The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

1. Name eBay’s new Web site whose mission is to “alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world’s working poor.”

2. According to a report published by security firm Sophos, which Asian country, with 5.2 per cent, is the world’s second biggest spam-offending country after the US (28.4 per cent)?

3. Why was an Italian digital imaging firm HAL9000 in the news recently?

4. What’s special about Intel’s new facility, called Fab 32, at Chandler, Arizona?

5. Which chipmaker has the ‘LongRun2 Technologies’?

6. What is the new book on Google from Stephen Arnold, the author of ‘The Google Legacy’, called?

7. The inaugural ‘E4’ trade show recently ended in Los Angeles. What does E4 mean?

8. Which Japanese company has said it has developed the world’s thinnest LCD panel, just 0.68mm thick?

9. Charles Giancarlo is the Chief Development Officer of….?

10. Who developed W-CDMA?

Answers

1. MicroPlace

2. South Korea.

3. It has posted a 16 billion pixel image of Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ to allow art lovers and conspiracy theorists to analyse it from their own computers

.4. It will be its first high-volume facility for building the Penryn processor, which uses a 45-nanometer manufacturing process.

5. Transmeta

6. ‘Google Version 2.0: The Calculating Predator’.

7. Entertainment for All i.e. a show to fill the void left by Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), America’s biggest game trade show.

8. Sharp Electronics.

9. Cisco

10. NTT DoCoMo as the air interface for its 3G network FOMA.