Read a Bit & Take a Byte #6

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1. Identify the logo.

Image Source: www.kali.org

Answer: Kali Linux

2. X was created by three former Infosys employees Piyush Agrawal, Pankaj Chhaparwal and Pravin Hegde on November 1, 2004. X was later acquired by Times Internet in November, 2014 and turned out to be the 7th most googled site in India in 2014. In 2014, the app X crossed the 10 million downloads mark and became the most downloaded app in India. Identify the app X.

Answer: CricBuzz

3. X, founded in 2014 by Eric Bauswell and Jamie Bianchini, which has its core locations as San Jose, California and Eastern Sierra Nevada town of Minden, Nevada. X produced world's first smart candle which could be lit and extinguished with the help of iPhones. Identify X

Answer: LuDela 

4. X is regarded to be the think tank of Google or more precisely the technology incubator of Google. X was found by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen in 2010 & X was formerly known as "Google Ideas". But in 2015, they renamed it to the present name X. It was built to understand global challenges and apply technological solutions, for countering extremism, online censorship and cyberattacks, to protect access to information. Identify X. 

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Answer: Jigsaw 

5. XY is an app developed by X Software Scandinavia AB, a firm with its base working site as Stockholm, Sweden, by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam in the year 2009. X was initially launched for Blackberry Mobile and was later spread to other mobile phones too. As of December 2014, X had reached 100 million users worldwide. Identify the app X.

Answer: Truecaller

Read a Bit & Take a Byte #5

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1. Identify the person and his claim to fame.

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Answer: Randy Adams ; Founded the first e-commerce website and managed the team which invented  both Adobe Acrobat and PDF.

2. Google announced a new app called X on September 27, 2016 in an event conducted at New Delhi in relation with 'Google For India'. This app X helps the users to save videos for offline viewing, giving options over quality and file size so it's clear how much data a download may use. According to Google, the app X depends on 4 concepts: relatable video recommendation, offline video, cost effective data usage and social experience. Give me the name of this app X designed especially for places like India with low connectivity.

Answer: Youtube Go

3. X, founded by Gulshan Kumar in 2001, is a music label owned by Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited (SCIL), an Indian music company which is also engaged in film distribution and production. X has also credited its influence in the manufacturing of other commodities like incense sticks (Rajni Industries) and washing powder (Gopal Soap Industries). Recently, X became the first South Asian channel to hit the 10 million subscriber mark in Youtube. Identify X.

Answer: T- Series

4. Identify the logo and the founder of the company.

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Answer: Reddit ; Founder- Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian

5. X is a startup company started by Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu in 2013 which deals with big data & machine learning. This Hyderabad based tech giant was acquired by Apple in 2016. Apple showed interest in the open-source project termed ‘FiloDB’ of X, which is essentially attempting to apply the concept of machine learning to analyse big data. Identify the startup X.

Answer: Tuplejump

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1. X, the world's first tablet made exclusively for women, was a product of Eurostar (a Middle East firm). X was first announced in October, 2012 but later it was relaunched as a valentine day gift of 2013. X runs on Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) and has a 1.5GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, and an SD card slot. The preloaded apps on shopping, grocery, cooking, etc. are arranged on a lighter pink background. Identify the tablet X.

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Answer: ePad Femme

2. X, founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll in June 2012, is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long video clips. X had its origin in Florida and was later acquired by Y in October 2012. Dunkin Donuts was the first company to use X as an entire television advertisement and the first ever sale of X as art was Angela Washko's "Tits on Tits on Ikea". Identify the service X and the company Y.

Answer: Vine

3. X was created by Chris Wetherell, launched on October 7, 2005, as a platform for serving news and information to people. The predecessor of X was "JavaCollect" and in September, 2007 it was revised under the leadership of Kevin Systrom, the founder of Y. The service X was discontinued from March 13, 2013 and the offer was given to the users that they could use another service Z to retain their subscriptions and files. Identify X, Y and Z.

Answer: X- Google Reader Y- Instagram Z- Google Takeout

4. An internet cafe which was opened in the year 2007 by Medoune Seck was later changed into world's first X. He opened it as Equinoxe cyber cafe in 2007 in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, but was soon set back due to the frequent power cuts and large electricity bills. The idea of X was initiated by Google for which Medoune Seck applied himself. What was created there as X?

Answer: Tablet cafe (It was world's first tablet cafe!!!)

5.  

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Identify the phone and what was its claim to fame?

Answer: Disney Magic 1 - First Smartphone of Walt Disney Company

Read a Bit & Take a Byte #3

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1. X was launched by Rashmi Sinha on October 4, 2006. X introduced a new feature into their service known as Y which is a social web conferencing system that allows presenters to broadcast an audio/video feed while driving the presentation through the Internet. The company X was later acquired by LinkedIn on May 3, 2012. Give me the name of the company X and its exclusive feature Y.

