Wednesday, August 31, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 96

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 5-9-2011: Gojiyo
Hint: It's a virtual world by Godrej

Answer:
GoJiyo (a Hinglish word : English translation = Go Live Life) is a free, browser based 3D virtual world.
It is first virtual world from India.
The GoJiyo was launched by the Godrej Group on March 22, 2010.

LOGO QUIZ 95

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 5-9-2011: China Mobile
Hint: A mobile operator with over 600 million subscribers as of march 2011.

Answer:
China Mobile Limitedis a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company that provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network, the largest of its kind in the world.


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Personal 06

Identify this electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems?
Answer added on 4-9-2011: Andy Bechtolsheim
Answer:
Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim (born September 30, 1955) is an electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer.
He later became an investor, writing the first major check to fund Google, and starting several computer networking companies.

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Personal 05

Identify this person who was a  mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist.
Answer added on 2-9-2011: Alan Turing

Answer: Alan Mathison Turing,(June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.


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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 94

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 31-8-2011: Konica Minolta
Hint: The Japanese manufacturer concentrated on imaging industry.

Answer:
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. is a Japanese manufacturer of office equipment, medical imaging, graphic imaging, optical devices, and measuring instruments.
Konica Minolta was formed by a merger between Japanese imaging firms Konica and Minolta, announced on January 7, 2003 with the Corporate Structure completing the re-organization in October 2003.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 93

Identify the logo
Answer added on 31-8-2011: Dragon Naturally Speaking

Hint: A speech recognition software package

Answer:
Dragon Naturally Speaking is a speech recognition software package developed and sold by Nuance Communications for Windows personal computers.
The Mac OS version is called Dragon Dictate.

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LOGO QUIZ 92

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 31-8-2011: DoubleClick

Hint: It's of Google

Answer:
DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google that develops and provides Internet ad serving services.
DoubleClick was founded in 1995 by Kevin O'Connor and Dwight Merriman. It was formerly listed as "DCLK" on the NASDAQ, and was purchased by private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity in July 2005. In March 2008, Google acquired DoubleClick for US$3.1 billion.

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 91

Identify the logo?

Answer added on 24-8-2011: CEA ( Consumer Electronic Association )
Hint: This organization founded in 1924 have about 2200 companies as members.

Answer:
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is a standards and trade organization for the consumer electronics industry in the United States.
The CEA puts on the annual International CES (Consumer Electronics Show).

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Friday, August 12, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 90

Identify the logo?

Answer added on 14-8-2011: Internet Engineering Task Force

Hint: This develops & promotes Internet standards. It is formally a part of the Internet Society.

Answer:
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite. It is an open standards organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements.

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LOGO QUIZ 89

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 14-8-2011: Handspring
Hint: This company merged with Palm Inc's hardware division in 2003 & formed PalmOne.

Answer:
Handspring was a maker of Palm OS-based Visor- and Treo-branded personal digital assistants. It was run by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, the original inventors of the Palm Pilot and founders of Palm Computing, after they became unhappy with the direction in which 3Com was taking the Palm division.

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LOGO QUIZ 88

Identify the logo?

Answer added on 10-8-201: Alcatel-Lucent

Hint: Its a global telecommunication corporation
Answer:
Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services.
It holds Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation and R&D houses in the communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent has operations in more than 130 countries.

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Monday, August 8, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 87

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 10-8-2011: Flixter

Hint: Its a social movie  site acquired by Warner Bros

Answer:
Flixster is a social movie site allowing users to share movie ratings, discover new movies, and meet others with similar taste in movies. The site is based in San Francisco, California and was founded by Joe Greenstein and Saran Chari in 2007.
Flixster has been the parent of website Rotten Tomatoes since January 2010.
Flixster including Rotten Tomatoes was acquired by Warner Bros. on May 4, 2011.

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 86

 Identify the logo?
Answer added on 10-8-2011

Hint: It is a web application & website created by canonical.

Answer:
Launchpad is a web application and website that allow users to develop and maintain software, particularly free software. Launchpad is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd.

On July 21, 2009 the source code was released publicly under the GNU Affero General Public License.
As of July 2011, the launchpad repository hosts more than 23,500 projects. The domain launchpad.net attracted 1 million visitors by August 2009 according to a Compete.com survey.

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Friday, August 5, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 85

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 10-8-2011: Wikimania
Hint: It's the logo of an event associated with wiki projects.

Answer:
Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation (such as Wikipedia and other sister projects). Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia Foundation projects, other wikis, open source software, free knowledge and free content, and the different social and technical aspects which relate to these topics.

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LOGO QUIZ 84

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 8-8-2011: Terra Networks
Hint: services are Search engine, ISP, Web portal etc...
Answer:
Terra Networks, S. A., usually referred to as "Terra", is an Internet multinational company with headquarters in Brazil. Terra was publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TRLY and on the Spanish stock market under the symbol TRR.
In April 2000, Terra surprised the internet market with the acquisition of Lycos, the U.S. portal, in a stock swap valued at US$ 12.5 billion.

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LOGO QUIZ 83

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 7-8-2011: Prolexic
Hint: Protects you from Distributed Denial of Service attack
Answer:
Prolexic Technologies was founded in 2003 by Barrett Lyon as a network service which specializes in protecting other web sites from DDoS attacks.
It gained notability in 2004 for the arrest of Ivan Maksakov.
Prolexic was acquired by IPVG in 2008

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Monday, August 1, 2011

LOGO QUIZ 82

Identify the logo?
Answer added on 5-8-2011: Reddit

Hint: It is something social & news

Answer:
Reddit is  a social news website owned by Condé Nast Digital, a subsidiary of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.Users have the option to submit links to content on the Internet or submit "self" posts that contain original, user-submitted text. Other users may then vote the posted links "up" or "down" with the most successful links gaining prominence by reaching the front page.
Reddit users are also referred  as redditors.

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