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Technology Brands and Products
2,296 Questions
Technology brands and products cover consumer electronics, software history, and the ownership of popular applications. Questions often focus on smart devices, corporate taglines, and major industry acquisitions. This material helps candidates preparing for banking and SSC general awareness sections.
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Technology Brands and Products Questions
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Yahoo
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Google
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SAP
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Network Appliance
B
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Explanation
'You can be serious without a suit' was one of Google's early corporate tenets/mottos, reflecting their casual work culture. Yahoo, SAP, and Network Appliance did not have this as a formal corporate principle.
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GE
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DEC
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Burroughs
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TKS Teknosoft
C
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In the early 1970s, TCS's first international order came from Burroughs, making option C correct. Burroughs was an American computer company that outsourced work to TCS.
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Nokia
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Sony
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Samsung
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Motorola
C
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Explanation
Samsung is the company that marketed its mobile phones with the slogan emphasizing compact design with powerful features. The slogan 'Big inside. Small outside' highlights the contradiction of small external size with large internal capabilities. Nokia was known for 'Connecting People', Sony for 'make.believe', and Motorola for 'Hello Moto' campaigns.
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Nokia
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Erricson
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DoCoMo
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CellOne
B
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Sony acquired Ericsson's stake in their joint venture Sony Ericsson to form Sony Mobile Communications. The company was originally a joint venture between Sony and Ericsson before Sony took full ownership. Nokia is Finnish, DoCoMo is Japanese (acquired by SoftBank), and CellOne is an Indian state-owned operator.
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Microsoft
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SCO
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Novell
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Lotus
A
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Explanation
Microsoft's iconic 'Where do you want to go today?' advertising campaign ran during the mid-1990s, coinciding with the Windows 95 era and the rise of consumer internet adoption. This slogan captured the company's vision of personal computing as a gateway to digital exploration.
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LG
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Samsung
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Videocon
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Onida
D
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Onida's famous tagline 'Neighbor's Envy, Owner's Pride' played on the psychology of social status and desirability. The campaign suggested owning an Onida TV would make neighbors envious of the owner. LG, Samsung, and Videocon are electronics brands but this specific campaign belonged to Onida.
A
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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) was founded on May 1, 1969, by Jerry Sanders and colleagues. Intel was founded earlier (1968), Nokia (1865), and Qualcomm (1985).
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Microsoft
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Nokia
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Sun
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Qualcomm
D
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Paul Jacobs served as CEO of Qualcomm from 2005 to 2014, succeeding his father Irwin Jacobs who co-founded the company. Qualcomm is a leading semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company known for mobile chipsets and CDMA technology.
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Lenovo
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Sony
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Samsung
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Toshiba
A
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Explanation
Lenovo acquired IBM's Personal Computer Division in 2005 for approximately $1.75 billion. This deal included the ThinkPad laptop brand and helped Lenovo become a major global PC manufacturer.
B
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Explanation
Intel underwent a major rebranding in 2006, introducing a new logo with the 'Intel Inside' tagline being de-emphasized. This was a significant change after nearly 40 years with their classic logo featuring the dropped 'e'.
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Apple Computer
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Microsoft
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Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
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Napster
C
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Explanation
The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer Institute) in Germany developed the MP3 format in the late 1980s and early 1990s, specifically researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. Apple and Microsoft were not involved in MP3's initial development, and Napster was a file-sharing service that came later, not a technology developer.
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BPL-India
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Samsung
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ONIDA
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Toshiba
C
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Explanation
ONIDA used the famous tagline 'Neighbors envy, Owner's pride' featuring a devil character in their advertisements. This iconic campaign ran for years in India and made ONIDA a household name for color televisions. BPL, Samsung, and Toshiba used different marketing strategies and taglines.
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Rainbow apple
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Rainbow apple with a bite
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Red apple
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Sir Isaac Newton under an apple tree
D
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The very first Apple logo, designed by Ronald Wayne in 1976, depicted Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree with a poem border. It was replaced shortly after by the famous rainbow bitten apple designed by Rob Janoff.
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AT&T
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Cisco
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Lucent
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Sun Microsystems
D
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The tagline "The Network is the Computer" was famously used by Sun Microsystems to describe their vision of network-centric computing. This slogan emphasized that in networked environments, the network itself becomes as important as individual computers.
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Ericsson Mobile Communications
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Lucent Technologies
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Nokia
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Motorola
A
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Explanation
Bluetooth technology was first developed by Ericsson Mobile Communications in 1994. The name comes from the 10th century Danish King Harald Blatand (Bluetooth), who unified Denmark and Norway. Option A is correct.