70 reporters from around the world witnessed the introduction of the 5500 Sport phone a new type of phone specially made for active people. Nokia has through the years used Iceland as a test market for phones and mobile phone … Read More
Spurl.net, a Iceland based search engine company, was bought by Ja.is. Ja (means yes in Icelandic) owns and publishes both the online and the offline national telephone book and by this is most likely moving on the local search engine … Read More
I was running a reverse IP check to see how many and what sites where hosted at the same server/IP as my client. While I was doing that I desited to check how Google was storing their sites, how many … Read More
Travellers can now connect to the internet, talk on GSMs and use GPRS whilst on the glaciers, tried and tested on the top of Snaefellsjokull glacier the GSM connection was fine (Snaefellsjokull glacier is where the Jules Verns story Journey … Read More
I stumbled on a new creation of Spurl Ltd, an Iceland-based search engine company. The URL is www.zniff.com and it obviously is still in a testing phase. They claim that you search the entire Web or 8 million Icelandic pages. … Read More
Iceland (pop 300.000) is the most web-savvy country – a recent study shows it has the highest concentration of broadband users. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that broadband was also widespread in South Korea, the Netherlands … Read More
According to the latest surveys made by the Iceland Tourist Board over 60% of incoming travellers use the Internet to decide on what to do when arriving. More that 50% of those use the internet to book online. This number … Read More
A new company, only Internet based, opened the first of April. The company is called SKO and is owned by the same company, Dagsbrun, that operates Vodafone in Iceland. Their services will only be Internet based, no “phone” support and … Read More
The Portal Visir.is, owned by Iceland largest media company, just added to their services “Yellow Pages” called ALLT. This is a addition to their other services in other more “traditional” media. There is currently no none Icelandic search. The company … Read More
Google has opened www.google.is as a regional version of their search engine. They seem to be recognizing Iceland as a viable market even though it’s small. They have even made Picasa in Icelandic – http://picasa.google.com/intl/is/!
There are three regional search engines in Iceland leit.is (Home Made / no www) finna.is (Home Made /Google for www through XML) Embla (Home Made / No www) Then there is Google and Ha.is (the fourth local one, mostly used … Read More
Iceland’s most visited online medium just launched a new search engine that understands Icelandic. Thanks to our unique letters like the funky “d” and a letter that looks like “b” but with a twist, we have been having minor prolems … Read More
The ex-government owned Iceland Telecom has been sold. This major player on the Iceland Telecom market was privatized recently and sold to highest bidding Investors. The future prospects of Iceland Telecom’s operations are good and the company has a strong … Read More
The Icelandic search engine FINNA.is has gone through some changes, being one the of two major players in local search here in Iceland the decided to change from Overture WWW results to Google. After having built their own crawler for … Read More
