Random collection of 10 questions from the world of IT..

1. IT QUESTIONS

2. It was first released in August 2003. It was
created by Janus Friis(Denmark) and Niklas
Zennström (Sweden) in cooperation with Ahti
Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn(Estonia),
who supplied the backend which was also used
in Kazaa. ____ had 663 million registered users
at the end of 2010. It was bought
by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion. Microsoft's
_____division headquarters is inLuxembourg,
but most of the development team and 44% of
the overall employees of the division are still
situated in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia

3. Skype

4. X is an online audio distribution
platform based in Berlin, Germany that
enables its users to upload, record,
promote and share their originally-created
sounds. In July 2013, it had 40
million registered users and 200
million listeners…
ID X?

5. Soundcloud

6. Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller's
book, "Those Guys Have All the Fun:
Inside the World of X" states that
Steve Jobs reportedly told X's
President George Bodenheimer that,
"Your phone is the dumbest f******
idea I have ever heard ". However the
company behind this phone didn't
think the same way until the phone
turned out to be a big failure. ID X or
equivalently the company?

8. ESPN

9. This American company has recently
come up with a phone that comes
loaded with a unique feature, the Self
destruct button, which on activation,
deletes all the stored data, contacts..
Identify this company?

10. Boeing

11. _____ is the Spanish word for mud brick,
a natural building material made
from sand, clay,water, and some kind of
fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw,
and/or manure), usually shaped into bricks
using molds and dried in the sun. The
Romanian name for this material is chirpici.
Founded in February 1982 by two former
ex employees of Xerox PARC. Id?

12. Adobe

13. This companies’ name literally means
‘little rice’ in one language. The
company's founder and CEO is Lei Jun,
China's 23rd richest man according
to Forbes. The company has over
3,000 employees, mainly in mainland
China, Malaysia and Taiwan

15. Xiaomi

16. ______ promised a cheap sensor that
would turn any surface into a multi-touch
PC controller, and it's making
good on its word today by shipping the
device worldwide. The $75 add-on has
received a new Touch+ name and a
sleek redesign, but it otherwise uses
the same basic concepts we saw when
the project got its crowdfunding a year
ago.

17. Ractiv

18. What in the tech world means “ Snow”
in its native language?

19. Lumia

20. _____ is a modular smartphone concept
created and designed by the Dutch designer
Dave Hakkens, primarily to reduce electronic
waste.[1] While ______ is not the first attempt
at modular design in a phone,[2][3] it is notable
due to the extent of its modularity and the
attention and support it has garnered. By
attaching individual third-party components to a
main board, a user would create a personalized
smartphone.
FITB

21. Phonebloks