!T QU!Z 24

1.Which company has developed a high-quality raw video format initiative called CinemaDNG, where DNG stands for Digital Negative?

A.Adobe

2.September 9, 2009 marked the 10th anniversary of which one-time popular game console made by Sega?

A.Dreamcast

3.Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little co-founded…?

A.Wordpress

4.Jungle-Search.com is completely devoted to finding deals on which Web site?

A.Amazon.com

5.Who has unveiled a new model of consumer protection codenamed ‘Quorum’?

A.Symantec Corp

6.Which popular Google software application was originally created by Idealab?

A.Picasa

7.Who has launched a mission for kids called ‘Mission: 10,000 Rockets’?

A.Bing

8.If Amazon makes Kindle, who makes Flepia?

A.Fujitsu

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

A.Microsoft

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

A.Samsung

11.What resource was started by Col Needham and “some film-buff friends”, while Needham was working as an HP engineer?

A.IMDB

12.In August 1997, Microsoft rescued which struggling Silicon Valley icon with a $150-million investment?

A.Apple

13.Jim Safka left his job as the CEO of which search engine, only after 18 months in the job, because of personal reasons?

A.Ask.com

14.What was acquired by Google for $3.1 billion (in cash) from a San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management?

A.Doubleclick Inc.

15.The creator of which eponymous ‘law’ said about his assertion recently that it was “as important as Newton’s Law” but would no longer hold true because “you can’t shrink things anymore”.

A.Gordon Moore

!T QU!Z 23

1.PlayNow Plus is a “super-fast, high-quality music download service” from…?

A.Sony Ericsson

2.Which of Google’s applications was initially named Dory after the inquisitive fish from Finding Nemo?

A.Google Moderator

3.With which company would one associate the new enterprise desktop client called ‘Project Genesis’?

A.Adobe

4.What is Sun Microsystems’ four-lettered Nasdaq code?

A.JAVA

5.Writer-producer Aaron Sorkin, the co-creator of ‘The West Wing’, is to write a film about the creation of which popular social-networking site?

A.Facebook

6.The informal motto of Google is….?

A.'Don't be evil'

7.Which online giant is acquiring Shelfari.com, the book networking site, and AbeBooks.com, which specialises in out-of-print book sales?

A.Amazon

8.Which telephone giant has a trademark on the term ‘flip phone’?

A.Motorola

9.RIM’s first touchscreen device and device without a physical keyboard is codenamed…?

A.Blackbery Thunder

10.The HQ of what is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California?

A.Yahoo

11.Who developed Packet switching theory?

A.Leonard Kleinrock at MIT in 1961.

12.Which visual search engine has the tagline ‘Find.Organize.Share’ on its Web site?

A.Searchme

13.Who has launched an electronic book reader called PRS-700?

A.Sony

14.Name the San Francisco start-up company that created Twitter.

A.Obvious

15.In the history of Apple, for what is Jef Raskin most remembered?

A.Starting the Macintosh project.

!T QU!Z 22

1.What is Apple's device that will stream movies from a computer to a TV codenamed?

A.iTV

2.Which highly successful portal takes its name from a Song Dynasty poem written several centuries ago?

A.Baidu.com

3.What is Microsoft's rival application to Google Earth called?

A.MSN Virtual Earth.

4.What is google.org?

A‍.It's the philanthropic arm of Google.

5.Which cyber-major is developing SoulPad?

A.IBM. It's a mobile computing project.

6.Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, and the Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, are among the eight board members of which iconic cyber-corporate?

A.Apple

7.Who has inked a deal that will help it supply eBay with Web search advertising outside the US?

A.Google

8.Which Indian company became the first to be assessed enterprise-wide, for CMMI and PCMM at Level 5 in 2004?

A.TCS

9.Which giant is headquartered at Walldorf, Germany?

A.SAP AG

10.Which browser was initially called Chimera?

A.Camino

11.Which company reportedly holds the second-largest market share in digital music players behind Apple?

A.SanDisk

12.Which browser's tagline is `the social web browser'?

A.Flock

13.What was called `God's Programming Language' in the glossary of `The OpenGL Programmers Guide'?

A.The Programming Language C

14.What is considered the first Internet-ready video game console?

