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>PERSONALITIES

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1. Which famous Internet pioneer is also known as 'JIMBO'?

2. The essay "Why the future doesn't need us " made a history in US. The author was theco founder of Stanford University Network(SUN).Who is he ?

3.Who is regarded as the father of Wiki ?

4.Who is regarded as the ‘father of psp’?

5.Name the computer wizard who created the first Internet virus and managed without aday in the jail ?

6. 1980s, X received a copy of the Pakistani Brain computer virus and began developingsoftware to combat viruses.In 1987 he founded his company dealing with antivirussoftwares and was the first to distribute antivirus softwares as sharewares.who is X?

7.X was the ceo of Shriram Refrigeration in 1965.He then joined wipro and transformed itsIT business.Later he founded ‘Mindtree’ . Who is X?

8.Who is the current president of NASSCOM?

9.X is a business tycoon.He owns a private equity fund, ‘PremjiInvest’, which manages his$1 billion personal portfolio.Who is X?

10.X’s first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. In 1970, heset up an audio­record mail­order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores.He then expanded his business by opening an airline. Who is X?

11.After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated theAltair 8800, X contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems , the creators of thenew microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC

interpreter for the platform .In reality,X did not have an Altair and had not written code for it.ID X.

12. Who has become the first Indian to sign up for the ‘Giving Pledge’?

13.The National Inventors Day is celebrated in the USA on 11 February , honouring the

birth anniversary of which inventor ?

14.Who famously stated that the number of transistors that the industry would be able toplace on a computer chip would double every year?

15.Who coined the term Silicon Valley?

16.Name the high profile ex­Sun programmer, who called Larry Ellison ‘Larry, Prince ofDarkness, joining Google.

17. Identify this person X who published Cybernetics for the first time in 1948 . He alsocoined the term Cybernetics after the Greek word for steersman.

18. “When you beat Apple, You’re dominating” , Who said these words ?

19. Who is the creator of the very famous arcade game , PAC Man ?

20.This one time patent attorney experimented with photoconductivity and while doing so,created a machine that revolutionized documents and printing. The first product of thismachine was the words “10­22­38 Astoria”. Name the inventor.

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1. Identify him .

2. Identify this person who coined the term AJAX .

3. Android came into existence for this person. Identify him.

4. Identify him . ( A founder of social networking site )

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5. Identify this famous programming language developer ?

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6. Id this guy who created the Islamic equivalent of Facebook.

7. Identify this founder of a tech giant ?

8.Identify these founders of Nest.

9. Identify this person who was the CEO of MOTOROLA.

10.Id this american computer programmer.

11. The founder of Virgin Inc .

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12.ID him.

13. Identify this man who invented a revolutionary device .

14.He is the founder of Flickr.

15. Wordpress is his creation . Identify him

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16. Identify this Indian Entrepreneur .

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17. One of the founders of the most famous Torrent sites.

18.ID this Entrepreneur and programmer.

19.Founder and ex ceo of Groupon inc.

20.A well known figure in the world of gaming consoles.

>DESI TECH

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1.Which consultancy firm was founded by Ashok Soota an Subroto Bagchi?

2. Which Indian privately held, multinational computer technology company was founded by

its current MD Indrajit Sabharwal?

3.Which Indian holds the post of the COO in Groupon Inc.?

4.What was the first venture started by Narayan Murthy in 1976 in Pune?

5.The venture ‘ Microcomp Limited’ , lead to the foundation of which global technology andIT Enterprise?

6.Which E­commerce site was established by Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, and

Vineet Saxena in February 2007?

7.Which ecommerce site did Varun Agarwal and Rohn Malhotra find?

8.Who is the founder of the ‘consumer review’ website, ‘Mouthshut.com’?

9.X a free app that provides accurate Mumbai taxi and autorickshaw fares against the

corresponding meter reading and has been downloaded 80,000 times on ios. SiddharthaBanerjee is its creator. Name the app.

10.Which Indian institute proposed the idea of the ‘Akash tab’?

11.Which Education and Research institute hosts the 'Digital Library Of India'?

12.Who invented the ‘Electronic Diary’?

13.Intel AZ210’ the smartphone was marketed using what name in India?

