BRITE IN IT QUIZ

IT QUIZ 82

2012-02-24T21:23:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

IT QUIZ 81

2012-02-20T01:26:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

answer added on 25/2/2012

Jerry Sanders

Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936) was a co-founder and a long-time CEO of the American semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents. He was once attacked and beaten by a street gang,leaving him so covered in blood that a priest was called to administer the last rites, but Jerry recovered. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on an academic scholarship from the Pullman railroad car company He graduated with his bachelor's degree in engineering in 1958.

IT QUIZ 80

2012-02-11T23:34:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

answer added on 20/2/2012

Zetta Connect

IT QUIZ 79

2012-02-05T06:16:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

answer added on 20/2/2012

Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had approximately ten million users as of 15 September 2010; about 2.5 million of whom were paying members

IT QUIZ 78

2012-02-02T03:07:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

answer added on 20/2/2012

Vikas Jain

IT QUIZ 77

2012-01-25T03:00:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

answer added on 2/1/2012

David Karp

David Karp (born July 6, 1986) is an entrepreneur living in New York City. He is the founder and CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr.^[1]^[2] In 2010, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

IT QUIZ 76

2012-01-17T19:49:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

answer added on 25/1/2012

Ramu Yalamanchi

Ramu Yalamanchi is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded the social networking website hi5 and is its CEO.Hi5 is one of the largest social networking sites in the World,the #1 social networking service for the Spanish speaking market, and a top 10 site in 20 countries across the globe. During college, Ramu was a partner at SponsorNet New Media. Ramu received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

IT QUIZ 75

2012-01-11T08:02:00.000-08:00

CONNECT
answer added on 16/1/2012

Google

Google Inc. Plus sign ---> Google Plus + Nichrome wire ---> Google Chrome
+ Its a Page--->Lary Page (sorry its not clear.But other clues are very useful)
+ Bell symbol ---> Google Alerts

IT QUIZ 74

2012-01-10T05:18:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

answer added on 16/1/2012

Terra Networks

Terra Networks, S. A., usually referred to as "Terra", is an Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain. Part of Telefónica Group (the former Spanish public telephone monopoly), Terra operates as a web portal and/or an internet access provider in the U.S., Spain, and 16 Latin American countries. Terra was publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TRLY and on the Spanish stock market under the symbol TRR.

IT QUIZ 73

2012-01-06T02:59:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO
answer added on 10/1/2012

Seamonkey

SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code. Core Mozilla project source code is licensed under a disjunctive tri-license that gives the choice of one of the three following sets of licensing terms: Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 or later, GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later, GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later.

IT QUIZ 72

2011-12-31T23:57:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

Bob Frankston

Robert (Bob) M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

IT QUIZ 71

2011-12-25T06:58:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

answer added on 1/1/2012

VMware Thinapp

VMware ThinApp (formerly Thinstall) is an application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware that can package conventional applications so that they become portable applications. According to VMware, the product has a success rate of about 90-95% in packaging applications

TCS IT Wiz 2011 Nationals

2011-12-22T02:57:00.000-08:00

Here are some questions from TCS IT Wiz 2011 Nationals

1.

Ans:Amazon silk(a web browser for Kindle Fire)

2.

Ans:Sabeer Bhatia(He is a member of Trinamool Congress,he co-founded SabseBolo,Jaxtr was acquired by Sabsebolo)

3.Find out the missing words?

Announcing a new era of _____ ______

Ans:Integrated Electronics

4. Who along withDennis Crowley........[Buzzer]

ans:NaveenSelvadurai (founded Foursquare)

5. California'sGoverner Jery Brown on the 16^th of October declared.......[Buzzer]

ans:Steve Jobs day

6.It was originallycreated on the influence by the rotation of the Alonzo Church lamdacalculus...[Buzzer]

Ans:LISP

7.4K is anemergence standard for resolution in Digital film and computinggraphics.....[Buzzer]

ans:Y4K

8.What did Steve Jobs Publically do to promote touch screen in iPhone?

Ans:He started wearing Turtile Neck T Shirts

9. which concept was used in IBM 701 computer having load button by which simple instruction or programme gets complicatd system instructions or programs?

ans:Bootstrapping

IT QUIZ 70

2011-12-18T03:50:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

Syntrillium Software

It is Syntrillium Software.Adobe acquired it in 2003,adding Adobe Audition to its product line

IT QUIZ 69

2011-12-15T22:13:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

Google Currents

Google currents is a new application for Android devices, iPads tablets and iPhones that lets you explore online contents like magazines and blogs and so more just with the swipe of your finger. Google currents have already more than 180 editon including CNET, Tech Crunch, Mashable, AllThingsD, Forbes , PBS, Huffington Post, Fast Company and more. The content offering by currents is fully optimized for smart phones and tablets that allows you to easily navigate between words pictures and video on large and small screens alike, it does matter you are online or offline.

