The CRN.com News Quiz -- April 2011

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No backsies. Nokia is turning over development of its Symbian OS (and 3,000 employees) to what solution provider partner?

Accenture
Cap Gemini
Computer Sciences Corp
Deloitte Consulting

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Do you hear that? It's music--in the cloud! Who bought PushLife, a cloud content streaming service?

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Apple
Cisco
Google
Oracle

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Imagine if it hadn't been a hit! Who shut down their Flip video consumer product line?

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Cisco
Lenovo
LG
Motorola

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No silver lining here. Who experienced a high-visibility outage of their cloud services this month?

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Amazon
Microsoft
Salesforce
VMWare

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Spinning deals--Seagate is planning to buy whose hard drive business, continuing the consolidation in that market?

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EMC
Hitachi GST
Samsung Electronics
Western Digital

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Am I supposed to be upset? Iran has accussed which company of participating in distributing the Stuxnet worm that has repeatedly attacked Iran's nuclear power program?

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General Electric
NTT Data
SAP
Siemens

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Kno kidding. Who's investing $20 million in education software and tablet hardware vendor Kno?

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Apple
Barnes and Noble
Intel
Panasonic

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That's a lot of chips. Who's buying National Semiconductor in a $6.5 billion deal?

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Alcatel-Lucent
Freescale Semiconductor
IBM
Texas Instruments

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As part of their 'Cloud First' initiative, who is closing 100 data centers this year?

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AT&T
Exxon-Mobile
The Federal Government
Wal-Mart

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Back to the future! Who has re-assumed, after a decade, his job as CEO of Google?

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Sergey Brin
Larry Page
Eric Schmidt
Mark Zuckerberg

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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:

Nokia Dumps Symbian, 3,000 Employees On Accenture

Google Buys PushLife In Cloud Music Combat With Amazon

Cisco Restructures Consumer Unit: Flip Shut Down, Layoffs Coming

Amazon EC2 Goes Dark In Morning Cloud Outage

Seagate Plans To Buy Samsung's HD Business

Iran Says Siemens Enabled Stuxnet Attacks

Intel Capital Invests $20 Million In Education Tablet Vendor Kno

TI Buys National Semiconductor To Boost Analog Portfolio

Feds To Shutter 100 Data Centers In 'Cloud First' Push

Page Assumes CEO Duties At Google