Tuesday, September 21, 2010

My E-space 2

Questions :
1. What does T9, the patented predictive text technology for mobile phones, stand for?
2. Name Google's new YouTube initiative that highlights some of the hottest searches on Google in the US.
3. Which tech pioneer is behind the firm Interval Licensing which recently sued giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL and others over patent claims?
4. Name the Indian founder and his service, which ‘was supposed to help deliver news to users based on their ‘social graph,” that has been taken over by Google.
5. Firefox Tab Candy, an ‘experimental way to organize, control and massage your Firefox tabs', has been rechristened as….?
6. Which Indian company has launched what it claims to be the world's slimmest 8GB USB flash drive that measures just 2.3mm thin?
7. In the context of the Indian Army, what is F-INSAS?
8. Name the Tata company in Pune engaged in research and development in the field of high-performance computing.
9. Who has launched India's first Hindi QWERTY keypad phone ‘Y-45'?
10. If Amazon has Kindle, which Indian company has ‘Wink'?

Questions :
1. Simple one to begin with. How much did Intel shell out for McAfee?
2. Facebook's new location-based platform is called…?
3. Munjal Shah is the co-founder and CEO of which start-up snapped up by Google recently?
4. Name the entertainer who detonated an armoured truck to smithereens in the Nevada desert to promote Zynga's ‘Mafia Wars: Las Vegas'.
5. Name Microsoft's handmade glider which was the tech-giant's entry in the annual Flugtag competition organised by Red Bull.
6. Name the e-reader technology that is based in part on the motion of a butterfly's wings and who is behind the venture?
7. If its iPad for Apple, for whom will it be Optimus?
8. Which was the first version of Internet Explorer to be directly included with Windows?
9. Who tops McAfee's annual list of most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberspace?
10. Continuing with the above question, what is the most dangerous Web search term in the context of India?

Answers :
1. Text on 9 keys
2. Google Beat.
3. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
4. Rohit Khare and ‘Angstro'.
5. Firefox Panorama.
6. Moser Baer.
7. It is a new tech-rich programme to modernise the infantry which will commence in 2012. F-INSAS stands for ‘Futuristic Infantry Soldier As a System'.
8. Computational Research Laboratories.
9. Wynncom.
10. EC Media.

Answers :
1. $7.68 billion.
2. Facebook Places.
3. Like.com
4. Snoop Dog.
5. Microsoft Windows Project Phoenix.
6. Mirasol from Qualcomm.
7. LG.
8. Internet Explorer 3.0.
9. Cameron Diaz.
10. Waptrick.