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V. V. Ramanan

Questions

1. Oracle recently pulled its $6.7-billion buyout offer for which middleware maker?

2. The much-anticipated new-media creation (including an online TV) of two media giants NBC and Fox is called?

3. Who recently sold off the popular Webshots, a leading photo-sharing business, to American Greetings for $45 million?

4. Which Nintendo computer won six Bafta awards recently?

5. XEL-1 is the world’s first…?

6. Which Nobel Laureate made this statement before the Y2K problem: “How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?”

7. Where did the inaugural Internet Governance Forum take place in 2006?

8. What is ‘mapvertising’?

9. Name the online platform for creating social Web sites and social networks co-founded by Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame).

10. Expand EC 2 as used in the Amazon EC2 Web-based service.

Answers

1. BEA Systems.

2. Hulu.com

3. CNET Networks.

4. Wii Sports.

5. OLED (organic light-emitting diode) television launched by Sony.

6. Al Gore.

7. Athens, Greece.

8. The use of roof space for advertising to users of online mapping services. For example, painting the logo on top of the company’s building.

9. Ning ( www.ning.com).

10. Elastic Compute Cloud.

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