Greenland glaciers ‘melt slower in the warm’?
Some glaciers in Greenland melt slower in warm summers than in cool ones, according to a new study.
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EVE Online voted most innovative game 2010 by MMORPG.com
EVE Online, the ‘massively multiplayer online role-playing game’ developed by Iceland’s CCP Games, has recently been announced as the most innovative ...
Body heat harnessed for heating at Stockholm Central Station
A Swedish company has found a way to harness the body heat of people passing through Stockholm’s Central Station and use it to warm an office block ac...
Data center storage industry in Iceland to benefit from VAT Act
The Icelandic parliament recently approved amendments made to the Value-Added Tax Act that will consequently benefit Iceland’s data storage indu...
Icelandic company plans to sell 1000 electric cars in Iceland
The Icelandic company Northern Lights Energy (NLE) has signed a letter of intent with the U.S. company AMP Electric Vehicles to sell one thousand elec...
Facebook used in tax fraud fight
Tax authorities in Denmark have gone high-tech, using social networking sites to help dig out fraud. Skat, the country’s tax authority, has revealed t...
Website rates Swedish teen girls’ stolen Facebook snaps
A website that asks users to rate Swedish teenage girls as either “ugly” or “hot” has been reported to the police.
Wifi network names tell of neighbour niggles
Swedes are increasingly using their broadband network names to send their neighbours messages, according to a new survey.