*How did Apple have its name?
Actually, when Steve had to register the company name, he repeatedly asked the partners to come up with some good name or else he will register it with whatever comes in his mind. However, no one came up with any name till noon. When he was going for registration, he saw someone eating apple during break and that struck his mind. Hence, he registered company with same name and kept the same half bite apple as its symbol. (Read it long back on some article about how some famous company got their names).
*What is the personal finance software that competes with MS Money and gives it a run for its money? This is one of the very few companies/products that have taken Microsoft on and survived to tell the tale.
Quicken.
*Who is "Hughes" in "Hughes Software" (Think skywards)?
Howard Hughes. [He created several companies in his lifetime, an offshoot of one was Hughes
*Who is "Hughes" in "Hughes Software" (Think skywards)?
Howard Hughes. [He created several companies in his lifetime, an offshoot of one was Hughes
Networks. Hughes Software is primarily owned by Hughes Networks.]
* What is the full form of YAHOO!
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
[For Google : The company formed was called GOOGOL (derived from Googlplex). However the first contract cheque that the founders received was for GOOGLE. Hence the company came to be known as GOOGLE.]
*Name the person who pioneered Macintosh.
Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
*Whose designed computer in garage took the world by storm?
Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
* ‘India's Online Marketplace' is now ...?
Ebay India(formerly bazzee.com)
* Which country has the domain name ".ch"?
Switzerland [ its after the Latin name for Switzerland Helvetica (CH)]
* When MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson showed his invention to one of his colleagues he also told him: "Don’t tell anyone I did this! This isot what we are supposed to be working on." What did Tomilson invent?
*What major technology was developed by European telecom major Ericsson in 1999?
Email...
*Who coined the term "Information Superhighway"?
Al gore Former US Vice-President
Al gore Former US Vice-President
*Which famous software personality once admitted on the David Letterman show in the US that he modified his school time-table program so that all girls would be in his class at any given time?
Bill gates
Bill gates
*What major technology was developed by European telecom major Ericsson in 1999?
How did the technology get its name?
Blue tooth. Ericsson named the technology after Danish king Harald Blatand, better known
As Harald Blue tooth. The king gad a great desire for blueberries due to which his teeth would always remain blue & hence the nickname.
*Which Internet term originally meant "harmless, creative fun"?
Hacking
*US firm that I-flex bought last year?
Supersolutions
*What is i-flex core banking solution platform called?
Supersolutions
*What is i-flex core banking solution platform called?
Flexicube
*Which international software company has got so many Indians that it has got a special
Indian cafeteria?
Oracle
Oracle
*Which Indian started his company on 3rd floor apartment at 10 St Paul Street,
Cambridge Massachusetts? His wife was his first employee and the year was 1972.
Narendra K Patni
*Infosys has decided to make a Public Offering Without Listing in----
Japan
*Which computer Firm also manufactured clocks ?
IBM .
[From the close of the 19th century through 1958, IBM and its predecessors manufactured and sold a wide variety of devices and systems to record, use, transmit and display time. The International Time Recording Company, makers of all types of timekeeping systems, was made a division of the IBM Corporation . IBM sold the Time Equipment Division to Simplex in 1958.] IT QUIZ 6 Click Here
