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July 29, 2011 Friday
'Iliad pulls the plug on Nabaztag Wi-Fi rabbits'
The Nabaztags Wi-Fi rabbit devices made by French consumer electronics
manufacturer Violet have for the time being stopped working as
anything more than basic alarm clocks, Le Monde reports. These
Nabaztags (the word for rabbit in Armenian) are speaking bunnies
capable of reading e-mail and RSS feeds. Mindscape, the educational
software company that bought Violet and has been selling and managing
services associated with the gadgets, entered into receivership on 23
June. Now its server host, Iliad, has decided to pull the plug on 28
July. Users have asked Mindscape to give them ownership of the
nabaztag.com domain name and access to the existing servers, but
Mindscape's CEO told them this was not an option and that their
rabbits would only survive if the user community set up its own
service. He has published the source code to the software that make
the rabbits work. Le Monde concludes that it is now up to the more
computer savvy of the rabbit owners to find a collective solution
otherwise the gadgets are destined to spend the rest of their
existence as little more than rabbit alarm clocks or collectors'
items.
July 29, 2011 Friday
'Iliad pulls the plug on Nabaztag Wi-Fi rabbits'
The Nabaztags Wi-Fi rabbit devices made by French consumer electronics
manufacturer Violet have for the time being stopped working as
anything more than basic alarm clocks, Le Monde reports. These
Nabaztags (the word for rabbit in Armenian) are speaking bunnies
capable of reading e-mail and RSS feeds. Mindscape, the educational
software company that bought Violet and has been selling and managing
services associated with the gadgets, entered into receivership on 23
June. Now its server host, Iliad, has decided to pull the plug on 28
July. Users have asked Mindscape to give them ownership of the
nabaztag.com domain name and access to the existing servers, but
Mindscape's CEO told them this was not an option and that their
rabbits would only survive if the user community set up its own
service. He has published the source code to the software that make
the rabbits work. Le Monde concludes that it is now up to the more
computer savvy of the rabbit owners to find a collective solution
otherwise the gadgets are destined to spend the rest of their
existence as little more than rabbit alarm clocks or collectors'
items.