Wow! I spoke of my dream of having Armenia covered by a technology such as wimax which is a long range computer networking technology. In short, it is like taking your current home wireless router and giving it 10,000 times more power. Today, Cornet seems to be announcing plans to move head […]
After mentioning the circle.am web statistics service all week I noticed a new site had been registered by the Gavar Special School. As I mentioned in my last post, children in residential institutions are a long term project of mine, and so I was not only glad to find that this site had been set […]
It’s 3am in the morning and I’m not even half way through sending 40 high resolution images to a magazine in the United States. And it’s no wonder. I’m sitting at my computer in Yerevan where we have to make do with crappy dial up connections costing around $40-50 a month because of the damn […]
Lola Koundakjian of the Armenian Poetry Project and Life in Travel forwarded me a link to a new blog on Armenia this morning. Not so unexpected perhaps, but always interesting to take a look, this time the blog is from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — otherwise more commonly known as the […]
I was very happy to see that Air Arabia is now serving Yerevan! In my opinion, this is a very important link for business. The fact is air links equate business expansion and opportunity. If you look at most any major economic development initiative in Europe or America, there is an emphasis […]
Reporters Without Borders is organizing an online campaign against net censorship. The campaign focuses on 13 countries with particularly bad records in this area as well as Yahoo who have self-imposed restrictions, as well as worked with the local authorities to persecute dissidents and journalists, in China.
More than 60 cyber-dissidents around the world are currently […]
Once dubbed the Silicon Valley of the former Soviet Union — and even though the IT sector is one area of the economy registering genuine growth — ArmInfo reports that the use of computer technology in Armenia is a matter of concern.
The level of IT use by society in Armenia is one of the lowest […]
Following the breakdown in Internet connectivity from Friday through to Sunday, what does now exist is getting worse again. Yesterday was okay, but today is lousy and I can see from my ICQ contact list that most people I know are having an even tougher time connecting.
That even includes those working in international NGOs […]
The BBC reports that Reuters has dropped one of its freelance photographers in Lebanon after discovering that some of his images had been doctored before being sent out on the wires and published worldwide. Interestingly, the report says that bloggers were instrumental in identifying that images had been manipulated.
The news agency Reuters has withdrawn from […]
After this weekend’s lack of Internet in Armenia, some good news. According to PanArmenian.net reports that “normal” service has been fully resumed. Sure enough, it seems okay today.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The capacity of Internet communication in Armenia is fully restored, reported Spokesperson of ArmenTel Telecommunication Company Hasmik Chutilyan. “The capacity is restored to the rate we had […]
