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Keflavik International Airport in Iceland features modern passenger and commercial facilities with extensive capacity astride the North Atlantic and polar routes. Keflavik is the primary airport in Iceland serving the capital city, Reykjavik, as well as being a transatlantic hub of major importance for scheduled operations and technical stops.

The airport is a consistent performer in the comprehensive ACI Airport Quality Survey, voted third best in Europe in the first quarter of 2009 for modern facilities, capacity and comfort.

Fourteen passenger carriers and three cargo carriers operate at Keflavik during the high season. Icelandair, Iceland Express and SAS provide year-round scheduled service. 

Tourists go far in Iceland this summer on a very favourable rate of exchange. There has never been a better time to shop at Keflavik Airport with great deals on quality items, designer clothing, jewellery and other duty free products and great savings compared to city prices.

The airport transit area now boasts another new dining option in the form of the new Nord restaurant, offering delicious light meals in comfortable, modern setting.

A 1:8 scale model of the Viking ship Islendingur (The Icelander), which sailed to America in 2000 to mark the millennium of the Norse discovery of the New World, adorns the transit area. The actual Islendingur, an exact copy of the Gokstad Viking ship, is properly displayed in the new Viking Museum in the nearby town of Reykjanesbaer together with a magnificent Viking exhibition from the Smithsonian in New York.

Further information can be found at www.kefairport.com

Every two years the team at SEOmoz conducts a survey of the world’s foremost Search Engine Optimization experts to get a picture of the likely course of Search in the future.

The Search Engine Ranking Factors Survey, by Rand Fiskin and his team at SEOmoz, often predicts future Google search algorithms with amazing accuracy and the results document is a useful tool for anyone in the internet marketing field.

This year, Nordic eMarketing’s Kristjan Mar Hauksson was chosen to be a part of the group of 100 leaders in organic search engine optimization around the world to take part in the Search Engine Ranking Factors Survey, which is conducted every second year.

Kristjan Mar Hauksson is one of the founders of Nordic eMarketing and the company’s Search Director. He specialises in Internet marketing and online reputation management and communication. His expertise is assisting companies to gain international visibility through search engines and using the internet as a communication channel and a part of the marketing mix.

He is the founder of the Icelandic SEO/SEM forum and contributes regularly as a presenter for organisations, companies, and non-profit organisations. Kristjan Mar is an internet marketing and online reputation specialist with many years experience and success who has become an in-demand conference speaker the world over, known for his lively and charismatic style.

More details at www.nordicemarketing.com

Agriya infoway announced the release of a new version of its powerful social bookmarking script. Today’s release focuses on an addition of features slide show and FAQ pages.

Agriya Infoway, a web development company, announced the release of version 1.2.2 of its powerful social bookmarking script, MarkIt. MarkIt enables webmasters to build their own social bookmarking site and earn substantially through it. Today’s release focuses on an addition of features slide show and FAQ pages.

Getting to know the list of features available in the new release is a tough job for webmasters. They have to go through the change log and other additional documents offered by product owners to get the feature list. Agriya has taken a step forward to offer a slide show of features in the new version during installation with an aim to make things easier. A series of slides presenting the features of MarkIT will run while admin upgrades to a new version. Even new users will get this slide show during installation.

Is it possible to communicate with thousands of visitors and guide them to use your site? Both financially and physically, it is a tedious task. But, with the FAQ page, common questions asked by users can be answered. The FAQ page should be a mandatory feature for any site. The current version comes with this feature on both the admin and member sides to help both site admin and site users.

“We are confident that the slideshow for features will be accepted gladly by webmasters” commented Sheerin, Vice President Marketing at Agriya. “The FAQ pages will appeal to webmasters and site users looking for some answers while working with a site developed using MarkIt. This new version is specially designed to ease site administrators’ work and we have succeeded in it”

Author Bio:
Agriya Infoway is a Chennai based web Development Company that sells scripts that can be bought by webmasters to build sites under various categories. Visit www.markit.me for more details.

Teknomek today announced the launch of its new Light Duty Preparation Tables. The tables are targeted towards low cost sectors such as Catering that still require quality hygienic products, but at a lower price.
Tom Worth, Teknomek’s MD, said ‘Our Customers are coping with the competing demands of a challenging financial climate and the continuing requirement to meet strict hygiene standards. Our design team have created a low cost design whilst maintaining the highest quality manufacturing techniques. The result is a high quality Preparation Table at a price that our Customers can afford.’

The Light Duty Preparation Tables are available on Teknomek’s website, www.teknomek.co.uk, from £179 plus VAT.

For further questions, please contact Teknomek on 01603 788833 or visit www.teknomek.co.uk.

