary British writer and thinker, now settled in a SAARC country, made this famous quote: "Any technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic"?

Answers

1. Dell

2. Heisenbug

3. GIMP, the free bitmap graphics editor

4. Coffei

5. Dark Screen of Death

6. Blooker

7. Boing Boing

8. Kernel Panic

9. Meaning `Operating System/2' because it was introduced as the preferred operating system for IBM's `Personal System/2 (PS/2)' line of second-generation PCs.

10. Arthur C. Clarke

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