IT QUIZ 68

2011-12-11T03:21:00.001-08:00

1.Which company’s vision statement isto “Empower Indians to create and share information and in theprocess, discover people”?

A:Meebo

2.Name Microsoft’s animated searchengine to showcase its Silverlight animation and video player.

A:Tafiti

3.Which cyber-major has bought e-mailsoftware provider Zimbra for about $350 million?

A:Yahoo!

4.What is SAP’s unveiled mid-marketon-demand service called?

A:Business ByDesign

5.Which game console was designed byShin’ichi Ogasawara?

A:Playstation Portable

6.Who, together with Sir TimBerners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web?

A:Robert Cailliau.

7.Which cyber-legend’s private assetmanagement company is called Vulcan Inc?

A:Paul Allen

8.What is Google’s “networkingservice for coordinating location-based social interactions betweenmobile users” called?

A:Dodgeball

9.In the context of YouTube, what firstdoes Bob Tur, a chopper-piloting journalist, have?

A:He was the first to file a copyrightlawsuit against YouTube.

10.Whose tagline reads ‘investing,simplified’?

A:Wikinvest

IT QUIZ 67

2011-12-07T02:38:00.001-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer which is somewhat analogous to the structure of the World Wide Web. More specifically, the memex worked as a memory bank to organize and retrieve data. As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Bush coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare.

IT QUIZ 66

2011-12-02T05:37:00.001-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

answer added on 7/12/2011

Andrew Herbert

Andrew James Herbert is a British computer scientist, formerly Chairman of Microsoft Research, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

Herbert received a BSc in computational science from the Leeds University in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University in 1978 for his work on "A Microprogrammed Operating System Kernel".

In 1978 he started working at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as assistant professor under Maurice Wilkes and Roger Needham in the Computer Laboratory worked with others on the "Cambridge Model Distributed System". In 1985 he left Cambridge to found his own contract research company (Architecture Projects Ltd - APM Ltd), which led projects to develop ANSA, the Advanced Network Systems Architecture

IT QUIZ 65

2011-11-29T00:22:00.001-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

answer added on 2/12/2011


Sampoorna

Sampoorna is a school management system project implemented by the Education Department of Government of Kerala to automate the system and process of over 15,000 schools in the state. Sampoorna is developed by IT@School Project using the free and opensource school erp Fedena

TCS IT Wiz 2011 Mumbai Prelims

2011-11-27T03:01:00.001-08:00

I am thankful to Syed Murtuza Hashmi who shared this questions

1.If you +1 on Google+.Then what is it on Facebook?
Ans:Like
2.An Acquarium inside a Macintosh is called what?
Ans.Macquarium
3.Identify the company?

Ans:Nvidia
4.Name the company which is Tata's electronic store range?
Ans:Croma
5.Sun Microsystems has been acquired by which famous company?
Ans:Oracle
6.Google's service that incoporates social networking,news & chat?
Ans:Google Wave
7.He founded a Anti-Virus company.Which is that company?

Ans:Mcafee
8. Microsoft's service that was earlier classified only for US military use & was known as 'Munitions'. Its known by a different name today.
Ans:MSN TV
9.Intelliweb Mouse is by which company?
Ans:Microsoft
10.Its the logo of a Operating System.Which is the OS?

Ans:Darwin
11.Which is the famous device does Foxconn manufacture for Amazon?
Ans:Kindle
12.Expand JAR with filename extension
Ans:Jave ARchive
13. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a a form of digital copy protection from this compnay which is famous for making chips. Identify the company?
Ans:Intel
14.He is the founder of which Indian company?

Ans:Patni Computer Systems
15.Chase Bishop is less known for his innovation for Microsoft. It is one of the prime offerings of Microsoft. Identify the product he designed?
Ans:Windows
16.What was originally to be named '80856' but couldn't trademark it.What was it later named?
Ans:Pentium
17.Two guys at Percept software started what that revolutionized the world of television?
Ans:IPTV
18.Apple is on the NASDAQ as 'AAPL'.What is it known on NYSE?
Ans:It remains AAPL

IT QUIZ 64

2011-11-25T02:48:00.001-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

RocketMelt

It was created by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria

IT QUIZ 63

2011-11-22T02:58:00.001-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

Bjarne Stroustrup

He founded the computer language C++

IT QUIZ 62

2011-11-18T18:40:00.001-08:00

IDENTIFY THE PERSON

answer added on 22/11/2011

Jeff Raskin

He was best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple

TCS IT Wiz 2011 Delhi Finals

2011-11-16T05:52:00.001-08:00

I have my sincere thanks & wishes for the participant up of TCS IT WIZ 2011 Delhi , Mohammed Wasih, who provided me the question.
Experience Anticipation
1. X is a piece of hardware that plugs into an electrical connector on a loptop,computer.What is it ?
Ans.Dongle
2. X is a system-on-chips series introduced by Nvidia for use on laptops,Smartphones.What is X ?
Ans.Tegra

3.What is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network ?

