Average connection speed of internet users who watch YouTube in Armenia was 830 kbps in January 28 – February 26, 2010, according to the the statistics presented by the world’s leading video sharing portal.
With a bit of effort and sometimes money, users of popular word-processing software Microsoft Word can now spell-check their Armenian texts. Free of charge spell-checking alternatives are being developed for Open Office, the cross-platform and open source alternative to Microsoft’s office suite.
Armenia -- The parliament building in Yerevan, undated | via RFE/RL
In the second and final reading the National Assembly voted into a law on Thursday a government bill that will make it easier for Armenia to annul or suspend its normalization agreements with Turkey. Continue reading
According to a decision by Yerevan’s elderly council, those inhabitants of Yerevan who keep domestic animals at home are to pay 5000 drams ($13 US) annual fee to the municipal budget.
I see no problem with the fine, but I think it should be extended to include all animals, because Armenian oligarchs prefer lions and tigers, which don’t fall under the ‘domestic’ category. Why? Let them pay at least some taxes for a change!
Armenian mobile services market edged closer to full saturation in 2009, with nearly every working adult in the country of 3.2 million people having one or more mobile phones, and the number of mobile subscribers passing the 2,5 million mark. While the mobile operators say that there is still a lot of room to grow and compete, the question is – how exactly that competition will take place, and will the customers and the telecom sector benefit from the fight for market or otherwise, PanArmenian.net writes.
The number of Vivacell-MTS subscribers grew 46 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year, and Beeline registered growth of 23 percent. The numbers tumbled in 2009, with Vivacell-MTS growing as little as 2.4 percent, and Beeline apparently losing some customers, even if it is hard to tell for sure as the company has moved to a new system of counting subscribers. Hence, according to the latest data available by the end of 2009, Vivacell-MTS was the unchallenged market leader with 2 million 70 thousand subscribers, while Beeline followed by 502 thousand subscribers (latest Beeline data available for the 3rd quarter of 2009). Continue reading
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“Mining is against our combined interest as a people and nation,” Serj Tankian, an Armenian-American singer–songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning rock band System of a Down has written in response to a group of Armenian environmentalists who had reached out to the musician with a request to look into the goings on with the Teghut Forest.
Istanbul, 2008 (c) Artur Papyan for http://www.ditord.com
The number of Armenians illegally working in Turkey might actually be several times smaller than claimed by the Turkish authorities. There are between 12,000 and 13,000 Armenian citizens working illegally in Turkey, according to the study by the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, which will be made available to the public next month. Continue reading
Rather dubious data from a little known Columbia based company Miniwatts Marketing Group, made headlines in the Armenian media this week.
The group which offers research in Internet industry features a website called Internet World Stats, which claims the number of Armenian internet subscribers makes only 6.4 percent of the population with as few as 191 thousand people connected to the web, which puts Armenia seriously behind its neighbors by internet penetration rates.
Orange Armenia website has been carrying the following announcement, which has been troubling my imagination for quite a while. As announced during the launch press conference in November, Orange will be the official representative of iPhone in Armenia and very soon will introduce this great device with worldwide success in our market. Continue reading
Four athletes are representing Armenia in 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver: Kristine Khachatryan (cross-country skiing), Sergey Mikayelyan (cross-country skiing), Arsen Nersisyan (alpine skiing), Ani Serebrakian (alpine skiing). Continue reading
