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09.10.2012 | 12:30
Ninety-Six Percent of Icelanders Use Internet
Around 96 percent of homes in Iceland have computers and 95 percent have internet access according to the latest data from Statistics Iceland. The number of internet users has increased by 1 percent from last year.
Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
According to the new statistics, 44 percent of internet users connect to the internet via handhold devices such as mobile phones and smartphones, 45 percent of which connect daily. Around 40 percent of internet users in the country connect to the net outside of their homes.
In the past, Iceland and Norway have had the highest proportion of internet users in the EEA but comparable figures for the rest of Europe in 2012 have not yet been released, according to ruv.is.
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Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson attended an annual consultative meeting last weekend with colleagues from the Nordic and several African countries, as announced in a press release from the Minstry of Foreign Affairs.
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From many salmon rivers anglers are reporting great opening days. Reykjavík Citizen of the year caught the first salmn in Ellidaár in Reykjavík this morning.
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June
20
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Laxness is now a Crater on Mercury
The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury including one for Icelandic littereture Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness.
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A petition urging the government to reconsider a proposed bill, in which the terms of the law requiring fishing companies to pay a tariff for their use of Iceland’s fishing resources are to be changed, has been signed by more than 11,000 people.
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June
19
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Iceland’s PM Meets Swedish Counterpart
June
19
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Walrus Sprawling on East Iceland Beach
June
19
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Women's Day Off celebrated today
June
19
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Free Iceland Travel Guides Released
June
18
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First Fin Whale Caught in Iceland
June
17
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15 More Reasons to Like Iceland (Photos)
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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June
10
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Harboring the Homegrown
The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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June
10
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Sin Fang’s Album Release Concert
Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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