14.With which Mumbai based manufacturer did BSNL tie­up to bring out its affordable

tablet PC range?

15.Which e commerce site was founded as ‘BigShoeBazaar.com’?

16.Who owns the ‘Cataram ventures’?

17.Which was the first Indian state to come up with a cyber crime cell?

18.’Trendin.com’ is a proposed e commerce site by which fashion and lifestyle venture?

19.What is the first Indian company to be listed on NASDAQ?

20.Which is the first ICANN accredited registrar in india?

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1.which Online gaming site did he find?

2.ID this famous personality.

3.What e commerce site did this couple find?

4.Id this indian entrepreneur.

5.Id the advertiser from this screenshot.

6.Who is he?Why was he in news recently?

7.Who is he?

8.Who is this IT pioneer?

9.Id the founder of India’s largest social network meant for MBA aspirants.

10.’Father of pentium chip’,who?

11.Who is he?

12.Id and name the venture founded by him.

13. Identify this Indian entrepreneur who is the CEO of Adobe Inc.

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14.Id and mention which company was co­founded by him?

15.Id and tell his claim to fame.

16.who is he?

17.who is he and what technology is he demonstrating?

18.who is he?what is his claim to fame?

19.’Father of fibre optics’ ,who?

20.Identify this ceo of an Indian Multinational company.

> TECH TACKLE

1. This company ran a 2­page ad with just this line, "c:\ngrtlns.w95". Whichcompany and why?

2. Reliance big entertainment acquired 50% stake in which famous gamedeveloper? (hint : grid, dirt series)

3 . What was the first product sony came out with?

4. Each version of this product has been code named after a dessert item,examples being cupcake, donut, gingerbread, ice cream sandwich, etc.food items do make a good name for tech products. Which product arewe talking about?

5. When he was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers,was arrested, and sent for psychiatric evaluation (the report mentions "noempathy for other human beings"). He was then sentenced to a year in ajuvenile home. He was asked "if you had not been caught, would youconsider doing it again?" he answered "probably", but when the therapistpresented this evaluation he neglected to repeat "if you had not been

caught…" from his statement. Who is this famous game developer?

6. Many of us have used the programming language basic. it was createdby a first year student at Harvard, who eventually made big news. Butunknown to many, his thirst for ventures did not end at his first and moresuccessful venture. He started a company called corbis, which is one ofthe world’s largest sources of visual information. it is not difficult to guesswho he is. hint: he planned to start a company with his friend Kent Evans,who died in an avalanche

7. In 1972 when Senator McGovern was contesting the election for uspresident against Richard Nixon, he had to drop his choice of vicepresident senator Eagleton because of some controversy in the press. Ayoung boy saw an opportunity and bought about 5000 McGovern –Eagleton buttons and stickers at 5 cents each. Later he sold each one ofthem as a historical and rare political memorabilia for usd 25 each. Boughtat 5 cents and sold at usd 25 each.

8. In 2002, this famous game designer put his Ferrari up for auction oneBay. The heavily modified Ferrari included a parallel port from the enginecompartment into the cockpit next to the passenger's seat which one couldplug a laptop into, and tune the engine while the car was running. Who ishe?

9. Who said "the memory management on the PowerPc can be used tofrighten small children."?

10. Which country has 1mbps broadband connection as a legal right?

11. This Japanese MNC derives its name from Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. recently, it appointed Anushka Sharma as its brand ambassador.Name the company.

12. The telephony brand of sistema­shyam teleservices is known in Indiaas?

13. Started in 1996, _______ marked a new re­entry in a specific field for

its mother company. _______‘s logo represents the integration of analogand digital technology, as it features both the sine wave (symbolic ofanalog devices) and binary code (symbolic of digital devices).

14. What is the full form of t9?

15. The person behind this famous online venture thought of naming hiscompany "cadabra". but his manager persuaded him to go for anothername as he felt "cadabra" sounds like a "cadaver". How do we know thisventure as today?

16. What did Park jae sung, a south Korean rapper do which became aninternet viral and a subsequent global hit?

17. Which internet suite developed by Apple was named for a characterwallace and Gomit in the film ‘A close shave’?

18.X in 1987 started maintaining an on­paper list just as a hobby.The initiation of Y started in an Usenet group.Soon in 1993 it was made an independent website by X and his colleagues .unable to manage the funds X decided to sell Y to Z on the condition that Y would still be managed by X and his small cadre of friends.Y now hosts the largest collection about films,actors ,characters etc.ID X ,Y and Z.