Ans.Ping

4.GNU Network Object Model Enviornment ?

Ans.GNOME

5. X is a simple communications tool used for short messages.This was onc used by doctors in new york to communicate with patients.Identify X?

Ans.Pager

6. X was one used in world war II to break German crypted codes.This was designed by tommy flowers.What is X?

Ans.Colossus

Experience Diversity

1. Its a science fiction weapon .It touchtwo most substance without resistance .It (some are missing) can bedeflected by another x called (some are missing). An active one keeps you a (some are missing) hung .It raises in picture (some are missing) move rapidly through air .Bringing intocontact with an object called another previewses a cracker.What am i describing here?

Ans.Lightsaber

2.This preson co-founded the first webbased application viaweb ,which was acquired by Yahoo! And known asYahoo stores.He is also the author of on lisp,Hackers & authorsand many more.Who is the guy??

Ans.Paul Graham

3.Stack War is a term used to definethe conflict of which two IT companies??

Ans.Oracle and SAP

4.Identify the person?

Ans.Jonathan Schwartz

5.What is this?

Ans.Metro UI (starting screen in Windows 8 )

@ TCS

1.It is a huge creation from TCS.It is a first of its kind fully integrated information technology solution which is going to redefine small and medium business .....

Ans.TCS iON

2.In 2008 TCS'sInnovation labs developed this product which ows the (some award ) in the wireless category.It is a product that enables the Indian farmers to receive useful data....

Ans.M-Krishi

Experience Oneness

1. Home Area Network + Picture os NTT Docomo

+ one man making a phone call phone wasplayed

+ A Phone was Shown

Ans.3G

2. Wipro + Sony + Linden Labs

+ National Anthem of Malidives

Ans.Second Life

3. Logo of Lulzec + Some pictures of Lulzec were shown

Ans.Lulzec(Hackers Group)

!T QU!Z 61

2011-11-15T03:57:00.001-08:00

WHAT IS THIS?

answer added on:19/11/2011

Rediff bol

!T QU!Z 60

2011-11-13T01:55:00.001-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

Game Ranger

TCS IT Wiz 2011 Delhi Prelim

2011-11-12T05:23:00.001-08:00

I have my sincere thanks & wishes for the 1st runner up of TCS IT WIZ 2011 Delhi , VISHAL GOLCHA, who provided us the question.
1. This was created by Hasbro in 1967,which allows the user to create glowing designs?
Ans.Lite-Brite
2.This P2P file sharing service ran into trouble after it circulated the song 'I Disappear' by Metallica,even before it was officially released .Which is that P2P file sharing service?
Ans.Napster
3.At 15,he published a book on ethickal hacking and started a website called 'Hacking Truths'.Identify him?
Ans.Ankit Fadia
4.These awards are called the Nobel Prizes of Information Technology?
Ans.Turing Award
5.Expand WPAN?
Ans.Wireless Personal Area Network
6.What is a propriety software called that has a trial version?
Ans.Shareware
7.The first commercially available digital camera was in the 1990s.Identify this?
(options:1)Digicam 2)Dycam 3)Maxcam)

Ans.Dycam
8.Which electronic giant has the LCDs with the name SyncMaster?
Ans.Samsung
9.On what occasion was this put up for a day on Google home page, drawn by a 14 year old?

Ans.Children's Day
10.Which sound technology was used for the first time in 'Batman Returns'? You now usually see it on film posters a lot.
Ans.Dolby
11.What is the compact wireless router called that connects to 5 devices at a time within the range of 10m?
Ans.MiFi
12.Which device from Amazon made TOI publish a headline (something like) ‘E-book market has been transformed’?
Ans.Kindle
13.This is a product by Asus.It named after a very famous toy.Give the name of this?

Ans.Asus Eee Pad Transformer
14.'Mycricket.com' provided one of the first services of something in the US.What is it?
Ans.Wireless Telecommunication
15.CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS, first major commercial online service in the United States was acquired by which company?
Ans.AOL
16.This was released by Sony,after it's sucess of Walkman.It's a portable TV .What was this product called?

Ans.Watchman
17.After which American scientist was a township in Menlo Park, New Jersey renamed to in 1954?
Ans.Thomas Alva Edison
18.This gadget topped the Timt list of "Top 10 Gadgets of 2010".Most likely,it's to top the 2011 too.Which is that gadget?
Ans.iPad
19.This is a company owned by 3com.It provided one of the first services of its kind .Give me the namr of the service?

