Friday, 26 December 2008

Info Contest – 0808

This contest has four sections A, B, C & D having five questions each.

A. Identify the terms which are defined below.

A1. Reading the postings in a discussion forum or on a listserv but not contributing to the discussion.

A2. A device that enables computers to interact with each other via telephone lines by converting digital signals to analog for transmitting and back to digital for receiving.

A3. The transmission of information to more than one recipient.

A4. Online manners. The rules of conduct for online or Internet users.

A5. A bundle of data transmitted over a network.


B. Identify the company / product / magazine / service from the Tag Line.

B1. Breathe Easy

B2. Be more ambitious

B3. Demand More

B4. Life’s Good

B5. serious fun @ your fingertips

C. Provide the Answer.

C1. Name the open source browser extension from Google that lets you create web applications that run offline.

C2. Name the authour of the book “The World is Flat”

C3. Name the Prepaid Stored Value Virtual Wallet wherein your mobile phone number is your identity

C4. Semantic Web is also known as ------

C5. Actor Shah Rukh Khan endorses a product from HP. Name it.

D. Fill in the blanks / Provide the answer.

D1. Sony : Bravia = Panasonic : ------

D2. Find the odd man out. Lifebook, Toughbook, Facebook, Joybook

D3. Name the electronics megastore from Tata Group.

D4. Apple : iTunes = Motorola : ------

D5. HTML Page : htm = Setup Information: -----

ANSWERS
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Lurking, Modem, Multicasting, Netiquette, Packet
Blue Star, NIIT, Intex Technologies, LG, Living Digital
Google Gears, Thomas L. Friedman, Oxicash, Web 3.0, Printers/Compaq Systems
Viera, Facebook, Croma, Motomusic, inf