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Books N Books

1)Winning (2005) (Jack Welch)
2)10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business : The Martha Rules
(2005) (Martha Stewart)
3)Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2002) (Larry Bossidy)
4)Time to Make the Donuts (2001) (William Rosenberg)
5)Straight from the Gut (2001) (Jack Welch)
6)Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy (2000) (Bill Gates)
7)Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry (2000) (Michael Dell)
8 )Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond (reprint 2000) (Thomas J. Watson, Jr.)
9)Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (1999) (Howard Schultz)
10)Take It to the Next Level: A Story of the Quest for Quality and the Malcolm Baldrige Award (1999)
(Dale Crownover)
11)Work in Progress (1998) (Michael Eisner)
12)Made in America (1993) (Sam Walton)
13)Forbes® Greatest Business Stories of All Time (Forbes) (1997)
14)Only The Paranoid Survive (1996) (Andrew Grove)
15)The HP Way : How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1996) (David Packard)
16)My Years with General Motors (reprint 1990) (Alfred Sloan)
17)Iacocca: An Autobiography (reprint 1986) (Lee Iacocca)
18)Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s (1977, reprint 1990) (Ray Kroc)
19)Beyond the last blue mountain. (J.R.D Tata:)

Slogans-Taglines Of I.T. Companies

· 3M: "Innovation"
· Agere Systems: "How Communication Happens"
· Agilent: "Dreams Made Real"
· Airbus: "Setting the Standards"
· Amazon.com: "…and You're Done"
· AMX: "It's Your World. Take Control"
· Anritsu: "Discover What's Possible
· AT&T: "Your World. Delivered"
· ATG Design Services: "Circuit Design for the RF Impaired"
· ATI Technologies: "Get In the Game"
· BAE Systems: "Innovating for a Safer World"
· Ball Corporation: "The Leader in Small Space and Rocket Systems"
· BellSouth: "Listening, Answering"
· Blackhawk: "Powering DSP Development"
· Boeing: "Forever New Frontiers"
· Bose Corporation: "Better Sound Through Research"
· Bowers & Wilkins (Speaker Mfg.): "Listen and You Will See"
· BP Microsystems: "Setting the Standard in Device Programming"
· Cadence: "How Big Can You Dream?"
· Canon: "Know How"
· Cingular Wireless: "Raising the Bar"
· Cisco Systems: "This is the Power of the Network. Now."
· Cirrus Logic: "Leading the Digital Entertainment Revolution"
· Compaq (HP): "Inspiration Technology"
· Cypress Semiconductor: "Driving the Communication Revolution"
· Datel (C&D Tech): "Innovation and Excellence"
· Dell Computer: "Get More out of Now"
· DuPont: "The Miracles of Science"
· EM Research: "The ultimate source for miniature frequency synthesizers"
· Ericsson: "Taking You Forward"
· Fiber-Span, LLC: "RF On Fiber"
· Ford: "Built for the Road Ahead"
· Fujitsu: "The Possibilities are Infinite"
· General Dynamics: "Strength On Your Side"
· General Electric: "Imagination at Work"
· GigaLane: "Innovation and Excellence in RF & Microwave"
· Griff Specialty Paper and Film: "Materials that Create Solutions"
· Hitachi: "Inspire the Next"
· Hewlett-Packard: "Invent"
· Honeywell: "We are Honeywell"
· IBM: "We Make IT Happen"
· IDT: "Powering What's Next"
· IFI: "The Power of Choice"
· I.F. Engineering Corp: "Your challenge is our progress"
· Infineon: "Keep on Thinking"
· Intel: "Intel Inside"
· Intersil: "Technology at the Speed of Life"
· ITT: "Engineered for Life"
· JRC: "You Don't Need Wires to Communicate"
· Keithley: "A Greater Measure of Confidence"
· Kodak: "A Virtual World of Live Pictures"
· Linksys: "At Linksys - We are making connectivity easier"
· Linx Technologies: "Wireless Made Simple"
· Lockheed Martin: "We Never Forget Who We're Working For"
· MegaPhase: "Our Customers Connect With Us™"
· Micrel: "The Infinite Bandwidth Company"
· Micron: "The Future of Memory"
· Mitsubishi Semiconductor: "Changes for the Better"
· Motorola: "Digital DNA" "Hello. Moto"
· muRata: "Innovator in Electronics"
· mWAVE Industries, LLC: "Your Partner In Antenna Technology"
· National Semiconductor: "The Sight & Sound of Information"
· NEC Corporation: "Empowered by Innovation"
· Nokia: "Connecting People"
· Nortel Networks: "Business Without Boundaries"
· Orbital Sciences Corporation: "The Leader in Small Space and Rocket Systems"
· Panasonic: "Ideas for Life"
· Philips: "Sense and Simplicity"
· PMC-Sierra: "Accelerating The Broadband Revolution"
· Pragma: "Operate at Your Optimum"
· Progressive: "Now that's Progressive"
· RCAT Systems: "You push the limits. We measure it."
· RF Bites: "Helping RF Designers one Bite at a time"
· RF Cafe: A Disruptive Web Presence"
"Your Onramp to the Information Superhighway"
· Rohde & Schwarz: "Pushing Limits"
· Thor Labs: "Photonics in the Fast Lane"
· Samsung Electronics: "Imagine"
· ST Microelectronics: "More Intelligence Solutions"
· Sun Microsystems: "The Network Is The Computer"
· Texas Instruments: "The World Leader in DSP and Analog" "Technology for Innovators"
· Unisys: "We Make It Happen"
· United Technologies Corporation: "This Is Momentum"
· Verizon Wireless: "Can You Hear Me Now? Good."
· vidaRF: "Simple Solutions for Complex Connections"
· Vodafone: "How Are You?"
· Xilinx: "The Programmable Logic Company"
· XMA Corporation: "When Performance Matters"

