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V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. The ‘Webby Person of the Year’ is…?

2. The recently launched RIM BlackBerry 9000 is officially called…?

3. Name the Safari browser plug-in that Yahoo! has acquired in a move to improve how search results appear on Apple computers.

4. What is Facebook’s new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites called?

5. Jen-Hsun Huang is the CEO of…?

6. Name the company synonymous with video gaming from late 70s to mid 90s that had its shares delisted by Nasdaq recently.

7. Name the ‘photo-messaging service’, linked to Picasa, that Google shut down on May 15.

8. Name Shawn Fanning’s (of Napster infamy) gaming social-media start-up that has been snapped by Electronic Arts for $30 million.

9. Of the four inaugural partners in MySpace’s ‘Data Availability’ initiative, two are twitter and Photobucket. Name the other two online giants.

10. Project ‘Pleiades’ was announced recently. What is it?

Answers

1. Stephen Colbert.

2. RIM BlackBerry Bold.

3. Inquisitor

4. Facebook Connect.

5. Nvidia, the largest graphics chip company in the world.

6. Atari

7. Hello

8. Rupture

9. Yahoo! and eBay.

10. It’s a supercomputer project initiated by NASA, Intel and SGI.

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