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V.V. RAMANAN

Questions

1. Name the man, who coined the phrase ‘the network is the computer,’ who has left Sun Microsystems to join former US Vice-President Al Gore in KPCB’s green-tech investing group.

2. Mac OS X 10.6 is codenamed after the animal with the scientific name ‘Uncia uncia’. What is its common name?

3. Name the alliance recently formed by six technology majors to jointly license patents for WiMax.

4. On the above theme, name the six companies.

5. Where was Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference held recently?

6. Why was the ‘Roadrunner’ in the news recently?

7. Which storage major has pulled the plug on its Fanfare video download service and its companion hardware, the TakeTV?

8. Cory Ondrejka, one of the founders of ‘Second Life’, was recently hired by which struggling record label?

9. Aristotle ‘Ari’ Balogh is currently the Chief Technology Officer of which online major?

10. ‘Standard of Camera & Imaging Products Association CIPA DC-001 — 2003 Digital Solutions for Imaging Devices’ is commonly called…?

Answers

1. John Gage.

2. Snow leopard.

3. Open Patent Alliance.

4. Intel, Cisco Systems, Samsung Electronics, Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, and Alcatel-Lucent.

5. Moscone West, San Francisco.

6. It’s a new $133-million supercomputer that set a record by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

7. SanDisk

8. EMI Group.

9. Yahoo!

10. PictBridge.

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