Chris Rourke, User Vision Director, has been appointed to the board of ScotlandIS, the trade body for the information and communications technologies (ICT) industry. The appointment reflects User Vision’s ongoing commitment to and involvement in the ICT sector in Scotland.

User Vision is one of Europe’s leading independent user experience consultancies. It has pioneered usability and accessibility for many years, operating internationally it works with organisations like the BBC, Emirates Airline, Epson and Honeywell.

Chris Rourke comments: “It is an honour to be appointed to the board of Scotland IS as I have great respect for its work and the contribution the ICT industry makes to the Scottish economy.”

This round of appointments sees a significant increase in the number of SME board members, balancing out the representation of large member companies and reflecting the diverse membership and continued growth of ScotlandIS.

Trade body for the ICT industry, ScotlandIS represents around 200 software, telecomms, IT and creative technologies businesses throughout Scotland.

Its remit is to raise the profile of the industry in Scotland, lobby policy makers on relevant issues and support members in the development of business relationships with customers, suppliers and partner companies. Read more…

Lifestyle management and concierge service The Fixer contributed to a high profile fundraiser event held at The Marriot Gorsenvoir Square, London. The event was hosted by the Spinal Injuries Association who are the leading national charity for spinal cord and cord injured people.

The Fixer was delighted to take part in the fundraising evening that consisted of an Oil and Gas Quiz, Auction and Raffle. The fixer stated that ‘it was a great opportunity to help raise money for such a worthy cause’.

Lucy Flyn, fundraising event manager, stated that the Oil and Gas Quiz was ‘a fabulous success’ and that the £30,000 raised will go towards ‘helping spinal cord injured people and their families rebuild lives after their injury’. Read more…

27 May 2009 – London – The number of people using their mobile device to access news and information online more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009.

Among the 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices in January 2009, 22.4 million (35%) did so daily; more than double the size of the audience last year

Sales of smartphones are set to grow 12-15% in 2009. Some analysts forecast 30%+ market growth for phones with advanced capabilities such as email or internet browsing.

Knexus Digital, the essential digital marketing resource, has teamed up with Russell Buckley of Admob (also Global Chairman of the Board of The Mobile Marketing Association), to provide insights into how marketers can leverage on this fast-growing channel–by optimizing mobile marketing to effectively target the right consumers!

Two recent reports on the UK’s mobile advertising industry indicated that despite marketers cutting budgets and increasing global financial distress, both the number of advertisers and the budget spent on mobile marketing is higher than before…why and how can mobile marketing spell success for you?

To understand how Knexus Digital can help you get compelling insights on Mobile Marketing, or other areas of the digital marketing mix, email info@knexusgroup.com

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Customers given real time access to their server and rack’s energy and bandwidth consumption straight from the data centre, via a web based managed hosting control panel.

iomart hosting, the managed hosting and data centre services company, is introducing a new customer hosting control panel which will enable its customers to actively monitor the amount of power and bandwidth their servers and racks are consuming.

The new control panel, which is initially being rolled out to new managed hosting and colocation customers combines traditional account management and asset registry with power and bandwidth usage data. The control panel contains current, historic and predicted usage figures for ease of management planning.

In addition to power and bandwidth consumption, iomart Hosting’s customers will be able to see a full asset inventory of their equipment, view their account and invoice history, request power cycles and manage network settings.

Phil Worms, Marketing Director, stated: “This information can be used by our clients to manage their server estate more effectively and assist them with their energy efficiently and cost reduction. We are fast approaching the situation where carbon accounting will become mandatory and we believe that providing our customers with accurate date concerning power consumption will assist them in modelling their IT related carbon costs.”

Phil Worms added: “Targets for power reduction can only be set if consumption can be accurately measured and apportioned. The data that our control panel provides our clients can be used to determine inefficient operating practises, hardware etc allowing them to make informed cost saving decisions.

From our own data, and factoring in average server utilisation, we have deduced that the average server is costing anywhere between £7 and £15 per month in energy costs for simply being plugged in, powered and cooled. If multiplied across a large server estate, this represents a substantial sunk and wasted power cost, costs that can potentially be saved from the bottom line. A further benefit of this approach is that it enables the IT function to accurately identify power consumption costs which can then be more accurately be charged back to the internal departments using their services.” Read more…

collective exhibition of works by Portuguese artists:
Francisco Urbano, Carla Taveira, José Cunha, Florentina Resende & Maria Rafael

Private View: Friday 10th of July 2009 – 6 pm to 11 pm
Exhibition runs from: Friday 10th to 23rd of July 2009
Gallery Opening Hours: Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs: 2.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thurs 23rd of July: 11.00am to 5.00pm

