Tech Quiz 30

1.) This penguin character is the mascot of Linix Kernel. Name this penguin?
A: TUX

2.) We have independence day, republic day, science day etc. Like that, this day was first observed on 28 August 2004. Since 2006, it has been observing in the third saturday of September every year. What is significance of this day?
A: Software Freedom Day(SFD)

3.) Shelfari is a social cataloging website for books. Shelfari users build virtual bookshelves of the titles they own or have read, and can rate, review, tag, and discuss their books. Which company is offering this service?
A: AMAZON

4.) Which is the world's largest mobile operator with more than 600 million subscribers as of March 2011?
A: China Mobile

5.) What do you mean by Data archaeology?
A: It refers to the art and science of recovering computer data encrypted in now obsolete media or formats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_archaeology

6.) "Patni Computer Systems " was it's former name. How do you know the company now?
A: iGATE Patni

7.) It was started in 1999 by 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro. This company crossed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006 & has been involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
A: Mind Tree Ltd.

8.) It is a technology introduced by Intel Corporation that uses NAND flash memory modules to reduce the time it takes for a computer to power up, access programs, and write data to the hard drive. During development, the technology was codenamed Robson. How do you know this technology?
A: Intel Turbo Memory

9.) This gaming console was known by the code name of "Revolution" until April 27, 2006, immediately prior to E3(Electronic Entertainment Expo). How this console is popular now?
A: Nintendo Wii

10.) It is the brand name of an LCD color display technology produced by Sharp Electronics. The technology utilizes a fourth color subpixel, yellow, in addition to the standard RGB color subpixels, which Sharp claims increases the range of displayable colors, and which may mimic more closely the way the brain processes color information. Name the technology?
A: Quattron

Answers added on 22-10-2011

Google's 13th birthday special Doodle

Google is celebrating it's 13th birthday today.
Here is the Google's special  doodle for it's 13th birthday.

This special doodle is  photograph that shows Google's 13th birthday celebrations. There is a cake on a table with 13 candles on it & the GOOGLE logo sits around the table in party hats and baloons adding to the celebratory mood. And also There are certain gifts in the table.

Tech Quiz 29

 1. X was in development from April 2007, and released on 3 March 2008. Its main developer was Ian Hickon. What is X?
A: Acid3

2. He was an American computer scientist who received Turing Award in 1998 and he was lost at sea during a solo sailing trip?
A: Jim Gray

3. What process is called Tethering? A: The use of mobile phone as a Internet gateway for another device (PC/Laptop) 4. This is an American company involved in the research of low power computer display technology. This was founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who was previously the CTO of OLPC project? A: Pixel Qi

5. If Google has Goggles , who own “Point & Find”?
A: Nokia

Tech Quiz 28

1. As of March 2011, world's largest mobile operator with more than 600 million
subscribers?
A: China Mobile

2. "Gesher" was it's first codename, it was released in 9th January 2009 by Intel. On what code name you know it now?
A: Sandy Bridge

3. We often say a processor is manufactured under "32 nm"(nanometer) process. What does 32 nm indicate?
A: It refers to the expected average half­pitch (i.e., half the distance between identical features) of a memory cell at this technology level.

4. What do you mean by Data archaeology?
A: It refers to the art and science of recovering computer data encrypted in now obsolete media or formats.

5. What are Haswell & Broadwell ?
A: These are the codename for a processor microarchitecture to be developed by Intel.

6. Who is in the designation  CEO, Yahoo ( as of 10 September 2011).?
A: Tim Morse

7. Who is known as the father of IBM PC?
A: Don Estridge

8. Name the optical semiconductor that is the core of DLP projecion Technology and was invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck and Dr. William E Nelson of Texas Instrument in 1987?
A: DMD (Digital Micromirror Device)

9. This term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self­regulating human­machine systems in outer space. Which is the term?
A: Cyborg

10.This company was started by G.L. Mirchandani and Vijay Mansukhani in 1981 in Mumbai and it is one of India’s leading electronics brand. Identify the company?
A: Onida Electronics

TECH4YOU Persona

Identify these personals from the history of computing.          Get More Pictures

1.)

