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Questions

1. Name the first EPL side to sign a deal to show archive footage and daily news on YouTube.

2. What is the most famous product of Grisoft, a privately held Czech company formed in 1991?

3. India is the fourth-largest mobile market. Name the top three.

4. Recently, a jury in San Diego ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5 billion to which company in an MP3 audio technology patent dispute?

5. Name the IBM Fellow set to become the first woman to win the prestigious Turing Award for program optimisation work that led to modern methods for high-speed computing.

6. Name the XML firm that Cisco is going to buy for $135 million in cash and options.

7. Paul Jacobs is the CEO of... ?

8. Expand XMPP as in the name of the open, XML-based protocol.

9. Bob Adler, who passed away on February 15 aged 93, was the co-inventor of which `cannot-do-without' part of a TV/AV equipment?

10. What first does the `Cascade' virus, unleashed in 1987-88, have?

Answers

1. Chelsea

2. AVG Anti-Virus software.

3. China, the US, and Russia.

4. Alcatel-Lucent

5. Frances Allen

6. Reactivity

7. QUALCOMM Incorporated

8. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

9. The ubiquitous remote!

10. It was the first self-encrypting file virus.

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