You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Intel and AMD kiss and make up; Microsoft Bing gets a shake-up

Surprisingly good news abounds, despite it being Friday the 13th. For example: One of the tech industry's ugliest feuds ended when chipmakers AMD and Intel buried the hatchet. Google, Electronic Arts, and HP spent their holiday shopping money on new acquisitions. Microsoft Bing got some new partners, and Samsung announced the birth of yet another mobile operating system. Do you feel lucky? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now toss some salt over your left shoulder, spin counterclockwise three times, and begin.

1. The Intel-AMD grudge match appears to be over. How much did Intel agree to pay to smooth AMD's ruffled feathers?

a. $12.5 millionb. $125 millionc. $1.25 billiond. $12.5 billion

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Surprisingly good news abounds, despite it being Friday the 13th. For example: One of the tech industry's ugliest feuds ended when chipmakers AMD and Intel buried the hatchet. Google, Electronic Arts, and HP spent their holiday shopping money on new acquisitions. Microsoft Bing got some new partners, and Samsung announced the birth of yet another mobile operating system. Do you feel lucky? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now toss some salt over your left shoulder, spin counterclockwise three times, and begin.

1. The Intel-AMD grudge match appears to be over. How much did Intel agree to pay to smooth AMD's ruffled feathers?

a. $12.5 millionb. $125 millionc. $1.25 billiond. $12.5 billion

2. ComScore has released figures on where people spent their time online in September. Whose sites topped the list?

a. Google

b. Facebook

c. Microsoft

d. Yahoo

3. Hundreds of Facebook groups were hijacked by an anonymous collective in order to highlight what it called "major security weaknesses" on the network. What is this collective called?

a. The Collective

b. deFacebook

c. Control Your Info

d. All Yr Grupz R B-long 2 Us

4. Electronic Arts may be laying off thousands, but that's not keeping it from buying up companies. Which maker of social games did it just acquire?

a. Playdom

b. Playfish

c. Playskool

d. Playboy

5. Samsung is about to foist yet another mobile operating system onto the world. What's this one called?

a. Fada

b. Nada

c. Bada

d. Bing

6. Some people play golf during their down time; Google's engineers design new programming languages. What is the name of its new app development tool?

a. Go

b. So

c. Lo

d. D'oh!

7. Microsoft Bing's got a new thing. What new element did the search decision engine just add?

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