Ans.Internet Radio
20.Originally Microsoft wallet,Microsoft passport,NET passport ,then briefly Microsoft Passport Network.Which service from Microsoft i am talking about?
Ans.Windows Live ID

TCS IT Wiz 2011 Lucknow Prelim

2011-11-10T03:15:00.000-08:00

1.The current incarnation of this famous website is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.In Oct 2002 became a wholly owned subsidiary of ebay. Which famous website is this?
Ans.Paypal

2.World’s largest producer of guided missiles .Established in 1922 the company reincorporated in 1928 & adopted its present name in 1959. What?
Ans.Ratheon

3.Started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation....?
Ans.Motorola

4.Identify the person?

Ans.Jack Kilby

5.What was created by John Backus?
Ans.Fortran

6.Verizon Wireless has released a line of smartphones that go by a name which is a trademark of Lucasfilms Ltd. It It was involved in a lawsuit with Google with a very popular OS. Identify this series of smartphones?
Ans.Droid

7.Started as Haloid Photographic company..?
Ans.Xerox

8.Lindon Labs headquartered in California launched in June 2003 . It was developed by Philip Rosedale, as a computer hardware allowing people to immerse in a virtual world. In its earliest form, the company struggled to produce a commercial version of the hardware, known as "The Rig", which was realized in prototype form as a clunky steel contraption with computer monitors worn on shoulders.What is this famous in virtual world?
Ans:Second Life

9.Which is the Mascot of JAVA?
Ans.Duke

10.Identify the person who is the co-inventer of USB?

Ans.Ajay Bhatt

11.The Fujifilm FinePix Real X cameras can take X-dimensional pictures using two lenses, and display them to the naked eye in X format .What is X?.
Ans.3 D

12.Contrived acronym was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford?Carnegie Mellon University attempted to trademark the term, but the trademark application was abandoned on 21 April 2008.Identify the term?
Ans.CAPTCHA

13.Precept software by Judith Estrin and Bill Carrico designed and built and internet video product.Identify?
Ans.IPTV(Internet Protocol TeleVision)

14.Identify the person who is the creator of Computer Mouse?

Ans.Douglas Engelbert

15.Started in 1928, as AT&T's Western Electric division , established a division for the specific purpose of installing and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic products for motion picture use. Called "E.R.P.I." (Electrical Research Products, Inc.), it was purchased as part of a consent decree in 1936 by a group of E.R.P.I. executives, including George Carrington, Sr. and Mike Conrow. They changed the name to "All Technical Service Company". How do we know this company today?
Ans.Altec Lansing

16.Identify the logo?

Ans.Blu Ray

17.What is defined as “Collection of duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier where the original data is inexpensive to fetch “?
Ans.Cache Memory

18.Identify the company?

Ans.Cisco

19.Veronica was based on ?
Ans.Gopher

20.Which technology czar has committeed to put aside well over 10%of his wealth for philanthrophic issues . His foundation’s education venture include SSN educational Institute named after his father and is setting up Seven Vidyagyan schools in UP for rural students?
Ans:Shiv Nadar

!T QU!Z 59

2011-11-08T03:03:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO?

Macromedia

!T QU!Z 58

2011-11-06T05:48:00.000-08:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO?

OmniWeb

!T QU!Z 57

2011-11-03T05:12:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO?

Spotlight

!T QU!Z 56

2011-10-31T22:32:00.000-07:00

Identify the game?

Doodle Jump

!T QU!Z 55

2011-10-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THE GAME

Forza

!T QU!Z 54

2011-10-22T07:03:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THIS LOGO

LSI Corporation

!T QU!Z 53

2011-10-20T05:24:00.000-07:00

Identify this

Archer

!T QU!Z 52

2011-10-15T07:32:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THIS LOGO

Marvell Technology Group

!T QU!Z 51

2011-10-13T06:26:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THIS LOGO

Ans:DLNA

!T QU!Z 50

2011-10-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

Ans:WELL

!T QU!Z 49

2011-10-11T06:32:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

TCS IT WIZ Kochi Finals

2011-10-08T04:10:00.000-07:00

Experience Anticipation

1. It was Originally developed by a guy namedwes cherry .It remained a part of their offerings .What simple thingdid gave the world of computing?

Ans.Solitaire

2.It's a region of memory which is called a whole data location while data is being moved from one location to another location. What is it technically called?

A.buffer
3.Entities in the collection, are kept in order & he principle operations are usually , addition to this entity list it normally work in a FIFO ( First In First Out) structure?
A.Queue
4.It is a better name by which the world knew the Intel x86 & the reason was it was made compatible with something else , hence this name?
A.WINTEL
5.Xerox developed this between 1973 & 1975 in many way it redefines modern computing.?
A.ETHERNET
6.It was started as a research project at Telnor Telecom?
A.Opera
Audience questions
7.What do you call half of a byte?
A.Nibble

8. It comes from greek mythology forchosing to appear something else.What did the world of computers isthis?

A.Trojan

9. Digital media files downloadable onhand

A.Podcast

Experience Diversity
1.Identify him?

