Category: 2019

YEREVAN, February 7. /ARKA/.  The .Հայ (.hay) domain, an Internet country code top-level domain, provided to Armenia by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), designated for two-letter country code AM, and  intended for domain names in the Armenian language, active since 2016, is not progressing because of the way the full stop punctuation mark is used in the Armenian language, vice-president of the Internet Society (ISOC) public organization Grigory Saghiyan told reporters on Thursday.

He said after the Armenian transcription of the full stop was introduced  (in Armenian, full stop punctuation mark  looks like a Russian or English colon, while one dot  means a colon), electronic systems recognized it. However, now  the systems do not recognize the full stop as such, perceiving it as a colon.

According to him, as a result  the sites are not recognized by the servers. The  system does not go to  the domain, but sends the user to a search engine. He said the Armenian IT community plans to hold public discussions to look into  the expediency of replacing these symbols.

According to Saghiyan, the use of Armenian-language domain names provides owners with a number of advantages, including marketing ones, since regional domain names are first of all issued in search engines.

Liana Galstyan, head of external relations of the Internet Society, noted that at the moment 300 sites are registered in the new domain zone, including commercial organizations and government agencies, but  not all of them actively use their sites, mainly doing it to redirect to their sites with Latin names. She said the domain is free for schools.

The Latin domain .am is the official domain of Armenia, which  appeared in August 1994. –0–

YEREVAN, February 7. /ARKA/. Armenia’s leading telecommunications operator VivaCell-MTS said today it keeps on supporting students in specializing in the disciplines they have chosen for their future careers.

“VivaStart” educational program, which was launched in 2015, is a good starting point for program participants to discover own potential and to define perspectives of professional development. The program gives the students from various universities of Armenia opportunity to learn business ethics and to develop practical professional skills in real-time working environment at the Company’s service centers. Besides, the students also learn how to pass job interviews and prepare resumes and CVs.

The purpose of this is to help them enter the job market with more professional confidence.
At the event organized at the Company’s headquarters VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian handed certificates to the last group of students of “VivaStart” 2018. The group included 38 students from various regions and universities. In two-month period the young people mastered efficient communication with subscribers, learned the specifics of the services and offers of the Company, and developed their marketing skills. Three of the best performing students got Samsung J6+ smartphones. “VivaStart” in 2018 involved 110 students. Ten of them have been accepted to work at various service centers of VivaCell-MTS.

“‘VivaStart’ is an important starting point to develop professionally in a working environment, to understand the interaction between employers, employees, and third parties, and to master skills in finding agile solutions. I am sure before your participation in the program your understanding and approaches were different from the vision you have about work now. It is crucial that you apply the knowledge you gained, in practice, and that you value the civilized model of communication. Congratulations on your successful completion of the program! I hope you will do the best in whatever you choose to do in future,” VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian said.

The overall number of students involved in the program since 2015 is 294. 43 of the best performing students have joined VivaCell-MTS staff since 2015.

VivaCell-MTS has been operating in the Armenian market since 2005. Some 80% of the company's shares are owned by Russian Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and the remaining 20% belong to the Lebanese Fattouch Group. –0–

YEREVAN, February 7. /ARKA/. February 7 is marked in Armenia as the Day of Using Armenian Letters on the Internet.  It was first held in 2012, when a blogger Zohrab Yeghanyan asked Internet users to use Armenian letters instead of transliterating Armenian words in Latin and Cyrillic letters. Since then, along with the development of technology, more and more users are switching to the Armenian alphabet.

 “In fact,  writing in Armenian letters has become trendy, especially given the availability of Armenian keyboards on smartphones, tablets and other gadgets” Liana Galstyan from Internet Society public organization, told reporters on Thursday.

"Armenian users began to write more often in the Armenian language on the Internet, moreover, a reverse tendency has appeared when Russian and English words are also written in Armenian transliteration," Galstyan said.

She said the use of Latin or Cyrillic letters when writing Armenian words caused certain difficulties due to some linguistic nuances and the impossibility of transcribing some Armenian letters in other languages.

Switching to the Armenian alphabet allowed registering unprecedented advances in the technology market; in particular, the Armenian keyboard layout and applications in Armenian appeared not only on computers, but also smartphones, in the Android operating system, in Windows, and also in Apple gadgets.

Armenians began using Latin letters in the mid-90s of the 20th century, when the first mobile phones appeared in the country without Armenian keyboards. –0—