21) Which Indian State is ‘numero uno’ as regards the telephone subscriber base data?
a) Maharashtra
22) With whom has Google teamed up to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes called Google TV?
a) Intel and Sony.
23) Which very popular, free web-based, collaborative, multilingual project is readying for its first major UI overhaul by adopting a new theme called ‘Vector’?
a) Wikipedia
24) Name the recently unveiled music file format, developed by some of the key figures behind the MP3 and intended to be a competitor to Apple’s iTunes LP.
a) MusicDNA
25) One of the biggest hoaxes perpetrated on Wikipedia was in its Polish version, from November 2004 to February 2006, about a person named Izaak Apfelbaum. How was he better known?
a) Henryk Batuta
27) What was formerly known as the Integrated Media Player (iMP), Interactive Media Player and MyBBCPlayer?
a)BBC iPlayer
28) What important technology does EMVCo oversee?
a) . The technology behind chip-based payment cards.
29) According to Harvard University researchers Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman, Google could be making some $497 million a year from which common Net ‘error’?
a) Typosquatting
30) Cathie Lesjak is the CFO of which cyber giant?
a) HP
31) Who has launched a video-streaming service simply called ‘Go’?
a) HBO
32) Who made this ‘criticism’ of the iPad: “You know, I’m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen, and a real keyboard — in other words, a Netbook — will be the mainstream on that”?
a) Bill Gates
33) Name the Vijayawada-born lady now serving as the CTO of Cisco.
a) Padmasree Warrior.
34) What has been dubbed ‘Operation Aurora’?
a) The recent China-based cyber attacks on 30 leading companies including Google and Symantec.
35) Who has bought Yahoo’s HotJobs for $225 million?
a) Monster
36) According to ComScore, Inc, US shoppers spent a whopping $27 billion online in the holiday season with the second most productive day being ‘Cyber Monday’ with sales of $887 million after the December 15 sales which saw $913 million being spent. When was ‘Cyber Monday’?
a) November 30
37) Teenager David Nelson, the founder of a music service, was chastised by Vevo which asked him to stop using the service’s content and trademark. Name the teenager’s site.
a) Muziic