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Former Icelandic bank bosses jailed
2013-12-12 17:08:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Four former bosses from the Icelandic bank Kaupthing have been sentenced to between three and five years in prison.
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Icelandic App Aims to Prevent Accidental Incest
2013-04-18 21:48:56| TechNewsWorld
Before knocking boots, knock phones. Three software engineers at the University of Iceland have designed an app to alert people if a casual encounter might in fact be casual incest. By bumping their mobile devices together, the app lets users -- and potential partners -- instantly compare their lineage, showing the nearest common ancestors. If a close relative is detected, users are alerted via an alarm and text warning.
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Icelandic Antipiracy Group Shouted Off Facebook
2013-02-08 00:45:26| TechNewsWorld
n attempted antipiracy campaign came screeching to a halt when, after just four days, the Icelandic Film and Movie organization, SMAIS, took down its Facebook page. SMAIS apparently wanted to spur dialogue with Icelanders, but that backfired when Facebook users -- who were "fans" of the SMAIS page -- began blasting the group in its own comment section.
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Icelandic victory on Icesave cash
2013-01-28 14:46:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A European court clears the Icelandic government of failing to guarantee minimum levels of compensation for UK and Dutch savers in the collapsed Icesave bank.
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Icelandic volcanoes could help to power UK via subsea Scottish cable
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: ICELAND has offered to become a "green battery" for the UK by building the world`s longest subsea power cable, which could bring geothermal energy ashore in Scotland. Icelandic state electricity producer, Landsvirkjun, said yesterday that it was considering constructing a 1,000km link by around 2020 to supply electricity generated by its vast volcanic energy resources direct to Britain. An earlier proposal to connect Icelands electricity grid with the UK would have come ashore north of the...
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