The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

3. In 2005, which cyber-giant paid $2,50,000 as bounty money to two people for identifying the teenaged Sven Jaschan as the writer of the Sasser worm?

4. ‘Keitai shosetsu’ is a new literary genre in Japan and has become a craze. What is it?

5. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij founded which controversial but popular file sharing site?

6. Name the world’s lightest cell-phone that has now innovated to have changing skins which can make it take different sizes and shapes?

7. To which Indian mobile technology developer did Nokia Siemens Networks sell its Music2You (M2Y) music download and subscription service recently?

8. Following Skype’s recent tie-up with Nokia, which flagship device of the cell-phone maker will be the first to have Skype embedded in it?

9. The site, a joint effort by Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health and other global health organisations, which will be a new model “of how the world will assemble, maintain, critique and access medical knowledge” is called…?

10. Name the smaller social network site to which Mark Zuckerberg is said to have paid up to $65 million to settle a lawsuit alleging he stole the concept for Facebook?

Answers

1. South Park.

2. The ten-digit clock used by Unix computers displayed all ten decimal digits in sequence.

3. Microsoft

4. Mobile-phone novel.

5. The Pirate Bay.

6. Modu

7. IMImobile

8. N97

9. Medpedia

10. ConnectU, founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra.