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1. Which individual was the first to use the @ symbol as an operator for routing e-mail?

2. If HTTP 404 is ‘Not Found’, what is 302?

3. Intel’s sixth-generation Centrino platform is codenamed..?

4. In video gaming lingo, what is ‘glitching’?

5. ’Granite Systems’ and ‘Kealia’ were start-ups founded by which Silicon Valley pioneer?

6. Name the ad firm whose proposed acquisition by Google for about $140 million has been blocked by Russian antitrust regulators.

7. What is the ‘Green Screen of Death’ (or Green Screen of Intensive Care)?

8. The continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, is called…?

9. Which online giant owns the patent to 1-Click?

10. What is an ‘ID10T’ error?

1. Ray Tomlinson.

2. Found

3. Calpella

4. Finding and exploiting flaws in games to achieve something that was not intended by the game designers.

5. Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.

6. ZAO Begun.

7. The failure modes on the TiVo digital video recorder and Microsoft Xbox 360.

8. SeaMonkey.

9. Amazon

10. Term used by tech support operators for a problem arising due to the user’s ignorance instead of a software or hardware malfunction.

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