Questions :
1. The first non-Finnish CEO to head Nokia, appointed recently, is…?2. Who is a ‘Googlegänger'?
3. According to a global study done by Panda Security, which are the top two sites for phishers, accounting for 44 per cent of all the malicious Web sites discovered?
4. One more on Nokia. Can you recall the digital-map supplier that the cell-phone maker bought for $8.1 billion in 2007?
5. Google's new resource for parents to help them keep their kids safe while surfing the Net is called…?
6. Name the former Sun CEO who is now in charge of a health start-up called ‘Picture of Health'.
7. Asus' Eee PC 4G is considered the first…?
8. According to Google, globally everyone using which of its new feature would save more than 3.5 billion seconds a day, i.e. 11 hours saved every second?
9. In the context of Android OS, Froyo is a portmanteau word made up of…?
10. ‘Charlie' was Apple's internal codename for…?
Questions :
1. Simple one to begin with. Gmail's new service, which automatically prioritises incoming messages and places the most important ones at the top of the inbox, is called…?
2. Apple's new social-networking music service for iTunes 10 is called…?
3. Which tech giant has agreed to pay the US government $55 million to settle kickback allegations?
4. Name the Canadian start-up, which had launched several games titles for Facebook, iPhone and BlackBerry devices, that has been acquired by Google.
5. By revealing the killer in one of Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery plays, Wikipedia has come in for both flak and appreciation. Name the play.
6. According to global research firm comScore, Inc., Facebook is the new No.1 social networking site in India pushing back Orkut. What comes at No. 3?
7. Which entertainment giant has announced a cloud-based music service, which would make many of its electronics products into online libraries for streaming music, and what is it called?
8. Matt Williams is the new CEO of which news aggregation site?
9. Whose predictive text technology for mobile phones, developed as a competitor to T9, is called iTap?
10. Which place name would connect Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Mike Lazaridis?
Answers :
1. Stephen Elop.
2. A person with your name who shows up when you google yourself.
3. eBay (23 per cent) and Western Union (21 per cent).
4. Navteq.
5. Family Safety Center.
6. Jonathan Schwartz.
7. Netbook.
8. Google Instant.
9. Frozen Yogurt.
10. iPhone 3G S.
Answers :
1. Priority Inbox.
2. Ping.
3. Hewlett-Packard.
4. SocialDeck.
5. The Mousetrap.
6. BharatStudent.com
7. Sony and Music Unlimited.
8. Digg.
9. Motorola.
10.Waterloo. Lazaridis is the co-CEO and founder of Research In Motion which is headquartered in Waterloo (but in Canada and not Belgium)
