Icelandic sign language is now, for the first time, available to everybody online. Iceland’s education and culture minister opened the new internet language learning portal today, which already contains over 1,200 signs. Read the full story
Posted on 01 February 2012.
Icelandic sign language is now, for the first time, available to everybody online. Iceland’s education and culture minister opened the new internet language learning portal today, which already contains over 1,200 signs. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 January 2012.
Recent statistics suggest that messages sent via social media have overtaken SMS among Swedes. Read the full story
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Posted on 30 November 2011.
Finnish-German telecoms giant Nokia Siemens has surprised the business world by announcing 17,000 job cuts, representing a very-significant 23 percent of its workforce. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 November 2011.
Finnish boys are pulling in better grades in English than Finnish girls because they spend more time playing computer games, according to a new report. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 November 2011.
A new website called Betra Island (Better Iceland) was formally opened in a tent outside the Icelandic parliament building on Wednesday. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 November 2011.
As strange is it sounds, there is no usable geothermal hot water for residents on Iceland’s volcanic island of Heimaey. After the famous volcanic eruption on the island in 1973 returning evacuees were able to set up geothermal space heating for their homes from the hot lava — but that time is long over. The lava heat plant was decommissioned in 1988 after the ground went cold. Read the full story
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Posted on 13 October 2011.
Norwegian police are attempting to get a trailer for an American film about the July 22 Utoya massacre removed from YouTube after complaints from survivors and the families of victims. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 July 2011.
A new undersea cable across the Atlantic, with a connection to Iceland, will be laid during the next year at a cost of tens of billions of kronur. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 June 2011.
Reykjavik-based CCP has signed a deal with Sony for the production and distribution of a new computer game for the Playstation 3. It is hoped the game will come out early next summer and that it will prove a major success for CCP, which is already famous for EVE Online. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 May 2011.
The website Billetlugen.dk, which is based on an Icelandic website and employs five Icelanders, has won the E-Handelprisen for Denmark’s best webshop. Read the full story
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No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival begins today
Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
