IT Quiz 146

Try to answer these questions and leave it in the comments 

1.What sign is this  in the internet world ?

2.If t.co is for Twitter, what is a.co for ?

3.X was a business partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen that existed in the 1970s. The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers. The company had only modest success but the experience was important in the creation of Microsoft a few years later.What is X ?

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* X  is a Vietnamese independent video game developer founded in 2012.The company is best known for developing the 2013 mobile game Y which was released in May 2013 but received a sudden rise in popularity in early 2014.

* Few other games from X are Ninja: Assault (2013) , Shuriken Block (2013) , Droplet Shuffle (2013) and Smashing Kitty (2013)

Give X & Y


5.Old logo of which company ?

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* X began life as a video dating site dubbed "Tune In Hook Up," said to be influenced by HotorNot. The founding trio ultimately decided not to go that route.

* The inspiration for X  as we know it today is credited to two different events. The first was Karim's inability to find footage online of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," and the second when the other duo were unable to share video footage of a dinner party due to e-mail attachment limitations.

What is X ?

Trusted work from home jobs

7.This is the first web banner ad, this is from whom ?

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* The term X  was coined in 1965  by Ted Nelson at the start of Project Xanadu. Nelson had been inspired by "As We May Think", a popular 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush.

* In the essay, Bush described a microfilm-based machine (the Memex) in which one could link any two pages of information into a "trail" of related information, and then scroll back and forth among pages in a trail as if they were on a single microfilm reel, and thus the term X

What is X?

9.Identify this person

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* X is the world's largest long-distance ridesharing community.Conceived in December 2003 by Frédéric Mazzella, and founded in 2006.

* Mazzella first came up with the idea in 2003 while trying to travel home for Christmas, during which he observed many empty car seats available but no way to access them.

What is X ?


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Previous sets - Quiz 143 ,  Quiz 142

IT Quiz 141

1.Identify the person

Ans:Vivek Gundotra
2.X  is a cloud computing systems management firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. X was created in 2012, when founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri—former coworkers from VMware—created the concept based on a survey of companies using AWS and Rackspace.In May 2014, it was acquired by Google.What is X ?
Ans:Stackdriver
3.ProtoGeo Oy , a Finnish software company that’s most well-known for making fitness tracker app Moves , was acquired by which company in April 24, 2014 ?
Ans:Facebook
4.Identify the logo

Ans:Xiaomi
5.X is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet 
Protocol  application for smartphones. On February 13, 2014, Rakuten announced they have acquired X for $900 million. What's X ?
Ans:Viber
6.Expand PDMI
Ans:Portable Digital Media Interface
7.In 2004 ,CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Jose Villeta called the device the "Walkman of the 21st Century" in a reference to its multimedia capabilities.What is it ?
Ans:Playstation Portable
8.Identify the person

 Ans:Ralph Baer
9.Deep Kalra founded which successful Indian travel company?
Ans:Makemytrip.com
10.X is a South African, a dropout in physics and applied science (Ph.D) at Stanford. X later considered three areas he wanted to get into that were important problems that would most affect the future of humanity, "One was the Internet, one was clean energy, and one was space." Identify X ?
Ans:Elon Musk

TCS IT Wiz Preparation

TCS IT WIZ, India's Largest inter-school Tech quiz organized by Tata Consultancy Services has been participated by thousands of students.It's regionals are conducted in 14 cities and the winners of the regionals will participate in the National Finals.Here we give some suggestions for the better preparation for the grand TCS IT WIZ.

   

•   Look Up Trending Topics in the year - Check the latest things on Tech and study about the major events happened in the year (eg:- Facebook acquired Instgram , popular game 'Angry Birds',check about Steve Jobs because he just died in the past October(hmm TCS IT Wiz Kochi 2012 is on his first death aneversary),Look about John McCarthy also)

• TV Shows - Watch TV programs related technology such as Gadget Guru, Cell Guru( NDTV Profit) which will help you a for the quiz.

• Refer Wikipedia - Most of the questions asked in the TCS IT Wiz are directly taken from its Wikipedia pages.So make sure that you didn't missed the Wikipedia pages of the famous companies and softwares.If you get any information about new thing or Technology.Check out its wikipedia page and get more information about it.

• Refer TCS IT Wiz Books – Refer the TCS IT Wiz books which they given in the past years(close look at the crosswords).And when you get the book before the prelims(2012), take a quick refer through It.

• TV ads of Companies and Softwares – When you see Tech ads on TV.Take a watch at that and get the campaign or tagline of it (Windows – Works the way you want , Sony VAIO – Spark a trend etc.)
  
• Companies And Founders - Study about the Famous Tech companies and their founders (eg: Cisco- Len Bosack , Sandy Lerner ..  etc)