End of year quiz
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Test your enterprise IT smarts.
The end of the year is typically a time for reflection and contemplation. In that spirit, Information Age has drawn up a quick quiz, covering some of the issues that have gone on in 2006. The quiz is just for fun, but if you want to show off your knowledge, or just desperately need to know an answer, email edit@information-age.com.
• Why were business leaders advised to stop deploying BlackBerry email devices by IT advisory group Gartner, in January 2006?
• How many companies missed the 1 January 2006 deadline to upgrade to the new payment system from BACS?
• Which car maker was blacklisted by search giant Google, following accusations of trying to prejudice the rankings for some of its pages?
• Who described his organisation’s efforts to embrace the Web 2.0 culture as: “Following the path fearlessly blazed by the Sinclair C5.”?
• Which CIO described their role as: “Creating a nearly impenetrable system to protect the bank.”?
• How did Dundee City council cuts its annual IT support bill by £150,000?
• Oracle’s acquisition of content management vendor Stellent took the number of companies it has bought since January 2005 to 26. Name them.
• According to Forrester Research, how many homes could be powered for a year using the equivalent amount of electricity as is consumed by a data centre with 2,500 servers in a single month?
• Who won the award for Most Effective IT Project 2006?
• How many laptops did Dell have to recall because of faults with the batteries?
