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Quiz Time 73

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1) Nokia recently filed a patent that would allow a phone to alert you using a tattoo or other marking to send a "perceivable stimulus to the skin." One shake means a friend; two pinches, it's your mom. Identify this technology? 2)How is Soroban popularly known as? 3)Identify him 4)  X is the  world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry.It  currently takes place at  Fira de Barcelona ,  Catalonia , Spain , in February. The annual attendance is generally between 50,000-60,000 people. Identify X ? 5)  Identify this game console? It has an interesting history too.See,if u can identify it! 6)"Data expands to fill the space available for its storage ". What is this law called? 7)Connect      8)Identify it? 9)   Crespo is the code name of which Android phone ? 10)What is this ?

TCS IT WIZ-2012(Hyderabad)

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PRELIMS 1.Who coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”? 2. “To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer” . This concept was by which organisation? 3. The recent Indian ecommerce website- Junglee.com is by which online giant? 4. Identify  5.  Which common word comes from the sound that a bullet makes while striking a metal. It means “A short , high-pitched electronic pulse”? Clue: Used in submarines 6.  Which technology by Microsoft enables us to open a multimedia file without any delay? 7.  Expand BCC in emails.   8. Id this young Indian sensation   9. Soft and Rocket are sizes for what in the internet world? It is widely used in internet publishing. 10. 10. Which game character was originally called Jumpman ? He is a plumber by profession and is very popular.  11. Identify   12. What is ISRO’s equivalent of Google Earth called? Clue: Lagaan   13. Which famous company’s logo is called Larry the bird?   14.Identify this device. Be spe

Quiz time 72

Q1. Which search engine's codename was 'KUMO'? Q2. JaxtrSMS is a free messaging service started by which IT personality ? Q3. Raj Reddy was the first Indian to get it it and Judea Pearl is the last person to get it . What did they get ? Q4. This company was found as Presidio Media in the year 2007 ? How do we better know it now ? Q5. Whose slogan is : " The content free encyclopaedia which anyone can edit " ?  Q6  . Who designed the WEBBY AWARDS in 1996 ? .Q7.  Machibuse (Ambusher) , Kimagure (fickle) , Otoboke (stupid ), Oikake ( chaser) are      the    mon sters of           which game ? Q8. How do we better know the social networking site of Baidu Inc. ? Q9. What is unique about the song Tom's Diner by Suzzane Vega ? Q10.    Luvid Strigeus is the original author of which file sharing site ?

Quiz Time 71

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1.What is the ' easiest, fastest, fairest, and best way to lend and borrow Kindle books’.? 2.Which companies logo has been made by conglomeration of various colorful surfboards which is also the main theme of the various advertisements by the company? 3.MeMo is a range of tablets from which company? 4.Expand the acronym PSD. 5.'Swimroom' is a social networking site started by whom? 6.Id the popular app. 7.Which IT rock star said "Talk is cheap.Show me the code."? 8.Which company is better known an Matsushita in Japan? 9. What is the distinction of the venture "Medvarsity"? 10.Which company makes the Ikari and Xai range of mice?

Quiz Time 70

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1) X  is a digital time capsule created by the  Internet Archive. The service enables users to see archived versions of  web pages  across time, which the Archive calls a "three dimensional index".It was developed by    Brewster Kahle , with  Bruce Gilliat in 1996. Identify X? 2)Connect   3)Identify this Google Doodle? 4) SledgeHamme, Valencia, Interlagos are versions of which processor family? Hint-Bulldozer 5) X  was an  alliance  formed on October 2, 1991, between  Apple Inc.   ,  IBM , and  Motorola  to create a new computing standard based on the  PowerPC  architecture. The  stated goal of the alliance was to challenge the dominant  Wintel  computing platform. Identify X ? 7)Expand RISC ? 8)Identify him? 9)X is a  an  Indian  retail chain for consumer  electronics  and durables.  Tata Group  runs it  stores in India. Its tagline is "The Electronics Megastore". Identify X? 10)Identify him?