A.Sega's Dreamcast

15.Which cyber-major recently picked up Serious Magic, a privately held maker of video production software?

A.Adobe

!T QU!Z 21

1.What is Apple-Motorola's iTunes-compatible mobile phone called?

A.Rokr.

2.What was the flagship launch title for the Xbox when the console was released in 2001?

A.Halo

3.Name the Norwegian telecom company where Opera had its genesis in 1995.

A.Telenor

4.Which famous portal has been instrumental for the `Nonprofit Innovation Award', the first winner of which is DonorsChoose?

A.Amazon

5.Who has the two product families OpenView and StorageWorks?

A.HP

6.Who was forced to withdraw a commercial after Catholics objected to seeing a young man wearing a crown of thorns with the slogan `Ten years of passion'?

A.Sony PS

7.What is Microsoft's paid-search advertising program called?

A.MSN AdCenter

8.Who launched India's first dial-up Internet access service?

A.VSNL

9.Who was India's first ISP?

A.Sify

10.After which marine creature was IBM's TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server initiative codenamed?

A.Shark

11.Jonathan Ive, vice-president of Apple's Industrial Design, is credited with designing which colourful Apple product?

A.iMac

12.Fill in the blanks, with the name of a pioneer, in the title of the book: `Free as in Freedom: ______ ______ Crusade for Free Software' by Sam Williams.

A.Richard stallman

13.Which MS Office application was developed by Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student?

A.Power Point

14.What is the default spellchecker for OpenOffice called?

A.MySpell

15.Who developed the Token-Ring LAN technology in the 1980s?

A.IBM

!T QU!Z

1.Who built Z1, the world's first program-controlled computer?

A.Konrad Zuse

2.Who was the first mobile operater in india to offer 'push-to-talk' telephone facility?

A.Tata Indicom

3.Which one-time US Presidential candidate founded EDS (Electronic Data Systems) in Dallas in

1962?

A.Ross Perot

4.What did Peter Kramer & Lou Ottens invent at Philps?

A.Compact Disk

5.Defined as procedure or formula for solving a problem.The word is associated to mathematician,

Mohammed bin-Musa?

A.Algorithm

6.NCS,FIG and Trade X are financial products from which company?

A.TCS

7.“Only the paranoid Survive” is a book by whom?

A.Andy Grove

8.This processer is made up of three parts:Pentium-M microprocesser,a chipset,and a Wi-Fi radio.

The name is derived from blending the words “centre” and “neutrino”. Identify the processer?

A.Centrino

9.Name the founder of Palm Computing, who also co-founded Handspring.

A.Jeff Hawkins.

10.Akio morita and masaru ibuka are founders of which electronics giant company?

A.Sony

11.Who makes the popular Nomad range of jukeboxes?

A.Creative

12.With which computer giant is Starbucks planning the `Hear Music Coffeehouse' outlets?

A.Hewlett-Packard.

13.Who makes SuSe Linux?

A.Novell.

14.What did Brendan Eich invent?

A.JavaScript.

15.Expand Gnome.

A.GNU Network Object Model Environment.

!T QU!Z 4 U

1.Which company begin as ‘Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory’?

A.Canon

2.What is the new service started by Apple Inc for all its iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC to keep everything in sync?

A.MobileMe

3.NSN is a telecommunications solutions supplier which was created as the result of a merger of? A.Siemens & Nokia

4.What did Bob Metcalf found in 1979?

A.3COM

5.We have all heard of Sony VAIO, but what does it mean?

A.Video Audio Integration Operation

6.'invent' is the tagline of whom?

A.HP

7.'Applying Thought' is the tagline of whom?

A.Wipro

8.The first computer virus is called 'Brain Virus'.Who are the writers of this virus?

A.Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi

9.What is GPL

A.GNU General Public License

10.The term 'Wipro' is derived from.....?

A.Western India PROducts

11.Whose Web site tagline is `The Trusted Choice for Online Business'?

A.Akamai

12.What did Meg Hourihan and Evan Williams found that has now been taken over by Google?

A.Pyra Labs,Creator of blogger

13.The Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. They were originally started by which organization headed by Robert Zoellick?

