12. During a dinner at World Economic
Forum (Davos) in Jan 2009, Mark Z
asked someone, '__, do you use
Facebook?’’. Who was this
'someone'?
~ He got married at Richard
Branson's Caribbean island.
36. This model is known as the
Stanford Bunny. It was developed
in 1994 at Stanford University. It is
made of 69,451 triangles, which
were determined by range-
scanning a ceramic bunny figurine.
40. The QR code was created by X, a subsidiary that
produces automatic identification products,
industrial robots programmable logic controllers.
Currently this subsidiary belongs to Toyota?
60. Yahoo ! - first resided on Jerry
Yang’s student workstation,
“Akebono”,
while the software was lodged on
David Filo’s computer, ”Konishiki”
– both named after legendary
sumo wrestlers.
65. X is a global provider of personal peripherals for
computers and headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges,
Switzerland. X was co-founded in Apples, Vaud,
Switzerland, in 1981 by two Stanford Masters alumni,
Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta, Jean-luc Mazzone
and Giacomo Marini, formerly a manager at Olivetti. The
mass-marketed computer mouse was the product that
made X well known. In December, 2008, it shipped its
one billionth mouse. Identify X.
68. X, an American multinational corporation that designs,
manufactures, and sells networking equipment was founded by
Nicholas Pham, Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple
who worked as computer operations staff members at Stanford
University. The name of this company was derived from the
name of a city in USA. For X’s first product, Bosack adapted
multiple-protocol router software originally written some years
before by William Yeager, another Stanford employee who later
joined Sun Microsystems. X’s first CEO was Bill Graves who held
the position from 1987 to 1988.
71. X (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme that originated in 2003 on the
image board 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline
community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.
Beginning with 2008, the X collective has become increasingly associated with
collaborative, international hacktivism, undertaking protests and other
actions, often in retaliation against anti-digital piracy campaigns by motion
picture and recording industry trade associations. Actions credited to “X" are
undertaken by unidentified individuals who apply the X label to themselves as
attribution.
Although not necessarily tied to a single online entity, many websites are
strongly associated with X. This includes notable image boards such as 4chan,
their associated wikis, Encyclopædia Dramatica, and a number of forums. After
a series of controversial, widely-publicized protests and distributed denial of
service (DDoS) attacks by X in 2008, incidents linked to its cadre members
have increased.
74. X is an United States computer hardware manufacturer
which mainly assembles third party components into
desktops and laptops with custom enclosures. X also
offers for sale rebadged computer peripherals, such as
headsets, computer mice, monitors and keyboards.
Established in 1996 through Nelson Gonzalez and Alex
Aguila, X assembles desktops notebooks and
workstations. According to employees, the name of this
company was chosen because of the founders’ fondness
for the hit television series The X-Files.
77. X is an American multinational computer technology
corporation that specializes in developing and
marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise
software products-particularly database management
systems. The founder took inspiration from the 1970
paper written by Edgar .F. Codd on relational database
management systems (RDBMS) named
“A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data
Banks ”. In 1977, he co-founded X under the name
Software Development Laboratories (SDL). Identify X.
80. X made its debut in 1991, but it has only become well
known in the past few years. The company became the
12th largest handset manufacturer in the world, with
one per cent share globally. X, according to a Strategy
Analytics report, is now larger than global Japanese
handset makers like Sharp and NEC. It has even moved
ahead of Lenovo and is closing the gap with Sony
Ericsson globally. Its Revenue - 2289 Crore as on March
2011.
83. X is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets
which was founded by Cher Wang in 1997 and Peter Chou.
Initially a manufacturer of notebook computers, X began
designing some of the world’s first touch and wireless hand-
held devices in 1998. The company has a rich heritage of
many “firsts” including creating the first Microsoft-powered
smartphone(2002) and the first Microsoft 3G phone(2005).
Their first major product was made in 2000 and was one of
the world’s first touch screen smartphones. They also made
the world’s first Android phone in 2008. Identify X.
86. X, a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company originated as the business and technology
consulting division of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. The
division’s origins are in a 1953 feasibility study for General
Electric. GE asked Arthur Andersen to automate payroll
processing and manufacturing at GE’s Appliance Park facility
near Louisville, Kentucky. Arthur Andersen recommended
installation of a UNIVAC I computer and printer, which resulted
in the first commercially owned computer installation in the
United States in 1954. In 1989, the division which split from
Arthur Andersen, began using the name Andersen Consulting,
now known as X. Identify X.