A.Nicolas Zenstorm

2.A particular invention by the Englishcomputer scientist named James Plaskett in the mid 1990's is usedtoday by a popular sport to track audio and video.Noices and imagesthat could otherwise be lost.What was he founded?

A.Snicko

3.Who or what is a 'Mouse Potato'?

A.A person who spends excessive amountsof time using a computer.

4.The term was first used in thecyberpunk science fiction written by William Gibson.Which term wasthus coined?

A.Cyberspace

5.Bradley chose this key combinationbecause it is practically impossible to accidentaily press thiscombination of keys on a standard keyboard.Which key combination didDavid Bradley devise?

A.Ctrl+Alt+Del

@ TCS

1.What is today an offering from TCS atfirst of its kind fully integrated IT solution....[buzzer]

A.TCS iON

2.Universal Tube announced a joinedpartnership with TCS in Russia,Ukraine and the Republic of....[buzzer]

A.Banking

3.Created in 2008 by TCS's innovationlap....[buzzer]

A.M-Krishi

4.TCS actually provided its firstsolution for a system concern which was Tata's steel.What theyprovided then was a similar technology which was used....[buzzer]

A.Punched Cards

Experience Oneness

Your's is Here +

Ans:DELL

Quantam

Computers

Services +

Ans:AOL

3.

He is describing about AADHAR project

    +

   +    and something related to MindTree

Ans:MindTree

4.
   "Nothing like anything"          +     Background song - Sing is King

Ans:Micromax
                            Experience Acheivement

Question 1

15-In 1959 when Hollerith limited tookover Powers-Samas,they renamed it as International Computers &Tabulators.

10-It is a software wing of RPG groupheadquarted in Pune,India.

5-Dr.Ganesh Natarajan is the CEO ofthis company

Ans:Zensar

Question 2

15-His company was the first.com domainin India in 1996.

10-He is currently chairman of the Govtof India,Ministry of IT Committee in Internet Governance andProliferation.

5-He is the chairman of the Board ofGoverners of the Indian Institute of Managemant,Calcutta.

Ans:Ajit Balakrishnan

Question 3

15-this technology was pioneered byJohn G Daugman,of University of Camebridge Computer Laboratory..

10-It is a form of Person recoginationsystem.

Ans:Iris Technology

TCS IT Wiz Kochi Prelim 2011

2011-10-07T20:22:00.000-07:00

1. In 1999,“The old man and the sea”became the first movie of film in the world to appear in what format?

A.IMAX

2.What stands forthe last two “E” in the “IEEE”?

A.ElectronicEngeneering

3.In 1992,Bellsouth and a giant company came out with Simon,the first ever smartphone in the world.Who was the other company?

A.IBM

4.Identify the person who is the co-founder, present CEO & President of Sandisk Corporation?

A: Sanjay Mehrotra

5.“Go” ishandheld game console from whom?

A.Sony

6.Microsoftrealised very early that e books on the windows platform would be abig thing.They created a free downloadable software to help youbrowse through these ebooks on windows based

devices.What is itcalled from Microsoft?

A.Reader

7.What is full formof PCB as in PCB Boards?

A.Printed CircuitBoard

8.Identify the inventor & mathematician?

A.Blaise Pascal

9.DC Comics wastied up with which electronic giant to create the Super Hero universefor MMO game platforms.Who is its partner?

A.Sony

10.Which technologygiant ran the campaign “Life without walls”?

A.Microsoft Windows

11.Which companycame out with the 'Zune' range of media players?

A.Microsoft

12.Which company is making this wrist watch

A.Nike

13.It was a huge file sharing service, a P2P which has to to stop services for leaking the song " I disappear" before the official release of the song. Which is the P2P service mentioned?
A: Napster

14.Paneesh Murthyis the chairman of which software company that recently took overPatni computers?

A.iGATE

15.Which was the first restaurant chain to start online services as a trial way back in 1999 at University of California?
A: Pizza hut

16.Identify the logo?

17.It is a device used to forward data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network. What is the device?
A: Router
18Which Hindi Daily today has partnered with Yahoo India & to promote the content in Hindi for Yahoo India.?
A: Jagran
19.Sony along with which other company develops Internet TV for Google. This company is better known for providing keyboards, mouse etc...?
A: Logitech
20.Identify this person who is known as the father of logic?

A.George Boole

!T QU!Z 48

2011-10-06T05:04:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

Ans:Android-Logo of Ascendeer corporation--they make the font for Android+HTC Dream--The first phone which used Android+Droid phone--Android uses the Droid font family created by ascendeer corporation+The robot named Android

!T QU!Z 47

2011-10-05T08:54:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

Ans:Brain Virus-Basit&Amjad--creators of Brain virus+Brain--Name of the virus is Brain Virus+The Brain virus Attack.

!T QU!Z 46

2011-10-05T06:18:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

Ans:CISCO-Padmasree Warrier CTO of Cisco+book cover of Golden Gate by Vikram Seth--Golden Gate is their logo+caption "Change the way we work,live,play and learn"--Cisco vision+Scientific Atlanta is Cisco company.