Quiz Time 69

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1)X  was previously known as Foodiebay.com.  It was started by Deepinder Goyal, a graduate from IIT Delhi. The website currently lists over 35,000 restaurants and menus. Identify the website? 2)Identify her 3)X  is an online database of information related to  films , television programs and   actors.It  was launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by  Amazon.com . Identify X? 4)Who coined the term Information Highway? 5)What is this award? 6) He is a person who inspired Steve Jobs,He was also a brilliant chemist, famous for hiswork in the world of Photography. Who is he? 7)Where would u find this? 8) X  was founded in New Delhi in 1983 by Mr.  Deepak Puri . It started as a Time Recorder unit in technical collaboration with Maruze Corporation.  It  manufactures Recordable Compact Disks (CD-Rs) and Recordable Digital Versatile Disks (DVD-Rs).Identify X   9)Connect             10)What is the name of the mascot of Yahoo Mail?
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Touching Space, Placing Touch A new edited book I have been working on with Mark Paterson is coming close to completation. We are just checking the pageproofs at the moment. The title is Touching Space, Placing Touch and it will be published by Ashgate in the the autumn. The draft cover design is shown in the thumbnail image. You can read the substantive introduction written by Mark Paterson, Sara MacKian and myself from here (this is a near final pageproof version). The book also contains a chapter by Rob Kitchin and myself entitled ' Towards touch-free spaces: sensors, software and the automatic production of shared public toilets ' (this is a pageproof version). The book contains an interesting range of contributions looking at different social aspects of the spaces of touch. The list of twelve chapters in Touching Space, Placing Touch is as follows: Negotiating therapeutic touch: encountering massage through the 'mixed bodies' of Michel Serres, by Jennifer Le

Quiz Time 68

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1)The famous online encyclopedia-Wikipedia developed from which  encyclopedia project in 2000? 2)Identify 3)Which company  announced its  Endangered Languages Project , which unites an alliance of cultural groups, linguistic researchers and existing language databases to catalog languages in danger of vanishing ? 4)Connect      Hint-Apple 5)What is the meaning of "ubuntu" ? 6)Who is known as the Father of SuperComputers ? 7)Identify him 8)Connect                                              9) "testing,naked,stupid,twitte r,123456,secret,please,beavis, butthead etc"..the list consist of 370 word/phrases.. What is special about these words ? 10)Expand VGA ?

Quiz Time 67

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1)   Donald D. Chamberlin  and  Raymond F. Boyce  are known for designing which programming language? 2)Identify him 3) X was an  English   computer scientist  who, while working for  IBM , invented the  relational model  for  data base  management, the theoretical basis for  relational databases.He was the source of Inspiration for Larry Ellison. Identify X? 4)What is this ? 5)Which company's name is derived from   a  fictional character , a  mutant   superhero  of the  Marvel universe? Hint-Its Indian. 6)Identify this font and why was it in news recently? 7)Identify the game? 8)Which company is famous for developing the game "PacMan" ? 9)He is the lesser known founder of which company? 10)Rasmus lerdorf is the creator of which programming language ?

TCS IT WIZ Dates Out!!!

The wait is finally over.Here is the complete schedule of TCS IT WIZ 2012 - H yderabad -July 27 at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan,King Kothi Road Ahmedabad -August 7 at Rabindranath Tagore Hall Kolkata -August 9 at Kalamandir,Shakespeare Sarani Bangalore -August 13 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall Chennai -August 21 at Music Academy,TTK Road Coimbatore -August 24 at Corporation Kalai Arangam Pune -August 28 at Yashwantrao Chavan Natya Gruha Nagpur -August 31 at Dr Vasantrao Deshpande Hall Indore -September 4 at University Auditorium Bhubaneswar -September 6 at Pal Heights Kochi -October 5 at Gokulam Convention Center Lucknow -October 9 at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan Mumbai -October 14 at Indian Education Society,Manik Sabagraha Delhi -November 3 at Dogra Hall,IIT Source- http://www.tcsitwiz.com/
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Book Reviews A couple of reviews for our Code/Space book have appeared recently in academic journals. Francis Harvey , from the Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, says Code/Space " is an important contribution; I only wish it had been written more with GIScience in mind. Still, it is a very worthwhile read. " Read the rest of his review from the International Journal of GIS here . A second review is published in Cultural Geographies in which Matthew Wilson notes perceptively that " it is somewhat surprising that Kitchin and Dodge do not explicitly advocate coding itself as a technique for critical studies of software (alongside ethnography and genealogy) – which would be in alignment with the thrust of much contemporary digital humanities and critical GIS literatures. In what ways can code ‘speak back’ and resist discursive regimes? How might the discourse break down under the weight of code? How are we to code differently?"