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 one or more computers and access to the Internet. In 2008, 92% of the households had a computer and 88% of the households had access to the Internet. xDSL Internet connection are the most common type of Internet connections,

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. This feature allows Google to automatically detect the language of the text and more text means more accurate translations.

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, tenses and then do it all over again with the definite article and so on. The only thing I can say now is Google welcome to the wonderful world of inflected languages.

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 the Icelandic population searching is greeting the Icelandic nation with a spelling error! Pls. Google fix this it is hurting my feelings!

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 promotional approach and focused advertising campaigns. Speakers include international and Icelandic experts in media and marketing. The conference is ideal for anyone who works in, or is interested in,