Sunday, March 13, 2011

CYBER QUEST

Q. Yahoo!'s new digital newsstand that's always fresh and effortlesslypersonalized' is called
A. livestand

Q. What is Dalvik in the context of Google?
A. It is the virtual machine (VM) in the Android OS.

Q. Following a recent announcement, what position will Eric Schmidt hold inGoogle after Larry Page takes over as CEO?
A. Executive Chairman.

Q. Google's codec for converting video into a more compact form for streaming across the Internet is called…?
A. VP8

Q. What is the Ngram Viewer?
A. Launched by Google, it lets one trace the usage of a word or phrase during the past five centuries

Q. If it is Android for Google and iOS for Apple, then who will have WoPhone?
A. China Unicom.

Q. Lars Boilesen is the CEO of…?
A. opera

Q. How did Tianhe-1A make news recently?
A. Meaning Milky Way in Chinese, it is the world's fastest supercomputer,capable of sustained computing of 2.507 petaflops.

Q. What is the claim of the Web site http://info.cern.ch?
A. It is the Web site of the world's first-ever Web server.

Q. Why is March 13, 1989, a landmark date in the history of the Internet?
A. On that date, Tim Berners-Lee came up with his presentation “InformationManagement: A Proposal” that led to the founding of the WWW.

Q. What is Microsoft's ‘Jupiter'?
A. It is the new user interface (UI) library for Windows, built alongside Windows8

Q. What is the new nomenclature that Intel is giving to the ‘Sandy Bridge' chips?
A. 2nd Generation Intel Core

Q. Dick Costolo is the CEO of…?
A. Twitter

Q. Who makes the Angry Birds game?
A. Rovio Mobile.

Q. Who would you reach if the numeric address is/was http://88.80.13.160?
A. WikiLeaks

Q. What is ‘Operation Payback'?
A. According to Wikipedia, it is “is a coordinated, decentralised group of attackson opponents of internet piracy by internet activists"

Q. In the context of OS, what links these terms (in a non-exhaustive list): Warty,Hoary, Jaunty, Gutsy,Feisty?
A. They are part of the various code names for Ubuntu releases