Questions
1. Name the aborted Microsoft product for China which was to be a set-top operating system designed to work with low-end televisions?
2. What famous text used in printing and typesetting industry is said to have its origins in Cicero’s ‘de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum’?
3. In 1991, three cyber giants formed the AIM alliance to create a new computing standard based on the PowerPC architecture. Name the three.
4. What is codenamed ‘Kumo’?
5. 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?
6. Which co-founder of Sun Microsystems wrote the utilities rsh, rcp, rlogin and the first BSD release of utilities?
7. Jim Safka recently left his job as the CEO of which search engine, only after 18 months in the job, because of personal reasons?
8. In 2002, Google increased the number of URL characters it was indexing just to accommodate the very long URLs of which online giant’s services and products?
9. Which service, which went live recently, calls itself ‘a computational knowledge engine’ rather than a search engine?
10. The precursor to Mozilla’s mobile version of the Firefox browser is called…?
Answers
1. Microsoft Venus
2. Lorem ipsum
3. Apple, IBM and Motorola
4. Microsoft’s in-the-works update to its Live Search product
5. DoubleClick Inc.
6. Bill Joy
7. Ask.com
8. Amazon
9. Wolfram Alpha
10. Fennec Alpha 1.
Courtesy: V V Ramanan,The Hindu Business Line
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