In 2009, according to the eighth survey on the use of Information and Communications technology by Statistics Iceland 92 percent of Icelandic households had a computer with 90 percent of them all having access to the internet. Nearly all of … Read More
SMX will be held in London for the third time, the conference is lead by Chris Sherman and is a two day event taking place on the 18th and the 19th of May this year. Among speakers are several Multilingual … Read More
Internet usage in Sweden droped sharply after new file sharing laws. This legislation makes it possible to order any Swedish Internet operator to provide details identifying suspected copyright infringers. The effects of the new laws were almost instant. The day … Read More
According to a survey done by Statistics Iceland for the year 2008, Reykjavik has nearly 100% penetration of fast connection that is (ADSL or other types of xDSL connections), this changes very little when comes to region outside, goes down … Read More
The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 20th March in Reykjavik, Iceland this year. The conference focuses on Online communications and Internet marketing in a International Environment. Speakers include Sion Portman, European … Read More
According to Elvar Arason researcher and a senior consultat at ABSmedia Iceland nearly all Icelanders aged 20 to 29 are registered on Facebook. This social media website is a huge success in the country to say the least. Nearly half … Read More
Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have … Read More
Google has added ten new languages to its translation service bringing the total to 23, Google also added a “detect language” option for those that need. The languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish. … Read More
Google starting to deal in a proper way with inflected languages such as Icelandic by stripping away the grammar. Icelandic users have had to put up with the search engine’s illiteracy by entering their searches in various cases, numbers, genders, … Read More
The world’s largest search engine misses out on localization, how? Spelling error, I’m I feeling lucky button was changed to “Freysta gæfunnar”, the problem is that there is no y in freysta so the search engine that has 50% of … Read More
The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 8th February at the Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference focuses on Internet marketing and advertising, and the possibilities created by employing a structured … Read More
On the 29th of November this year active domain number 20,000 became real in Iceland. The twist to this is that the 29th of November 2007 is very close to the 20 year birthday of the Internet in Iceland. The … Read More
The headline is taken from a slide where Andy Atkins Kruger of WebCertain demonstrates the importance of having local people translating. I moderated a session at SMX Stockholm last week called “Global Search Marketing Tactics” where I had Andy, Sara … Read More
It might not be a surprice but India is booming, the country might only be a sub-continent, but it is a mega-country to be in regards of internet usage, but the rise is slower than expected. According to a recent … Read More
Google moon just got updated and now boost great features such as higher-resolution map imagery, text search, photos and stories from all the Apollo landings. This is great, but if they can do the moon they must be able to … Read More
