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1.Name the technology devised by AMD, originally for notebooks, to curb power consumption by slowing down the processor when workload is reduced.

2.What is MTV's new online music subscription service called?

3.What is purported to be Microsoft's present codename for an update to the yet-to-be-released Windows Vista?

4.Who recently set a world record in Magnetic Tape Data Density by packing 6.67 billion bits per sq inch onto a test tape?

5.Name the company that had a patent spat with eBay over the `Buy It Now' feature, before the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of the auction giant.

6.Name the US-based company acquired by Wipro recently for $10 million to strengthen its mechanical engineering design and analysis services.

7.Who is `Lady Chatterjee'?

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8.Paul E. Jacobs is the CEO of wireless telecommunications research and development company ... ?

9.What nomenclature change will happen to Internet Explorer with the release of Internet Explorer 7?

10Name the free computer program, designed by Tony Gulino, to provide helpful features to people who record their dreams.

Answers

1. Cool n' Quiet

2. Urge

3. Windows "Fiji"

4. Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose

5. MercExchange, a small, Virginia-based company

6. Quantech Global Services

7. The country's `first truly animated Item girl' signed up by Saregama for its upcoming music album

8. Qualcomm

9. The name will change to Windows Internet Explorer from Microsoft Internet Explorer

10. AstareDreams