 

 Blaise Pascal

2.)

 

Joseph Marie Jacquard

3.)

 

Charles Babbage

4.)

 

Ada Lovelace

5.)

 

George Boole

Source: http://images-thetechquiz.blogspot.com/
NB: Answers were added on 9-9-2011

This will be helpful for TCS IT WIZ participants competitating at cities: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahemedabad, Chennai, Coimbatore, Pune, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Lucknow, Delhi & Mumbai.

TECH4YOU ARTICLE

QWERTY(keyboard layout)

Qwerty is the most popular keyboard layout that in use today. This layout was named QWERTY because these six letters are appearing in the top layer of the keyboard.
The QWERTY keyboard design was created by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1873 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Christopher Latham Sholes

Wisconsin Historical Marker

The first computer terminals such as the Teletype were typewriters that could produce and be controlled by various computer codes. These used the QWERTY layouts, and added keys such as escape (ESC) which had special meanings to computers. Later keyboards added function keys and arrow keys. Since the standardization of PC-compatible computers and Windows after the 1980s, most full-sized computer keyboards have followed this standard (see drawing at right). This layout has a separate numeric keypad for data entry at the right, 12 function keys across the top, and a cursor section to the right and center with keys for Insert, Delete, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down with cursor arrows in an inverted-T shape.



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Space flight google doodle

This is the google doodle in memory of the first human space flight.

Google published this doodle on the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight.

Edision's Doodle

This is the doodle of the google in respect with the inventor of Electric Bulb - Thomas Alva Edison

Tech Quiz 27

1. Expand EISA?
   A: Extended Industry Standard Architecture / European Imaging and Sound Association
2. Magix Table is a product from?
   A: Touch Magix
3. What is defined as “Machine that fits the human environment instead of forcing humans to enter theirs.”?
   A: Ubiquitous Computing
4. He is one of the co-founder of SUN Microsystems. In 1995 he left SUN to found Granite Systems, a company focused on developing high speed network switches. Who is the personality?
   A: Andy Bechtolsheim
5. What would you call the act of registering popular domain names, usually a company name, with an intent of selling it to the rightful owner ?
   A: Cybersquatting
6. Who is claimed to be the first human to be affected with a computer Virus?
   A: Mark Gasson
7. In sense of  biomechatronics, what is prosthetic limb ( or prosthesis, prosethic)?
   A: It is an artifical device extension that replaces a missing body part.
8. Slate 500 is a multi-touch capable slate PC from which company?
   A: HP
9. It was started in 1996 by Brewster Kahle with a mission “Universal Access to all Knowledge”. What are we describing?
   A: Internet Archive
10. vPro is a technology of which famous company?
    A: Intel

Tech Quiz 26

TECH4YOU QUIZ 26

1. This device was originated as controls for aircraft ailerons and elevators. Ralph Baer created this device in 1967 for Video games for the first time. What is the device?
   A: Joystick
2. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry.He is widely regarded as “The Father of Video Games”. Who is the identity?
   A: Ralph H Baer
3. This website ,which has been launched in 2006, is run by Sunshine Press. This web site has the slogan “We open the government”. Identify the website?
   A: wikileaks.org
4. It was orginally started as Radio Manufactures Association(RMA) in 1924. It puts on the Annual International CES (Consumer Electronic Show). What is it?
   A: CEA (Consumer Electronics Association)
5. “Honeycomb” is the code name of ?
   A: Android 3.0
6. HTC manufactured the Nexus One phone. Then who manufactured the Nexus S?
   A: Samsung
7. PenTile matrix family refers to a family of patented subpixel matrix schemes used in electronic device displays. Which company's trademark is PenTile?
   A: Samsung
8. What would you call a class of mobile device that combine certain features of both smartphone & netbook?
   A: Smartbook
9. What would you call a class of mobile device that combine certain features of both smartphone & netbook?
   A: Smartbook
10. Expand TED, which is a global set of conferences curated by the American non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate “Ideas worth Spreading”.?
    A: Technology Entertainment and Design