A.World Bank

14.Expand Spot

A.Smart Object Personal Technology

15.Name the indian IT services company taken over completely by citigroup for about $126 million?

A.E-Serve

 

!T QU!Z 4 U

1.Who has developed the first silicon Raman laser ?

A.Intel

2.Who makes the Tecra range of notebook computers?

A.Toshiba

3.If Toshiba makes Satellite laptops, who makes the Aspire range?

A.Acer

4.With which chipmaker are the codenames Palermo, San Diego and Toledo associated?

A.AMD

5.Which storage company's Nasdaq code is SNDK?

A.Sandisk corp.

6.Shantanu Narayen is the first President and COO of which famous company?

A.Adobe systems

7.If eBay has PayPal, who had Paydirect?

A.Yahoo

8.The project code-named Green, initiated in early 1990s, led to the development of...?

A.Java

9.Which Web site's URL uses the following Portuguese terms: gp, varzea, obidos?

A.Amazon.com

10.Which video game company was originally founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889?

A.Nintendo

11.Bram Cohen's creation accounts for an astounding 35 per cent of all the traffic on the Internet. What did he create?

A.BitTorrent

12.Which company has developed the industry-standard rendering software `RenderMan'?

A.Pixar

13.IEEE 1394 is commonly called... ?

A.Fire Wire

14.Who has the two product families OpenView and StorageWorks?

A.HP

15.A program that has been so designed to `install' a virus onto the target system is called a..?

A.Dropper

!T QU!Z

1.Who is called the `father of hand-held computing'?

A.Jeff Hawkins (founder of Palm)

2.What was SHARE formed in 1955 about?

A.It was an IBM users group.

3.Who sold off social network Bebo, chat cilent ICQ and an investment in travel search site Kayak in the past quarter?

A.AOL

4.Name the Japanese imaging major who is to introduce a-mouse calculator called 'X Mark I Mouse'?

A.Canon

5.How we better know "State-Wide Attention on Public Grievance by Application of Technology" of Gujrat?

A.SWAGAT

6.Expand GUI

A.Graphical User Interface

7.What is Social petworking?

A.Websites for Pet animals

8.Who gave the name 'Computer Virus'?

A.Dr.Fred Kohen

9.Who is known as the Web master of Google doodles?

A.Dennis Hwang

10.Who is known as the father of Pentium?

A.Vinod Dham

11.Access is a product of whom?

A.Microsoft

12.Publisher is a product of whom?

A.Microsoft

13.The original name was nippon kogaku,meaning japanese optical.

A.Nikon

14.What is MoFo?

A.Mozilla Foundation

15.A Tough one.Expand VERONICA?

A.Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Compuerized Archives

IT QUIZ

1.This is a Search Engine designed in respect of the culture of muslims.Identify?

A.I'mHalal.com

2.Expand IMPS

A.Interbank Mobile Payment System

3.Expand IANA

A.Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

4.This company was founded in 1987 by John Tu and David Sun

A.Kingston

5.How do we better know Hindustan Computers Ltd?

A.HCL

6.'Game Room' is from whom?

A.Microsoft

7.jen-husan jenson huang is the CEO of which company?

A.Nvidia

8.Full form of Wi-Max?

A.Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

9.Yahoo bought which 1 st domain which had already had email services established in it ?

A.Rocket Mail

10.Expand ZFS?

A.Zettabyte File System

11First suggested by Ben Hammersley, it is a series of digital media file that are released in episodes?

A.Podcasting

12.It is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich.

A.Rybka

13.Which company relesed the super computer 'ROASD RUNNER'

A.IBM

14.Which company releses the super game called 'MOON BASE ALPHA'

A.NASA

15.Expand COBOL

A.COmmon Business Oriented Language

IT QUIZ

1.Google's online payment processing system is called... ?

A.Google Checkout

2.If it's Flickr for Yahoo, what is it for HP?

A.Snapfish

3.If it's Flickr for Yahoo, what is it for HP?

A.GoToMeeting

4.Whose `Live' is to rival Intel's Viiv technology?

A.AMD

5.`Mine of Information'(MOI) and `The Information Mine' (TIM) were the names considered for... ?

A.'World Wide Web'

6.Which very popular site was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005?

