The Channelweb.com News Quiz -- April 2010
After three years of losses, this manufacturer scored its second profitable quarter in a row, and completed the spin off of its Globalfoundries division.
AMD
Fujitsu
National Semiconductor
Samsung
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Who told Channelweb.com, "We're probably not just channel-friendly, I think we're channel zealots."
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Dell VP Greg Davis
HP CEO Mark Hurd
Juniper VP Frank Vitagliano
Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky
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Of the following new and upcoming smartphones, which is not properly matched with its manufacturer?
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Incredible / HTC
Kin / Microsoft
Lightning and Thunder / Dell
Lotus Elite / Nokia
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Retailer Best Buy announced plans to resell what e-reader/tablet device?
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Amazon Kindle
Apple iPad
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader
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Hint: Not Channelweb.com. Which tech Website wound up with a prototype of Apple's upcoming 4G iPhone, lost in a Silicon Valley bar?
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Ars Technica
CrunchGear
Gizmodo
Slashdot
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This company's first developer conference, called Chirp, was held this month in San Francisco, and emphasized the company's new focus on generating revenue. Was it...?
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Facebook
LinkedIn
Twitter
Yahoo
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Ouch, that feels like competitive displacement! Who announced a plan to give cash bonuses to VARs who bring in former Sun/Oracle clients?
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Cisco
HP
IBM
SAP
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Position wanted. Previous experience: Father of Java. What organization did the legendary James Gosling just part ways with?
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Cray Computer
Los Alamos National Labs
Oracle
Sanford University
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Which company's Cloud Print Service aims to "enable... any device to print to any printer?"
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Canon
Google
HP
Lexmark
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Sorry Itanium, I've moved on. Which OS vendor announced plans to discontinue support for Intel's Itanium server hardware?
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Canonical
Microsoft
Novell
Red Hat
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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:
AMD Back In Black For A Second Straight Quarter
Hurd And Seen: Talking HP With CEO Mark Hurd
That's Incredible: New HTC Droid Specs, Date Revealed?
Batten The Hatches: Dell Preps Thunder, Lightening To Rival iPhone
Microsoft Targets Mobile Youth With 'Kin' Devices
Barnes & Noble Expands Nook Distribution With Best Buy Deal
Apple Called: They Want Their Missing iPhone 4G Back
'Chirp' Sets Twitter's Sights On Revenue
IBM Adds Partner Incentives To Penetrate Oracle-Sun Accounts
Google Takes Printing To The Cloud Via Chrome OS