Information Technology 004

1. What in the world of computers is called “The Three Finger Salute”?

    Answer: Control+Alt+Delete (It forces a soft reboot, brings up the task manager (on Windows and BeOS) or a jump to ROM monitor. It was developed by David Bradley at IBM.)

2. Identify the logo below.

   Answer: Google Wallet (It is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone.)

3. Where in Bangalore would you find the six buildings, named Discoverer, Innovator , Inventor, Explorer, Navigator, Creator, and Pioneer?

   Answer: International Tech Park Bangalore or simply ITPB (earlier known as ITPL) (It is developed and managed by Ascendas, is India’s first hi-tech park of its kind designed to provide a complete "work and play" environment for IT and technology-related businesses opened in 1998.)

4. Identify the logo below.

   Answer: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, it is responsible for the coordination of the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers and, in particular, ensuring its stable and secure operation.)

5. India's fastest supercomputer, SAGA 220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS) was developed by which organisation?

    Answer: ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)

DID YOU KNOW?

The separation of the name of the user from the name of the machine on which the user is working by the @ sign in all e-mail addresses was the idea of Ray Tomlinson sometime in 1972.