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Tech Trivia Challenge - flash mobs

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is flash mob

A flash mob is a group of people who organize themselves, using electronic media such as cell phones or the Internet, to gather together in a public place, behave in a predetermined manner for a predetermined period of time, and then quickly disperse. The first flash mobs were considered either pranks or performance art. More recently, flash mobs have gathered for other purposes, including protests and charity. Last week, T-Mobile used the flash mob concept for an ad.

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Secret Word of the Day
In this model of human interaction, people expand their connections by accessing the connections of acquaintances. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Who first proposed the “six degrees of separation” theory?
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Acronym Challenge
GPS messaging is a little like a digital sticky note that mobile users access when they enter a specific location. What does GPS stand for?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters for the name of a device that became prominent because of its wireless email capabilities:
rabbyclerk
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about Fennec?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Fennec.

Tech Trivia
What was the first mobile phone virus?
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Secret Word of the Day
This wireless technology was named for a 10th century Danish king. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
COO is a mobile positioning technique for finding a caller’s cell location. What does COO stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about white space devices?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is white space device (WSD).

Tech Trivia
What year did Western Union stop sending telegrams?
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Secret Word of the Day
This is an electric current or electronic field used to convey data from one place to another. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Bit is a short word — but is it short for anything?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about Net neutrality?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Net neutrality.

Tech Trivia
If an ISP tracks bandwidth use and charges customers accordingly, what service model are they following?
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Secret Word of the Day
______ _______ is a frequent topic of debate between advocates of Net neutrality and proponents of a two-tiered system. It’s the practice of regulating network data transfer to assure a certain level of performance, QoS or ROI. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
P2P networks clogging up ISP bandwidth with copyrighted media, particularly Bittorrent, are often cited in net neutrality debates. What does P2P stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about cognitive radio?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is cognitive radio.

Tech Trivia
Who demonstrated wireless communication in 1894?
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Secret Word of the Day
Dr. McCoy implanted these devices into Kirk and Spock, for tracking purposes, before they beamed down to the planet Ekos. It’s a wireless communications, monitoring, or control device that picks up and automatically responds to an incoming signal. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Radio waves carry information through their portion of the EM spectrum. What does EM stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about white spaces?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is white space.

Tech Trivia
Google’s Larry Page has noted that the unlicensed model used for this wireless technology has resulted in a projected one billion chips being produced in 2008. What technology is he talking about?
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Secret Word of the Day
This is a sound that contains every frequency within the range of human hearing (generally from 20 hertz to 20 kHz ) in equal amounts. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Many white space devices are likely to use the UHF portion of the RF spectrum. What does UHF stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about Wi-Fi Multimedia?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Wi-Fi multimedia (WMM)

Tech Trivia
Does a given resolution yield a sharper resolution as the display gets smaller?
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Secret Word of the Day
The photosensitive qualities of this element, discovered in 1873, meant that visual information could be converted to electrical signals and transmitted. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
As an analog signal reaches the farther limits of its range, the SNR decreases and the quality of the transmission suffers as a result. What does SNR stand for?
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Tech Quiz of the Day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about Long Term Evolution (LTE)?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Tech Trivia
What is the WiMAX service that Sprint Nextel rolled out last month in Baltimore? (Hint: It rhymes with “home.”)
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Secret Word of the Day
In data transmission, this is the amount of data moved successfully from one place to another in a given time period. It’s often confused with bandwidth. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Wireless broadband consumers will likely have two choices in the U.S. domestic market: LTE and WiMAX. What does WiMAX stand for?
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