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Quiz Time 86

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1. This company was earlier known as ' Tungsten Graphics '. It has acquired EMC corporation . identify the company. 2.This media sharing company was founded by Christian Schmid and is currently headed by Alexandra Zwingli. Identify the site. 3. Identify this application- 4. Peer Logic pipes platform is the first of its kind. This is a technology used by everyone of us in our day to day lives. Identify the technology. 5.Expand IETF . 6.Connect( Application )-   7. This company specializes in research, development and production of multi-touch interfaces. This was co founded by Jeff Han . Identify the company. 8.The name of this video streaming service means 'Gourd' in Chinese. This was started by Jason Kilar. Identify the service.

Tech Shake Results...

After evaluating 47 entries, we got our champion... Rocker Quizzer- Sanchit Bansal. His score was 31/34. Congratulations Sanchit..:) Rewards- Sanchit has been added as the Author of Tech Tac Toe for the month of October 2012. He will also be rewarded with a Special Archive for preparation of upcoming quizzes. Tech Tac Toe

Thanks for participation...

Thanks for participating  in the online quiz. Glad to see such participation in large numbers and the level of tech quizzing improving day by day. The results will be announced today @ 8:00 pm . Thank you all again.. Tech Tac Toe

Techshake...

Rule: We cannot prevent you from Googling. But Googling is not in the spirit of Quizzing. We expect a fair game from You.Hence, please don't Google and give your best shot! There are 3 rounds in total. !st round- BULLSEYE. -10 questions- 1mark each. 2nd round- IDENTIFY-5 questions - 2 mariks each. final round -FUNDALOGIC-4 questions- 4 marks each. We will accept the answers until 4:30pm. The one to anwer the most correct and earliest is the champ. Download the Presentation from the following link:-              https://hotfile.com/dl/174446016/6612b3b/Presentation1.ppt.html Please email us the answers at daspiyush0@gmail.com.

Online Quiz Timing

On 27th Sept,Tech Tac Toe completed 1 remarkable year.Its success is only due to YOU who have always  been a source of inspiration and Moral Support.To mark this occasion we are organizing an Online Quiz on Sept 30(Sunday) 2012 at 4:00 PM on our blog . All our readers are cordially invited to the quiz. The Quiz will consist of 20 Questions involving many connect and trivia from the world of Technology.It will be a 20 min online quiz.We expect  your cooperation to make the quiz a grand success. Any further Questions can be asked in the comments section. Ever Yours Siddhartha

Quiz Time 85

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1) In July 2011, access to X were blocked in  India  for  Reliance Entertainment  customers,  after a court order was obtained, citing illegal copies of the 2011 film  Singham  on file hosting sites.X is an online Hong Kong–based company established in 2005.Identify X ? 2)Identify this image hosting site? 3) .psd  and  .ai  files are used in which popular software ? 4)What does this image depict ? 5)What is the 3D analogue   is a  2D pixel better known as? Hint-Yes,there's a name! 6)Connect   Hint-1st pic is of hockey puck Its in  front of you 7)Who is known for coining the word "Word Processing" ? 8)Who is the first  Indian to win the Godel Prize ?He got this for his d iscovery of a  polynomial-time approximation scheme .He has won it twice! 9)What is the name of    handwriting recognition  system used in  PDAs  based on the  Palm OS  ? 10)Connect Tim Berners-Lee,Marc Andreessen,Eric Bina,Kevin Hughes,Lou Montulli 

Theme Quiz: Social Network

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1. It is a server based distributed social network founded by Dan Grippi. Identify. 2.   3._______  is a social network  magazine-format  application  for Android and iOS. 4.Douglas Bowman is the designer of the logo of which social network? 5.Connect. Sharman Networks 6.This social network was founded by Ben Silbermann?
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The Map Reader awarded a book prize We were pleased to learn a few months ago that our recent edited book The Maps Reader (Wiley, 2011) had been selected by the Berendel Foundation for the award of the Cantemir Prize 2012. My co-editor Rob Kitchin attended a conference, Mapping Humans , at Oxford University last week where the award was officially made. Shown left is the certificate recording the award to The Map Reader and below is a photograph of Rob with HRH Prince Radu of Romania, who formally gave the prize to us.

Quiz Time 84

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1)What is "Slurp" in the context of search engines ? 2)Id the site and which company acquired it? 3)Mike Bergman , founder of BrightPlanet, is credited with coining which phrase ? 4)X   started his career at  IBM  in  San Jose, California .He was a  pioneer of the  disk drive . He founded Y  in February 1973 and then resigned. Y was bought by Xerox. He received the 1997  IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award. Identify X ? 5)" New York. Fugitive undercover cop. Nothing to lose." Id the game? 6)Id the logo 7) X  is a  video gaming   website  that provides  news ,  reviews ,  previews  of games. The site was launched on May 1, 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. It has won Webby Award several times. CNET Networks is the current owner of the site. Id X ? 8)What is SpringBoard in the context of iOS ? 9)Id the logo 10)Xwas    originally designed for interactive television.It  went by the name  Green  , and was later renamed as X. .  It p

Quiz Time 83

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1)What is  Web 2.0 suicide machine ? 2)Connect         3) X  was introduced in 1950 by  physicians  in the  New York City  area.  had a range of approximately  40 km  (25 mi) and the physicians paid US$12 per month for the service. Until the advent of mobile phones,it was very popular. Identify X ? 4)Id the logo 5)Connect         6)Who coined the term "C++ " ? 7)Who is known for making Crunchpad ? 8)  What is the name of the  system on a chip (SoC) series developed by  Nvidia  for mobile devices such as  smartphones ? 9)Which company old logo was this? 10)Which American   company was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and S. Shankar ?

Quiz Time 82

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1)Which person is credited to be the designer of Intel 4004? 2)Which famous company was founded as  Presidio Media? 3)Connect   4)"A place for friends" is the tagline of which website ? 5)Which company has banned "Siri" in its office to prevent secret data getting leaked? 6)Id him and he founded which company? 8)  X is called as " Lisp without the  parentheses " . The first implementation of X was called called Ghost. The goal of X is to create a math land where kids could play with words and sentences. Identify X ? 9)Which Indian gave the famous slogan " Roti, kapda, makaan aur bandwidth" ? 10)Id this apple product?