A.You Tube

7.If it's iPod for Apple, then for whom is it iRiver?

A.South Korea's Reigncom

8.What is sometimes abbreviated as `<108,SYM,109>P'?

A.Microprocessor

9.Name the technology devised by AMD, originally for notebooks, to curb power consumption by slowing down the processor when workload is reduced.

A.Cool n' Quiet

10.Whose low-cost PC project is called `Personal Internet Communicator'?

A.AMD

11.If Apple has the Shuffle and Creative the Zen, who has Sansa?

A.Sandisk

12.Who launched the Z5 to rival the iPod Nano?

A.Samsung

13.Which cyber-major picked up Serious Magic, a privately held maker of video production software?

A.Adobe

14.What was called `God's Programming Language' in the glossary of `The OpenGL Programmers Guide'?

A.The programming language C.

15.What was created in 1999 as the "Ethicode Artificial Conscience Project"?

A.The Jatalla search engine.

BUSINESS LINE QUIZ

1.Paul A. Flaherty was a computer engineer who had the original idea for which pioneering search engine?

A.Alta vista

2.Which company launched the world's first HD DVD player?

A.Toshiba

3.Who is the publisher of the popular virtual world Second Life?

A.Linden Lab

4.Wilber the coyote is the official mascot of whom?

A.GIMP,the free bitmap graphics editor

5.What is the term used for the mobile device version of the Blue Screen of Death?

A.Dark Screen of Death

6.If it's Research in Motion for BlackBerry, then who is it for RedBerry?

A.China Unicom

7.What was the former name of Google Book Search?

A.Google Print

8.What was the former name of Yahoo! Search Marketing?

A.Overture Services, Inc.

9.If Windows PCs load using BIOS, what do Apple's Intel Macs use?

A.Extensible Firmware Interface

10.Which search-engine Web site's name was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty?

A.Baidu.com

11.Who is to build a $3.2-billion microprocessor plant at Saratoga Springs, New York?

A.AMD

12.What was originally launched in 1999 as FreeDiskSpace.com?

A.Myspace.com

13.Name the Amazon-owned Web site that gives information on Web traffic to other Web sites.

A.Alexa.com

14.Which browser advertises `your web, your choice'?

A.Opera 9

15.Who is Disney's largest individual shareholder?

A.Steve Jobs

IT QUIZ 4 U

1.What is LEP moniter?

A.Light Emitting Plastic monitor

2.Who tolled that “'PLAYSTATION' is poison”

A.Hugo Shaves

3.Which company produces 'Kayak'?

A.Qualcom

4.What is 'i' in 'imac'?

A.Internet

5.How many gigabytes to a terabyte?

A.1024

6.Whatwas developed by Lary Wall as a replacement for AWK, a text processing language?

A.Perl

7.What two words from the company name intel?

A.INTegrated Electronics

8.Smartphones are software for mobile phones from which company?

A.Microsoft

9.Which global IT major owns iflex?

A.Oracle

10.From which country does the telecom giant Telstra originate?

A.Australia

11.Which world-famous word processing was first released by Micropro in 1978?

A.WordStar

12.Which is the email service that was advired by yahoo in 1997?

A.Rocketmail

13.'What are you doing right now' is the punchline of whom?

A.Twitter

14.What did Gerschke and Warnock start in 1982?

A.Adobe

15.Peter Thiel,Ken Howery and Luke Nosek founded which online payment company in 1998?

A.Paypal

BRITE QUIZ

1.Connect these. Mephisto,gidion,shredder,hiarcs,junior ?

A.These are chess engines

2.This game was originally created for Apple 2 but later became famous on many other platforms as well.Name.

A.Prince of Persia

3.Who is the first Indian scientist to get Turing award?

A.Raj Reddy

4.What is the former Indian version of Ebay?

A.Bazee.com

5.What is the term used to describe Wireless Connectivity within limited range like WIFI?

A.Nomadic

6.'ACER' is a robot developed by Mesa Robotics. Expand 'ACER' ?

A.Armored Combat Engineer Robot

7.We use the file manager 'Explorer' in 'windows'. Which is the file manager use in 'Linux'?

A.Nautilus

8.Expand EVDO

A.EVolution Data Optimised.

