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Win a trip to the Sundance Film Festival.

Questions

1. Which popular social media service was founded by Dalton Caldwell and Jan Jannink (formerly of Napster)?

2. Name the oldest digital library, started way back in 1971 by Michael Hart, a University of Illinois student.

3. Name the Chinese e-mail and messaging company that IBM is acquiring and which will be part of its Lotus’ Bluehouse project.

4. What ‘new’ concept did Richard Stallman dismiss as an industry bluster saying “it’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign”?

5. Which project, launched in November 2008, is Google going to terminate on February 28?

6. Which educational and research institution hosts the ‘Digital Library of India’ in co-operation with CMU, IIIT, NSF, ERNET and MCIT for the Government of India and 21 participating centres?

7. Microsoft has sold its complete stake of 150.9 million shares in which giant cable company?

8. What is ‘Project: Direct’?

9. If Apple has iPhone 3G and T-Mobile G1, then who is going to launch the Ocean 2?

10. In which Asian country has Apple launched an online shop selling second-hand Apple products?

Answers

1. Imeem

2. Project Gutenberg.

3. Outblaze

4. Cloud computing.

5. Print Ads.

6. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

7. Comcast

8. YouTube’s short film competition, now in its second year, in which the prize is a trip to Sundance Film Festival.

9. Helio

10. China

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