You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

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Jul 24, 20091 min

Yahoo takes new home page for a ride, Amazon displays its darker side

Yahoo and Amazon, those two aging giants from the dot-com era, were all over the news this week, for good and ill. Yahoo got a new face and a new social media tool; Amazon bought itself a new e-tailer and a lot of bad publicity, thanks to an Orwellian power play on its Kindle customers. But they weren’t the only ones making headlines. Intel, Microsoft, and the inevitable Apple rumors filled out the week. Can you fill in the dots to earn a perfect score on our quiz? Correct answers are worth 10 points each. Now let’s do this thing.

1. Amazon’s been fiddling with customers’ Kindles. Which two classics did it quietly delete from their digital libraries?

a. “Third Wave” and “Future Shock” b. “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon” c. “Animal Farm” and “1984” d. “Catch-22” and “A Confederacy of Dunces”

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