The CRN.com News Quiz -- September 2011
Call it MeeGone. Who closed the doors on MeeGo -- their open-source mobile OS project, in favor of Tizen, a different open-source mobile OS project?
Intel
LG
Motorola
Qualcomm
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What caused a three-hour outage of Microsoft's Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Office 365 services on September 8?
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A corrupt DNS file
A denial of service attack
A load balancer malfunction
An SQL server database problem
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Do the Do!(.com) The CEO of what company tweeted a hint at their upcoming Do.com online collaboration application?
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Facebook
Salesforce
Yahoo
Zoho
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A Virginia woman was sentenced to 60 months in jail, and nearly $3 million in fines, for selling counterfit Chinese copies of what company's products?
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Cisco
EMC
Juniper
NetGear
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Baby, you can Drive my car! Who's long-rumored cloud storage product, Drive, may finally be ready for its debut?
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Amazon
Apple
EMC
Google
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It's not for American Idol. Whose remote desktop PC management service, Intune, is scheduled for a launch in October?
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HP
Microsoft
Oracle
Symantec
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That patent looks great on you! Who just bought 1,000 patents from IBM to bulk up their portfolio?
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Google
Novell
Verizon
VMWare
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Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Samsung, Ericsson, and HTC are among companies reportedly eyeing nearly 9,000 mobile technology patents from what company?
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Analog Devices
Broadcom
Conexant
InterDigital
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared at a conference this month, "It's the day and age of..." what?
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Cloud services
HTML5
Mobile devices
Windows developers
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And every moment was a gem! Just how long did Leo Apotheker serve at the helm of HP?
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6 months
9 months
11 months
14 months
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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:
Intel Says Adios MeeGo, Hello Tizen In Mobile OS Move
Microsoft: Corrupted File Took Out Cloud Services
Salesforce Do.com Is Real, But What Is It?
Virginia Woman Sentenced For Counterfeit Cisco Sales
Google Drive Takes Aim At Amazon, Apple For Cloud Storage
Microsoft Readies Next Intune Release For October
Intel, Others Gird For Patent War With Possible Bid For 8,800 InterDigital Patents
Ballmer Touts Developer Opportunities With 'Re-Imagined' Windows