The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

2. At its recent annual meeting in Seoul, what plan did Icann, the Internet regulator, approve, in what is seen as the biggest change to the way the Internet works since it was created 40 years ago?

3. On the above theme, who is the president of Icann?

4. The founders of Skype have agreed to transfer disputed intellectual property owned by their company Joltid, which was at the heart of a legal battle, over to Skype. Name the two.

5. Name the Indian researcher behind `SixthSense', "a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information".

6. Which cyber-giant is behind `Health Tech Today', a monthly, online video series on developments in the healthcare technology arena.

7. To mark the 40th anniversary of which popular TV show did Google have customised logos for three days?

8. What is `Project Natal'?

9. If PS2 had EyeToy, then what does PS3 have?

10. What have been Cupcake, Donut and clair in recent times?

Answers

1. GeoCities

2. Allow non-Latin-script Web addresses.

3. Rod Beckstrom.

4. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.

5. Pranav Mistry.

6. Microsoft

7. Sesame Street.

8. It is the code name for a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform.

9. PlayStation Eye.

10. SDK updates for Google Android.