TCS IT WIZ Prelims 2008

TCS prelims 2008

1] Name the general purpose very-high level programming languagedesigned by Rossum. [Hint: It is dangerous.]

Ans: Python [Pythons are dangerous :D]

2] It was created by James Gosling, and is alternatively known as the OakProject.

Ans: Java [Java was formerly called Oak, after the oak tree that stoodoutside Gosling's office.]

3] The word Compaq comes from which two English words?

Ans: Compa tibility And Quality

4] Identify the logo.

Ans: Western Digital Corporation

5] Which company started as Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory?

Ans: Canon

6] Who started the Free Software Foundation? [Hint: He is God for all freesoftware lovers.]

Ans: Richard Stallman [The hint was no help whatsoever, although almosteverybody knew the answer.]

7] Identify this co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

Ans: William Nelson Joy or Billy Joy

8] “Middleware is History.” Identify this person.

Ans: Jonathan Schwartz

9] Which product led Cisco to file a lawsuit on trademark infringementagainst Apple Inc.?

Ans: iPhone [InfoGear (now owned by Cisco Systems) released the iPhonemodem in 1998. Even though the product was discontinued, Cisco Systemsheld the trademark for the name, and also released another modem,known as the Linksys iPhone in December 2006, after Apple Inc. releasedtheir iPhone in June, 2006.]

10] The acquisition of which company by Google Inc. marked their entryinto the world of mobile device software?

Ans: Android [Google Inc. acquired Android in 2005. Android is now anoperating system and a software platform based on the Linux kerneldeveloped by the Open Handset Alliance.]

11] Photorealistic Renderman or PR Man is the product owned by whichcompany? [Hint: It is owned by a company which makes many animationfilms.]

Ans: Pixar Animation Studios [Unfortunately, the hint was too obvious.]

12] Identify this person from the world of Hewlett-Packard.

Ans: Mark Hurd

13] The interface of which photo mapping software bears a similarity to theprogram described in Neal Stephenson's sci-fi work Snow Crash?

Ans: Google Earth

14] Started as Quantum Computer Services, it is currently a part of TimeWarner. Identify.

