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A reference tool to rival Wikipedia…

1. Google’s new online, user-generated reference tool seeking to rival Wikipedia is called..?

2. Name the Indian supercomputer that is ranked fourth fastest in the world and the fastest in Asia.

3. Name the inventor of the optical reader and the near-rectilinear font still used for the credit cards’ numbers, who passed away recently.

4. Which film became the first studio-backed feature film to receive its premiere on the Web?

5. Which country sent a whopping 429 billion mobile text messages in 2006?

6. Which Japanese company makes ‘enon’, the personal assistant robot?

7. Name the set of common APIs, for Web-based social network applications, which Google developed and released recently.

8. Name the privately owned British company that makes mapping software, which Microsoft is buying in a deal worth slightly above $50 million.

9. As of mid December, articles in Wikipedia are in how many languages?

10. Who recently launched SimpleDB, a new Web service for querying structured data?

1. ‘knol’

2. ‘EKA’

3. David H. Shepard.

4. Paramount Pictures’ ‘Jackass 2.5’.

5. China!

6. Fujitsu

7. OpenSocial

8. Multimap

9. 253 languages.

10. Amazon

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