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Quiz

V.V. Ramanan.

Questions

1. What is the name of the new computer by Dell that many experts believe will rival Apple’s MacBook Air?

2. Which telecom giant was awarded $33.2 million in a lawsuit against OnlineNic, an Internet services company, for ‘cyber squatting’ with domain names having trademarks of the former?

3. Why was Michigan-based networking company, Cygnus Systems, in the news recently?

4. Mozilla’s mobile equivalent of Firefox is called…?

5. Whose new manufacturing entity is being ‘The Foundry Company’?

6. According to an article in ‘Fortune’ magazine, what typically “weighs 3 pounds, has a 9-inch screen, offers a wireless Internet connection, runs Microsoft Windows XP, uses an Intel chip and costs less than $400”?

7. Chris Liddell is the CFO of…?

8. Name the YouTube celebrity who has now been signed up by Visa to promote its product.

9. Gina Bianchini is the chief executive of a site for creating social networks that she founded along with the famous Marc Andreessen. Name it.

10. Fill in the blank with the name of a browser: “..first comes the Navigator, then Explorer, and then the _____”

Answers

1. Adamo

2. Verizon

3. It filed a lawsuit against Google, Microsoft, and Apple for ‘alleged’ violation of its patent on the use of ‘thumbnails’ or document-preview icons in its OS.

4. Fennec

5. AMD

6. A netbook.

7. Microsoft

8. Matt Harding of ‘Where the Hell is Matt’ fame.

9. Ning

10. Konqueror.

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