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Tech Quiz 25

1. It was founded by Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra, two Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi graduates in 2006 with the intent of being a "desi" search engine? what's it?
   A: Guruji.com
2. Historically, it was developed from Telegraphic codes. It’s first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell Data Services. What are we discussing?
   A: ASCII
3. “Read. Share. Explore” is the tag line of?
   A: Shelfari
4. When was the word “computer” was used for the first time?
   A: AD 1613
5. Who is internationally recognised as the father of modern digital computer?
   A: George Stibitz
6. Expand DDoS in sense of computer security?
   A: Distributed Denial of Service
7. X stands for a thin slice of semi-conductor material, such as a silicon crystal, used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. What is X?
   A: wafer
8. Expand PCMCIA?
   A: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
9. Expand PING?
   A: Packet InterNet Groper
10. Which company developed the IRIX computer operating system?
    A: Silicon Graphics Inc.

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Tech Quiz 24

1. Quattron is the brand name of an LCD color display technology produced by which company?
   A: Sharp
2. X is one of India's leading electronics brands, established as "MIRC Electronics" in 1981. Identify X?
   A: Onida
3. Name the company marketed the Sansa series of portable media players
   A: Sandisk
4. Expand NAG in connection with E-goverance.?
   A: National e-goverance Advisory Group
5. Expand UMTS?
   A: Universal Mobile Telecommunication System.
6. X is an OS(Operating System) based upon the Mach kernel. Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of X. Identify X?
   A: MAC OS X
7. The term “Jailbreaking” , refers to process to get root previlages , is associated with which famous device?
   A: IPhone( also on ipod,ipad,etc..ie products using IOS platform)
8. How do you simply know a binary digit?
   A: bit
9. This can be used for authentication, storing site preferences, shopping cart contents, the identifier for a server-based session, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data. This term was coined by web browser programmer Lou Montulli. Idetify the term?
   A: Cookie
10. He was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award. Identify him?
    A: Alan Jay Perlis

Tech Quiz 23

1. It was started out as an experiment in November 2004 mainly by Kevin Rose. Matt Williams is the present CEO. What is described here?
   A: Digg
2. He founded the company , Wheels of Zeus in 2001. Who am i point to?
   A: Steve Wozniak
3. KIN is the brand name owned by?
   A: Microsoft
4. S-LCD is a a joint venture between two companies established in 2004. One is samsung, which is the other company?
   A: Sony
5. Expand OLED?
   A: Organic Light Emitting Diode
6. How do you know Ambient Lignting Technology?
   A: Ambilight
7. Pixel Plus, is a proprietary digital filter image processing technology. Which company is known for it’s development?
   A: Philips
8. "providing trust for the Internet and Electronic Commerce through our Digital Authentication services and products." This quote belongs to which companies history?
   A: Verisign
9. Acid 2, Acid 3 are tests to check the browser’s compatability. Name the personality who devloped this?
   A: Lan Hickson
10. Presto, Gecko & Tasman are example of ?
    A: Web layout Engines or Rendering Engines for web browsers.

Tech Quiz 22

1. X is a search engine system developed for Gopher protocol, developed in 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie. What is X?
   A: Veronica
2. “Antibot” , “GoBack” are the software products from?
   A: Norton
3. How do you know Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company?
   A: 3M
4. The book “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought“ by Douglas Hofstadter is very important in the history of this company. Identify the company?
   A: AMAZON.COM
5. How do you know American standard code for information interchange?
   A: ASCII
6. Who is referred as the father of Analysis of Algorithm?
   A: Donald Knuth
7. Who manufactured the KIN mobile phones from Microsoft?
   A: Sharp Corportaion
8. Originally the German company StarDivision developed the application as the proprietary software suite StarOffice. In 1999 Sun Microsystems purchased the code. In August 1999 version 5.2 of StarOffice was made available free of charge. How do we know this software now?
   A: OpenOffice.org
9. “Gorilla Grip of Death” is associated with which popular product?
   A: iPhone 4
10. HP & X was in a struggle to acquire the company 3 PAR. Which company is denoted by X?
    A: Dell