89. X is a global technology and IT enterprise company based in
Noida, India. X was focused on addressing the IT hardware
market in India for the first two decades of its existence with
some activity in the global market. It started as a joint venture
with HP. It was started as Microcomp Limited in 1976. The focus
of the company was design and manufacture of scientific
calculators. The venture provided its founders money to start a
company that focused on manufacturing computers. In 1996, on
termination of joint venture with HP, it became an enterprise. X
was also ranked as the 29th most trusted brand in India by The
Brand Trust Report in 2011. Identify X.
92. X is an American multinational provider of custom
information technology, consulting and business
process outsourcing services. X has its roots in Dun &
Bradstreet Satyam Systems(DBSS), an Indian-based joint
venture between Dun & Bradstreet and Satyam
Computers. In 1996, Dun & Bradstreet spun off several
of its subsidiaries including Erisco, IMS International,
Nielsen Media Research, Pilot Software, Strategic
Technologies and DBSS, to form a new company. Three
months later, in 1997, DBSS was renamed to X. identify
X.
95. The engineer who brought X's new database into the
world says that it has become the company's most
important new product of all time. The HANA database
has booked sales of more than $200 million (€165 million)
in its first six months. X has a lot riding on its new
database. For one thing, it wants to squash its old
nemesis Oracle. That's a small percentage of X's overall
revenue, the company reported fourth quarter revenue of
almost $5.9 billion (€4.5 billion).
98. Different variants of X targeted five Iranian organizations, with the
probable target widely suspected to be uranium enrichment
infrastructure in Iran; Symantec noted in August 2010 that 60% of
the infected computers worldwide were in Iran. Siemens stated on
29 November that the worm has not caused any damage to its
customers, but the Iran nuclear program, which uses
embargoed Siemens equipment procured clandestinely, has been
damaged by X. Russian computer security firm Kaspersky
Lab concluded that the sophisticated attack could only have been
conducted "with nation-state support". This was further backed up
by the Finnish computer security company F-Secure's chief
researcher Mikko Hyppönen who commented in a X FAQ, "That's
what it would look like, yes". It has been speculated that Israel and
the United States may have been involved.
124. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM
compatible computer wasn't
considered a hundred percent
compatible unless it could run a
certain program, probably because
of the fact that it is one of the
hardest programs to get running.
Which program?
132. This capacity was reportedly
specified by Sony executive
Norio Ohga so as to be able to
contain the entirety of
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on
one disc
136. The mayor of _____, Kansas stunned the world
by announcing that his city was changing its
name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever
since how best to honor that moving gesture.
Today we are pleased to announce that as of
1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st 2010,
Google has officially changed our name to
______.
CEO Eric Schmidt
139. This character started life as
“Mr. Video” as he appeared on
every concept developed by the
creator and later got his name
from an American warehouse
landlord. Identify the character.
151. As per January 2012, there are 361 of its kind
around the world, out of which 246 are in the
US, 33 in the UK, 22 in Canada, 13 in Australia,
9 in France, 9 in Italy, 8 in Germany, 7 in
Japan, 9 in China, 5 in Spain, 3 in Switzerland
and 1 in Hong Kong. What are we talkin about
?
162. In the context of social
invitations RSVP is a request for a
response from the invited person.
It is derived from
the French phrase which means
"Please respond."
163. An awards event that honors top short-form
content creators on the micro-blogging
website Twitter.
166. August 24th,1995 was a momentous
occasion for the computer industry as
Microsoft introduced Win 95 at a gala
launch event. The Empire State Building was
lit with Win 95 logo. In Poland, journalists
were taken into a submarine to experience
something. What is it?
171. Why was Katrina Kaif declared as
the most dangerous celebrity on th
internet in India last year?
172. According to a study by McAfee, Katrina
Kaif is the most dangerous celebrity in the
Indian cyber space. The cyber criminals
create malicious software and online
threats designed to steal personal
information around fans looking for results
on search engines using strings such as
name of celebrity’ combined with words
like free downloads’, hot pictures’, screen
savers’, and videos’.
174. Because instead of serving the
purpose of making a separate TLD
for pornographic websites all the
biggies including the education
domain like Harvard, Wharton etc
bought xxx domain to protect
their image.
