Swimming World Magazine News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, November 21. FOUR more national records were set during the Iceland Short Course Championships held in Reykjavik today. Inga Elin Cryer clinched the national record in the women...
fishwithoutbicycle (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I'm at the end of my tether with the job this week and I've lost count of the number of times I've been tempted to quit. I have to keep reminding myself that I can't just blow this coconut stand without having something else to go to. I'm not sure what that would be though since I am not feeling the love for my current position and am feeling the need to try my hand at something new. Are there jobs...
Swimming World Magazine News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, November 20. THE women's side of the Icelandic short course record book met the match in the first two days of swimming at the Iceland Short Course National Championships. Sigru...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Filed under: Africa , Europe , North America , Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Morocco , South Africa , Iceland , United States , Ecotourism , Travel Deals After a year of "travel slumps," " staycations " and other cringeworthy words and conditions, let's plan to get out on the road next year. Hey, economists are saying that the recession's already over, and the job market's recovery...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
HIBS are on the trail of Icelandic defender Haraldur Freyr Guomundsson with the 27-year-old having impressed during a week-long trial at the club's East Mains Training Ce
The Medical Quack (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This is sad and in August of 2008 it looked like the company was on their way. Decode Nearly Doubles Revenues in Q2 - Personalized Medicine As the article states it was not all the economy that lead to the bankruptcy filing, but it certainly didn’t help. The tests and research did not end up being significant enough to help bolster the development of medical genetic tests and help with production...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Cornwall Council is in talks to try to recover £9m lost with the collapse of Icelandic banks.
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
DeCode Genetics, a pioneering company that used the Icelandic population and the country's excellent genealogy records as its guinea pigs in detecting disease-causing mutations, filed for bankruptcy today. I have mentioned DeCode Genetics many times in past newsletters (see http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003715150024579880844%3Aulyzue1ivzu&ie=UTF-8&q=%22DeCode+Genetics%22&sa=Search). Based...
Sify (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Iceland's foreign minister is confident parliament will approve by next week an amended bill to repay billions of dollars to Britain and the Netherlands, boosting the country's chances of joining
Iceland photos and info (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Transparency International ,rates ICeland as the 10th least corrupt country in the world. Iceland was number one in 2006. Here you can see the list of Transparency International
SBWire Press Releases (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Iceland Glacier Products (IGP) has launched its spectacular Certified Icelandic Glacier Water, the brand SNO™, and they are currently being introduced internationally.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCGN) today announced that it has filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to facilitate the sale of substantially all of its assets. deCODE is continuing to operate its business and manage its properties...
Computer World (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Is a data center near the North Pole naughty or nice? With cheap energy, cheap cooling and incentives to spur its ailing economy, Iceland has growing appeal to data-intensive companies running scads of servers.
AdTurds - Adverts That Are Shit (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Although this, by any stretch of the imagination, an utterly terrible advert I can't find it in my heart to loathe it in the same way I loathe most adverts for banks, telecommunications, make-up, cleaning products or financial services. Because there's no malice in it. It's like hating the class dunce: he's probably trying his heart out and he'd never be cruel or unkind to anyone. Simply, it's not...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Icelanders gathered at a national assembly to brainstorm and plan a vision for the country. Will their wishes become policy? Ever since Iceland's spectacular economic meltdown last year, the Icelandic people, weary of the lack of action by their authorities, have rallied in various forms of civil action. We initially had the Saturday afternoon demonstrations which began right after the collapse last...
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