Tech Quiz 21

1. K5 and K6 were the micro processors from AMD. What do the “K” stands for?
2. How do you know the company “Tokyo Shibaura Denki” now?
3. Natty Narwhal is the code name of ?
4. AJAR is a application software platform owned by?
5. Expand “MOODLE”?
6. Drupal, Joomla are examples of?
7. Jane Silber is the CEO of ?
8. Expand DOF. Hint: Related to robots?
9. Tecra and Portege and the laptop series from ?
10. “Check Out” is online payment service by?

Answers added on 19/10/2010:

1.  Kryptonite
2.  Toshiba ( Tokyo Shibaura Denki )
3. Upcoming ubuntu 11.04
4.  Motorola
5.  Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.
6.  CMC ( Content Management Systems )
7.  Canonical
8.  Degree Of Freedom
9.  Toshiba
10.  Google

TECH4YOU Article

Xbox 360 Repair Centers an Easy Way Out for the Xbox Repair
Entertainment is something that is essential for living a cheerful and good life. Without, entertainment your life would become boring and dull. Earlier, the entertaining options, for people were quite limited but with the passage of time, and with the advancement in technology many new options were introduced as a means of entertainment for people. Video games and consoles were introduced long time back as an entertainment source, but the popularity and the craze associated with Xbox 360 have been never observed before with any of the video game. People keep aside all the activities, and love to play this game all the time. But, the only thing that makes people dislike this gaming console is when; a problem arises in the Xbox, People get annoyed, irritated and frustrated when they come to know that the Xbox is not working well and therefore need a repair. So, they shouldn’t panic instead look for the Xbox 360 repairoptions, which can help the Xbox to be repaired.
Many Xbox repair, options have been introduced in the last years. Such as repair guides, repair articles etc. Xbox 360 repair centers are one option among them. One of the most reliable and the authentic repair centre for Xbox is the Microsoft repair centre. If your Xbox is not working properly due to any reason such as the screen get freeze, loading problem arise, or even in case of red ring of death, you can simply send the Xbox to Microsoft office. If you are still in warranty, then you are fortunate enough because your Xbox will be repaired free of cost where, if you are out of warranty, then you have to pay quite huge charges for repair in addition to the shipping charges for sending the Xbox. Once you send the Xbox to the repair office they would repair the Xbox and would return you the Xbox within three weeks or the repair time period can be longer than that.
Apart, from Microsoft repair center, there are many other Xbox 360 repair centers, which are created for the Xbox repair. These centers are specifically created for the repair of the Xbox. So, if you can afford the Microsoft repair, then send it to the Microsoft, and if you can’t then send it to other repair centers for Xbox. But, whenever you send your Xbox to any repair centre, other than Microsoft, make sure that the repair centre is authentic and reliable otherwise they would make your Xbox worse instead of repairing it. The best way to estimate the authenticity of the Xbox repair centre is to have a research about it before you finally send your Xbox there or you take it there personally. While making a research about it, read the testimonials about it so that you get an idea that what the other customer have to say about this repair centre. So, these Xbox 360 repair centers are a great option for the repair of the Xbox and an easy way out.

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Code names of XBox 360 editions:
Project Natal, Zephyr, Firebird
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The Xbox 360 displaying three red lights, indicating Red Ring of Death

"Red Ring of Death"  is the general hardware of Xbox 360 

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Sachin Tendulkar brand ambassador of Toshiba:

Toshiba Corporation has appointed Sachin Tendulkar as its brand ambassador for corporate branding in India.

Sachin Tendulkar said, "Toshiba as a brand embodies the aspects of "Quality, Technology and Design". Toshiba's philosophy to provide the very best is something that endears me to the brand. I am very happy and proud to be associated with the brand."
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TECH4YOU Quiz 10

What do you mean by a " Social Ghost"?

Answer added on 15/10/2010:

A Social ghost is a person who died but with an active account in a social networking site.