The Channelweb.com News Quiz -- August 2009
Apple's Snow Leopard OS, released this month, marks the end of support for which once-critical Apple technology?
Applescript
PowerPC chips
QuickTime
SCSI
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In an effort to provide enhanced opportunities for solution providers, which vendor launched a new cloud computing partner program this month?
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Akamai
Amazon.com
EMC's Mozy
Salesforce.com
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Which cell phone giant could be entering the netbook market as early as the beginning of September?
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LG
Motorola
NEC
Nokia
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Canadian company i4i has won a judgement of $200 million against Microsoft and an injunction against Microsoft's sales of which product?
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Azure Cloud Computing
Small Business Server
Microsoft Word
Windows 7
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Who walked away with this year's Everything Channel Executive of the Year Award?
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Cisco Senior VP Keith Goodwin
HP VP Adrian Jones
Intel VP Steve Dallman
Panasonic VP Sheila O'Neil
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What is RockMelt -- an upcoming product receiving financial support from Marc Andreessen's new venture capital firm?
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Cloud server software
A programming language
Video editing software
A Web browser
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Which president's brief, frequent journal entries are now being Twittered in realtime?
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Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
James K. Polk
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Why did Microsoft announce it would move its Azure cloud service out of its Washington state data center?
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An unfavorable tax ruling
Electrical reliability
Security concerns
Workforce problems
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Two (or more) can play at this game: Which consumer products giant came out with e-book readers in August to compete with Amazon's Kindle?
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Samsung
Sony
Toshiba
Westinghouse
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Can we still be friends? With Google expanding its efforts in the smartphone and OS markets, CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from which other company's board of directors?
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Apple
HP
Microsoft
Oracle
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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:
Apple Snow Leopard Ships Aug. 28, But Why Is It So Cheap?
Three Motivations Behind Salesforce's VAR Program
Nokia Netbook Motives Unclear, Success Uncertain
Microsoft Wants The Last Word: Appeal Set For Sept. 23
Andreessen To Bring RockMelt Browser To Web
John Quincy Adams: Diplomat, President, Twitterer?
Microsoft Moving Azure Over Tax Ruling