The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

2. With which cyber major has Mayo Clinic set up a collaborative research facility ‘The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Centre (MI3C)’ to improve the quality of patient care?

3. What is ‘Stevenote’?

4. Name the former CTO of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation who has started a new company called Pixel Qi, to commercialise the technology for low-priced laptops for poor children.

5. With whom is Google jointly developing televisions that display Internet content such as photos and videos?

6. Who developed Postscript in 1985?

7. What ‘spider’ term is used for “the use of a table or structured list of URLs for Web sites (or words that hyperlink to Web sites) in order to help locate them”?

8. The BlackBerry Pearl 8100 was the first BlackBerry to do way with what?

9. What does Wikpedia define as “the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call”?

10. In the context of spam, what is ‘spinging’?

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Answers

1. It “is an Internet encyclopaedia dedicated to The Honourable Professor Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. and his creation, ‘truthiness’.”

2. IBM

3. The colloquial term used for the keynote speeches by Steve Jobs, generally given at Apple events.

4. Mary Lou Jepsen.

5. Panasonic

6. Adobe

7. Arachnotaxis.

8. A trackwheel. It was replaced by a miniature trackball.

9. Crowdsourcing.

10. Pinging from a splog to make recipients think that content of interest has been updated though that may not be the case.