9.'Xoom' is a tablet from whom?

A.Motorola

10.Iconia is a tablet from whom?

A.Acer

11.Which is HTC's tablet?

A.HTC Flyer

12.Expand SMPS

A.Switched Mode Power Supply

13.'Do the new' was the Earlier tagline of this company?

A.DoCoMO

14.Which is the first Electroonic video game?

A.PONG

15.Which is the first 3D vedio game?

A.THE ROBOT WARS

BUSINESS LINE QUIZ

1.Who makes the computer operating system IRIX?

A.Silicon Graphics.

2.If Google owns the PageRank trademark, who owns the patent to the process?

A.Stanford University

3.What was codenamed `Springboard' and was released on August 6, 2004?

A.Windows XP Service Pack 2.

4.Who originally made `PartitionMagic' now owned by Symantec.

A.PowerQuest Corporation.

5.In Mozilla Foundation lingo, what is the `Aviary'?

A.Their nickname for Firefox plus Thunderbird.

6.Who developed the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)?

A.Netscape

7.How did the Apple faithful dub June 29, 2007, the day when iPhone made its debut on the shelves?

A.’iDay’

8.Which cyber giant’s jingle is also called the ’sonic logo’?

A.Intel

9.Which company got its name from a creek that ran behind one of the founders’ home in Los Altos, California?

A.Adobe

10.Who developed Xross Media Bar (XMB), the Emmy-award winning GUI system?

A.Sony

11.Which game-maker is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, an MLB team?

A.Nintendo.

12.Whose first smart phone companion product is called ‘Foleo’?

A.Palm

13.Who claims to be the ‘First Internet search engine to launch Image, Audio, and Video search capabilities’?

A.Altavista

14.Which company’s Nasdaq ticker symbol is ERTS?

A.Electronic Arts.

15.Which OS was created in 1996 by Robert Szeleney?

A.SkyOS

QUIZ 4 U

1.What is DLP?

A.Digital Light Processing

2.Dreamcast is made by whom?

A.Sega

3.What was made by Trip Hawkins in 1982?

A.EA(Electronics Arts)

4.The 'Dynabook' concept is from whom?

A.Alan Kay

5.What is the short from of facsimile?

A.Fax

6.Which is the Social networking website made by Kevin Rose in 2004?

A.Digg

7.He came up with a six digit number 123456

but his wife Caroline said she could only remember four figures, so because of her, four figures became the world standard. What am I describing ?

A.The ATM PIN number

8.This gaming portal has a special section for girls and it brought runescape to india?

A.Zapak

9.This company's name came from a Greek mythological name. The company shortened the

name to get a higher listing in the alphabetical order?

A.Asus(Greek mythological name is Pegasus)

10.One word for Picture & Element?

A.Pixel

11.Who brings the first wireless hard disk?

A.Imation(pro wx)

12.Expand NASSCOM

A.National Association of Software Service COMpanies?

13.Which company would you associate the phrase “Empowered by Innovation”?

A.NEC

14.Alex is a e book reader from whom?

A.SpringDesign

15.Which company has brought out the e.Go range of computers in india?

A.Wipro

BUSINESS LINE QUIZ

1.What was co-founded by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield?

A.Flickr

2.What is `Project Panama'?

A.Yahoo!'s new search marketing system.

3.What is `Brickipedia'?

A.It's a wiki for all things Lego.

4.Which search engine was founded by Dave Sifry?

A.Technorati, the blog search and ranking site.

5.Feisty Fawn' is the code name for... ?

A.Ubuntu Linux v7.04.

6.Google is re-branding Froogle as... ?

A.Google Product Search.

7.Which Microsoft product is abbreviated as MOSS?

A.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

8.Pescadero, Oceano and Indio are codenames of earlier versions of which popular software?

A.Firefox browser.

9.Of the top five global PC makers, in terms of shipments, which is the only Japanese company in the list?

A.Toshiba

10.Which IT company’s tagline on its Web site reads ‘Win in the flat world’?

A.infosys

11.Vic Hayes is regarded as the ‘Father of….’?

A.Wi-Fi

12.Which programming language, named after a lady, was designed by Jean Ichbiah and then extended by S. Tucker Taft?

