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