The Hindu Business Line : Quiz

2. The creator of which eponymous ‘law’ said about his assertion recently that it was “as important as Newton’s Law” but would no longer hold true because “you can’t shrink things anymore”.

3. In the world of computer folklore, who were referred to as ‘The Traitorous Eight’?

4. Name the Indian who is Intel’s Chief I/O architect and one of the principal engineers behind the development of the PCI Express and USB.

5. If one is keying in ‘up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter’, one is entering which legendary code?

6. The industry’s most advanced and open Linux-based mobile project created in 2007 is called…?

7. What is the new wireless standard for transmitting data over short distances at around 6 gigabits per second dubbed as?

8. What is the Mozilla Prism?

9. What is IBM’s “integrated suite of tools that combines your network with Web conferencing and collaboration capabilities such as file storing and sharing, instant messaging and chart creation” called?

10. This year’s Webby Awards’ Person of the Year is…?

Answers

1. Kindle DX.

2. Gordon Moore.

3. The eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to form Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.

4. Ajay V. Bhatt.

5. Konami Code.

6. Moblin

7. WiGig (Wireless Gigabit Alliance).

8. It is Mozilla’s ‘Web application as a desktop application’ service.

9. LotusLive Engage.

10. Jimmy Fallon.