Technology and IT quiz: 24 questions and answers

 KBC questions and answers: 1. Which country keeps time 15 minutes ahead of Indian standard time? Answer: Nepal. 2. Charaka was an ayurvedic physician to which king of ancient India? Answer: Kanishka.  Technology quiz questions & answers: 1. What is the full form of T9? Answer: Text on 9 Keys developed by the Tegic Communications. 2. Which famous company acquired Sun Microsystems? Answer: ORACLE. 3. What is the Google headquarters called? Answer: Googleplex (reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol). 4. It was started in 1984 with an initial mission of building indigenous supercomputers in India headquartered at Pune presently. What are we talking about? Answer: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing). 5. Which is the famous video game company whose name when translated from Japanese to English roughly gives the phrase “leave luck to heaven”? This company was initially started as a producer of playing cards. Which is this famous company? Answer: Nintendo founded by Nintendo Koppai. 6. What is the full form of “DOCOMO”? Answer: Do Communication Over The Mobile Network. 7. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded this company. This company gets its name from a fictional character of Gulliver’s travels. Which is this famous company? Answer: YAHOO!. 8. It is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers designed by Lenovo. The computers were put on the market in January 2008 as entirely Lenovo products, and were not produced by IBM. What are … [Read more...]

iPad: New gadget from Apple

indira-gandhi

 Around 5 lakh students appeared for the IIT-JEE 2010. And many more appeared for other engineering and medical entrance examinations. Students travel to different parts of the country, either to appear in exams or for an extended study period. The most important thing which they need apart from food, shelter and clothing are books. Business professionals are always on the move and have to go through various files and documents pertaining to their work. By and large, everyone one of us is related to paper work and internet in some way or the other. However, it is always not possible to carry books, files and documents along with us. We can have an access to internet through our mobiles but the convenience of a small screen is not always satisfactory. The iPad is one product which has the potential to bring about a revolution in this field.   iPad is the latest development of the ‘i’ series and from where has it come? The answer is so obvious to us; Apple Inc. Apple was the first company to bring about a revolution in the personal computer domain when it introduced the Macintosh, way back in the early 1980s. The iPod was introduced at the beginning of the new millennium and was received with huge following. The iPhone followed suit and overcame all odds to become a popular feature for the younger generation. Apple has now come up with a new product called iPad which promises to leave behind all other tablet computers.       A tablet computer, as one would assume, is a computer on a ‘tablet’ or screen. Both the screen and the keyboard can be viewed on the display screen and the typing can be done by using a digital pen, stylus or even fingertips. The iPad is one such product which is meant for internet browsing, gaming, simple … [Read more...]