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In the thick of anti-virus fight.

1. Which Internet slang term is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2007?

2. Which Grand Slam tennis champion is now featured in the much appreciated HP’s ‘The computer is personal again’ campaign?

3. Which three cyber majors were behind the development of ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)?

4. Which company’s processors have had codenames such as ‘Joshua’, Matthew and ‘Mojave’?

5. Of the two Supercomputers from India in the Top100, one is ranked fourth and the other (eServer Blue Gene Solution) is at 58. Where is the latter located?

6. On the above theme, the ‘largest supercomputer ever built’ is due to go online on January 1, 2008. What is it dubbed and where is it?

7. With which company would one identify an ‘antivirus superhero’ mascot attired like a ‘Power Ranger’?

8. With which employment Web site would one associate Jeff Taylor?

9. December 16 saw the diamond jubilee of which famous invention?

10. Name Microsoft’s third longest-serving executive, after Gates and Ballmer, who is the president of Microsoft’s business division.

1. ‘w00t’

2. Serena Williams.

3. Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba.

4. Cyrix

5. Indian Institute of Science.

6. ‘Ranger’ will be hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Centre, Austin.

7. Symantec for its Norton 360 product.

8. Monster.com

9. The transistor, built by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two Bell Labs researchers.

10. Jeff Raikes.

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