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Questions

1. Name the company bought by Microsoft recently for $6 billion for its biggest ever purchase yet.

2. Whose Shrek-inspired channel on YouTube is called YeTube?

3. What is common to Avenue A | Razorfish, Atlas Media Console and Drive PM?

4. Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere has now been renamed as... ?

5. Fill in the blank: `Canadian publisher Thomson is to buy ______ for about $17.2 billion'.

6. Adobe has decided to do away with which illustration software?

7. The inventors of TWAIN, the universal scanner driver, jokingly said that TWAIN's was a backronym for... ?

8. IBM's ThinkPad 701C had a delicate codename, named after a beautiful creature. Name it.

9. What are `Griffin' and `Puma'?

10.Why was an American soldier Colby Buzzell in the news recently?

Answers

1. aQuantive, Inc.

2. Hewlett-Packard

3. All are individual businesses of aQuantive.

4. Silverlight

5. Reuters

6. FreeHand

7. Technology Without An Interesting Name.

8. Butterfly

9. AMD's energy-efficient notebook chip and the platform based around Griffin.

10. His Internet diary that became the book `My War: Killing Time in Iraq' won this year's `Blooker Prize'.

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