A.Ada

13.Which cyber giant is launching TechTicker, a online program for technology investors, from next month?

A.Yahoo

14.Which Japanese company makes ‘enon’, the personal assistant robot?

A.Fujitsu

15.Who recently launched SimpleDB, a new Web service for querying structured data?

A.Amazon

BRITE IT QUIZ 4 U

1.Who oriented the concept of SCSI?

A.Seagate

2.Who is known as the microsoft of gaming industry?

A.EA Sports

3.Who is known as the father of PSP?

A.Ken kutraghi

4.Name the first & oldest wiki created by Ward Cunningham?

A.wiki wiki

5.Zen is from ?

A.Creative.

6. .za is the domain of which country?

A.South Africa

7.Who is the founder of Toshiba?

A.James Chu

8.'Connect' is a music store from which company?

A.Sony

9.'Cut the rope' is a game by?

A.Chillingo

10.A term coined by programmer Lou Montulli?

A.Cookies

11.A computer manufacturer has launched a range of laptops under the theme world of WarCraft.

Which company?

A.Dell

12.'Barcelona' is a microprocesser from which company?

A.AMD

13.Which gaming console released the Lips karoke game?

A.Xbox 360

14.The launch of which product led Cisco to file a trademark infringement case against Apple?

A.i phone

15.Expand GPRS?

A.General Packet Radio Service

BRITE IN BUSINESS LINE

1.Whose smartphone brand is called ‘Pre’?

A.Palm

2.Which test page for Web browsers was developed by Todd Fahrner in 1998?

A.Acid1, originally called the Box Acid Test.

3.Which free BitTorrent client was once known as Azureus?

A.Vuze

4.Whose video site is called Crackle?

A.Sony

5.What was the nickname for Ubuntu 9.04?

A.Jaunty Jackalope.

6.Whose tagline is ‘It’s a Trust Thing’?

A.Thawte Consulting, the certificate authority for X.509 certificates.

7.Which cyber-major introduced a short-lived Internet suite named ‘Cyberdog’ in mid 1990s?

A.Apple

8.What has been launched by China as a challenge to the Blu-ray DVD market?

A.China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD)

9.One more on MS. Which product while being tested internally was codenamed Kumo?

A.Bing.

10.Which consumer hardware company was founded by David Potter in 1980?

A.Psion.

11.Who makes the very popular Facebook games FarmVille and PetVille?

A.Zynga.

12.Which short-lived MS product was codenamed ‘Mira'?

A.Microsoft Smart Display.

13.Google's new URL-shortening service is called…?

A.Goo.gl.

14.‘Share what you know’ is the tagline for?

A.Google’s Knol.

15.Name the first World Wide Web browser written for Windows PCs that debuted on June 8, 1993?

A.Cello, which was written for lawyers.

BRITE QUIZ 4 U

1.Who is known as the father of Mobile phone?

A.Martin cooper

2.Expand PAN

A.Personal Area Network

3.Which is the Gaming Console made by microsoft in 2001?

A.Xbox

4.Expand AIBO?

A.Artficial Intelligence roBOt

5.Which is india's first PVC notebook?

A.HCL ME Sexer 40

6.Which is india's first e-book reader?

A.Pi

7.Nexus One is from which company?

A.Google

8.Which company gets its name from Sanfrancisco?

A.Cisco

9.'pc's limited' is the original name of which company?

A.dell

10.The cyber term 'BIT' is coined by whom?

A.John Tuckey

11.Expand E3

A.Electronics Entertiment Expo

12.What is Microsoft’s proposed booklet-shaped, dual-screen tablet-like-device called?

A.Courier

13.Who has launched a mission for kids called ‘Mission: 10,000 Rockets’?

A.Bing

14.What was nicknamed ‘Cocktail’?

A.Apple’s iTunes LP, a format for interactive album artwork.

15.Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little co-founded?

A.WordPress

BRITE QUIZ 4 U

1.Who sold off social network Bebo, chat client ICQ and an investment in travel searchsite Kayak in the past quarter?

A.AOL

2.Name Microsoft Live Labs' Web optimised visualisation technology that had itsgenesis under the name Sand Codex?

A.Seadragon

3.Adobe flash is originally acquired by whom?