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Answer: X- Slideshare Y- Zipcasting

2. X, referred to as "the Netflix for e-books" or "Youtube for Books", was found by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman and Tickon Bernstam in 2007. The inspiration to start X was Trip Adler's father (whose toil to publish his medical research papers through the lengthy process of documentation was the main motivation for Adler). The company X introduced a new feature called Y, which allows automatic sharing of documents on Facebook and Twitter. Following a decision of the Istanbul 12th Criminal Court of Peace, dated 8 March 2013, access to X is blocked for Internet users in Turkey. Id X and Y.

Answer: X- Scribd Y- Readcasting

3. Identify the company X associated with the logo given below which was founded by Manoj Ranaweera in 2008 at Manchester, England. X allows one to publish documents online & sell them on a marketplace and it was later acquired by Accusoft in March 2015.

Image Source: www.edocr.com

Answer: X- eDocr

4. X was founded by Subrah Iyer and Min Zhu in 1996 which now provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and video conferencing applications. X was previously known as "ActiveTouch" and the present name was coined by David Thompson, the first vice president of marketing at Activetouch. On March 15, 2007, it was acquired by Cisco Systems. Identify X.

Answer: WebEx

5. XY is a paid streaming service available to the Internet users of USA, Australia, Mexico and New Zealand. It provides advertising-free streaming of all videos hosted by X, offline and background playback of videos on mobile devices. XY was originally launched in 2014 as "Music Key", offering only ad-free streaming of music and music videos but later it was revised and relaunched as XY on October 28, 2015. Give me the name of service XY.

Answer: XY- Youtube Red

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1. X is the world’s first app that uses neural networks for editing short videos, processing them in the style of famous artworks or any other source image. It is described as "the Prisma for video". Initially, it was released on 29 July 2016 by Mail.Ru and can process videos of 10 seconds long. X has got a famous artist based theme called Blue Dream designed after Y. Identify X & Y.

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Answer: X- Artisto Y- Pablo Picasso

2. X was found by Lei Jun on April 6, 2010 and the word X literally means 'Millet technology'. The company released their first smartphone in 2011 and opened their first factory in India (during their first anniversary) in Sricity, Andhra Pradesh. The etymology of X is by joining 2 parts in which the first part denotes the Buddhist concept of "a single grain of rice of a Buddhist is as great as a mountain" and the later part being an acronym of Mobile Internet or Mission Impossible. Identify X.

Answer: Xiaomi

3. American multinational company, Alphabet, more popularly known as the parent company of Google was launched on October 2, 2015. The domain name of Alphabet was a bit controversial as many of its popular versions were already used by other corporate giants. The  domains like alphabet.com and abc.com were owned by the management division of BMW and Disney owned American Broadcasting Company respectively. So finally Alphabet decided to create their own domain in a different manner. What was the domain name of Alphabet Inc.?

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Answer: abc.xyz

4. X is a social networking site created by Paul Budnitz and Todd Berger on March 8, 2014. It came out with a brilliant tagline proclaiming "You Are Not a Product" and published a social networking manifesto with the following clauses:

• never sell user data to advertisers or third parties
• never show advertisements
• not enforce a real-name policy 

Give me the name of the social networking site X.

Answer: Ello   

5.  X had the codename "Project Purple" before its initial release and included Jonathan Ive (designer behind the iMac and iPod) in the team. The passionate reaction to the launch of the X resulted in sections of the media dubbing it the 'Jesus phone'. X was initially launched on June 29, 2007 and its latest version to the date was released on September 7, 2016. Identify X.

Answer: iPhone

Read a Bit & Take a Byte #1

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1. The operating system X of Google is named after a floral genus found by French Minim monk & botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles and it was in turn named after the renowned German botanist Leonhart X. The O.S. is based on a micro kernel called Magenta and has the greatest advantage that it works both on mobile phones and personal computers. Id X.

Answer: Fuchsia

2. The video chat mobile application X developed by Google was officially launched on May 18, 2016. X was announced along with another app Y (an instant messaging app). X has a special feature called "Knock Knock" which is an Android only feature showing a live preview of the caller before the recipient picks up. Google itself describes it as an effort to "make calls feel more like an invitation rather than an interruption". Give me X & Y.

Answer: X- Google Duo

             Y- Google Allo

3. X was created by Alexey Moiseenkov and was officially launched on 11 June 2016 but later relaunched through Google Play on 24 July 2016. It was a product of X Labs which had its headquarters situated at Moscow, Russia. Give me X.

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Answer: Prisma

4. X is a Russian Internet company, which officially was founded in 1998 as an email service provider, later went on to become a major corporate figure in the Russian-speaking segment of Internet. X controls the 3 largest Russian social networking sites (VK.ru -VKontakte, OK.ru -Odnoklassniki, Moi Mir) and in 2012, X was again in news by buying the 2 letter domain, MY.com. Id the company X.

Answer: Mail.Ru

5.

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Id the person and what is he wearing?

Answer: Evan Spiegel (CEO of Snapchat) wearing Snapchat Spectacles