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Questions

1. As per its annual report for 2005-2006, where outside India does Infosys have a global development centre?

2. Of which country, recently in the news for civil unrest, is .tl or.tp the TLD?

3. Col Needham is the founder and managing director of which very popular entertainment-related Web site?

4. Mitchell Baker is the CEO of... ?

5. Name the new image format that Microsoft showed off at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference recently.

6. According to William Bradford Shockley, the co-inventor of the transistor, who were the `Traitorous Eight'?

7. Name the company that owned the rights to the first microprocessor, developed by Intel, but later sold it back to Intel.

8. If Bangalore is the `The Silicon Valley of India', then which German city has that tag for that country?

9. If .edu is for educational establishments and .aero for the air transport industry, for what is it .cat?

10. What is `Okopipi'?

Answers

1. Toronto, Canada

2. East Timor

3. IMDB

4. Mozilla Corporation

5. Windows Media Photo

6. The eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to form Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.

7. Busicom

8. Dresden

9. Catalan language/culture

10. The successor to Blue Security's anti-spam software Blue Frog.

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