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TOSHIBA UNVEILS WORLD'S THINNEST TABLET (VIDEO)
- Toshiba has unveiled the world's thinnest, 10-inch Android Tablet. With its burnished, magnesium alloy back, gorilla-glass face and unique channel trim, the company's latest tablet entry stands apart from the pack, Mashable com reported. It is, for now, said to be the thinnest tablet, besting the slim iPad by .04 inches. It's also a tad lighter. The iPad 2 weighs 1.35 pounds and the Excite is just 1.2 lbs. But the number of buttons and ports Toshiba squeezed onto this tiny frame is thought to be more surprising. Buttons are hidden along the edge in a channel that runs the full perimeter of the device. Like the iPad 2, the Excite packs two cameras: 2 megapixels on the front and 5 megapixels on the back. Its 10.1-inch screen supports a 1280 x 800 resolution and sports an anti-smudge coating on its surface.
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Headlines for January 12, 2012ARAB LEAGUE DELAYS SENDING MORE OBSERVERS TO SYRIA
The Arab League has delayed sending more monitors to Syria, as its mission runs into further difficulties, BBC News reported. The league's move comes after 11 of its observers were injured in an attack ...US CONDEMNS KILLING OF IRAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST
The US has condemned the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in a car bomb attack in north Tehran, according to BBC News. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the US "had absolutely ...FRENCH LAWMAKERS TO DISCUSS GENOCIDE DENIAL BILL IN SYMPOSIUM
The members of the upper and lower houses of the French parliament will attend on Monday a joint symposium with representatives of the Western Armenian National Council to discuss the bill outlawing the ...PEPSI TO PAY 3.1 M IN RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CASE
Pepsi Beverages Co will pay about $3.1 million in addition to offering jobs and training in what is being called an "unusual" settlement in a race discrimination case, Bizjournals.com reported. ...PENTAGON TO INVESTIGATE VIDEO OF SOLDIERS DESECRATING TALIBAN CORPSES
The US Marine Corps will investigate a video showing what appear to be American forces in Afghanistan urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters, Stuff.co.nz reported. The video, which was posted ...WORLD'S TINIEST FROGS FOUND
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has compared his country with the 9th century Georgia when the state was ruled by King David IV Builder. The Georgian news website Gruzia Online has quoted Saakashvili ...IRANIAN SPEAKER FINDS KARABAKH CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL ISSUE
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has become an international issue, according to Ali Larijani, the speaker of the Iranian parliament. Ahead of his visit to Turkey, the Iranian official called upon the countries ...EU, US SLAM IRAN'S NUCLEAR PLAN
France, Britain, Germany and the United States on Wednesday took advantage of a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council to condemn Iran's decision to begin enriching uranium at an underground bunker, ...FIRE IN GEORGIA'S ARMENIAN CHURCH NO ACCIDENT - ARCHAEOLOGIST
The recent fire in the Tbilisi based Armenian church of St Nshan was no accident, says Samvel Karapetyan, an Armenian scientist dealing with monument studies. Speaking to Tert.am, the expert expressed ...AZERBAIJAN AND OBAMA SUFFER SETBACKS AS AMB. BRYZA'S SERVICE IS CUT SHORT
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier As a result of successive political blunders by the Obama administration, Matthew Bryza was forced to abandon his ambassadorial post in Azerbaijan ...SECOND HOUSE OF RUSSIAN BOOK TO OPEN IN ARMENIA
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The friends of Hrant Dink, the assassinated editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish weekly Agos, are going to hold a march to the Agos editorial office on January 19 to commemorate the fifth anniversary ...ISRAELI LAWMAKERS BACK BILLS BANNING USE OF NAZI SYMBOLS
The Israeli Knesset gave its preliminary approval Wednesday to a series of controversial bills that would outlaw the use of the term "Nazi" as an epithet and the wearing of the Holocaust-era ...ARMENIAN MP FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS ON TEGHUT MINE
The public must make the government consider its opinion, Zaruhi Postanjyan, a Heritage party member, said as she commented on the problem of Teghut mine. "We must prevent the opening of this mine. ...ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL 'DEPRIVES PERSON OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH' - PACE PRESIDENT
Consideration of a bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide by the French parliament is an example of depriving a person of his or her fundamental right - freedom of speech, the Turkey-based ...ARMENIA 39TH IN 2012 HERITAGE FOUNDATION INDEX OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM.