A.Macromedia

4.What is the old name of Altec Lancing Technologies Inc?

A.E.R.P.I (Electrical Research Products, Inc.)

5.What was found by Jan Gritzbach and Thomas Hofer.?

A.AVG

6.What is an actroid?

A.Humanoid Robot

7.Expand AMR

A.Adaptive Multi-Rate

8.What was found by Jeffrey p. Bezos in 1994?

A.Amazon.com

9.What is 3M company?

A.Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.

10.What is ABC?

A.Atanasoff-Berry Computer.

11.What was found by Nolan Bushnell and Ted dabney in 1972?

A.Atari

12.Epic is a web browser made by which country?

A.India

13.Name the password-stealing Firefox add-on that Mozilla disabled recently after it had been downloaded 1,800 times?

A.Mozilla Sniffer

14.If Amazon has Kindle, what does Borders have?

A.Kobo

15.If Google has Android, what does Samsung have?

A.Bada

BRITE IT 4 U

1.Which is the first browser to have speed dial and mouse gesture features ?

A.opera

2.This was the result of a new approach to go beyond search to build what they call a decision engine. With a powerful set of tools on top of a world-class engine, X will help you make faster decisions. What are we talking about?

A.Bing

3.When you have a CD which is given free with a magazine, what is that called?

A.Onsert

4.Which company was the first to develop the GUI

A.Xerox

5.The company got its name the mathematical figure which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeros'.

A.Google

6.Justin Frankel created a skinnable, multi-format shareware, which he called ‘Nullsoft’ or ‘nothing

to do with software’. How do we better know this today?

A.Winamp

7.If Google has Picassa , what does HP have?(Hint: an image hosting website)

A.Snap fish

8.Who gave the concept of one laptop per child?

A.Nicolas Negropante

9.Which was the world’s first GUI browser developed by Marc Anderseen?

A.Mosic

10.WordMole is a game application originally found on which famous communication device?

A.Black Berry (Bold)

11.Joybook is a laptop for enjoying the latest entertainment in spectacular HD format. Which company manufactures it?

A.Benq

12.Which Web Site tells that “Discover what's happening right now”?

A.Twitter

13.This is a downloadable image recognition application trademarked by google?

A.Google goggles

14.Fujifilm has brought a new cmera. What is special about it?

A.It's the world's first 3D Camera

15.He is the architect of “High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991”?

A.Algore

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1.What is common to the games `Missile Command', `Sprint 2' and `Asteroid'?

A.All made by atari

2.Name the free OS, that which uses the Linux kernel and is named after its initiator, Ian Murdock and his wife Debra.

A.Debian

3.Adobe's planned high-end DVD authoring toolset is called... ?

A.Encore

4.Name the only Indian on Google's Board of Directors.

A.Ram Shriram.

5.With what word are the French replacing the word `e-mail'?

A.Courriel.

6.Expand UWB.

A.Ultra Wide Band

7.Which was the world's first spreadsheet?

A.VisiCalc.

8.Who makes the Optiplex brand of desktops?

A.Dell Inc

9.What did the first Google Doodle depict?

A.Burning Man symbol

10.If Apple has iPad, then who has ZiiO Pure Wireless Entertainment Tablets?

A.Creative

11.Who makes the Angry Birds game?

A.Rovio Mobile

12.Who uses the custom typeface Norad for branding their logo?

A.Android

It is the API for building software programs to run on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad from Apple Inc.

14.If it is iPad for Apple, for whom is it Adam?

A.NotionInk

15.If the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 is codenamed ‘Office 14', what was ‘Office 13'?

A.There was no such codename because of superstitious reasons!

16.Which build-a-social-network service, co-founded by the legendary Marc Andreessen, has decided to stop its free, ad-supported service?

A.Ning

17.‘Menlo' is the codename for…?

A.Microsoft's touch-screen phone.

18.Name the rendering engines used in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

A.Gecko and Trident.

19.What is Asus' tablet called?

A.Eee Pad.

20.Facebook's new location-based platform is called…?

A.Facebook Places.

21.If its iPad for Apple, for whom will it be Optimus?

A.LG

22.If it is iPad for Apple, then for who it was JooJoo tablet?

