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...French tech company Violet (www.violet.net) has created Nabaztag, a plastic, 23-cm-tall (with ears up) white rabbit with a constant wi-fi connection. The device provides access to other Internet users and vital daily information like traffic reports and the weather. Programmed by its owner, Nabaztag (rabbit in Armenian) relays the information in a slightly cartoonish female voice, and flashes colored lights on her tummy when new e-mails arrive. The wi-fi rabbit, which also plays MP3s and MIDI files and dances a jig, flags these quotidian needs in order to reduce time spent in front...
...French tech company Violet (www.violet.net) has created Nabaztag, a plastic, 23-cm-tall (with ears up) white rabbit with a constant wi-fi connection. The device provides access to other Internet users and vital daily information like traffic reports and the weather. Programmed by its owner, Nabaztag (rabbit in Armenian) relays the information in a slightly cartoonish female voice, and flashes colored lights on her tummy when new e-mails arrive. The wi-fi rabbit, which also plays MP3s and MIDI files and dances a jig, flags these Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
Kerkorian's childhood, rough and rootless, may have instilled in him that lifelong drive to get ahead. Born to Armenian immigrant farmers in Fresno, Calif., he moved at least 20 times as a kid, his parents often struggling with the rent. In junior high, he was expelled for fighting and truancy. After dropping out, he learned to box ("Rifle Right," they called him), and during World War II he shuttled planes across the Atlantic for Britain's Royal Air Force. Back in California, he bought and sold refurbished aircraft and started an air service ferrying gamblers from Los Angeles...
...Kasparov is a long-distance runner, pop-music buff and sharp dresser who regularly dates a striking blond stage actress, Marina Neolova. But another woman in his life has long been more important. After the death of his Jewish father Kim Wehistein, Kasparov took the maiden name of his Armenian mother Clara; she has ruled his career ever since. At the championships she sat motionless each day in the same third-row seat, watching intensely. Though he now wears the crown, Kasparov, raised in the republic of Azerbaijan, 1,200 miles south of Moscow, remains an outsider to Moscow...
Noubar B. Afeyan, an Armenia 2020 executive board member, said that Turkey’s economic sanctions are “because of Armenian pressure for recognition of the genocide...