Ans: America Online [AOL]

15] Toshiba launched the Qosmio G55 recently. It was the first laptop tohave the Cell CPU. Which other gaming console has the Cell CPU in it?

Ans: PlayStation Portable or PlayStation 3 [The former answer is probablywrong, as the PlayStation Portable operates on the MIPS or Microprocessorwithout Interlocked Pipeline Stages RISC processor. Interestingly, Qosmio'shome page has no mention of the Cell CPU at all. It mentions only the IntelCore2Duo.]

16] Identify the game.

Ans: Far Cry 2 [The same screenshot was not used. The real screenshotdepicted a character holding a weapon and standing in a mustard field.]

17] Which company has lauched the Ideapad series of notebooks, which istouted to be the next generation of the Thinkpad series?

Ans: Lenovo [Which is actually a subsidiary of IBM, manufacturer of theThinkpad series of notebooks.]

18] _________ is a project which encompasses two related projects, withthe combined aim of creating a family of open-source mobile phones. It wasstarted by the FIC. [Hint: There were three options for this: a)Mobilemoko; b) Openmoko; and c) Mokomoko.]

Ans: Openmoko [The two projects being discussed here are: a) OpenmokoLinux, a Linux based operating-system designed for mobile phones, builtusing free software; and b) Development of hardware devices on whichOpenmoko Linux runs. The first device based on the Openmoko project wasthe Neo 1973.]

19] Which service do all Apple Inc. devices, such as the Macbook, the iMac,the iPhone and the iPod Touch, use to synchronize data?

Ans: MobileMe [Formerly known as iTools and .Mac, MobileMe is asubscription-based collection of online services primarily designed for MacOS X, but later targeted Microsoft Windows, iPhone, and iPod Touch users]

20] Identify the logo.

Ans: Kingston Technology Company

1] Name the general purpose very-high level programming languagedesigned by Rossum. [Hint: It is dangerous.]

Ans: Python [Pythons are dangerous :D]

2] It was created by James Gosling, and is alternatively known as the OakProject.

Ans: Java [Java was formerly called Oak, after the oak tree that stoodoutside Gosling's office.]

3] The word Compaq comes from which two English words?

Ans: Compa tibility And Quality

4] Identify the logo.

Ans: Western Digital Corporation

5] Which company started as Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory?

Ans: Canon

6] Who started the Free Software Foundation? [Hint: He is God for all freesoftware lovers.]

Ans: Richard Stallman [The hint was no help whatsoever, although almosteverybody knew the answer.]

7] Identify this co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

Ans: William Nelson Joy or Billy Joy

8] “Middleware is History.” Identify this person.

Ans: Jonathan Schwartz

9] Which product led Cisco to file a lawsuit on trademark infringementagainst Apple Inc.?

Ans: iPhone [InfoGear (now owned by Cisco Systems) released the iPhonemodem in 1998. Even though the product was discontinued, Cisco Systemsheld the trademark for the name, and also released another modem,known as the Linksys iPhone in December 2006, after Apple Inc. released their iPhone in June, 2006.]

10] The acquisition of which company by Google Inc. marked their entryinto the world of mobile device software?

Ans: Android [Google Inc. acquired Android in 2005. Android is now anoperating system and a software platform based on the Linux kerneldeveloped by the Open Handset Alliance.]

11] Photorealistic Renderman or PR Man is the product owned by whichcompany? [Hint: It is owned by a company which makes many animationfilms.]

Ans: Pixar Animation Studios [Unfortunately, the hint was too obvious.]

12] Identify this person from the world of Hewlett-Packard.

Ans: Mark Hurd

13] The interface of which photo mapping software bears a similarity to theprogram described in Neal Stephenson's sci-fi work Snow Crash?

Ans: Google Earth

14] Started as Quantum Computer Services, it is currently a part of TimeWarner. Identify.

Ans: America Online [AOL]

15] Toshiba launched the Qosmio G55 recently. It was the first laptop tohave the Cell CPU. Which other gaming console has the Cell CPU in it?

