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1)He is the  inventor of the  handheld calculator  and the  thermal printer .He worked at Texas instruments and is the winner of Nobel Prize in Physics. Identify him ?  2)Identify him He is the first and only Indian to get  IEEE medal of Honour(as far as i know).Still no one knows him ! 3)Who coined the term weblog and how do we popularly know it today ? 4)" Delivering lifestyle" is the tagline of which Indian e-commerce site ? 5)Id the logo 6)X  was established by Mukesh Bansal & Ashutosh Lawania in February 2007.X  is headquartered in Bangalore. It deals in  fashion and casual lifestyle products. Identify X ? 7)Junglee.com  is an online shopping service by which tech giant ? 8)Expand PDP and which company manufactured it ? 9)Identify him 10)What is the  music-oriented  social networking  and  recommender system  service developed and operated by  Apple popularly known as ?

I was invited to give a talk down in London at a seminar on the Shape of Knowledge put together by David Penfold for the International Society for Knowledge Organization. My talk on ' Mapping Software ' was a blend of ideas about cybergeography and code/space. The slides from my talk at available here .

PRELIMS 1.How many bits constitute a byte? 2.What in this world uses MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 digital compression technology and is transmitted using INSAT 4A at 83 degrees E ? 3.What is the full form of COBOL? 4.Grace Murray Hooper wrote the first_____ in 1952?(options:bug,compiler,BIOS) 5.What is Google's headquarters at Mountain View , California known as? 6.For which device did Apple make it's Newton OS for? 7.Who is this very famous Indian? 8.Connect SPSS , LEXMARK , Pwc and the sale of Thinkpad in 2005. 9.What was created in the dorm room of Chris Hughes,Eduardo Saverin,Dustin Moskovitz and Andrew Mccolum? 10.Identify. 11. X was officially launched on MTV on May 12 , 2005.The detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.What is X ? 12. Which former Google executive was hired by Yahoo to take up their Chief Executive Officer Post? 13.Identify this popular game. 14.Which brand in this world created the Whispernet for its trade...

1)Id the logo 2)Which website uses a   music  recommender system  called "Audioscrobbler" ? 3)  iAntivirus is a product from which company ? 4)Id the company and why is it famous? 5)Which subsidary of EA   primarily known for the  Need for Speed  and  Skate  series  ? 6)Id the game and what is this level called? 7)Which Japanese company name mean "Three oceans " ? 8)Id this famous ios app ? 9)  Which opensource format has been   developed by  Xiph.Org Foundation ? 10) The Blue Book is an intro to which programming language?

New journal paper in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. A further theoretical argument around cartography as practice and the best way to research mapping has been published in TIBGs as an early view article. It is entitled, Unfolding mapping practices: a new epistemology for cartography , and is co-authored with Rob Kitchin and Justin Gleeson . There is a local version available here . The abstract for the paper is as follows: "In recent years there has been a turn within cartographic theory from a representational to a processual understanding of mapping. Maps have been re-conceptualised as mappings that ceaselessly unfold through contingent, citational, habitual, negotiated, reflexive and playful practices, embedded within relational contexts. In this paper, we explore what this rethinking means for cartographic epistemology, contending that attention needs to be focused on understanding cartography through the lens of practices – how mappings are (re)made i...

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PRELIMS 1.Bob Miner and Ed Oats are the co-founders of which company? 2.XPS,Vostro and Latitude are laptops from which company? 3.Who is the current IT minister of India? 4.Identify. 5.Who owns sites such as Youtube , Blogger and Orkut ? 6.With which company would you associate John T Chambers? 7.What term did Don Hoefler coin in 1971, in the weekly newspaper “Electronic News” describing the area around Sunnyvale and San Jose around California? 8.Identify. 9.What is the full form of YAHOO ? 10.Xolo is a brand from which IT major? 11."Keep it simple" is the tagline of ? 12.Which company had a spin off called Agilent Technologies in 1999, merged with Compaq in 2002 and acquired EDS in 2008? 13.AIBO the Artificial Intelligence Robot, was the one of several types of robotic pets designed and manufactured by which company? 14.Clawhammer, Newcastle, Palomino, Thunderbird are all codenames for which processor from AMD? 15.The Wii is a video game console released by which company on ...