This forthcoming exhibition aims to bring the UK closer to current trends of Portuguese contemporary art. These five artists echo trends and styles from masters of the past but approach them in very individual and modern ways. These artists have brought contemporary art to the forefront of the Portuguese art world by pushing their ideas and methods to previously unexplored areas. All five have unique styles and techniques however their shared Portuguese heritage provides a common thread through their work. This common thread is what sets these artists apart form other modern artists as it provides a very unique and rich influence from which to work from. Bringing this exhibition to the UK will provide a window to the most current developments in contemporary art from artists that are making an impact on the movement itself. Outlined below are the five individual artists:

Francisco Urbano: “In the work of Francisco Urbano there is a curious and rich combination of elements. The synthesis of these is the ability to transform each work in a particular fantastic realism that is just amazing in itself.” – Oscar D’Ambrosio

Carla Taveira: “Her works have always attracted many people’s interest due the materials she uses within her pieces of artwork. Departing from established aesthetic forms, Carla Taveira uses unusual materials that immediately arouse the interest of the spectator. On closer inspection of the works one discovers that the layered textures are made up of such as gum, resin and recycled resources.”
José Rodrigues Figueira – Mayor of Vendas Novas City Read more…

SecurStore exhibited its new secure online backup and recovery service at the Channel Expo in Birmingham for the first time this year. Despite initial nerves, the expo went better than anyone expected and SecurStore gained important exposure for its innovative new product.

At the recent Channel Expo SecurStore exhibited for the first time its SecurStore online backup and recovery solution. The agentless, automatic and easy to use SecurStore solution proved to be a huge success as visitors showed great enthusiasm in getting to know the product better.

Visitors were led through a live demonstration of a backup of e-mail servers using continuous data protection (CDP) and brick level backup allowing restoration and recovery of single entries such as single mails or calendar entries. Furthermore, visitors got to acquaint themselves with backup and recovery of data bases such as SQL and Oracle.

The biggest success, however, were the outstanding backup and recovery capabilities in the virtual environment, allowing backing up and recovery both at ESX level and single virtual machines for both VMware® and HyperV®. This revolutionary virtual backup solution, fuelled by the agentless feature of the SecurStore solution drew great attention resulting in a large number of potential customer signing up for the 30 day free trial that SecurStore offers.

“It was a great feeling for us at the show to get such a wonderful reception as, to be honest, exhibiting for the first time we did not know what to expect. The great variety of visitors and their instant liking to the SecurStore solution proved to us, not for the first time, that the SecurStore backup and recovery solution is more than a match for any backup solution”, says Orn Gunnarsson, the CEO of SecurStore.

The Channel Expo is the biggest channel event in the UK showcasing the latest products, services and technologies, this year focusing on profit, partnership and education.

SecurStore is a specialist supplier of online, automated and managed data backup and recovery. The solution is totally agentless and covers Windows, Linux and Mac environments with wide application and database support. SecurStore delivers flexible, secure encrypted remote backup in a two tier solution where fast recovery, security and professional 24/7 support are all a vital part of the solution. Partnership with SecurStore ensures recurring revenue. SecurStore is certified by BSI against ISO27001 Information Security Standard.

For more details on SecurStore services, including VMware, please visit www.securstore.co.uk

No Iceland vacation is complete without a trip out into the wild and unique Icelandic countryside. And one tour company is promising to make Iceland holidays even more thrilling and better value than ever.

High North is an innovative travel company in Iceland offering private tours in the biggest, meanest super jeeps with the friendliest, most expert guides.

Trusting High North with your Iceland vacation inspiration means you’re guaranteed a truly unique experience at a very reasonable price. No two tours are ever the same and the only thing that’s guaranteed is a good time.

High North offers a variety of pre-prepared package tours showing off some of South Iceland’s most amazing sights. Even the package tours differ according to weather, time of day, time of year and the whim of everyone in the car: you are encouraged to tailor the trip to your desires.

Here is an example: you say, “Can we visit a hot lake on the way back?” And the High North guide says: “That’s a great idea, let’s go!” It is just that simple.

A good illustration of how High North offers something extra is the Golden Circle tour – a staple for almost everyone to ever visit Iceland; but a tour given a unique new twist by High North. In addition to Thingvellir National Park, the hot springs at Geysir and the spectacular Gullfoss waterfall, High North also takes you off road out into the desolate and majestic highlands and even drives you up on to Langjokull Glacier – thereby turning a pleasant and interesting day trip into a truly thrilling experience you’ll never forget!

Alternatively High North can also arrange custom made Iceland holidays with almost no restrictions. The options are limited only by the visitor’s imagination, and certainly not by the abilities of the off-road vehicles or their experienced drivers.

If you want to spend a week bird watching in Iceland, High North will take you to all the best, least visited and out of the way places to get you close to nature. The same is true if you have three days to spend salmon fishing or nine-and-a-half days to examine old Icelandic country churches.

For Iceland travel ideas, as well as beautiful photography, take a look at www.highnorth.is