!T QU!Z 45

2011-10-04T22:04:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

Ans:AOL-You've got mail--Product placement in the movie+Oscar award statue--OSCAR protocol is the instsnt messaging protocol used+Rainman movie poster--RAINMAN is the publishing platform from them+Bebo logo--Social networking site acquired in 2008.

TCS IT Wiz Kolkata prelim 2011

2011-10-04T08:35:00.000-07:00

1.With which company would you associate the Optimus range of smart phones?

A.LG
2.Which Taiwaneesw multinational compay has recently started making mobile phones named Liquid and Stream?
A.Acer
3.Identify the website that this man created?

A.Linkedin(Reid Hoffman
4.This is an common error message in internet .Recently a south Indian movie was made with the same title.Identify the movie title or the error message?
A.404
5.In videography we often find figures like 720p,1080p etc.What does 'p' mean?
A.Progressive Scans
6.This man created a website that we all use for ur TCS IT Wiz research.

A.Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales)
7.This company was founded in 1970 by Alvin.B.Philips, a former Motorola employee.This company is one of the leading integrated circuit and storage device makers
A.Western Digital
8.Linux-based open source mobile operating system project.It was first announced at mobile world congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference.AMD,Acer and Novell also supports the project.
A.Meego
9.Identify the logo?

A.Picasa
10.What is Nomophobia?
A.Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for "no-mobile-phone phobia".
11.The shorty awards are given to the developers of which website?
A.Twitter
12.This tech savvy head of the state uses technology to reach out to her people
A.Angela merkel,Germany
13.Identify the logo?

A.AIM(AOL Instant Messenger)
14.This company is the pioneer P2P file sharing website.Identify the logo of the company?

A.Napster

Special thanks to Dipyaman Chakrabarti who created this document on Quizzardo(Facebook group)

!T QU!Z 44

2011-10-04T03:46:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

C.`

Ans:Toshiba-Vidya Balan brand ambassador+Toshiba partnered with the United Parcel Service(UPS) to design a better repair process+satelite is the name of their Laptops

!T QU!Z 43

2011-10-03T09:22:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

a. b.

c. d.

Ans:XBOX 360-Bungie studios--developed the Halo game for XBOX+photo of J Allard--man responsible for creation of XBOX and Zune+XENON--CPU used in XBOX and also the project codename for XBOX+Livevision--Web cam designed by XBOX

!T QU!Z 42

2011-10-03T05:10:00.000-07:00

CONNECT THESE

a b

c d

Ans:(Vasudev and rao got it right)Microsoft-Surf Excel photo-Microsoft has Excel application+Sabeer Bhatia created hotmail acquired by Microsoft+MVP most valuable professional award given by Microsoft+Actimates set on interactive toysdeveloped by Microsoft.

!T QU!Z 41

2011-10-01T07:49:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

Eatoni erganomics

!T QU!Z 40

2011-09-27T06:35:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO?

AVID

!T QU!Z 39

2011-09-25T03:51:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO?

Rhapsody

!T QU!Z 38

2011-09-23T04:36:00.000-07:00

1.Greed is good"?

A.MVL

2.Expand AC

A.Assassin's Creed

3.Your calling is calling?

A.Wild Guess

4.N94AP?

A.Iphone

5.Apple's new social networking musicservice for itune10?

A.Ping

6.designer of google's originallogo?

A.Ruth Kedar

7.PMOLED?

A.pasiive matrix OLED

8.10 to the power of googol?

A.Googleplex

9.The tablet can b fit with a keypadnd can be used as a laptop. dn it can be removed back.Name it andalso name d company..

A.Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101

130.PARC?

A.Paolo alto research centre

!T QU!Z 37

2011-09-22T04:37:00.000-07:00

1.We turn on ideas

A.Seagate

2.Name d machine which gave d idea ofpunch cards to babage...

A.Jaquard Loom

3.To which company did IBM sell its PCmanufacturing unit?

A.Lenovo

4.Hp's firat product?

A.Audio resistence oscillators

5.Invention of which machine broughtrevolution in it world? No google...

A.Printing Press

6.Expand TWAIN

A.technology widout an interesting name

7.Name stems from the colloquial nameof books given to newly enrolled students at the start of theacademic year by university administrations in the US with theintention of helping students to get to know each other better.

A.Facebook

8.The company was founded in 1983 asQuantum Computer Services.

A.AOL

9.who is the largest share holder indisney??

A.Steve Jobs

0.taking you forward......????

A.Ericssion

!T QU!Z 36

2011-09-21T03:10:00.001-07:00

1.'Start a following' is the tagline of?

A.Zen

2.ENQUIRE was a prototype system madeby which tech personality?

