The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

2. Recently, the world’s top DVD player maker filed a suit against the world’s biggest contract maker of laptop computers saying the latter infringed on its DVD technology. Name both the companies.

3. What was founded in 1995 by Bob Cmelik, Dave Ditzel, Colin Hunter, Ed Kelly, Doug Laird, Malcolm Wing and Greg Zyner?

4. In the largest private equity deal for the telecommunications industry, Goldman Sachs and TPG Capital agreed to pay $25 billion for which top US rural wireless provider?

5. AlphaTap, MessageEase and Inscribe are examples of…?

6. Under what name was ATI, the world’s second largest GPU company, founded?

7. Which company gets its name from the Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent?

8. In the flat, Earth-like world of Second Life, what is the standard dimension of ‘Regions’?

9. Who developed Xross Media Bar (XMB), the Emmy-award winning GUI system?

10. Name the Google product that is a ‘data trend viewing platform to make nations’ statistics accessible on the Internet in an animated, interactive graph form’.

Answers

1. Wikipedia

2. South Korea’s LG Electronics and Taiwan’s Quanta.

3. Transmeta

4. AllTel

5. Shorthand-like entry methods using pen-driven inputs for tablet PCs.

6. Array Technologies Incorporated.

7. Akamai

8. 256x256m

9. Sony

10. Gapminder