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1. Which browser tags itself as ‘World’s First Triple-Engine Web Browser’?

2. Courtney Holt, an MTV executive, is the new President of which new and ambitious music service?

3. Which cyber-giant is planning to close its offices in the US and Canada from December 29, 2008 to January 2, 2009 to help save $1 billion in operating expenses?

4. Who are the “human flesh search engines” in China?

5. ‘Zurich’ is the codename for…?

6. Name the Indian, Microsoft’s vice-president, with the ‘responsibility for Windows Azure, the company’s new operating system for the cloud’.

7. How many Mozilla affiliates are there worldwide (excluding in the US)?

8. Name the founder of cybernetics to whom this quote is attributed: “Render unto man the things that are man’s, and unto the computer only the things that are the computer’s.”

9. In the context of Mozilla, what is ‘Minefield’?

10. Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, achieved infamy recently after being ordered to pay $873 million in damages, under the Can-Spam Act, to a popular site for spamming its members. Name the site.

1. Lunascape5 Genesis

2. MySpace Music

3. Cisco

4. Web vigilante mobs coming together online to bring to task people who have committed ‘perceived’ wrongdoings.

5. Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform consisting of sophisticated tools to help developers manage their cloud-based services and Web apps.

6. Amitabh Srivastava.

7. Three (Mozilla Europe, Mozilla Japan and Mozilla China).

8. Norbert Wiener.

9. The main code repository for Firefox where patches and new features meant for the next Firefox release first turn up.

10. FaceBook.

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