The US-based Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with the Wall Street Journal, has published the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom. According to the Country Rankings, Armenian ranks 39th, being a "moderately ...WOMEN POLITICIANS DEBATE APPROPRIATENESS OF PROPORTIONAL VOTING
A debate over adopting a 100% proportional representation system in Armenia involved today women representatives from the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) and the ruling Republican Party of ...OSCE ACTING CHAIRPERSON CALLS FOR EFFECTIVE MULTILATERALISM
Today the Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna for the first time in his role as OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL SEC MEETS WITH BELARUSIAN PRESIDENT
Belarus is for intensifying trade and economic cooperation with Armenia, as wel as bilateral cooperation within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ...BULGARIA TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SOONER OR LATER - EXPERT
The Bulgarian parliament did not choose a proper moment to bring the Genocide recognition bill to parliament, according Hayk Demoyan, the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. "It is first ...ARMENIAN EXPERT ON POLITICO-ECONOMIC SITUATION IN ARMENIA
The year 2011 was a politically peaceful year, the sociologist Aharon Adibekyan told journalists Jan 12. First, the dialogue between Armenia's the extra-parliamentary opposition and authorities played ...TV SERIES AMONG CAUSES OF SUICIDE - PSYCHOLOGIST
The number of suicides is up in Armenia, the psychologist Mariam Mehrabyan told journalists Jan. 12. However, few of potential suicides are willing to apply to psychologists. "They do not often ...TURKISH ENVOY THREATENS FRANCE OVER GENOCIDE BILL
Turkey's Ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu yesterday addressed the Socialist Group at the French Senate, saying approval of the Armenian "genocide" resolution would be a big blow to Turkish-French ...TOSHIBA UNVEILS WORLD'S THINNEST TABLET (VIDEO)
Toshiba has unveiled the world's thinnest, 10-inch Android Tablet. With its burnished, magnesium alloy back, gorilla-glass face and unique channel trim, the company's latest tablet entry stands apart ...ONE MORE SOLDIER DIES IN ARMENIA
One more soldier, 18-year-old Hayk Khachatryan, died in Armenia on Dec. 30, 2011. "Who's responsible for one more death? Who's responsible for one more family's ruined fate? How could chickenpox ...ARMENIA-BASED HERITAGE PARTY HAS COMMON GROUNDS WITH FREE DEMOCRATS
In many cases Free Democrats welcomed the Heritage party's statements and proposals, which suggests common grounds for cooperation, Chairman of the Heritage parliamentary group Stepan Safaryan told Tert.am. ...PACE CO-RAPPORTEURS MAKE MONITORING VISIT TO ARMENIA
John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC) and Axel Fischer (Germany, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia, will make a fact-finding ...MOLDOVA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POSTPONED
The Constitutional Court of Moldova has ruled that last month's presidential election was invalid because a number of deputies had violated secret voting procedures, a RIA Novosti reported.
The vote for ...HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN SENDS CONDOLENCES TO GEVORG VARDANYAN'S FAMILY IN FACEBOOK
Former Chairperson of Armenia's National Assembly, Hovik Abrahamyan, has expressed his condolences on his Facebook account over of the death of the former Soviet Union intelligence agent Gevorg Vardanyan.
"I ...PUTIN 'TOO BUSY' FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBATES
Vladimir Putin will not take part in Russian presidential election debates because of his duties as prime minister, his spokesman has announced, according to BBC News.
Taking time off for debates would ...ARMENIAN MPS INITIATE ETHICS COMMITTEE FOR PARLIAMENT
Chairman of the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs of Armenia's National Assembly, Davit Harutyunyan, has co-authored together with two other MPs, amendments and completions to the law that regulates ...FIRE-DAMAGED NUCLEAR SUB TO BE READY IN 2014 - ROGOZIN
The Yekaterinburg, a Russian nuclear submarine damaged by fire while in dry dock in late December, will be repaired and re-enter service in summer 2014, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin wrote ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS HENIK MAILYAN THEATER-STUDIO
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan visited Thursday theatre-studio named after renouned Arenian film actor Henrik Mailyan in Yerevan and got familiarized with the renovation works.
According to a press ...TURKEY, US PLANNING SYRIA NO-FLY ZONE, SAYS RUSSIAN SECRETARY
Nato and Gulf countries are trying to go from indirect meddling in Syria's internal affairs to a direct military intervention, Russia's National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Thursday. ...RUSSIA ARMENIANS WILLING TO SPONSOR RENOVATION OF DAMAGED CHURCH IN TBILISI
Russia-based Samtskhe-Javakheti Armenians have expressed willingness to sponsor the renovation of the Tbilisi-based Armenian church Saint Nshan that was partially destroyed because of the fire recently. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1846 The second Russian - Armenian "Kovkas" newspaper was published with the initiative of Father Hakob Karinian and P. Mikayel. It was published until 1848, in Tbilisi.
- 1903 The Tsar confirms the confiscation and nationalization of Armenian Church property and estates.
- 1904 Death of Bishop Mambreh Markosian, painter and monk of Jerusalem.
- 1933 Yerevan's tramway service is inaugurated.
- 1945 Opening of the First Congress of Creative Artists in Yerevan.
- 1945 Opening of the first conference of Armenian composers.
- 1951 Entry into force of the UN Convention on Genocide in accordance with article 13.
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