What
is the full form of YAHOO!
a)Yet Another
Hierarchical Officious Oracle
Name the person
who pioneered Macintosh.
a)Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
a)Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
Which
country has the domain name ".ch"?
a)Switzerland [
its after the Latin name for Switzerland Helvetica
(CH)]
Which famous
software personality once admitted on the David Letterman show in the US
that he modified his school time-table program so that all girls would be in
his class at any given time?
a)Bill gates
a)Bill gates
How
did Apple have its name?
a)Actually, when
Steve had to register the company name, he repeatedly asked the partners to
come up with some good name or else he will register it with whatever comes in
his mind. However, no one came up with any name till noon. When he was going
for registration, he saw someone eating apple during break and that struck his
mind. Hence, he registered company with same name and kept the same half bite
apple as its symbol. (Read it long back on some article about how some famous
company got their names).
What
is the personal finance software that competes with MS Money and gives it a run
for its money? This is one of the very few companies/products that have taken
Microsoft on and survived to tell the tale.
a)Quicken.
Who is "Hughes" in "Hughes Software" (Think skywards)?
Who is "Hughes" in "Hughes Software" (Think skywards)?
a)Howard Hughes.
[He created several companies in his lifetime, an offshoot of one was
Hughes Networks. Hughes Software is primarily owned by Hughes Networks.]
Whose designed
computer in garage took the world by storm?
a)Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
a)Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
‘India's
Online Marketplace' is now ...?
a)Ebay
India(formerly bazzee.com)
When
MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson showed his invention to one of his
colleagues he also told him: "Don’t tell anyone I did this! This
isot what we are supposed to be working on." What did Tomilson invent?
a)Email...
Who coined the
term "Information Superhighway"?
a)Al gore Former US Vice-President
a)Al gore Former US Vice-President
What
major technology was developed by European telecom major Ericsson in 1999?
How
did the technology get its name?
a)Blue tooth.
Ericsson named the technology after Danish king Harald Blatand, better known as
Harald Blue tooth. The king gad a great desire for blueberries due to which his
teeth would always remain blue & hence the nickname.
Which
Internet term originally meant "harmless, creative fun"?
a)Hacking
US firm that
I-flex bought last year?
a)Supersolutions
a)Supersolutions
What is i-flex
core banking solution platform called?
a)Flexicube
Which
international software company has got so many Indians that it has got a
special Indian cafeteria?
a)Oracle
a)Oracle
Which Indian
started his company on 3rd floor apartment at 10 St Paul Street,
Cambridge
Massachusetts? His wife was his first employee and the year was 1972.
a)Narendra K
Patni
Infosys has
decided to make a Public Offering Without Listing in----
a)Japan
Which computer
Firm also manufactured clocks ?
a)IBM .
[From the close
of the 19th century through 1958, IBM and its predecessors manufactured and
sold a wide variety of devices and systems to record, use, transmit and display
time. The International Time Recording Company, makers of all types of
timekeeping systems, was made a division of the IBM Corporation. IBM sold the
Time Equipment Division to Simplex in 1958.]
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