Information Technology 007

1. What is the unit of measurement for the speed and movement direction of a computer mouse?

    Answer: Mickey

2. Whose 84th birthday (12th December, 2011) does the below Google doodle signify?

    Answer: Robert Noyce (He was nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley"; He co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968.)

3. Identify the C.E.O. below.

   Answer: Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman, current C.E.O. of Hewlett-Packard

4. The immediate predecessors of this file format were “Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain” (OCF), and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM). This format was made at the Fraunhofer Society. Which file format are we talking about?

    Answer: MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)

5. "Quietly Brilliant" is the tag line of which famous mobile manufacturing company?

     Answer: HTC formerly High Tech Computer Corporation.

DID YOU KNOW?

The order of the name of Hewlett-Packard was decided by a coin toss, Packard won the toss but choose Hewlett-Packard.