Quiz

1. Which telecom major has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its big endeavour into offering Net services?

2. In the ‘2008 Global Outsourcing 100’, compiled by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, name the five Indian firms in the top 10.

3. Which cyber-legend had his last ‘official day of work’ on June 27 at the cyber giant he founded in the 1970s?

4. To which company was Microsoft ordered to pay $511.6 million in damages and interest by letting stand a jury’s decision that Microsoft infringed on two patents?

5. How many downloads did Firefox 3 achieve in 24 hours on June 17-18 to set a new World record?

6. Which company plans to “make history” with the world’s “longest Non-Stop LAN Party” in August?

7. The multimedia co-processor, derived from the Cell chip that powers the PlayStation 3, that Toshiba plans to introduce in its laptops is called..?

8. What is the outstanding feature of the RepRap robot developed by scientists at the University of Bath in England?

9. Which is the world’s largest wireless carrier with nearly 400 million subscriber accounts?

10. According to experts, how soon will the Net run out of addresses as only 700 million separate addresses are remaining for allocation out of the 4.3 billion available on the present network?

Answers

1. Nokia

2. Infosys (3rd), TCS (6th), Wipro (7th), Genpact (9th) and Tech Mahindra (10th).

3. Bill Gates.

4. Alcatel-Lucent.

5. More than 8 million.

6. NVIDIA Corporation.

7. SpursEngine

8. It replicates itself!

9. China Mobile.

10. 2010