A.Tim Berners Lee

3.Name the recently unveiled music fileformat, developed by some of the key figures.Behind the MP3 andintended to be a competitor to Apple's iTunes LP.

A.Music dna

4.Which Nobel Laureate started tweetingfrom late February after meeting President Obama and on asuggestion by Twitter founder Evan Williams?

A.Dali lama

5.which social networking site serverscrashed after users were updating their status...?

A.Twitter

6.The first message sent over thepioneering Arpanet was ‘login'. On which letter is the link saidto have crashed?

A.G

7.the first tab to have a super amoldedplus display is_________

A.GALAXY TAB 7.7

8.itself variously translatesas "achievement", "magnificent act","splendid act" or "China can“

A.Huawei

8.in adobe photoshop cs,what does csstand for?

A.Creative suite..

9.The essay " why the futuredoesn't need us " made a history in US. The author was the cofounder of stanford university network . Who is he ?

A.Vinod Koshla

10.Name the 1st music playing robot ofsony !

A.AIBO

!T QU!Z 35

2011-09-19T02:06:00.000-07:00

1.Of which famous computer company wasMichael M. Scott the first president in 1977?

A.Apple

2.Name the statistician credited withcoining two of the most often used words: ‘bit’ and ‘software’.

A.john Tuckey

3.Who originally designed the TrueTypedigital font format?

A.Apple

4.Which was the first language to allowrecursion i.e. routines call themselves?

A.ALGOL

5.Which cyber-giant’s social-newssite is called Propeller?

A.AOL

6.Which popular application has hadcodenames such as ‘Liquid Sky’, ‘Strange Cargo’ and ‘Venusin Furs’?

A.Adobe Photoshop

7.Which storage major has pulled theplug on its Fanfare video download service and its companionhardware, the TakeTV?

A.Sandisk

8.Which free social networking andmicro-blogging service is the handiwork of Obvious, LLC, a SanFrancisco start-up company?

A.Twitter

9.Which browser has the tagline ‘SIMPLYTHE BEST INTERNET EXPERIENCE’ on its Web site?

A.Opera

10.Which is the world’s largestwireless carrier with nearly 400 million subscriber accounts?

A.China Mobile

!T QU!Z 34

2011-09-16T21:30:00.001-07:00

1.Which famous California-based companyhas the NYSE ticker STX?

A.Seagate

2.Sanjay Mehrotra is a co-founder (andpresent COO) of which American multinational corporation?

A.Sandisk

3.Expand POSIX

A.Portable Operating System Interfacefor uniX.

4.`StrawBerry' was a name consideredfor which device because of its seed-like buttons before it adoptedthe present name?

A.Blackberry

5.Which OS was formerly known asOpenBeOS?

A.Haiku

6.Who makes the Lumix range of digitalcameras?

A.Panasonic

7.Whose tag-line is `Where your onlineworld comes together'?

A.Windows Live

8.What was founded in 2005 by SandyJen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry?

A.Meebo, the popular in-browser instantmessaging program.

9.Of which popular Indian Web portal isJoy Basu the CFO?

A.Rediff

10.Which Indian company, in 2005, setup the first Power PC architecture design centre outside of IBM?

A.HCL

!T QU!Z 33

2011-09-16T04:03:00.000-07:00

IDENTIFY THE LOGO?

LIGHT SCRIBE

!T QU!Z 32

2011-09-14T21:11:00.005-07:00

1.What is Sun Microsystems's Linux desktop software based on X86 chip called?

A.Mad Hatter

2.What is the successor to Intel's Prescott desktop chip called?

A.Tejas.

3.Expand DWF as used in the Autodesk product.

A.Design Web Format.

4.Which company, in 2003, became the first to manufacture and ship 500 million mice?

A.Logitech

5.Who makes the banking product Finacle?

A.Infosys.

6.Who was the co-author of Bill Gates' best-selling Business @ the Speed of Thought?

A.Collins Hemmingway.

7.Which globally famous job-search portal's trademarked tagline is `never settle'?

A.Monster.com

8.Which law in `mathematical language' would be: "where N is the number of nodes, the power of a network is N squared."

A.Metcalfe's Law

9.What concept, integral to the Net, was developed by Theodor Holm Nielsen in 1960?

A.Hypertext

10.Which well-known US ISP did Charles Brewer, a Stanford University MBA found?

A.MindSpring

!T QU!Z 31

2011-09-14T01:48:00.001-07:00

1.The next generation of bar-code system has EPC as its numbering scheme. Expand EPC.

A.Electronic Product Code

2.Name W3C's popular Web editor/browser.

A.Amaya

3.Who developed the Chipkill technology?

A.IBM

4.Who has acquired Sega.com?

A.Nokia

5.Who makes the StrataFlash Wireless Memory chips for mobile phones?

A.Intel

6.Who offers the Mail Plus service?

A.Yahoo!

7.Whose search technology is called WebFountain?

