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Quiz

V.V. Ramanan.

Questions

1. Which project was founded by John T. Haller and Rare Ideas, LLC?

2. Name the USB flash storage device developed by Microsoft along with SanDisk.

3. Whose netbook brand is called Wind?

4. On the above theme, which company is credited with coining the name netbook?

5. What is ‘Raindrop’?

6. To whom is this now-popular saying attributed: “Technology shouldn’t tell you what’s right and what’s wrong. The rule of law applies on the Web. It’s a platform for humanity"?

7. In the world of Twitter, what is the recent claim to fame of the former Current Media executive Robin Sloan?

8. According to its vice-president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer, how many minutes are spent on Facebook every day: 4, 6 or 8 billion?

9. Who makes the Reclaim and Blue Earth range of mobile phones?

10. Owen Van Natta is the CEO of which social networking site?

Answers

1. PortableApps.com

2. StartKey.

3. Micro-Star International (MSI).

4. Intel.

5. Mozilla Thunderbird team’s ‘exploration in messaging innovation to explore new ways to use Open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences.’

6. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.

7. He appears to have posted the five billionth tweet.

8. Eight billion!

9. Samsung.

10. MySpace.

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