TCS Tech Bytes 2013 Tumkur Regionals was conducted in Birla Auditorium,Tumkur on 28th March,2013. Students from Tumkur, Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North & South  participated in this level.

1.Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka started this company. Identify ?

A. Sony

2.Who named as most 'dangerous' cyber celebrity for the year 2012?

A. Emma Watson

3.The idea of this comapny came to founder when he was forced to pay $40 in overdue fines after returning Apollo 13 well past its due date. What was founded?

A.Netflix

4.Identify this Person? (Hint: He is the founder of Mashable)

 

A. Pete Cashmore

5.X is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Even Wikipedia was also described as X mistakenly. Dell Ideamstorm is one of the example for X. Identify?

A.Crowdsourcing

 6.What does ILM stands for ?

A. Information Lifecycle Management

7.Expand Yahoo?

A. Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

8.Meg Whitman is the Present CEO of which famous compay?

A. Hewlett Packard

9.Identify this Application?

A. Evernote

10.It was established by Rajendra S. Pawar and Vijay K. Thadani to cater IT education and training in India. Identify ?

A. NIIT (Llyold was laughing that many students wrote BCCI as the answer :D)

11.It was originally created in 1989 by Phil Katz, and was first implemented in PKWARE. Identify ? (Hint: Every guy in this auditorium having this ;) )

A. ZIP File Format

12.Fill up the blanks?

A. 20 X 20

13.It is a term for the Monday after Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving in the United States. The term was coined based on 2004 research showing "one of the biggest online shopping days of the year" was the Monday after Thanksgiving. Identify ?

A. Cyber Monday

14.It is a term that is used to identify the use and collection of computer hardware and software that was used in days gone by. While much of this type of collecting involves systems and software that was produced since the advent of the personal computer. Identify? (Hint: Music)

A. Retro

15.This is the old logo of which company? (Hint: Shah Rukh Khan)

A. Nokia (The word nokia was erased)

16.Who is Times Person of the year 2006?

A. YOU

17.It is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. Identify?

A. Safari

18.It is a brand of e-reader developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble. Identify?

A. Nook

19.On March 1, 2010, Mayor Bill Bunten issued a proclamation calling his city to be known for the month of March as "_____ , Kansas, the capital city of fiber optics". Later the company thanked the citizens of Kansas in their website as they renamed the company name for a month. Identify the company.

A. Google

20.It was initially called Oak. it went by the name Green later, and was later renamed what?

A. Java