The CRN.com News Quiz -- April 2011
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