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V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. Name the Indian who is the President, COO and co-founder of BitTorrent Inc.

2. Whose property was WinZip until the present parent company's Corel's IPO some months ago?

3. Which famous British's scientist's complete evolutionary works are now online, including the stolen notebook he carried in his pocket?

4. Which cyber-major recently picked up Serious Magic, a privately held maker of video production software?

5. In which Italian city was the 2006 World Cyber Games held recently?

6. October 23 marked the fifth anniversary of which path-breaking personal product?

7. In which game would one encounter Horstachio, Moozipan and Pretztail?

8. Opera 9 has passed this test, while both Firefox 2.0 and IE7 have failed. Name the test designed by the Web Standards Project.

9. Apple's digital rights management technology used to make iPod and iTunes a closed system is called... ?

10. Why is Jon Johansen, a Norwegian, a legend among hackers?

Answers

1. Ashwin Navin

2. Vector Capital Group

3. Charles Darwin

4. Adobe

5. Monza

6. The Apple iPod

7. Microsoft's `Viva Pinata'

8. Acid2 Browser Test

9. FairPlay

10. He was the one who helped crack the piracy protections on DVDs some years ago. He is now taking on Apple's FairPlay.