A.IBM

8.Whose hand-helds are called Tungsten T3 & E and Zire 21?

A.Palm

9.Which famous PC company is headquartered at Round Rock, Texas?

A.Dell

10.Who makes the ProCurve line of networking gear?

A.Hewlett-Packard.

!T QU!Z 30

2011-09-13T03:30:00.000-07:00

1.Which famous hit PC game was created by Will Wright?

A.Sims.

2.Whose new email service is called `Managed Mail Protection'?

A.McAfee

3.Which telecom major is headquartered at Schaumberg, Illinois?

A.Motorola

4.Which cyber-legend founded the wireless technology company, Wheels of Zeus?

A.Steve Wozniak

5.Who makes the Olympus range of processors?

A.Fujistu

6.Who has registered the domain name gbrowser.com leading to the speculation of a browser on the anvil?

A.Google

7.Whose one time slogan/tagline was `Happy Hunting'?

A.eBay

8.Which e-tailer has introduced a feature called `Customer Images' that lets customers post photos alongside product reviews?

A.Amazon

9.Which popular game's tagline is `Your Life. Your Imagination'?

A.Linden Labs' `Secondlife'.

10.What is Mozilla Foundation's e-mail and newsgroup client called?

A.ThunderBird

!T QU!Z 29

2011-09-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

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 google.org?

A.It's the philanthropic arm of Google.

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

A.eBay

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

A.TCS

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.What is Sun Microsystems's project to help developers of online games with server-side technology called?

A.Project Darkstar

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

A.Adobe

9.Name Motorola's device,which competes with RIM's BlackBerry.

A.Moto Q Phone

10.'Experience Change'is the tagline of which company?

A.Videocon

!T QU!Z 28

2011-09-09T08:49:00.003-07:00

1.Symantec unveiled SONAR to find zero-day attacks. Expand SONAR.

A.Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response.

2.Which search engine's name literally means `hundreds of times'?

A.Baidu

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

A.Netscape

4.Which MS Office component was codenamed ‘Opus’?

A.MS Word

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

A.Adobe

6.Which company gets its name from the Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent?

A.Akamai

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

A.Sony

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

A.Nintendo

9.Who bought Right Media, which operates a real-time online display ad exchange, for $680 million?

A.Yahoo

10.Whose first smart phone companion product,unveiled, is called ‘Foleo’?

A.Palm

11.Who is the world’s second-largest supplier of x86 based processors?

A.AMD

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

A.Alta Vista

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

A.Electronic Arts

14.Who initiated the first online international trading ban of elephant ivory?

A.eBay

15.Which famous employment Web site did Jeff Taylor found in 1994?

A.Monster.com

!T QU!Z 27

2011-09-06T06:16:00.001-07:00

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

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

!T QU!Z 26

2011-09-04T22:36:00.000-07:00

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.

!T QU!Z 25

2011-09-01T03:38:00.000-07:00

1.Whichcompany was found on 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang and Chris Malachowsky?

A.Nvidia

2.Expand OLED

A.Organic Light Emitting Diode

3.Project Gutenberg is from whom?

A.Michael S Hart

4.Expand QRIO

A."Quest for cuRIOsity”

5.This company was formerly known as Tandy Corporation.Identify the company?

A.Radioshack

6.This company was found on 1940 by Marty Bromely, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert.Id

A.Sega

7.What is SGI

A.Silicon Graphics Inc.

8.This company was founded in New Delhi in 1983 by Mr.Deepak Puri.Id

A.Moserbaer

9.Expand NASDAQ

A. National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Systems

10.This company was founded in Tokyo,Japan (1917),a multinational corporation specializing in optics and imaging.Id

A.Nikon

11.Expand PDP

A.Plasma Display Panel

12.From where the name Pixar come?

A.from pixel and the co-founder's name, Alvy Ray Smith

13.What is the Full form of SVG?

A: Scalable Vecyor Graphics.

14.Which doyen of the Indian IT industry resigned from the company he built to start up "Happiest Minds India Ltd"?

A.Ashok Soota
15.Connectix Quickcam was the first of which type of digital cameras?
A.Webcam

!T QU!Z 24

2011-08-30T19:20:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-29T23:12:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-28T02:26:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-27T02:53:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-23T03:18:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-22T03:40:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-20T22:38:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-20T02:44:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-18T03:27:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-17T03:31:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-16T03:38:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-14T19:21:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-14T00:41:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-12T22:11:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-12T03:36:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-11T03:47:00.003-07:00

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

2011-08-10T02:39:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-09T03:35:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-08T03:33:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-07T01:02:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-05T20:37:00.001-07:00

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

BRITE @ BUSINESS LINE

2011-08-05T04:42:00.001-07:00

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.

BRITE IT 4 U

2011-08-04T03:41:00.005-07:00

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

BRITE @ TCS

2011-08-04T03:39:00.000-07:00

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