Monday, June 21, 2010

What ubiquitous peice of software did Curt Kushler, a Seattle based innovator come up with his partner ?

Ans : T9 was designed to bring down the number of taps being typed on cellphones.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Connect the items in the following list.
1. Reader advantage program
2. Japanese input system.
3. Wave Wave gallery.
4. Evil bit.
5. Animal translator Beta
6. Oil tanker data center.
7. Yoghurt.
8. gDay.
9. Djare.
10. Gulp.
Do not google.


Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Which is the most expensive black and white movie ever made ?

(Hint: Think WW II)

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The name of "X",was taken originally from the title of a poem, "X, sive Morbus Gallicus" "X, or the French Disease," 1530, by Veronese doctor Girolamo Fracastoro (1483-1553), which tells the tale of the shepherd X, supposed to be the first sufferer from the disease. Fracastoro first used the word as a generic term for the disease in 1546 treatise "De Contagione." it may be intended as Latin for "Pig-lover." Identify the disease ?

Watson’s Hotel, currently known as the Esplanade Mansions, is India’s oldest surviving cast iron building, located in the Kala Ghoda district of Mumbai (Bombay). It was named after its original owner, John Watson. The building was fabricated in England and constructed onsite between 1867 and 1869. It was designed by civil engineer Rowland Mason Ordish (1824–1886), who was also associated with the St Pancras Station in London. Its external cast-iron frame closely resembles other high-profile 19th century buildings such as London’s Crystal Palace. The main façade of the hotel is distinguished by building-wide open balconies on each floor that connected the guest rooms. The rooms in Watson’s Hotel were built around the atrium in a courtyard arrangement.

John Watson opened the hotel as an exclusive whites-only hotel, and it was the swankiest hotel in the city in those days. The five storied structure housed 130 guest rooms, as well as a lobby, restaurant and a bar at the ground level. The hotel also had a 30 metre by 9 metre atrium which had a glass skylight. The atrium was originally used as aballroom. The common joke at that time was: “If only Watson had imported the English weather as well”. At its peak, Watson’s hotel employed English waitresses in its restaurant and ballroom.

Among the hotel’s notable guests was Mark Twain who wrote about the city’s crows he saw outside his balcony inFollowing the Equator. It was also the first place in India to screen the Lumière BrothersCinematographe invention in 1896. However this was witnessed only by Europeans.

According to rumours, Indian industrialist Jamsetji Tata was denied access to the hotel. In retaliation he opened theTaj Mahal Palace, a hotel that stands near what is now the Gateway of India in 1903.

Which disease derives it's name from Italian for "bad air" ?. It was first described by an Italian doctor Francesco _____ ?

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Way back in the early ’60’s, a visionary named Phil Knight started a small shoe company, which was originally called “Blue Ribbon Sports”. Now we know it simply as ?