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Questions

1. With what noble initiative — that of letting all have access to human knowledge — is the name of Brewster Kahle linked?

2. What is the Open Content Alliance?

3. Who purchased the online magazine Slate from Microsoft in 2004?

4. Which company was co-founded by George Canova, Darin Field and Jack Davis in 1979?

5. Which search-engine Web site's name was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty?

6. Who is to build a $3.2-billion microprocessor plant at Saratoga Springs, New York?

7. What was originally launched in 1999 as FreeDiskSpace.com?

8. Name the Amazon-owned Web site that gives information on Web traffic to other Web sites.

9. Whose luxury brand is called `Vertu'?

10. Which browser advertises `your web, your choice'?

Answers

1. The non-profit Internet Archive

2. It's a joint effort by Microsoft, Internet Archive and Yahoo to digitise library collections.

3. The Washington Post Co

4. Novell, Inc (then called Novell Data Systems Inc.).

5. Baidu.com

6. AMD

7. MySpace.com

8. Alexa.com

9. Nokia, with handset models that are studded with diamonds, etc.

10. Opera 9

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