Ans: PlayStation Portable or PlayStation 3 [The former answer is probablywrong, as the PlayStation Portable operates on the MIPS or Microprocessorwithout Interlocked Pipeline Stages RISC processor. Interestingly, Qosmio'shome page has no mention of the Cell CPU at all. It mentions only the IntelCore2Duo.]

18] _________ is a project which encompasses two related projects, withthe combined aim of creating a family of open-source mobile phones. It wasstarted by the FIC. [Hint: There were three options for this: a)Mobilemoko; b) Openmoko; and c) Mokomoko.]

Ans: Openmoko [The two projects being discussed here are: a) OpenmokoLinux, a Linux based operating-system designed for mobile phones, builtusing free software; and b) Development of hardware devices on whichOpenmoko Linux runs. The first device based on the Openmoko project wasthe Neo 1973.]

19] Which service do all Apple Inc. devices, such as the Macbook, the iMac,the iPhone and the iPod Touch, use to synchronize data?

Ans: MobileMe [Formerly known as iTools and .Mac, MobileMe is asubscription-based collection of online services primarily designed for MacOS X, but later targeted Microsoft Windows, iPhone, and iPod Touch users]

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Technology Wiz 2009

Quiz Prelims

1) FC Kolhi, Ramadorai and __________

Ans: N Chandrashekaran

2) What was "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web" and was renamed in April

1994?

Ans: Yahoo

3)Pic of Crol Bartz

4) What did XP stand for in Windows XP?

Ans: eXPerience

5) Jack Dorsey created this in 2006 as a project within a now-defunct podcasting company

called Odeo, which was run by entrepreneur Evan Williams. What is it?

Ans: Twitter

6)

Ans: Xerox

7) MagicBox@Work is a Windows-based mobile device from which company?

Ans: Vodafone

8) Expand TSR.

Ans: Terminate and Stay Resident (Roughly DOS Multitasking)

9) This was the result of a new approach to go beyond search to build what they call a

decision engine. With a powerful set of tools on top of a world-class engine, X will help you

make faster decisions. What are we talking about?

Ans: BING

10) Set up in August 1984 by the government of India, it is the technology development

centre for designing and developing digital exchanges. What is it? (Somebody, please

expand on this one. Mail me at a.crystalunicorn@yahoo.com)

Ans: C-DOT

11) [A photo which said Just For Fun The Story Of An Accidental Revolutionary]. Name the

author, or his creation

Ans: Linus Torvalds/Linux

12) In the world of Internet and dromain names, what is GTLD?

Ans: Generic Top-Level domain

13) Which supercomputer was built by Computational Research Laboratories in India, and is

India's fastest supercomputer? (Hint: It was built along with TCS)

Ans: Eka

14)

Identify

Ans: Google Wave

15) This story revolves around a supernatural phenomenon, which a fictional special forces.

The player assumes the role of F.E.A.R.'s Point Man, who possesses superhuman reflexes,

and must uncover the secrets of a paranormal menace in the form of a little girl. Identify

the game, developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi Universal.

Ans: First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R)

16) This started in a living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman. The other original founders

included Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vaillant. They created a

social networking site for professionals. (Giri: What you do is social networking. This is

professional networking, something that your parents may use). What am I talking about?

Ans: LinkedIn

17)

Identify the person.

Ans: Charles Babbage (Featured here is the Analytical Engine)

18) In the context of mobile numbers, what is MNP? (Giri: Everybody is saying "India is

getting MNP." What is it?)

Ans: Mobile Number Portability (Changing your operator without changing the mobile

number)

19) David Bradley implemented this keyboard combination, as a designer of the original IBM

PC. What am I talking about? (Hint: Gets us out of many tricky situations)

Ans: Control+Alt+Delete

20)

Identify.

Ans: Sachin Pilot (In addition to bearing a striking resemblance to VS Karthik of DPS Vasant

Kunj finished fourth in this TCS IT Wiz 2009, Sachin Pilot is Minister of State in Ministry of

Communications and Technology)

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