A.Fusion Garage.

23.Expand IMAP.

A.Internet Message Access Protocol.

24.The layout engine for the Opera web browser is…?

A.Presto

25.What did Mark Gorton found?

A.Lime Wire.

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1.With which product mircosoft is replacing their current windows live OneCare?

A.Morro

2.What is the term for search engine that searches other search engines?

A.Meta Search

3.What are AND, NOT ,OR and XOR collectively called?

A.Logic Gates

4.What is sometimes described as the “SMS of the internet?”

A.Twitter

5.TCS enabled which indian port as india's first ePort?

A.cochin

6.In the context of mobile numbers what is MNP?

A.Mobile Number Portability

7.Expand 3com

A.'Computers Communication and Compatibility'

8.Expand HAN

A.Home Area Network

9.The old name of this company was Galvin Manufacturing. Who?

A.Motorola

10.Which is the web browser developed by india?

A.Epic

11.What is a nibble?

A.A group of 4 bits

12.Which is the first computer virus that can effect mobile phones?

A.CABIR

13.Which is sony's new CD format?

A.Blu ray

14.Name the popular website owned by Obvios Corp?

A.Twitter

15.'i Books' are notebooks fromwhich company?

A.Apple

16.Which company launch the ideapad seris notebooks?

A.Lenovo

17.Which OS is sponserd by Canonical Ltd?

A.Ubuntu

18.Bing is a search engine from which company?

A.Microsoft

19.What is the nickname of Google search engine?

A.Backrub

20.Which compay's nickname is 'Big Blue'?

A.IBM

21.Which company was the first to develop GUI?

A.Xerox

22.Which company is best known for its "Geforce"?

A.Nvidia

23.The network Operating system, was first released as "Sharenet" in 1981.

A.Novel Netware

24.Who originated the concept of SCSI (Small Computer System Interface).

A.Seagate

25.This is a popular and fast Web browser: Jon S. von Tetzchner and Gei Ivasoy started writing this browser in 1994 while working for Norwegian telecom Telenor.

A.Opera

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Q: TCS is a tech partner to world’s oldest marathon ?

ans:Boston marathon

Q: With which state in India did TCS start a citizen

portal called ‘MahaOnline’ ?

ans:Maharashtra

Q: TCS is officially partner till 2012 for this a leading European pro-cycling team ?

ans:Cervélo

Q: Expand TRDDC ?

ans:Tata Research Development and Design Center

Q:According to the Bloomerg Top100 survey of IT companies, what is TCS’s global rank?

ans:Its rank is no. 5... in a list where IT giants like MS, Oracle, Google are listed

Q:In which platform, developed by TCS, can you find the “Broker Assistant Module”?

ans:BaNCS – A platform for banks, stock markets, insurance companies etc. (it is developed in a partnership between SBI and TCS)

Q:Which person, listed as Asia’s most powerful businessman, finished his graduation from REC, Trichy and later joined TCS?

ans:N Chandrasekaran, CEO, TCS

Q:Who was the first Chairman of TCS when it was created?

ans:JRD Tata

Q: TCS has teamed up with which airlines ?

ans: British Airways

Q: TCS in association with the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services had

developed TEWS. It is India’s first system for early warning of what?

ans: Tsunami. TEWS‐Tsunami Early Warning System Q:With which Norwegian company does TCS has a

partnership?

ans:Telenor

Q:TCS recently won the Pinnacle award. Which company sponsors it?

ans:SAP AG

Q:The Hua Xia Bank, China (HXB) and TCS won which award ?

ans:Best Core Banking Project Implementation Award

Q:TCS recently got a SWAN project for which state? It is the largest SWAN project in any state so far by TCS.

ans:Andra pradesh

Q: Maroclear has successfully implanted TCS

Bancs platform to modernize the capital of which

Country?

ans: Morrocco

Q: TCS AND which airlines has teamed up to

provide solutions for the MRO Industry?

ans: British Airways

Q:X succeedes Y who was preceded by Z. If X is

N . Chandrashekharan and Y is S. ramadorai who

is Z?

ans: F.C. Kohli

Q: TCS has announced a joint venture with

Supervalu . Supervalu belongs to which category

of industries?

ans: Retail