19.ubuyibuy.com in Hong kong _ Groupsmore.com in Malaysia _ Beeconomic.com in singapore.What am i talking about?

20.What significance has Toni castells' music for the opera light from life got in the world of IT?(hint:connect it to a very very famous '.com' )

21. Which project was started by Thomas Reardon in 1994 using the source code from Spyglass Inc?

22 . Which company's founder released its product in the name of itssecond version fearing that peoplewould not take interest in buying the 1st

version ?

23. Which browser was the first one to put in the idea of 'Favicon' which is now a common feature in all browsers ?

24.In the movie ,'REAL STEEL' during the last fight between Zeus and Atom , comes a lady with a digital display board that displays the round numbers.The name of which prominent IT company do you find on the board?

25.This year, X through his blog ( comics site) Y started a fund raising campaign For an NGO (Tesla science center at wardenclyffe) in order to raise $850k and buy the Wardenclyffe Tower that would further be used to build a museum in Nicola Tesla's honor. X subsequently raised $1700k in the 45 day long campaign.ID X and Y.

26. Which prominent IT personality has quoted ' If you don't speak maths you are doomed to speak nonsense ‘in his BMW car?27. This social networking site was previously Stylized as X and My X ? Identify the site .

28. Which brand started in 1992 with the establishment of UK's largest maker military radio technology?

29.Which online designer eyeglasses retailer supported numerous bad reviews of his website saying "each bad review boosts my site's PageRank, meaning that the site comes top of Google's ratings for many of the products I sell"?

30.What is the chinese equivalent of Twitter called?

31.What is the term given to a website heavily loaded with graphics and

animations?

32.X is one of the first consumer digital camera.It was codenamed Venus,Mars, Neptune lines.Time Magazine profiled it as ‘the first consumerdigital camera’ and ranked it among its ’100 greatest and most influentialgadgets from 1923 to the present' list.ID the product?

33.Name the Indian personality who co­founded ‘SanDisk’ and is also thecurrent CEO of the company?

34.This technology was started as a cable replacement technology.Beside other uses, it is also used to power doorbells. Which technology?

35.X is a technique that produces the illusion of depth in a photograph,movie, or other two­dimensional image by presenting a slightly differentimage to each eye.These two­dimensional images are then combined inthe brain to give the perception of 3D depth.Id X.

36.Which consumer electronics company was founded by RajeshAgarwal, Sumeet Arora, Rahul Sharma and Vikas Jain?

37.The earlier name of Intel was MN Electronics but was later changed toNM Electronics.Why?

38.What was the name given to the first TV remote control?Who inventedit?

39.X was one of the first major, free webmail services.It was originally aproduct of Four11 Corporation and later acquired by Yahoo.Identify?

40.This is a military technology first used during World War 2 by Englishallies to foil German attempts at jamming communications.The alliesdecided to transmit over several frequencies to avoid interception. X is inwide use today.Identify.

41.X is a search engine system developed for Gopher protocol,developed in 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie. What is X?

42. The book “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Modelsof the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought“ by Douglas Hofstadter isvery important in the history of this company. Identify the company?

43. X was previously known as the $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, and2B1, also nicknamed ceibalita in Uruguay.Also tell who manufactured theX.

44. X is an OS(Operating System) based upon the Mach kernel. Certainparts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix wereincorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of X.Identify X?

45.What was the device in which Sir Tim Berners Lee did his research anddevelopmental works ?

46.Pixel Plus, is a proprietary digital filter image processing technology.Which company is known for its development?

47.Identify the company from the tagline " Access . Content . Solutions . "

48.Which advertisement site formerly had the domain ‘Kijiji.in’?

49.What was Vannevar Bush talking about in the article ' As We MayThink' in 1945 which he called 'Memex' ?

50. Which Indian Company shares its name with a fictional mutant that hasthe power to increase, decrease and redistribute its body mass?

