Although they had made an appointment to see the ambassador, Professor Manuel Hassassian, they arrived in large numbers and with computers and banners.
The police confiscated 30 guns, 498 bullets, eight pounds of explosives, knives, satellite phones, receivers for overseas TV channels, fax machines, computers and banners saying "Tibet Independence," the agency reported.
TO introduce Windows 95, the Microsoft Corporation is amassing almost every weapon in the advertising arsenal short of hiring planes to fly over computer stores towing banners that bear the address of its World Wide Web site.
Coding last year replaced ICT (under the banner of computer science) in UK schools.
The computer industry, under the banner of "digital convergence," has been looking longingly at the American living room for several years.
Mr. Lambert opened the Fox News Web site on his computer, and both the banner ad at the top of the page and a rectangular ad on the bottom were replaced with a bald eagle illustration.
The April 1975 issue of the Altair Newsletter, Computer Notes, had a banner headline "Altair BASIC - Up and Running".
He thinks that Intel should do more to introduce the technology to concertgoers, who, if it weren't for the computer kiosks and Intel banners, wouldn't know there was a computer component to the festival.
That way, for instance, DoubleClick could deliver banner ads for computer peripherals to people who had recently bought computer monitors offline.
Any initial interest in banner ads among computer users has worn off quickly as measured by click-through rates, which have declined precipitously: from about 2percentt in 1998 to about 0.5percentt in the last year.
Mr. Hord, an executive of a building materials company in Raleigh, N.C., displays a banner on his computer screen -- "Eight Years is Enough" -- that he got from the Hillary No.comsite, which is run by the Giuliani campaign.