>ANSWERS

>PERSONALITIES

-IN TEXT

1.Jimmy Wales

2.Vinod Khosla

3.Jimmy Wales

4.Kim Kutaragi

5.Robert Morris

6.John McAfee

7.Ashok Soota

8.Som Mittal

9.Ajim Premji

10.Richard Branson

11.Bill Gates

12.Ajim Premji

13.Thomas Alva Edison

14.Gordon Moore

15.Ralph Vaerst

16.James Goshling

17.Robert Wiener

18.Howard Stringer

19.Toru Iwatani

20.Chester Carlson (Xerography)

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1.John Warnock(Adobe Co founder)

2.Jesse James Garett

3.Andy Rubin

4.Kevin Rose(Digg)

5.Ken Thompson(c programming)

6.Omer Zaheer Meer

7.Lee Byung Chull(samsung founder)

8.Matt Rogers and Tony Fadell

9.Sanjay Jha

10.Richard Stallman

11.Richard Branson(Virgin Inc.)

12.Salman Amin Khan(khan Academy)

13.Chester Carlson

14.Stewart Butterfield

15.Matt Mullenweg

16.Kunal Bahl(snapdeal)

17.Gottfrid Svartholm

18.Jack Dorsey

19.Andrew Mason

20.Kim Kutaragi

>DESI TECH

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1.Mindtree

2.Simmtronics

3.Kal Raman

4.Softronics

5.HCL Enterprise

6.Myntra.com

7.almamaterstore.com

8.Faisal Farooqui

9.Meter Down

10.IIT Jodhpur

11.IIsc Bengaluru

12.Sam Pitroda

13.XOLO x900

14.Penta

15.Yebhi.com

16.Narayan Murthy

17.Karnataka

18.Madura Fashion and Lifestyle(Aditya Birla Group)

19.Infosys

20.Directi

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1.Vishal Gondal(Indiagames.com)

2.Phaneesh Murthy

3.Babyoye.com

4.Indrajit Sabharwal

5.Flipkart

6.Sundar Pichai ; Head of Google's Android and Chrome Operations.

7.Ankit Fadia

8.Vinod Khosla

9.Allwin Agnel(pagalguy.com)

10.Vinod Dham

11.S D Shibulal

12.Ajit Balakrishnan ,founder of Rediff.com

13.Shantanu Narayen

14.Nandan Nilekani ; Infosys

15.Ajay Bhatt ; Co inventor of USB and many other technologies.

16.Sam Pitroda

17.Pranav Mistry displaying 'SixthSense' a wearable gestural interface.

18.Sabeer Bhatia ; hotmail's co creator.

19.Narinder singh Kapany

20.Anant Gupta(CEO,HCL)

>TECH TACKLE

1. Apple; to mock Windows 95

2. codemasters

3. Rice cooker ­ turned out to be defective

4. Android

5. John D. carmack

6. bill gates (but basic was created by john kemeny and thomas kurtz whenthey were at Dartmouth college and not harvard!)

7. Bill gates

8. John Romero

9. Linus Torvalds

10. Finland

11. Canon

12. MTS India

13. Sony vaio

14. Text on 9 keys (developed by the tegic communications)

15. Amazon

16. he released his 6th album psy's best 6th part 1 and the song gangnamstyle (gangnum is the place where he was born).

17. cyberdog

18. X­ Col Needham Y­ IMDB Z­ Amazon.com

19. Groupon.com (Deal of the day)

20. It's lyrics include portions from Wikipedia articles about family planningand sexual intercourse.

21. The Internet Explorer Project

22. oracle

23. Internet Explorer 5

24. HP

25. X­Matthew Inman Y­The Oatmeal

26. John McCarthy

27. Myspace

28. Vodafone

29.Vitaly Borker

30.Weibo

31.Corneal Gumbo

32.Apple QuickTake

33.Sanjay Mehrotra

34.Bluetooth

35.Stereoscopy

36.Micromax

37.Moore Noyce(MN) sounded like "more noise " so they changed thename.

38.Flash Matic ; Eugene Polly

39.Rocketmail

40.CDMA

41.Veronica

42.Amazon(First book to be sold on Amazon)

43.XO­1 by Microsoft and Quanta Comp.

44.Mac OS X

45.NeXT Cube

46.Phillips

47.TATA Docomo

48.Quickr.com

49.Hypertext

50.Micromax

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